When it comes down to the “SSI shuffle," many people with disabilities have been caught up in the deck of cards. According to the analysis completed by the Center on Budget and Policy in 2025, 57,600 disabled California residents, 35,900 New York residents, 30,800 Florida residents and 23,600 Texans lost their disability benefits or had their income severely reduced by the SSI administration. There were many cases where benefits were lost due to the errors on the SSI administ

The entertainment/music industry has indeed earned the name “hollyweird” with the upgrading of twisted innuendos that desecrate cultural traditions and set trends that cause confusion. Some Hip hop artists today are content with the demonization of their talents and the compromised images required in order to remain a “chart topper” generating billions for an agenda that contributes to cultural destruction. The “hot ticket item” so to speak is intertwining of gangsta rappers

Photo by Gautam N  on Unsplash | Alt Text: A picture of a green hillside with several scattered buildings. Aware, awake, I am. Being here can be so hard. People in pain, people dying, people losing their hearts, their minds, all around. I want to be strong. I want to help. I am here, too.  Some days feel like walking death even though I have been freed from substances that harmed me. When will the hatred end? What must we do? Where does real help come from? The institutions

Special Screening of the new movie Crushing Wheelchairs  in honor of the Angelversary of Luís Góngora Pat and many other victims of anti-houseless violence. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact for film:  tiny gray-garcia or Muteado Silencio  Phone:  510-435-7500 Email: poormag@gmail.com Organization:  POOR Magazine / Homefulness Contact for family:  Adriana Camarena  Phone : 650-799-6621 Email : justice4luis@gmail.com Organization : justice4luis.org What Prayer Ceremony and Film Sc

Survival Poetry 2026 YELAMU #4 Poor Magazine Street Writing Workshop Series MARCH 18, 2026 ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS and EDITS Shannon Gibson Idling thoughts. Delayed time. Exposed doubts. Pastel emotions. Trains of ambitions. Blinded conductor. Full of joy, afraid to share laughter. Publicly no one can care We all look to the sky With nowhere to stare. Translation: Pensamientos ociosos. Tiempo detenido. Dudas expuestas. Emociones pastel. Trenes de ambiciones. Conductor cegado.

Survival Poetry #3 Poor Magazine Street Writing Workshop Series February 27, 2026 Ellen Meadows We’re all going through an inner corridor A coldness in the heart. I have shivers down my spine remembering a warm blanket with  my love.  I take deep breaths and begin to count the spiral that cascade out In front of me. I try and become smaller.  I clench my hands inside my coat, quicken my steps and hold onto the hope of warmth  and home again. Everything moves slow. The changin

Yelamu Poetry Workshop Session #1 February 27th, 2026 No Title By: Melinda Garnett A poem to those that cause problems because of their own fears. A small corner in America, perhaps a little dark circle on the map.  Where you and I come together in the physical and time away from each other more so on a spiritual journey But where one might come to express concern and there might be expressing dreams however we all our one when we stand together. As we hear each fear and make

"Our ancestors chose to be kidnapped from Africa”- Kanye West “Black families don’t need fathers because we had strong women.”- Herschel Walker “I’m not black, I’m OJ (Simpson)” “Growing up, I came up with this name: Cablinasian “- Tiger Woods The “koon quotes” mentioned above are examples of how internalized racism is another form of hate just as dangerous and effective as the biased opinions of white (non) supremacy—the belief that assimilation and perpetuation of the anti-

As far as man can remember, to do battle has been a destructive staple in the defined and redefined books of history. Whether it was to uphold the hoarding of wealth, land and cultural power, mankind has always made sure that the shedding of blood was on the agenda no matter how many lives were lost. The Vietnam war, the Nigerian civil war and the French wars of religion alone claimed the lives of up to at least 15-20 million people, and those who survived were subjected to o

By: Frankie Hicks My childhood lives in Texas. If you close your eyes, you can probably picture it. Vast, uninterrupted blue sky providing the backdrop for spitting mad preachers and angry white men in camo baseball caps. Being homeschooled, I was isolated among people desperate to isolate themselves, frothing at the mouth to secede from the United States for all the wrong reasons. Lonely among loners, and repressing truths about myself that would have gotten me humiliated, h

Houseless and formerly houseless, disabled youth, adults and elder members of the cast at the first screening of Crushing Wheelchairs at the Roxie Theatre in Occupied Yelamu (SF) TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE HERE Upcoming Screenings: April 21, San Bernadino Valley College May 5-11th Boston, Western Mass, Philly, DC, Silver Springs, NYC UnTour May 18th University of California LA (UCLA) June 25th Vidiots Theatre in LA (MORE TO COME!) Film Reviews Black Repertory Theater screening: "

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  tiny gray-garcia or Muteado Silencio Phone:  510-435-7500 Email: poormag@gmail.com Organization:  POOR Magazine / Homefulness Honoring the Unseen women Homeless/Disabled/Indigenous/Refugee, Incarcerated and Comfort Women Honored for Women’s HERstory Month What Prayer Walk/March  and Testimony  When 11am Wedesday, March 11th  Where Launch at the Corner of Market & Montgomery in San Francisco (Yelamu)  (Listen to a PoemCast by Povertyskola For a

By Momii Palapaz A recent instagram video from Bojongo, Bonaberi, Douala, Cameroon revealed an intense confrontation between a middle aged man and about 10 women. Armed with long sticks, the women in the village surrounded him and took turns whacking his body. What happened was, this man was beating his wife regularly. For fear and shame or whatever, she did not seek help. That changed when neighborhood women heard her crying. That’s when they found out the man was giving her

By Momii Palapaz, PNN reporter Her long, slender fingers picked up the seed. This was the first thing I noticed; her soft, unblemished hands, nimble fingers and lacquered nails. She maneuvered them to place a speck of seed in a tiny square space of a box.  Efficient and quick, this young woman was a working owner at the 25 acre Oranoponico Vivero Hamar Punto de Venta. One hundred and sixty-six farmers work here and are paid to grow 250 species of plant life, fruits and 10-12

By Evander McElroy Early on January 3 rd , 2026, U.S. special ops forces entered Caracas and detained Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Within hours, they were on a U.S. aircraft bound for American custody. Federal prosecutors charged Maduro with leading a narcotics trafficking conspiracy that allegedly used the machinery of the Venezuelan state to move cocaine into North America.¹ Washington called the mission a law-enforcement action made neces

By Momii Palapaz On February 19th I thought of my mom who was just 18 years old, ready, but not allowed to attend graduation and get her diploma. It was 1942 in Redwood City, California and the Takagi family was ordered to report to a designated site. No other details were given.  Mom said “Somebody told dad to go east”.  In the midst of round ups by the FBI and WRA (War Relocation Authority), Japanese Americans and their families were deemed a threat and laws were instituted