By Ananda My older brother was diagnosed with autism when he was five years old. I had a limited understanding of what that meant at the time, but I knew it put him in danger. My mom would talk to us about how to speak to police and what to do if she wasn’t there to protect us. I think back on that and how terrifying it must have been for her to have to imagine her children being violently misunderstood. I thought if we looked out for each other, made the right decisions, sai

In attribution on Poor People’s Radio Podcast. Conversation with Nikcole Whipple, Save California Salmon. Water protector, policy advocate, and member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, Nikcole Whipple, joined Poor People’s Radio to share about the Bay Delta, the threat of Voluntary Agreements, and how Save California Salmon is organizing to protect the Delta. The Bay Delta is the largest estuary on the West Coast. The Feather, American, San Joaquin, and Sacramento Rivers a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: tiny gray-garcia or Muteado Phone: 510-435-7500 Email: poormag@gmail.com Organization: POOR Magazine / HOMEfulness Houseless People Create a Real Solution to Homelessness in San Francisco With prayer and permission from First Nations land protectors, indigenous, houseless, and formerly houseless families and elders reclaim a tiny triangle of Mama Earth in occupied Yelamu (San Francisco) to build a healing solution to homelessness. What Prayer

This review was written by devorah major and originally published on her website. It can be read here . The unhoused, who are said to live on the margins of our society, are in front of our eyes every day we walk or drive down our streets if we look. Too many complain about the view, applaud people’s lives swept up and moved from one corner to another. But to not see the unhoused, is to be blind to a wealth of survival tactics, and a goldmine of individuals and families crea

In the middle of this deep grief for all of our relatives facing colonial terror- We povertyskolaz want to lift you up, our supporters, ComeUnity reparators/radical redistributors/revolutionary givers, ComeUnity care-givers, prayer-bringers, art creators, Mama earth protectors, system upsetters and fellow povertyskolaz for walking another way on this occupied terorrized, extracted Mama Earth. For walking with us poor/houseless/indigenous peoples from all four corners of Mama

a homeless peoples solution to homelessness comes to Yelamu with a request for humility, prayer, love, liberation.... and patience Street Newsroom with houseless residents of Yelamu and Huchiun Lands Before the ink was even dry on the settler colonial paper lie That which is tied to multiple acts of genocide from Turtle Island to Palestine Eviction, foreclosure, treaties, Murder and Sweeping humans until we die…. They came for us - enforcing, removing, with multiple to

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