POOR News Network (PNN)
Community Newsroom
POOR Magazine's Indigenous News-making circle. This is the poor people-led, indigenous people-led process where we produce all of our radio, video, print and written media. It is open to the whole community who respect this sacred space and desire to get heard about issues impacting youth, adults and elders in poverty locally and globally.
First Thursday of every month at 1 PM
Contact us for location
PNN–Radio Live
Revolutionary Radio of unheard voices struggling with poverty, racism, disability, incarceration, migration/immigration locally and globally—produced by youth, adult and elder poverty scholars at POOR Magazine
Tuesdays
6 PM Po' People's Newz Hour
7 PM Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia / Voices in Resistance
Wednesdays
6 PM Slave Revolt Radio
Thursdays
5 PM The People's Botanica
6 PM We are ALL Connected
7 PM AbolitionistRadio/MarkG
Poverty Journalism
Revolutionary Journalism 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.
Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia
El proyecto de justicia a través de la educación bilingüe, el periodismo y los medios de comunicación para los migrantes y sabios de la pobreza.
Bi-lingual education, journalism and media justice project for migrant and poverty scholars.
Youth in Media
Media produced, edited, written and broadcasted by youth skolaz locally and globally and/or stories on Youth Justice.
Krip Hop Nation
Disabled voices of the music industry, present, past, and future.
Poor people–led/indigenous people–led broadcast media deconstructing the lies told about poor folks By Any Means Necessary!
POOR Press
POOR Press/Prensa POBRE is a poor and indigenous people–led press dedicated to publishing the books and scholarship of youth, adults, and elders in poverty locally and globally. Our #1 goal is to disseminate the wisdom of Poverty Scholarship and the necessary stories of Poverty Skolaz as far and wide as possible and to support these skolaz who are humbly sharing their stories.
Become a POOR Press author!
POOR Press Book Class is held once a year to support poverty skolaz in writing, publishing, and selling books.
We recommend you first attend one of our poverty journalism workshops before joining book class.
Uncle Al Robles & Mama Dee Living Library
The Uncle Al Robles & Mama Dee Living Library Project honors the community literary spirit of ancestors Al Robles and Mama Dee with writing projects, art and performance with the goal of inspiring future poets and community scholars like Uncle Al Robles and Mama Dee
Mama Dee Garcia
Mama Dee, mother of Tiny, was a fighter and an artist and a revolutionary care-giver who managed to survive by any means necessary, get her college degree, raise her daughter, and co-found the revolution that is POOR Magazine
Uncle Al Robles
Poet, Community Scholar, Revolutionary Teacher, Activist and Poverty Hero
Theatre of the POOR / Teatro de los POBRES
Crushing Wheelchairs / Aplastando las Sillas de Ruedas (2023 production)
Theatre Written, Lived and Died by Houseless, Disabled Humans Swept like We R Trash
We are NOT actors, we are NOT performing poverty or disability. All of us “Cast” members are houseless, formerly houseless poverty skolaz who along with me, tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola have co-created our HERstories and Histories in a six month workshop presented by the Theatre of the POOR project at POOR Magazine. This play honors the lives, survival, spirits and love of Luis G, Luis T, Steven Taylor, Papa Bear, Jessica Nelson Williams, Laure McElroy, Iris Canadá, Kathy Galvez, my Mama Dee Garcia, Shannon Marie Bigley, Desiree Quintero and so many more of us houseless humans who have died because of the violence of anti–poor people hate, racism, ableism, classism, PoLice terror, poltricks, homelessness and “the lie of rent” as I call it, in this occupied indigenous land known as the US.
Teatro escrito, vivido y muerto por humanos sin hogar y discapacitados barridos como si fuéramos basura
NO somos actores, NO estamos realizando pobreza o discapacidad. Todos nosotros los miembros del “Reparto” somos skolaz de pobreza sin hogar, anteriormente sin hogar que junto a mí, tiny gray-garcia aka poverty skola, han co-creado nuestras historias en un taller de seis meses presentado por el proyecto Teatro de los POBRES en POOR Magazine. Esta obra honra las vidas, la supervivencia, los espíritus y el amor de Luis G, Luis T, Steven Taylor, Papa Bear, Jessica Nelson Williams, Laure McElroy, Iris Canadá, Kathy Galvez, mi Mama Dee Garcia, Shannon Marie Bigley, Desiree Quintero y muchos más de nosotros, humanos sin hogar que hemos muerto a causa de la violencia de los pueblos anti-pobres, odio, racismo, ableismo, clasismo, terror policial, etc. La política, la falta de vivienda y “la mentira de la renta” como yo lo llamo, en esta tierra indígena ocupada conocida como los Estados Unidos.
Photos by Peter Menchini
Tara Campbell, ABC7 News, February 11, 2023
David John Chávez, SF Chronicle, February 10, 2023
Charles Lewis III, 48 Hills, February 22, 2023
Past Projects
Po' Poets Project/Poetas Pobres Proyecto
A Bilingual/Inter-generational Workshop, a Group, a Revolution!/¡un taller bilingue/entre varias generaciones, un grupo una revolucion!
Hotel Voices
The Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area.
welfareQUEENS
The welfareQUEENS is a revolutionary group of mamaz, daughters and sons struggling with poverty, welfare, racism and disability, poor women creating art with the goal of resisting and reclaiming the racist and classist mythologies about poverty and the criminilization of poor people in Amerikkka.
Poverty Heroes Project
Literary and Visual Art honoring a new literary Hero - The Poverty Hero
Los Viajes/The Journeys
Stories and images from peoples crossing borders all over Pachamama/Mother Earth/Historias y imagines de personas que cruzan las fronteras por toda Pachamama, la madre tierra
Re-Views For The RevoluTion
Revolutionary unseen artists, silenced voices, theatre, books, films, music, spoken word, performance, actions and events