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: |
The KKK Act of 1871
An explanation of the racist and classist laws that inform U.S. policy.
Marlon Crump/PNN
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Silenced Mamas II
The Un-just actions of Commissioner Marjorie Slabach continues -unchecked
Marlon Crump/PNN
Saturday, September 5, 2009
A Poor People-Led Revolution: The POOR Magazine Story.
A Poor People-Led Revolution
HOUSING FIRST: IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME ISN'T JUST A SLOGAN
By Bruce Allison and Thornton Kimes
San Francisco has a “Housing First” policy. The (very extended) Patel
family, which owns the vast majority of SRO hotel (Single Room
Occupancy: a.k.a. Poor People Housing) properties in the city, is
spitting in our faces by leaving SRO’s vacant for years. There is one
in the Mission (22nd and Mission, above the Ritmo music store, with 40
Haiku for the Environment
Thornton Kimes/An Alleged Po'Poet/
warm up the car! we
have to massage concrete for
a nano-second
Play On Reality Pains Psychie
Whew! Really difficult getting to this new site but now that I have... READ UP!
"SIT/LIE", "CIVIL SIDEWALKS", WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, THIS LAW STINKS
Bruce Allison and Thornton Kimes/PNN
July 20, 2010