

RoofLess Radio Street-Writing Workshop - North Hampton
5/6/26 RoofLess Writing/Street-Writing workshop of POOR Magazine/Taller de prensa pobre 1st Church, North Hampton, MA. Presents: Trauma-logues Monologue, Poetry, Story for healing Prompt: Describe/Write one moment/one day in your life where you faced eviction, police harassment, ICE, homelessness, sweeps, loss or ? - Escribir/describir un momento de su experiencia con desalojo, desamparado, lucha con policía, lucha con pobreza, o? Ros P, 30 y/o Mom called…sophomore in high
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Nowhere to Sleep
Houseless/formerly houseless residents of Oakland and San Francisco hold a cross-bay action to resist the closure of hundreds of emergency shelter beds, transitional housing and safe parking lots while sweeps increase Cross Bay Actions When & Where Tuesday, May 26th Oakland City Hall: 10:30am San Francisco City Hall: 12 noon “The non-profit and the City (of Oakland) promised they would help me get re-housed, now im getting re-swept,” Juan T, a former resident of one of O
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Street Newsroom Workshop Writing - Yelamu (San Francisco)
Writing from the journalism workshop in Yelamu (so-called San Francisco) APRIL 24, 2026 Michael Jay My name is Michael Jay and I’m writing about the increase in homeless sweeps in SF. I have been involved in numerous sweeps on Mission that would run us in for what they call a Pizza Party. So the Pizza Party, as they so call it is when they take us into the office, give us a sobriety test, and give us a slice of pizza and a coke. They're doing this as a training program for al
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May 7


While Mamdani reinstates sweeps, a new movie about sweeps and homelessness screens in New York
Unhoused, formerly Houseless disabled youth, families, and elders from California have created a movie about their lives and their ancestors lost to the ongoing violence of homelessness, evictions, gentrification, poLice terror, and sweeps Movie Trailer HERE NEW YORK/NJ SCREENING DATES May 7: New York, NY Maysles Documentary Center (6:30pm) 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027 May 8: (2 event day!) Poughkeepsie, NY & Red Bank, NJ 1) Vassar College (11am) 124 Raymond Ave,
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May 2


Press Release: Homeless people create a movie about homelessness and bring it to East Coast Turtle Island
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contacts: Tiny Gray-Garcia (510) 435-7500 Adrian Diamond, Green Diamond Projects (661) 210-5764 Adrian@GreenDiamondProjects.com Sabrina (704) 804-0908 Homeless people create a movie about homelessness and bring it to East Coast Turtle Island Unhoused, formerly Houseless disabled youth, families, and elders from California have created a movie about their lives and their ancestors lost to the ongoing violence of homelessness, evictions, gentrificat
POORMAG
Apr 23


Stealing our last acre and one remaining mule: Black, Brown and no income San Francisco residents resist Housing Authority’s displacement, demolition and privatization of public housing
On Tuesday, April 20, POOR Magazine held a “Stealing Our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule” speak out on City Hall steps, launching a tenants union to organize people in public housing – from folks in Fillmore Mercy Housing to those in Sunnydale, Double Rock and all over San Francisco – to fight to stay in their homes and resist privatization of a human right! Originally published in the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper . by Tiny Gray-Garcia Since 2013, in back
Tiny Gray
Apr 20


Crushing Wheelchairs Review
Por/By: María Para mí —María— mi perspectiva me permitió comprender y reflexionar sobre tantas cosas que son innegablemente reales. Todo lo retratado en la película reflejaba temas y acontecimientos que he vivido en la vida real. Muestra el tormento de la preocupación por dónde vivir, y cómo la situación se vuelve cada vez más difícil —particularmente en lo que respecta a la migración, la lucha por educar a nuestros hijos y el esfuerzo por brindarles tanto estabilidad académi
Maria
Apr 20


Murdered by the system LUIS CONGORA PAT
By Momii Palaz Shouting, “ I’m an immigrant, a fucking working class woman. We need to unite brothers and sisters for the life of our children. Keep on fighting. LUIS CONGORA PAT, PRESENTE, LUIS GONGORA PAT, PRESENTE”, said Frisco 5 warrior Maria Christina, who spoke at the 10 year anniversary of Luis Demetrio Congora Pat ’s death. On April 7, 2016, Luis Demetrio Congora Pat was gunned down 58 times by SF policeman Mike Malone. Luis was unhoused on Shotwell Street in the Mis
Momii Palapaz
Apr 15


Insulted through political propaganda
By Queennandi X, QCH PNN With the exception of candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, we are used to seeing political candidates advertise commercials that lacks diversity and flaunt those with race and class privilege who boasts of their false sense of superiority through low-key innuendos. The commercial pertaining to the Western Addition aka Fill-No Moe that focused more on the clean up of “zombie park”, a name coined by a nearby resident had lacked the presence of African descende
Queennandi
Apr 13


We Have to Leave Today
Photo of cops guarding the 71st Ave safe parking lot. The planned closure of three so-called Solutions to homelessness in one week. “They said we have to leave … today … I've been here for four years and I’ve never received help or resources or even a referral of someone to talk to about housing” said Dennis houseless resident of 3rd and Peralta tiny home community. From the beginning of RoofLESS radio reporter Dennis’ placement into the Housing Consortium of the East Bay
Tiny Gray
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