POOR's Mission
POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.
All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.
POOR Magazine
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Revolutionary Journalism, poetry, & prose 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. |
(POOR Magazine -The print edition- Is currently out of print due to lack of funding. Some copies of Volume #4: MOTHERS still available by mail order. Contact deeandtiny@poormagazine.org) Blogs and Journalizm by Poverty Skolaz locally and globally linked below: |
Survival Radio
“Mama, will I ever see you again? Whispered by a child in the hills of San Marcos, Guatemala
“Without child care we won’t be able to keep our jobs,” spoken by a mama of three struggling to support her children in Oakland
“We don’t work with Indians,” yelled at an indigenous elder in San Francisco by San Francisco Housing Authority worker
The People-Led Revolution has Come!
Ben Ali, Tunisian fascist dictator, is gone!
Egypt’s 30-year fascist dictator (and U.S. puppet) Hosni Mubarak is about to go!
We are seeing with our own eyes – at last – real people’s power in action. We are seeing the working class joining hands, the police and security forces included. It’s so exciting, exhilarating!
Plain Cone
Plain Cone
By Tony Robles
Grandpa had this way
Of whistling and when I heard
It I thought of caramel corn
And ice cream
Grandpa was black, from
New Orleans and his wife
Was San Francisco Irish
But to me they were Grandpa
And Grandma
To landlords they were
Not the kind of people
You rented to
They had a child, my mother,
Don’t Let Eviction Kill More Elders
The North Beach Eviction of low-income elders must be stopped
If I Were A Bell: A Tribute to Teena Marie
Lady T
By Tony Robles
I’m for the real…and for you I’m true blue
--Lover Girl by Teena Marie
Ted Williams
Ted Williams