POOR Magazine

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.

(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:

The Unfinished Disability Utopia, Berkeley Police & Americans with Disability Act Pushed By Kayla Moore, Transgender Disabled Woman of Color

Death Rumors

By Kayla Moore

Someone is calling the beast.

He is summoning me.

All he does is call.

I just want to be free.

Black death and the sight

of blood so cold,

my life sounds really short,

the scent of death

which smells real old,

pictures of old buildings

and forts

Must I suffer to this thing

we fear?

Environmental Activists and Water Protectors will not be bullied or intimidated by Billionaire Earth defilers and their cronies inside the Trump Administration!! (We must not be silent)

[transcript of upcoming YouTube video]

Toxic Contaminated Water Alert at Eastham Unit (Lovelady, Texas): Call For Action!

Greetings sisters and brothers!

Teach The Truth

Kindred's Dirty Little Secrets

All of Kindrerd's Nursing Homes (there are 8 in the City they all will be sold for the land..Including their Rehabilitation Centers. Non only Kindrerd, but other groups. The Federal Government (Medicare) only pays for the first 100 days, The State of California still pays on the 1970 level. The haven't increased payments since the 1970's. Let me bring you back to the 1970's. Muni was 25 cents and Minimum Wage was $2.75.

21st Century Infiltration - An Antidote to the Violence on these Digital Streets

“You are a fraud….” the words scrawled across the lighted screen seemed to drip with blood, It was one of over a hundred face-book posts, text messages and reply all emails spoken about me and the organization my houseless mama and I co-founded. Through the experience and ever after, my heart was broken, my soul destroyed and every injury, scrape or cut, real or metaphoric i received throughout my already too hard life of houselessness, domestic violence, abuse, incarceration and poverty was triggered. I was suicidal and unable to function.

The Disabled Community Can Learn from the Deaf Community On How To Respond & Make Cultural Work On Police Brutality.

Did and has the anti police brutality movement left behind one of the biggest groups that have been killed by police since the early 1980's when I got involved.