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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.
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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. |
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(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: |
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I am NOT a modern day slave!
As I write this story I can now begin to sit back and recall the days when I drifted in and out of homelessness. I found it to be very strange that one can become homeless, and even though I had been able to find gainful employment, I still found myself living in shelters.
I had a home, now I have a counseling appointment
As I'm walking down the street it's easy to get distracted in my mind.
The smell of fifty other guys mixed in with some kind of industrial cleaner is something I want to forget. I'm sleeping on the docks. I stopped staying in the missions. I don't like them. People pass by and think I must be a drunk fisherman. The cops woke me up a few times. Since I don't have any warrants, they told me to just go back to sleep.
Landlessness and Colonization on a Waiting List
Picture credit http://www.firstnations.eu/indian_land.htm featured online firstnations.eu. "No Justice on Stolen Land," protest placard. Photo: anon
Poem is dedicated to Indigenous Elder Scholar, Myron Standing Bear and his struggle to receive his housing that was stolen from him by members of the San Francisco Housing Authority . He went from #1 to #564 on the S.F.H.A. Housing Waiting List for being Indian.
“We don’t work with Indians!”
GENTRIFUKATION TOURS “R” US (Aburgesamiento Gira “Somos” Nosotros)
GENTRIFUKATION TOURS
“R”
US
(Aburgesamiento Gira
“Somos”
Nosotros)
“Coming to a Displaced, Dismantled, Redeveloped Neighborhood Near You”
Bird on a wire: A raven speaks out on the blue angels and other things
Bird on a wire: A raven speaks out on the blue angels and other things
By Revolutionary Worker Scholar
Note: I was lucky to encounter the raven after many weeks of trying. I endured its laughter while trying to coax it from its wire with breadcrumbs. After 2 weeks of this, the raven finally granted me a much-coveted interview about the Blue Angels.
Q: What do you think of the blue angels?
A: I don’t stay up nights thinking about them
Q: Why not?
A Letter to Tim Lincecum's Mother (Nanay)
Letter to Tim Lincecum’s Mother (Nanay)
By Revolutionary Worker Scholar
The speed of light
Is a vision
That looks right
Back at you
--Tiburcio Garcia-Gray
Dear Mrs. Lincecum:
A place of safety, refuge, sanity, and quiet contemplation.
What Homefulness means to me
....A place of safety, refuge, sanity, and quiet contemplation.
Not Always fear-near the-1st of the month a place where I can invite
Voices for Climate Justice
In the wake of endless corporate media reports on whether or not climate change is real and how many polar ice caps are melting, a 48-page classified report created by Homeland Security was released last year at a special house subcommittee hearing chaired by Representative Anna Eschu on the "security impact of global climate change."
Homefulness is Eldership
What Homefulness Means to Me
