POOR Magazine
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Revolutionary Journalism, poetry, & prose on issues of poverty, racism, disability, in/migration, border fascism, incarceration, welfare (de)form, profiling, indigenous resistance, art, media, and more by the folks who experience these struggles first-hand. |
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(POOR Magazine -The print edition- Is currently out of print due to lack of funding. Some copies of Volume #4: MOTHERS still available by mail order. Contact deeandtiny@poormagazine.org) Blogs and Journalizm by Poverty Skolaz locally and globally linked below: |
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El pecado de el desaplazamiento y el aburguesamiento/Why Gentrification is Not Good for Our Communities
El pecado de el desaplazamiento y el aburguesamiento (scroll down for English)
This Story Is Not About Alex Nieto
April 21, 2014
On March 22, 2014 Alex Nieto was shot and killed by SFPD, citing claims that he appeared to have a firearm that he allegedly drew on officers. It was later disclosed to be a taser he used in his work as a security guard.
The Story of the Demise of the Black Farmers
April 21, 2014
DeGentrification Zones (DGZ)- a poor people-led plan to take back this stolen land
(Image of a young sista-mama from the Black Riders Liberation Party at the 1st Anti-gentriFUKation DGZ bbq in Oakland)
Wizard At Odds
April 15, 2014
“Toto I’m beginning to get the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”- Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
Resting Place
April 15, 2014
Three figures repose in the fallow soil, holding hands, gazing skyward, two small figures flanking a larger one. The mother’s arm raises to point at a cloud above, the twins heads moving to follow.
Empty Vessel
April 15, 2014
The bedroom is a refuge, its walls boasting photographs of a young life as it unfolded. Little league, first communion, high school prom. A SWAT team had violated its sanctuary immediately after the shooting, looking for something to validate the police officer’s version of events. Sage and prayer restored purity to the room.
Not Ghost Town, But Homefulness Town: Re-Views for the REvoluTion
April 14, 2014
At newsroom this April there was a storming result of women and organizations coming together with holiness to lead the circle. We got visitors from other parts of the country, and what they said confirmed that for some reason, gentrification and mistreatment is going on all over the United States. Our visitors came from Detroit to screen their film, “We Are Not Ghosts.”
Pena de Muerte Tejana Injusta/ Death Penalty in Texas Unfair
Pena de Muerte Tejana Injusta
[Scroll below for English version]
