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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Tenants Con-vention
The San Francisco Tenants Convention held on February 8th, 2014 was cited as the largest one since the late 70’s by the organizers ,The Anti-Displacement Coalition. I attended and recognized several familiar faces including former supervisor Chris Daley and current supervisors John Avalos and Davis Campos.
Privatization = Eradication: Black Families Face Criminalization While Public Housing is made private
“They just told us they sold the building, none of us knows whats going to happen but now we know why all of our young people are being criminalized and their families evicted,” said Mary X, one of the long-time residents of the now no longer public housing project known as Plaza East. She was referring to a confusing announcement made by Housing Authority on Friday, Feb 28, 2014
Insane Profits for Nonprofit Housing Devil-opers
Oakland - As the massive automatic across-the-board sequestration budget cuts continue to devastate the poor in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, greedy nonprofit developers are pushing for Rental Assistance Reform (RAR) legislation that would result in higher rents for the poor, the acceleration of the privatization of our public housing sites all across the nation, and the loss of Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers for the poor.
Clown Suit
I was with a friend
The other day and as
We walked down Market
Street I thought I’d
Seen the circus
6 or 7 people stood
Around and they appeared
To be wearing clown
Suits
Are those guys with
The circus? I asked
Are you crazy? My friend
Replied, those are the
Fare inspectors, they
Inspect the buses for
Leno and Ammiano try to Amend the Landlord Law-aka The Ellis Act
(Image of Remigio Fraga with Idriss Stelley Foundation outside the Ellis Act Evictions are Elder Abuse action sponsored by POOR Magazine, Idriss Stelley Foundation, The Manilatown Heritage Foundation and the SF Bay View)
Co-editors Note-We evicted peoples wish these conscious senators luck- in the mean-time we continue with filing criminal charges on the spekkkulators)
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MAYOR LEE & SENATOR LENO ANNOUNCE LEGISLATION TO AMEND STATE ELLIS ACT LAW TO PROTECT LONG-TIME TENANTS
Criminalizing Our Children for Eviction-Housing Authority implements RAD and we get Removed
If you just smile
He was born in
San Francisco and
Wore a Giants cap
All the time and after
Knowing him for a few
Years I still didn’t know
If he was bald or not
He lived in the same
Neighborhood that a
Famous pro football player
Lived in before he went
On to other places
My friend
Stayed behind
He knows everything
About bikes—frames,
Chains, tubes, tires and lube
And he shows the
Neighborhood kids how
To fix bikes if they will
Listen
And once while fixing
A bike he hurt his hand,
Damaging some nerves
And a wise ass kid said,
I know how you hurt your
Pleated Baggy Slacks
The Filipino cats used
To hang out at this
Arcade on Market Street
Called the Fun Center
Most of them were in
Their teens and wore
Their hair long
Some of them carried
Radios as big as
Suitcases
The Fun Center had
All kinds of video
Games
And I was Filipino too
But these guys knew
Some Filipino stuff that
