For immediate release: Press Contacts: Tiny Gray-Garcia /Muteado Silencio (510) 435-7500 While Mayors from LA to San Francisco claim their “Homeless population” is decreasing, the violent policy of “sweeps” increase and the budgets for homelessness are cut– A powerful new movie created by houseless/formerly houseless sweeps and eviction survivors is featured at this year's Social and Economic Justice Film Festival Burned alive for sleeping outside.. The tragic and horrible

By Ms. Omowale Fowles We still desperately need to raise the discriminatory issue that the City of Berkeley does NOT FUND ANY homeless housing nor make available any voucher-based housing programs for unhoused parents, single women or single men, with children under the age of 18! It has been tragically notable that the City of Berkeley, several years ago, discontinued its funding to Family Front Door--as affirmed by an administrator at Family Front Door during the same week

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2026 Media Contact: Mauna Kea Education and Awareness mkea.info@gmail.com Press Statement from Mauna Kea Education and Awareness, PRESENTATION OF NO CONSTRUCTION OF THE TMT TELESCOPE ON MAUNA KEA PETITION TO GORDON and BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION IN PAlO ALTO On June 26th, 2026 at 1:00 p.m., Mauna Kea Education and Awareness will deliver the petition No Construction of the TMT Telescope on Mauna Kea petition with over 500,500 verified signatures to t

Photo by miguelb is licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Queennandi Editor's note: This country will criminalize a poor mama while commending trillionaires who orchestrate these conditions of poverty. Poor Magazine runs the The Po Mamas Pañales (diapers) Fund, which provides free diapers to babies, because we understand how poor mamas are criminalized for getting their babies what they need. The Po Mamas Pañales Fund distributes diapers every Thursday at noon, at 8032 MacArthur Blvd.

Photo by Mos Sukjaroenkraisri on Unsplash By Queennandi Many of us are still healing from our scars and spiritual wounds after barely surviving the atomic bomb called gentrification that dropped on neighborhoods such as the Fillmore (fill-no-moe) and the La Mission (La Invasion) with an “entitled vengeance,” wiping out a high percentage of mom and pop shops, local meat markets, grocery stores like Goldlane (Aka Foodland), “hood farmers,” and family restaurants that were in th

By Queennandi Some may ask, “Why is the POOR Magazine’s Poor Mama’s reparations fund is so important?" The Poor Mama’s Reparations Fund is very important to the families who are struggling with necessities such as food, transportation, housing, and utilities without having to deal with the stress and anxiety of waiting in long lines for hours, worrying about whether or not you will receive any immediate help, or be told to come back the next day in order to alleviate the hung

While Mayors from LA to San Francisco claim their “Homeless population” is decreasing, the violent policy of “sweeps” increases– A powerful new movie created by houseless/formerly houseless sweeps and eviction survivors comes to the Eagle Rock Theatre at Vidiots that tells the stories of the people the government is trying to disappear. “That’s my Wheelchair...” A Disabled Black Houseless Oakland resident screams at a bulldozer coming for her comeUnity and her wheelchair. Cru

“I don’t know where your son is, he was in detention and then he disappeared….” The assistant principal’s voice trailed off as she flipped absentmindedly through a stack of attendance sheets, until she stopped abruptly and looked up, “I’m sorry but we don’t know where he is.” She walked out of the room and left us there in shock This is just one example of the school to prison pipeline in full effect with our poor/houseless Black, Brown, Houseless, Disabled and indigenous you