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While Mayors from LA to San Francisco claim their “Homeless population” is decreasing, the violent policy of “sweeps” increases– A powerful new movie created by houseless/formerly houseless sweeps and eviction survivors comes to the Eagle Rock Theatre at Vidiots that tells the stories of the people the government is trying to disappear. “That’s my Wheelchair...” A Disabled Black Houseless Oakland resident screams at a bulldozer coming for her comeUnity and her wheelchair. Crushing Wheelchairs, with an original screenplay written by houseless poet and povertyskola tiny gray-garcia and adapted from her award winning play of the same name, focuses on the violence of homelessness, city and state sponsored sweeps, and poLice terror. The movie includes an all houseless/formerly houseless cast whose motto is: “We aren’t acting, we are living.” It was shot primarily in houseless communities (encampments) and on the streets in Oakland and San Francisco. “The story of Crushing Wheelchairs is written in a prayer, a dream, and a scream felt and barely survived by me, tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola, my houseless, disabled mama, and all of my fellow poverty/disability skolaz & ancestors portrayed/lived in this movie/story. This is the art of our lives, our almost survival, and our death at the hands of laws that say our bodies and lives are criminal and that we are trash.” –tiny gray-garcia (writer, co-director) The lead characters in this powerful movie feature tiny and her mother, who struggled with homelessness throughout her childhood and later were arrested for sleeping on the streets of Oakland; Aunti Frances Moore, a formerly houseless Black Panther in Oakland; Stephanie Grant, who was pregnant and homeless when she witnessed the murder of Luis Gongora Pat by poLice in 2016, for being houseless and indigenous in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco Mission neighborhood. The ancestors of homelessness we also focus on include Steven Taylor, murdered by poLice in Walmart while houseless for having a mental health crisis; Papa Bear, a houseless veteran of three tours in Vietnam, who died on the streets of San Francisco after receiving 280 citations for being houseless on the street, iris Canada, a 100 year old Black Elder evicted to homelessness from her longtime home in the Fillmore due to gentrification, Shannon Marie Bigley, Cornelius Taylor and James Edward Oakley, all run over by bulldozers in sweeps of their tents in California and Atlanta, Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan, who died after being violently swept in Los Angeles and Luis Temaj, burned alive while asleep in his sleeping bag and so many more. We are living in a moment when Mayors across California and the nation use the policy of sweeps on a daily basis to disappear houseless peoples bodies and comeUnities off the streets by force, and cut all of our housing first and treatment resources–all of which further enhanced already dangerous sweeps that were amped up last year’s Supreme Court ruling that stated living while houseless in the US is a crime (City of Grants Pass vs. Johnson, 2024) and that houseless people have no protection under the Constitution. And that this crime is punishable by arrest and incarceration. But how can you incarcerate someone for being poor, for being disabled, for not having enough money or credit to pay rent to attain shelter? How can we be punished for living outside without access to shelter? In the state of California, the Governor has claimed that our bodies are equivalent to trash. In the city and county of San Francisco, the mayor has deemed our presence a blight; and in Los Angeles where, on average, six unhoused people die everyday, our outside comeUnities (encampments) are being destroyed, evicted, and disappeared. Our Lives are now deemed unworthy of human rights, so I suppose in the eyes of the State we are not human, we are in fact trash. “But we are not trash. This movie at this time is urgent medicine for humanity itself, who through this art can realize that we as houseless people are just like housed people. We are workers, and artists, and poets and innovators, and survivors. We have solutions and backstories and HERstories and visions – this movie lifts up those urgent stories, those urgent solutions – this movie is Medicine for Mama Earth and all of us,” concluded tiny gray-garcia. This movie produced by Green Diamond Projects and POOR Magazine includes spoken word from renowned poet laureates including Tongo Eisen-Martin (Poet Laureate of San Francisco), Ayodele Wordslangar Nzinga (Poet Laureate of Oakland), Luis Rodriguez (Poet Laureate of Los Angeles) and Devorah Major (Poet Laureate of San Francisco), as well as indigenous leaders and prayer-bringers Corrina Gould (Spokeswoman of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Sogorea Te), Tony Gonzales, OG Rev, Harry Williams and Brother Mink as well as formerly houseless leaders from Wood Street Commons and Homefulness.

“I don’t know where your son is, he was in detention and then he disappeared….” The assistant principal’s voice trailed off as she flipped absentmindedly through a stack of attendance sheets, until she stopped abruptly and looked up, “I’m sorry but we don’t know where he is.” She walked out of the room and left us there in shock This is just one example of the school to prison pipeline in full effect with our poor/houseless Black, Brown, Houseless, Disabled and indigenous youth being intentionally “lost” in carceral systems like “detention” and expulsion and over-policing of school sites.While underserving and under-educating poor and disabled children. But I knew standing there, looking down a long empty “mans skool” hallway for one of my lost co-suns, that it was up to us at POOR Magazine and Family Project to mamafest the dream my mama and me had had for many years of launching a liberaiton school, something different and radical for our babies coming out of poverty.Children like i was, who was forced to drop out of school at age 11 to take care of my disabled mama while living in homelessness. HOMEfulness land in Deep East Huchiun ( Oakland) had just been freed. If we worked really hard we could get a small classroom up and running by September for a Fall 2013 opening HERstory of Deecolonize Academy Starting with POOR Magazine’s Youth In Media project which began in 1998 in POOR’s early days to make sure houseless youth were speaking for themselves about their struggles and their perspectives and then FAMILY project—launched by me and my revoluitonary sisSTar, teacher, povertyskola Junebug Kealoha to provide free revolutionary curriculum, child care and healthy food and support for houseless and poor families. Deecolonize Academy was the logical progression. In 2013, a collective of poor and houseless mamas and uncles from all across the Bay, including Tracey Bell Borden, Queennandi X Sheba, Leroy Moore, Muteado SIlencio, Laure McElroy, Vivian Flaherty, Aldo, Julio Chavez, Tony Robles, Ace Robles, myself and Junebug and so many more, opened a humble tuition-free, arts, spirit, cultural and liberation-based homeschool on the sacred land us houseless peoples call HOMEfulness. We only teach the truth to our children, even if it’s the hard truth. From poltrickster lies and violence to homelessness, eviction, law, and Black Land theft, from Indigenous science practices to care for Mama Earth, water and sky, to spiritual traditions from all four corners, Over the years the teachers have included so many powerful poverty skolaz, indigenous leaders and artists including Corrina Gould, Loa and Fui Fui Niumeitolu, Aunti Frances Moore, Brother Mink, Maya, Mx T, Katrina Harris, Jasmine Hain, Momii Palapaz, Ananda, Israel, Alvaro, Jason Fluker and Ifalayo Harper to name a few. We have successfully promoted over 100 low/no-income, houseless, disabled and indigenous children from age 3-18 and have graduated five high school seniors with a powerful liberation education and this year in 2026 we will graduate our last two seniors with a beautiful and deeply rooted in culture, science, reading, poetry and HERstory. Thirteen years later in 2026, we are not ending the school. The school lives forever in our hearts and our multi-generational liberation work at POOR Magazine. It also lives on in PeopleSkool- a liberation education for adults. But due to the rising costs of keeping the school open full-time and our capacity to do all the work we do supporting fellow houseless folks and Mama Earth, we need to put the full day school on pause and we look foreward to the day when the powerful students and alumni will come back and re-open the day school again. Starting in September 2026 we will be launching our free Liberation Afterschool program which will include Danza Azteca with Uncle Muteado and Alvaro (Aztec Dance practice), Martial Arts with Brother Mink, Revolutionary Media mentorships with me teacher/mama tiny and Aunti Frances Moore, Arts and Crafts with Teacher Ifalayo, and Tutoring/Science, Cooking and love with Teachers Maya and Trina, to name a few offerings. We will provide healthy organic snacks, care, love, rides and more, like we always have since 2013 and no matter what we are here to support families and community in poverty, like we always do.

A project of Poor Peoples Clinic and EFAM. Once a month, multiple forms of FREE healing for houseless/no-low-income ComeUnity Acupuncture plant medicine different forms of therapy MEDICAL DOCTOR CHECKUPS 5/22/2026 from 10-1 PM ~~~ SHOW UP AT 10AM TO REGISTER!! 3390 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco Un proyecto de La Clinica De Los Pobres y EFAM. Una vez al mes, múltiples formas de sanación GRATUITA para personas sin hogar o con bajos ingresos en ComeUnity Acupuntura DIFERENTE FORMAS DE TERAPIA chequeos medicos Medicina de plantas 5/22/2026 10-1 PM ~~~ VEN A LAS 10 AM PARA REGISTRARTE!! 3390 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco

5/6/26 RoofLess Writing/Street-Writing workshop of POOR Magazine/Taller de prensa pobre 1st Church, North Hampton, MA. Presents: Trauma-logues Monologue, Poetry, Story for healing Prompt: Describe/Write one moment/one day in your life where you faced eviction, police harassment, ICE, homelessness, sweeps, loss or ? - Escribir/describir un momento de su experiencia con desalojo, desamparado, lucha con policía, lucha con pobreza, o? Ros P, 30 y/o Mom called…sophomore in high school…middle of the school day. We are being evicted. Ran home from school and came into the apartment to a police officer asking me, “who are you?” homeless on & off since. Taylor My name is Tayler. I am currently struggling with Being pregnant and homeless while fighting constant DCF harassment for a couple of years so I’d say I’m in a unknown restless transitional time. Trauma filled Time and having wrongful /unlawful removal of my 3 kids. I fought for 2 years for ٠ TOOT TOOT hospitalization Annikka It’s hard to just pick one moment of homelessness. The realization, acceptance, descent. Moving from place to place with no stability, assurance, guidance. I didn’t see it coming. I never thought I would be here. I don’t know where I’m going. I want to keep going. I want to find hopefulness in homelessness. Nothing is certain. But I’m still here. Each step is a step towards the future. The world keeps moving. Is it moving without me? Faster and faster, people want more and more. It’s ok to take things slow. One moment at a time. Waiting for a miracle or fighting for change. Alexander The Death of my Grandmother was devastating time. An event,... that truly changed the lives of my extended family. After the Death of the great woman who … a single mother of 7 after her husband passed away, the lies and deceptions of my family came to light. To my mother, who, ever since her death of her father, when she was only ten, was bullied and humiliated by her siblings up until a few years back. The death of her mother was a … devastation. 20 years had gone by a blink of an eye, and all because of false …, my mother, her mother, she couldn’t hug ever again. For now, almost 3 years. Since her passing of my grandmother I’ve seen the light of life in my mothers eyes dwindle. For her first year, every day she broke down … out for her mother. My heart and soul afraid secretly my mother break down to the .... How I miss my mother, I miss my grandmother, but I …of ..mother sits on my mother Nikolas Wolf The winter was brutal. Single digit temps and 2 feet of snow crushed the tent, and so many others. It took weeks to replace them. The emergency shelter was temporary, but gave us warm cots for a few nights. But how many times must we lose everything? Celyne One moment?-it’s hard to pull one from 67 years of housing - living- precariousness. The daughter of a single mom- the rent was always due- the landlord the police outside the door, the bullying the sexual harassment ^ abuse just house then unhoused became part of the everyday. I tried to escape, I vowed to escape but I learned the system was the chains it went …undivided I could do alone. I became a single mom of a now disabled kid & in the beauty of this life the oppression continued. My hopes lie in community & then collectiveness of us all to fight the capital machine. Thank you all for being here ..! Philip Surprenant I was evicted and Trespassed from Every source property with less Than 24 hrs to move Dylan Roberton When I was in Seattle I had a friend I was staying with who had 1 condition I couldn't use but I quickly realized and then had to live out on the street for the first time. In Seattle the problem wasn’t so much the cold but staying out of the rain. I got by without a tent for a while, eventually my girlfriend came out and convinced me to come back east, eventually had to give up apartment out here within 15 hours I ended up outside. Paris The Moose camp sweep -touch the…protest Not safe or secure anywhere We go where they tell us Until they change their minds Romona Holland -loss of immediate family -been through couch surfing crisis, detox, harm reduction, residential programs, sober homes, shelters, eventually tents -lack of motivation facing my …. addiction problems, mental health issues, overall inconsistencies with my therapist, and psychiatrist

Houseless/formerly houseless residents of Oakland and San Francisco hold a cross-bay action to resist the closure of hundreds of emergency shelter beds, transitional housing and safe parking lots while sweeps increase Cross Bay Actions When & Where Tuesday, May 26th Oakland City Hall: 10:30am San Francisco City Hall: 12 noon “The non-profit and the City (of Oakland) promised they would help me get re-housed, now im getting re-swept,” Juan T, a former resident of one of Oakland’s recently closed Safe Parking Lots shouted over the CalTrans workers unrelenting beep, beep , beep while they crushed his makeshift tent and belongings in East Oakland, an area he used to sleep before he was “housed” by the City . From San Francisco to Oakland, houseless residents are losing thousands of rooms, beds and temporary shelters while new laws and new mandates from both sides of the Bay are leading to more violent criminalization of our bodies and lives. “In Mayor Daniel Lurie’s San Francisco, a tent can’t be erected without teams of police and Public Works employees arriving within hours to tear it down and throw the person into jail. In Lurie’s San Francisco, he’ll close five adult shelters while banning RVs from city streets. In Lurie’s San Francisco, he’ll jump out of his SUV to forcibly remove a homeless woman from his street corner with his own two hands,” said a spokesperson from Coalition on Homelessness. "High rents should be swept away not unhoused people." Said Junebug Kealoha, formerly houseless community health worker, elders council member of HOMEfulness Elders council and POOR magazine povertyskola "Transitional Adults and Youth need housing subsidies and safe spaces to succeed" As this press release is being written hundreds of houseless residents of Oakland and San Francisco are facing eviction from so-called solutions to homelessness run by non-profits who have received thousands of dollars to “house the homeless” . One after the other these “solutions” close leaving folks to go back to the street and face the same violent sweeps they originally were experiencing. “Wealth hoarder mayors like Daniel Lurie want to erase, remove and incarcerate houseless residents who are just trying to sleep in our communities and neighborhoods, even though their budget cuts, funding priorities and tech friendly policies lead to massive evictions and our homelessness,” said Tiny gray-Garcia, formerly houseless mother, povertyskola and co-founder of POOR magazine and HOMEfulness The cities of Oakland and San Francisco have closed emergency shelter beds without any accountability to the communities they claim to serve, meanwhile big non-profit agencies who receive millions of dollars in grant funding for housing services like Bay Area Community Services (BACS) are closing their offices which means the meager access to support or advocacy is now being phased out as well, leaving us with no way to get help.. “Hundreds of RV households have been forced to sleep on the street, while the city forcibly removes their only financial asset. Due to the renewed war on the poor, our jail population has increased by 50% over the past five years, and 40% of those incarcerated are unhoused.”. As Lurie guts our social safety nets, we must invest in proven and dignified solutions, including formerly homeless-led responses, like Homefulness and Wood Street Commons.” Coalition on Homelessness “In the time of my ancestors, there was no concept of homelessness,” said Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair of the Ohlone/Lisjan peoples and member of the HOMEfulness elders council . HOMEfulness is an answer to the immediate emergency of homelessness,. But it is also healing medicine—not only for houseless elders, families, and disabled people, but for all of us, housed and unhoused, who are in need of hope, repair, and home. “You close shelters, cut resources, then arrest people for sleeping outside like they had somewhere else to go. That’s not justice — that’s cruelty with paperwork.” Said Stephanie Grant, formerly houseless poverty skola with POOR magazine and elephant council member of HOMEfulness SF “Why are we closing shelters? Ramping up sweeps, towing people's RVS/homes, not opening up public land for sanctuary community/ giving people a place to live but expecting things to get better.” Said John Janosko , co-founder Wood Street Commons Juan was just one of several hundred people forced off of San Francisco and Oakland’s streets in April and May . He was offered a spot in a safe parking lot, with a promise for more housing referrals and after he accepted the offer he realized the promises were empty. “I received no referrals of places to go, only notices of when they would be closing the lot.” As soon as Juan left the lot, his RV got towed for getting too many tickets for sleeping on the street. “It’s an impossible situation, I have nowhere to sleep” he concluded Follow: 📣 @poormagazine @coalitiononhomelessness @woodstreetcommons @westernregionaladvocacyproject

Writing from the journalism workshop in Yelamu (so-called San Francisco) APRIL 24, 2026 Michael Jay My name is Michael Jay and I’m writing about the increase in homeless sweeps in SF. I have been involved in numerous sweeps on Mission that would run us in for what they call a Pizza Party. So the Pizza Party, as they so call it is when they take us into the office, give us a sobriety test, and give us a slice of pizza and a coke. They're doing this as a training program for all the new cops they hired. I believe it is about 600 new cops… STREET NEWSROOM Jas I think what is happening in NY is what happens to us–to me and my family here. We get pushed out of our homes for those that are real estate savvy & have money. I believe the people should & will fight back. This is what they have done since the beginning to steal land. The people must stand together & resist or this will continue. Stealing & selling Mother Earth is violence. Eviction & gentrification is violence. Homefulness & Revolution is the solution. Luis Temj Presente Beaux Ospoke Opinion Piece on Story #1 After hearing about the absolutely EPIC size of the Amazonian AI layoff, it has further bolstered my opinion on the American public’s reaction to, and adoption of, this newest, modern AI technology. It appears to me that the majority of people who support the mass adoption of AI tech by our Fortune 500 and the NASDAQ companies seem to be ill-informed. Having a tech background myself and being a Senior Level Full Stack Web Dev with experience also in DevOps and SysAdmin roles, I feel I can speak w/ a justifiable amount of truth to my own expression. AI, to be more specific, the new technology that is becoming world changing very quickly, known as “Artificial Intelligence”, is greatly misunderstood. The consequences of what will and is happening are just being demonstrated now. There is a very real and measurable set of financial consequences for every employee who is laid off. Proponents of AI would say that “For every X employee laid off, the company will reduce operating costs by amount Y.” In perfect conditions, their formula may indeed ring true, but as soon as conditions change, you are looking at a bunch of negative possibilities not good for the shareholder bottom-line. Melinda Garrett Shelters being closed Resources being cut Love being lost and doors being shut Where else is there to go In a cold world once home To a cold doorway just to stay warm at night. Where can one turn when All has come to an end. When your house is At risk and held in anyone’s hands but your own When your tired feet can't move when the cold hits Your bones and you feel pain all over. When all Your dreams turn upside down and are thrown out the Window because of greed & control. Where will one find it’s self. Where and when does our Hard work actually count. The Day comes when The soul cant fight anymore So my main concern is when will it ever Matter. As we come together in this Time to share the pain & trauma in which America has infected us. When will We be heard when will one life actually Matter till then we are stuck watching Shelters & resources being forced from our Community and we need more than one voice Who cares and more than one who can decide 12 hundred Shelters Gera who, what, where, when, why 1 Growing up in the struggle I know Homelessness kills 2 Thank God for Poor Magazine cuz homefulness heals 3 Shelter beds closing, tents being taken 4 Sweeps on the streets people being left shaken 5 Families separated children still cryin 6 RIP Luis Tamaj why my people still dyin 7 Swept and killed alive like James Edward Osley 8 Sleeping in a tent murdered and Bulldozed 9 No accountability this is systemic violence 10 City Council members sitting there on silent 11 Absolute Immunity leaving us disqualified 12 They have a license to kill us trauma /terrify 13 So homefulness the world saving peoples lives 14 Everytime we have solutions another problem arise 15 Come-Unity Its time we stay together 16 Unsell Momma Earth Right Now 4ever 12 hundred shelters—------------------- NEWS Hour Benny Yee Donald Trump Iran Ceasefire Donald Trump will decimate Iran if they don't sign a deal. I think that is wrong. Donald Trump is such an eradicator. It is him vs a foreign country. I think he must stop. This is inhuman Facebook Meta Zuckerberg They are going to fire their workers. Fire 1,000s of employees with A.I. I oppose this especially the seniority of people. Just because it is ridiculous to fire 35K employees. Already at Amazon more in the summer with replacement People need work not AI/robots. How are these people going to survive? San Francisco, closed 1200 shelter beds and at the same time they removed shifts. No good. There is a big homeless population. Our Mayor wants to get rid of homelessness. That is not good. Adante and Ensonia Homeless is rising. Nobody can get housed. This is what I think. The Revolution becomes “I” than becomes “We” Story in New York. mostly white blacks Indigenous people moving in. The poor people get kicked out. Elder had home. Work as maid in white people home. Corporation lied and stole her contract, contract DEED fought it for 10 years. Sheriff tried to kick her out! True lies. Over a contract. People can be so conspiring and heartless. We need to advocate for these people. They are living humans. Trying to survive Lillana Esparza It can happen to anybody: Your life can change in an instance Just a simple groceries shopping can change your life. Violence is everywhere you can’t say not me. This story its about a normal person just going to the store. Getting involved in a crazy situation not being able to think and make ? you witness a crime and got so emotional you want to reach out involve the worst decision ever. Fighting is never the solution Rony Cabrera First Story 1) Regarding AI — (Artificial intelligence) I think it is unFair that human jobs are being lost and replaced by AI. For the owner of FaceBook (a billionaire) and the owner of Amazon (a billionaire) is unFair especially when the people contributed to those companies' growth. I’m being affected by this AI unFairness. Third story 3) Regarding Rich - millionaires taking over The land It is unFair for millionaires taking over buildings and houses–mainly because regular working people like me cannot even afford the rent because all those rich people raised the prices of rents and house buying. And this affected me. When I came to San Francisco in 84, I was 15 ½ years old. I was renting a room at 20th & Bartlett for $250 a month (small room) and now in 2026 the rent for that small room is around $1,000 a month—it is hard to afford rent now for low income people like me Pobres de Area de la Bahia Unidos Chispita La falta de trabajo derivado del reemplazo de la tecnología, Que ocupa la robótica pare de sarrelas el trabajo Humano desplazando a millones de trabajadores que habla cardedeu cias poleras sin las condiciones para el desarrollo y salud de las familias pobres en SF y Oakland. Orellandolas a vivir en la calles calles que son inseguras y sucias Hoy ya exista una Organización que es dirigida por personas pobres del Área de Bahía que ya han tenido éxito ex 3 espacios 2 en Oakland y 1 en SF hay muchísimas viviendas voces que han sido construidas con un pensa muerte de lograr el máximo de ganancias elevando el precio de estas viviendas que los trabajadores de salario mínimo no puede pagar por solo las alcanzaria para pagar la renta entre varias familias La Organización Homefulness es una solución formada por los S/techo y para eles vestanos y aposta y aprende con nosotros Homefulness #4 San Francisco Poormagazine.org Teresa Como siempre Los sustos de desalojo jolla gando cartas de desalojo es un martirio no puede vivir en paz Los gobiernos y Los policías y La Migra Tratando De deshacer hogar es un a pesadilla Lo que estamos viviendo asta al sueno se nos quita y Las ganas de vivir esto no as vida ya no estamos bien vivimos con desconfianza sufriendo nuestros seres queridos yo.beo.ye.oydo.que.A. Luis Avida.Varios.despidos de.GeNte.tRAbAuAdoRA. La ciudad de SAN FRANCISCO. eN. AMAZON.y.enN.Nike.CO y CAcemos que Ay.Mucha.Invjusticia.en esos despidos.Abcses.coN.VioLeNchiA yo.CReo Y.tengo.uNA.VisioN.de.que.eN.este.LuGAR.doNde EstAMos.de.que.vA.seR.uN.LuGAR.de.MuchA.AyudA.PARA.todo.eL.PuebLo.de.LA MisioN. Y CReeMos. en.UN.FutuRo HayA.JusticiA.PARA.todos.NosotRos.y.PARA.todos Los que.LA.NeseciteN.tAMbien oimos.eN.Las.NoticiAs.de VARios. LuGARes que estAN ceRRANdo.Sus.Puertas.Para.Los.Hombres.y.eso es.InJusticiA… San Francisco Shelter Raul Reyes Bueno mi opinion es ke yo soy shameless des de 5 años y se me ase muy dificil buscar vivienda parque de ve ke yo pido a yu da por un shelter me dicen que sphere y jamás Me dan un shelter sera por ke soy Latino y A lo mejor me discrimina yo creo ke ai ke Ke sen Latino asea americano tengo el mismo derecho que cualquiera otra persona Americana nosotros los Latinas también serviremos derecho esta es mi opinión INes Estrada Intelijencion Artificial Se está volviendo un gran problema. Mucha gente ha sido pijuli -ciada porque han sido víctimas los han estafado, en sus cuentos de banco, en el momento de alquilar uno vivienda -han sido engañados. Y de muchas cosas más han sido engullidos por falta de no saber. Como usarlo yo mismo fui estafado con mi familia, al querer rentar una vivienda con el page de entre. Perdida de Shelthers Acerca de cómo adquirir una como yo en lo personal luche mucho Tiempo para adquirir una como y nunca pude hacerlo. Porque había mucha corrupción yo menterabo. Fue muchas personas las conseguían porque tenían amigos, o conocidos en la administración. Sería bueno de que en lugar de cerrarlos. Hicieron algo por Tener mejor administración ABUSE DE CONTRATOS. Es muy cierre se ha vuelto un gran problema para la gente pobre, mucha gente ha sido víctima de los propietarios Los han sacado solo por tener un mes de retraso del pago. Mensual o porque les piden aumento de renta. Y el inquilino se niega porque no puede pagar o porque les piden un arreglo de la propiedad. En lugar de hacerlo los sacan.. Street Newsroom Tello Las comunidades de nuestro estado de CA nissan claras por Las políticas Inversas que nos confundes a la comunidad anteriormente La ciudad de SF una ciudad santuario Ejemplar en Las warriors Latino Indígenas con principios de nuestras antepasados Hasta el dia de loy Todos estamos Incómodos por Los Cambios de Evolución AI El capitalismo provoca pobreza para Nuestra comunidades Trabajadoras Jorge So… LA vida es dura Pero bonita esta duro el traBAJo no hAy nada pejo bus camos Maria Cordero Si hablamos de política aute todo es corrupción promesas falsas y llenas de mentiras quitando todas las oportunidades. Estamos tratando de luchar. Para lograr lo que necesitamos día-a-dia- acercándonos a grupos o personas especializadas en esa materia y en realidad aquí sigue el problema de trabajo, la migración y muchas veces por falta de documentos y la incoherencia del lenguaje. Y aun asi lo de la inteligencia artificial ya desde tiempos remotos ya se hablaba de esa donde hoy en dia es real y nosotros los humanos nos harán aun lado siupader a ser absoluta mente nada la Único que queda hacer es seguirme preparando para el futuro seguimos adelante ya no vamos andar papeles puesta que todo será con microchip. Y huellas biométricas todo con más inteligencia. Desafios tu nadamente las oportunidades de tener una vivienda no todos tenemos esa virtud por el problema muchas veces es monetario ahorita actual cabeza mayor y sus reglamentos no se puede actuar contra esas personas y eso personal mucho menos lo denias y asi veia a mucha gente peor que yo. Pero actualmente seguimos en la lucha de las oportunidades. Afroamericanos - Blancos Ricos Maria Cordero Hay gente que se aprovecha de las personas y abusa de su poder y trata de denigrar a las más débiles y dejarlas sin nada sin ni siquiera opinar. Como Una hoja al aire le cierran puertas y los privatizan deseo hasta libres de expresión-y mientra las cosas suben monetariamente como cosas y arrendadores y su trabajo siguen familias y todas las personas. Sin poder salir adelante hasta dejarlos sin derechos ni oportunidades propias

Unhoused, formerly Houseless disabled youth, families, and elders from California have created a movie about their lives and their ancestors lost to the ongoing violence of homelessness, evictions, gentrification, poLice terror, and sweeps Movie Trailer HERE NEW YORK/NJ SCREENING DATES May 7: New York, NY Maysles Documentary Center (6:30pm) 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027 May 8: (2 event day!) Poughkeepsie, NY & Red Bank, NJ 1) Vassar College (11am) 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 2) Count Basie Center for the Arts (7pm) 99 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701 As sweeps return in New York City under Mayor Mamdani, a tour of houseless and formerly houseless youth, adults and elders create a movie on the violence of homelessness and bring it to the Maysles Documentary Center New York Mayor Mamdani, who stopped sweeps, reinstated them last month, while NYC faces a drastic uptick in houseless peoples deaths. This movie, created by people who have lived this reality themselves, and have created a new solution to homelessness, is a powerful statement for New Yorkers to experience and learn from. Six houseless residents of San Francisco, LA and Oakland live outside in tents, cardboard boxes & RVs, surviving together in community, interdependently, until each city deploys a giant machine and multiple poLice and state agencies that crush all of their belongings, tents, walkers, wheelchairs and more. The exciting new movie Crushing Wheelchairs, which incorporates magical realism, poetry, and myth in the stories of each of the characters, culminates in violent tragedy and hope rooted in decolonial self-determination. The production includes a cast of only houseless or formerly houseless and disabled actors who have been participants in a series of theatre and writing workshops led by formerly houseless screenwriter, povertyskola and poet Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia aka @povertyskola. The film was produced in partnership with LA-based filmmaker, Adrian Diamond (Green Diamond Projects). Don’t miss this movie! As poverty increases and more and more of our neighbors are houseless, and subject to unconstitutional and cruel policing policies, there are solutions to be heard in the voices and creativity of folks forced to sleep on the street, or other public spaces. Fascism targets poor folkx, holding the line against fascism means solidarity with our unhoused neighbors. –Lynn Lewis, former civil rights organizer and ED, Picture the Homeless NYC. "I had everything taken from me, things I will never be able to replace no matter how many hoops I went through—I could never get them back from CalTrans,” said Brokin Cloud. Houseless in Oakland for over fifteen years, Brokin Cloud is one of the over twenty co-creators, actors, and writers who have been meeting in a workshop led by the playwright, poet, actor and visionary PovertySkola also known as Tiny Gray-Garcia, who herself was a houseless child with her disabled mother for the majority of her childhood, and then again as a single mother with her son due to the violent gentrification of the Bay Area throughout the last decade. "This movie, based on a play of the same name created by tiny, and all of the cultural work we do at Theatre of the POOR has helped me to heal from the multiple traumas I have dealt with as a houseless disabled Black woman, and survivor of eviction and poverty,” said Aunti Frances Moore, Black Panther, POOR Magazine povertyskola, co-founder of Homefulness, and founder of the Self-Help Hunger Program in Oakland, who "plays" Reggi, based on one of the ancestor povertyskolaz honored in this play, all who died because of the violence of anti-poor people-hate, racism, politricks and/or poLice Terror. "I created this movie based on my life as a child who barely survived poverty and homelessness, criminalization and incarceration. I created this movie based on my mama's life and the lives of countless fellow houseless youth, mamas, and elders who have barely survived and often died from the position of being without shelter in a system that values "private property" over people. Values the hoarding and acquiring of stolen resources and indigenous land over the safety of children and families and elders and disabled people, and actually views us as trash when we are outside—to be swept—or put to death," said writer and co-director tiny Gray-Garcia, formerly homeless, incarcerated, single mother, poet,co-founder with her mama Dee of POOR magazine, visionary of Homefulness and co-author of many publications including Criminal of Poverty - Growing Up Homeless in America and more. "This movie honors and pays tribute, prayer, and art to the stories and spirits of Steven Taylor, Tyrell Wilson, Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat, Luis Temaj, Laure McElroy, Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan, Desiree Quintero, and Shannon Marie Bigley, and so many more all who passed from the violence of sweeps, poLice terror, and hate of us poor people,” said Tiny. “This movie honors our lives as well—currently in struggle homeless poverty skolaz, in cities like ours where, in San Francisco we are being swept in the rain, or hosed down by individuals like art gallery owner Collier Gwin, or Oakland like the Wood Street Commons residents who were violently evicted from their longtime neighborhood in West Oakland in the middle of torrential rains.” “I feel blessed to rehearse, heal, and co-write my own story of decades of homelessness into the new movie Crushing Wheelchairs," concluded Brokin Cloud. Brokin Cloud moved into Homefulness - a rent free housing project created by houseless people at POOR Magazine, after surviving for 25 years on the street. Brokin Cloud, like many houseless people was called “Service Resistant” which really just meant the carceral “solutions” created by city, state and federal government are never informed by poor and houseless peoples ourselves and rarely if ever work. Since the release of the movie, and due to the health complications of his life and struggle on the streets for decades, beloved elder Brokin Cloud has joined the ancestors. This movie remains a testament to his life and struggle and the medicine of HOMEfulness. Each screening of the movie includes Indigenous and all nations prayer for ancestors of homelessness, poLice terror and sweeps. As well, in all of the cities we are visiting, also besieged by violent sweeps, we are honored to be co-sponsored and in collaboration with houseless sweeps and displacement survivors, mutual aid workers and advocates like the Poor People's Army in Philadelphia, Urban Justice Center, Rent Refusers, Art Against Displacement, WSP Mutual Aid, National Homelessness Law Center and more in New York, Touch the Sky, All Camps Are Beautiful in Western Mass, and will be featuring a discussion with sweeps and eviction survivors from POOR Magazine and their solution called Homefulness-a homeless peoples solution to homelessness that currently houses 24 houseless youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever housing and Wood Street Commons -members that survived the violent sweeps of their entire community and now work as advocates. The film has recently premiered to sold-out audiences in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. Read reviews from the Movie HERE Watch the film's TRAILER here: UnTour to Back East Turtle Island co-sponsors include: Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign/Poor Peoples Army, Urban Justice Center, National Homelessness Law Center, Rent Refusers, Mutual Aid and Scientific Socialism, Anarchy 99, Touch the Sky,IMixWhatILike, Art Against Displacement, WSP Mutual Aid, Mixed Kollective, Safety Net Project and many more. Follow @poormagazine for Livestream coverage of events. www.PoorMagazine.org Full Schedule of UnTour Screenings here

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contacts: Tiny Gray-Garcia (510) 435-7500 Adrian Diamond, Green Diamond Projects (661) 210-5764 Adrian@GreenDiamondProjects.com Sabrina (704) 804-0908 Homeless people create a movie about homelessness and bring it to East Coast Turtle Island Unhoused, formerly Houseless disabled youth, families, and elders from California have created a movie about their lives and their ancestors lost to the ongoing violence of homelessness, evictions, gentrification, poLice terror, and sweeps Movie Trailer HERE Crushing Wheelchairs Movie East Coast Tour Screenings Dates and Locations:   May 5: Boston, MA Somerville Theatre (7:30pm) 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA  Ticket link: https://www.somervilletheatre.com/production/crushing-wheelchairs/  May 6: Western Mass.  Northampton Center for the Arts (6:00pm) 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA 01060 Ticket link: https://givebutter.com/crushing-wheelchairs-northampton May 7: New York, NY Maysles Documentary Center (6:30pm) 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027 Tickets available soon May 8: (2 event day!) Poughkeepsie, NY & Red Bank, NJ 1) Vassar College (11am) 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 Tickets available soon 2) Count Basie Center for the Arts (7pm) 99 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701 Ticket link: https://givebutter.com/crushing-wheelchairs-redbank May 9: Philadelphia, PA Bok Building (6:30pm) 821 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148  Ticket link: https://givebutter.com/crushing-wheelchairs-philadelphia May 11: Baltimore, MD  SNF Parkway Theatre (Evening time TBA) 5 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201 May 12: Washington, DC AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center (6pm) 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Ticket link: https://givebutter.com/crushing-wheelchairs-afisilver Side by Side  chair frames and baby toys,  jackets, toothbrushes, coffee cans, and pillows wrapped up in paper bags made of memories nylon homes buried under lives made of storms...  -Povertyskola Don’t miss this movie! As poverty increases and more and more of our neighbors are houseless, and subject to unconstitutional and cruel policing policies, there are solutions to be heard in the voices and creativity of folks forced to sleep on the street, or other public spaces. Fascism targets poor folkx, holding the line against fascism means solidarity with our unhoused neighbors. –Lynn Lewis, former civil rights organizer and ED, Picture the Homeless.   Six houseless residents of San Francisco, LA and Oakland live outside in tents, cardboard boxes & RVs, surviving together in community, interdependently, until each city deploys a giant machine and multiple poLice and state agencies that crush all of their belongings, tents, walkers, wheelchairs and more. The exciting new movie Crushing Wheelchairs, which incorporates magical realism, poetry, and myth in the stories of each of the characters, culminates in violent tragedy and hope rooted in decolonial self-determination. The production includes a cast of only houseless or formerly houseless and disabled actors who have been participants in a series of theatre and writing workshops led by formerly houseless screenwriter, povertyskola and poet Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia aka @povertyskola. The film was produced in partnership with LA-based filmmaker, Adrian Diamond (Green Diamond Projects). "I had everything taken from me, things I will never be able to replace no matter how many hoops I went through—I could never get them back from CalTrans,” said Brokin Cloud. Houseless in Oakland for over fifteen years, Brokin Cloud is one of the over twenty co-creators, actors, and writers who have been meeting in a workshop led by the playwright, poet, actor and visionary PovertySkola also known as Tiny Gray-Garcia, who herself was a houseless child with her disabled mother for the majority of her childhood, and then again as a single mother with her son due to the violent gentrification of the Bay Area throughout the last decade. "This movie, based on a play of the same name created by tiny, and all of the cultural work we do at Theatre of the POOR has helped me to heal from the multiple traumas I have dealt with as a houseless disabled Black woman, and survivor of eviction and poverty,” said Aunti Frances Moore, Black Panther, POOR Magazine povertyskola, co-founder of Homefulness, and founder of the Self-Help Hunger Program in Oakland, who "plays" Reggi, based on one of the ancestor povertyskolaz honored in this play, all who died because of the violence of anti-poor people-hate, racism, politricks and/or poLice Terror. "I created this movie based on my life as a child who barely survived poverty and homelessness, criminalization and incarceration. I created this movie based on my mama's life and the lives of countless fellow houseless youth, mamas, and elders who have barely survived and often died from the position of being without shelter in a system that values "private property" over people. Values the hoarding and acquiring of stolen resources and indigenous land over the safety of children and families and elders and disabled people, and actually views us as trash when we are outside—to be swept—or put to death," said writer and co-director tiny Gray-Garcia, formerly homeless, incarcerated, single mother, poet, co-founder with her mama Dee of POOR magazine, visionary of Homefulness and co-author of many publications including Criminal of Poverty - Growing Up Homeless in America and more.  "This movie honors and pays tribute, prayer, and art to the stories and spirits of Steven Taylor, Tyrell Wilson, Luis Demetrio Góngora Pat, Luis Temaj, Laure McElroy, Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan, Desiree Quintero, and Shannon Marie Bigley, and so many more  all who passed from the violence of sweeps, poLice terror, and hate of us poor people,” said Tiny. “This movie honors our lives as well—currently in struggle homeless poverty skolaz, in cities like ours where, in San Francisco we are being swept in the rain, or hosed down by individuals like art gallery owner Collier Gwin, or Oakland like the Wood Street Commons residents who were violently evicted from their longtime neighborhood in West Oakland in the middle of torrential rains.” “I feel blessed to rehearse, heal, and co-write my own story of decades of homelessness into the new movie Crushing Wheelchairs," concluded Brokin Cloud. Brokin Cloud moved into Homefulness - a rent free housing project created by houseless people at POOR Magazine, after surviving for 25 years on the street. Brokin Cloud, like many houseless people was called “Service Resistant” which really just meant the carceral “solutions” created by city, state and federal government are never informed by poor and houseless peoples ourselves and rarely if ever work. Since the release of the movie, and due to the health complications of his life and struggle on the streets for decades,  beloved elder Brokin Cloud has joined the ancestors.  This movie remains a testament to his life and struggle and the medicine of HOMEfulness.    Each screening of the movie includes Indigenous and all nations prayer for ancestors of homelessness, poLice terror and sweeps. As well, in all of the cities we are visiting, also besieged by violent sweeps, we are honored to be co-sponsored and in collaboration with houseless sweeps and displacement survivors, mutual aid workers and advocates like the Poor People's Army in Philadelphia, Urban Justice Center, Rent Refusers, Art Against Displacement, WSP Mutual Aid, National Homelessness Law Center and more in New York, Touch the Sky, All Camps Are Beautiful in Western Mass, and will be featuring a discussion with sweeps and eviction survivors from POOR Magazine and their solution called Homefulness-a homeless peoples solution to homelessness that currently houses 24 houseless youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever housing and Wood Street Commons -members that survived the violent sweeps of their entire community and now work as advocates.  The film has recently premiered to sold-out audiences in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. Read reviews from the Movie HERE  Watch the film's TRAILER here:  UnTour to Back East Turtle Island co-sponsors include: Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign/Poor Peoples Army, Urban Justice Center, National Homelessness Law Center, Rent Refusers, Mutual Aid and Scientific Socialism, Anarchy 99, Touch the Sky,IMixWhatILike, Art Against Displacement, WSP Mutual Aid, Mixed Kollective, and many more. Follow @poormagazine for Livestream coverage of events. www.PoorMagazine.org

On Tuesday, April 20, POOR Magazine held a “Stealing Our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule” speak out on City Hall steps, launching a tenants union to organize people in public housing – from folks in Fillmore Mercy Housing to those in Sunnydale, Double Rock and all over San Francisco – to fight to stay in their homes and resist privatization of a human right! Originally published in the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper . by Tiny Gray-Garcia  Since 2013, in backroom deals with non-profit organizations, the San Francisco Housing Authority and HUD have been quietly enacting a benignly named plan called RAD, which results in the decimation of the last shred of housing for the very poorest residents of San Francisco. “This is a national movement to kill public housing and it’s very sad – in many other cities across the US they have completely destroyed all the public housing,” said Greg, one of the organizers of the End E-Radification Coalition, a poor people-led land and equity back movement of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE.  “Housing Authority has been sending 90-day eviction notices to a lot of my neighbors,” said Teresa Molina, a POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE reportera and resident of Sunnydale. Fellow tenants and residents of other public housing units like Sunnydale and Double Rock have also been receiving notices, as reported by comrades from the United Front Against Displacement (UFAD) who have been organizing with tenants in those complexes. While a global pandemic rages on and people are struggling to stay housed and not become houseless, the San Francisco Housing Authority has been sending notices to tenants and closing down buildings for “redevelopment” with private non-profits like Mercy Housing.  We demand Black and Brown equity and land and reparations for all the displaced, HUD-removed tenants who are now homeless or facing homelessness. “They purposely never maintenance our existing units so Housing Authority can make a case for ‘redevelopment,’” said QueennandiXSheba, reporter and poverty skola with POOR Magazine, resident of Plaza East in the Fillmore district and co-founder of the End E-Radification Coalition.  “Many of the poorest peoples have lived, taken care of and raised their families in public housing for generations. We are helping folks launch a tenants’ union to stay in their homes, but our fight is not just to keep this housing; it is also to demand Black and Brown equity and land and reparations for all the displaced, HUD-removed tenants who are now homeless or facing homelessness. We are seeking a law firm to help us make this happen,” said Tiny Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine, Homefulness and End-eRADification Coalition. Organizers are using this speak-out to launch a tenants’ union in the buildings, connect with national organizers who are also fighting this removal project and also continue to help people create their own self-determined, land liberation and Land Back movements like Homefulness. “Both political parties have attacked public housing for decades. Trump took RAD from Obama and put it on the fast track. Will Biden repeal RAD or continue with it?” asked Leroy Moore, founder of Krip Hop Nation and co-founder of Homefulness.  POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led art, culture and liberation movement. We are inviting all organizations to co-sponsor this effort and join us Tuesday, April 20, in standing with the tenants.  Articles on this from the SF Bay View and POOR Magazine: “ Stealing our last acre and one remaining mule,”  “ Selling our homes to private investors,”  “ Public housing privatization,”  “ The privatization,”  “ From privatization to reparations,”  “ Section 8 and public housing at risk .”

Por/By: María Para mí —María— mi perspectiva me permitió comprender y reflexionar sobre tantas cosas que son innegablemente reales. Todo lo retratado en la película reflejaba temas y acontecimientos que he vivido en la vida real. Muestra el tormento de la preocupación por dónde vivir, y cómo la situación se vuelve cada vez más difícil —particularmente en lo que respecta a la migración, la lucha por educar a nuestros hijos y el esfuerzo por brindarles tanto estabilidad académica como un entorno propicio para su desarrollo. Sin embargo, todo parece una ilusión: un problema irresoluble frente a los grupos que se forman y operan bajo el mando de esas «cabezas» que ostentan el poder y dictan las órdenes. Y así, el ciclo de degradación continúa; seguimos sin libertad —ni de expresión, ni la dignidad de ser valorados como seres humanos—, sino que, por el contrario, se nos trata como basura y alimañas callejeras. Para muchos, no somos más que una plaga: cargas inútiles que no aportan nada. De este modo, permanecemos exactamente donde empezamos: atrapados en una lucha constante por la supervivencia contra el hambre, la sed, la pobreza extrema y las drogas; sustancias que envenenan y desvían del camino a tantos que han perdido el rumbo. También corre alcohol por nuestras venas, buscado a menudo como una vía de escape rápida. Recurrimos al robo tan solo para poner comida en la mesa de nuestras familias, mientras el gobierno persiste en su tonta corrupción: cerrando puertas y bloqueando calles, y continuando con su trato hacia nosotros como si fuéramos escoria humana. Es triste, pero es real. Y es una lucha infructuosa; incluso nuestra propia gente nos delata, buscando expulsarnos de cada rincón. Para mí, todo esto solo hace que las cosas sean más difíciles; sin embargo, sin fuerza, nada se puede lograr. Aun así, tenemos que encontrar la fuerza para seguir luchando Translation: For me—Maria—my perspective allowed me to understand and reflect upon so many things that are undeniably real. Everything depicted in the film depicted themes and events that I have experienced in real life. It shows the torment of worrying about where to live, and how the situation grows increasingly difficult—particularly regarding migration, the struggle to educate our children, and the effort to provide them with both academic stability and a nurturing environment. Yet, it all feels like an illusion—an unsolvable problem in the face of the groups that form and operate under the command of those "heads" who hold the power and issue the orders. And so, the cycle of degradation continues; we remain without freedom—neither of speech, nor the dignity to be valued as human beings—but are instead treated as trash and street vermin. To many, we are nothing more than a plague—useless burdens that offer no contribution. Thus, we remain exactly where we started: locked in a constant struggle for survival against hunger, thirst, extreme poverty, and drugs—substances that poison and lead astray so many who have lost their way. There is also alcohol coursing through our veins, often sought as a quick escape. We resort to theft just to put food on our families' tables, while the government persists in its foolish corruption—closing doors and blocking streets, continuing to treat us like human scum. It is sad, but it is real. And it is a struggle without profit; even our own people turn us in, seeking to drive us out from every corner. For me, all of this only makes things harder; yet, without strength, nothing can be achieved. Still, we have to find the strength to keep fighting.

By Momii Palaz Shouting, “ I’m an immigrant, a fucking working class woman. We need to unite brothers and sisters for the life of our children. Keep on fighting. LUIS CONGORA PAT, PRESENTE, LUIS GONGORA PAT, PRESENTE”, said Frisco 5 warrior Maria Christina, who spoke at the 10 year anniversary of Luis Demetrio Congora Pat ’s death.  On April 7, 2016, Luis Demetrio Congora Pat was gunned down 58 times by SF policeman Mike Malone. Luis was unhoused on Shotwell Street in the Mission district. Ten years later, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Luis’ family and friends gathered at the site where he lived on the sidewalk and where police took his life. POOR Magazine with the Decolonize Academy school, brought dansa and prayers for Luis’ family and friends at the 10 year ceremony in his honor.  Ceremony from POOR MAGAZINE continued with the film showing of “Crushing Wheelchairs” at The Artist Television Access. Luis, along with other presently and previously unhoused brothers and sisters battled to survive homelessness, constant displacement, war and poverty.   No charges were ever filed on the SF police. The murder reflects the attitude, policies and layers of laws that consciously detour decisions to favor the government from any responsibility. The responsibility of this particular policeman especially is suspect. He was fired or quit and went to the Antioch police department in the East Bay and still works there.  Maria continued saying “Finally we will be able to  unite and get together and change the system that is not going to take care of us. This is our job. The memory of Luis or Jesus, whoever of those brothers and sisters that have been murdered has to be in our mind to keep the fight going on. But it's not just Trump, it's not just the police, it's not just ICE, but it's the whole god damned system.” LUIS was murdered by the capitalist system of hate, entitlement and privilege. “By the police, and murdered by the assistant. The Black and Brown sisters have been murdered by the polic í a. Today we have a war going on.  And this country is being defeated,” said Maria.    Here it is on stolen land ground zero where SF is pushing out long time residents, poor and of color, pushing them with buyouts and forced evictions, pushing them out with laws designed to benefit the privileged and entitled class and leave nothing for those struggling to make ends meet. Thank you Maria Christina from the Frisco 5, who heard about Luis and has been fighting for justice since his death.

By Queennandi X, QCH PNN With the exception of candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, we are used to seeing political candidates advertise commercials that lacks diversity and flaunt those with race and class privilege who boasts of their false sense of superiority through low-key innuendos. The commercial pertaining to the Western Addition aka Fill-No Moe that focused more on the clean up of “zombie park”, a name coined by a nearby resident had lacked the presence of African descended people and gave the impression that gentriFUKation had in so many ways succeeded with the erasure of “Little Harlem” and the cruel disregard and disrespect for any of us who were here for generations that ended up displaced from our roots. Murals that represented the spirits of Africans, Asian, Filipino, Pacific Islander, Cuban and even Irish were wiped out with just a thick coat of paint overnight and the only “learning institution for the community” bka Marcus Bookstore was gone and the family who had lived in the Victorian-style home on top of the bookstore was kicked out right along with the umbilical cord of the now Fill-no-Moe whose connection was vital to the resurrection of consciousness through an impeccable learning curriculum only to be replaced by a high-end hair salon that serves wine. The colonizers never gave a damn about the people and unfortunately, our destruction empowers the wite supremacy agenda so you can forget about the warriors of the community who had taken action towards the chaotic situation going on in “zombie park” by reinforcing rules derived from the “Skool of Hard Knox” and ensuring that there would be consequences for those who robbed from the folks in the community. They will not be acknowledged by the people who despise our accomplishments-ever! According to “SheSearch”, the candidates running for California Governor are mostly Democrats, however do not overlook others running like San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, Akinyemi Agbede, Carolina Buhler, Mohammad Arif, Raji Rab and Barack D.Obama Shaw and plenty more so doing a little “SheSearch” before casting any votes would be a wise move. The primary feeling of the community when asked was a sense of loss in faith far as “politricks” goes because there will never be any equality for all, with or without a vote and rather we see a candidate’s political party labeled “Democratic” or “Republican”, at the end of the day we, a oppressed people, a multi-cultured hunted people would love to see a political candidate whose political party label is “ Human”.