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. |
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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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CW: What does it stand for? Can't Write
A 4th Generation San Franciscan responds to CW Nevius' most recent attack on Houseless folks who seek sanctuary in the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco
Coming Together in Spirit: (CHAM) Community Homeless Alliance Ministry
Tony Robles/PNN
Thursday, August 21, 2008
"Jesus was a revolutionary"
--Bill Sorro
The preacher and the poet are similar. Both are passionate and use words to illustrate that passion. Both use actions to back up the words and both are afflicted with shortcomings and contradictions. As a revolutionary I ask, is God a part of our revolution? If not, do we have room for him (or her)? Does an empty belly have room for food? How would you answer this question?
Big People, Big Heart
Tony Robles
Thursday, October 8, 2009;
Back to My Soil: The last Filipino Farm community in Orosi, California
Tony Robles/PNN
Tuesday, May 27, 2008;
"I had come back to myself and my roots, here in this narrow strip of land. Back to my soil and to my father's faith"
--Carlos Bulosan from "America is in the Heart"
An Encounter
Tony Robles
Monday, April 21, 2008
"A man is his job and you are f****d at yours!"
--Shelley Levine from the movie GlenGarry Glen Ross
I was sitting at my desk once again contemplating my worth and my value as a person, as a man, as someone who possesses a spirit. My biggest fear is that I will lose my spirit while sitting behind my desk, that somehow the desk will become a coffin that will encase my spirit and ingest my soul into little drawers to be trapped in an eternal communion with rubber bands, paper clips, glue stick and the ever-trusted bottle of white out.
When We Were Kings-harassed, gentrified, silenced, criminalized for playing his drums in San Francisco
"To me, the drum has been the communicator since the beginning of time. I'm sure it was the first message ever sent. When I think of the beat centuries ago, it was the only thing that kept us together."
--Lloyd Price
A Real Life Rocky: Stories from the worker front
Tony Robles/Special to PNN
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
A Parent Scholar: the murder of Luis Solari, a father of three.
Tony Robles/PNN
Monday, April 21, 2008
I woke up and turned on an early morning news program. The announcers were clean and pressed and looked more like mannequins than humans. I listened as they reported on Obama/Clinton, budget deficits, and the upcoming Olympic games in China. I was also informed that my TV would be obsolete if I didn't purchase some kind of electric box by early 2009.
A Man Without His Name is Not a Man: false accusations and the criminal Injustice System
Editor’s Note: Dale Ray’s article was facilitated by Poor Magazine columnist Tony Robles. It Reflects one man’s experience with the burden of trying to overcome the injustice and stigma of an accusation of molestation. POOR Magazine understands the severity of child molestation upon its victims and families. It is POOR Magazine’s position that a person who commits this crime against children should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. POOR also realizes that the system by which individuals are accused and incarcerated—at The same time is flawed—incarcerating and stigmatizing innocent individuals. This article is written to inform the public of this situation.
