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By Israel/Por Israel (Scroll Down for English/Hacia abajo para Inglés) Yo escuché en los medios de las noticias amarillistas muchas cosas que debe hacer la población latinoamericana en el país de USA. Si el país No América cómo muchos suelen decir bueno en estas publicaciones se dicen que el latino americano viene a este país a robar él trabajo de “Los Americanos” y que somos ilegales. También que somos un tipo Como basurita pero nunca dicen el otro lado de la moneda, que en este país las personas que trabajan supuesta mente o ingresa legalmente pero nunca dicen que también pagamos tax y mucha de esa gente no hacen su w4 y el gobierno no tan gentil y honesto para decir en dónde está ese dinero que personas trabajadoras con tantos años de dedicación a este país han dejado parte de su vida y donde está ese dinero o en qué gasto cómo podríamos saber en qué se usa o en qué bolsillo se cayó o de quién era esos bolsillos o a al político le pregunto si tienen una respuesta por favor suscribirse prensa pobre y así contribuyen a la liberación de nuestras gentes y nuestra madre tierra que tanta falta nos hace. (English/Ingles) I heard in the tabloid news media many things that the Latin American population can do in the country of the USA. If the country is not America its not one where we can prosper, or thats what is told in these publications. they say that Latin Americans come to this country to steal the work of the “Americans' ' and that we are illegal. Also that we are a type of garbage but they never say the other side of the coin, They talk alot about how illegal we are but never say that we also pay taxes and many of those people do not do their w4 and the government is not so kind and honest to say where that money goes. That hardworking people with so many years of dedication to this country and even have left part of their lives, where is that money, how could we know what it is used for or in which pocket it fell into or whose pockets were lined. I ask the politician if they have an answer. please subscribe to poor magazine as soon as you can and thus contribute to the liberation of our people and our mother earth that we need so much.

(ESPANOL/SPANISH) Hoy Fue un Dia muy Bueno, Porque al final sí se pudo seguir el sueño de las personas con Incentivo a crear historia en los Estados Unidos. Las personas que tuvieron la dedicación y la confianza en sí mismos. Para demostrar al sistema que tantas veces ha tratado de controlar a las personas con recursos limitados, Osea nosotros, los pobres. Les enseñamos a la gente dentro el poder del gobierno que con dedicación y tuvimos el honor de demostrar que nosotros, los pobres, hicimos algo que Ustedes, los que dirigen y que supuestamente han tratado de crear por años. Y aun con todo el dinero que tienen, hasta hoy día no se vio algo como Homefulness. y ese es el espíritu de la gente pobre. Este proyecto es creado por la gente pobre para la gente pobre. Sin Ayuda del gobierno amarillista del cual dice que quiere ayudar pero lo que hace en realidad es chingar y subestimar a las personas pobres y trabajadoras. USA no tendría todo lo que tiene sin el apoyo que nosotros les damos. Claramente esta que la madre tierra tiene que ver mucho en este relato y como nuestros antepasados nos enseñaron y nos dejaron una sabiduría, que dice todos coludas o todos rabones. Y así fue como Mama Dee incluyó a su hija y su hija incluyó a todas las personas como yo. Nos ayudó a no ser seguidores pero líderes y hacer valer a todas las personas como lo que somos, Personas. y saber tener confianza en uno mismo. No cómo lo que te hacen creer en las escuelas que hará como no pudieron de otra manera hacernos a cómo ellos quieren. y no nos quieren quitar las escuelas pero ni así nos podrá quitar porque nosotros traemos la sabiduría de nuestros antepasados y eso ustedes nunca lo entenderán y nunca sabrán el secreto de cómo trabajar las tierra sin venderla y no solo es dinero en esta vida porque cuando pasas a ser parte de la madre tierra la tierra no te cobra ni una moneda. La madre tierra como todos nuestras madres nos toma de regreso no importa que mal nos portemos y nunca nos dicen no. (ENGLISH/INGLES) Today was a very good day, because in the end it was possible to follow the dream of the people with the incentive to create history in the United States. The people who had the dedication and self-confidence to show the system that so many times has tried to control people with limited resources -- I mean us, the poor. We taught the people inside the power of government with dedication, and we had the honor of showing that we, the poor, did something that you, those who lead, have supposedly tried to create for years. And even with all the money they have, to this day, nothing like Homefulness has been seen. And that is the spirit of poor people. This project is created by poor people for poor people. No Help from the tabloid government that says it wants to help, but what it really does is screw and underestimate poor and working people. The USA would not have all that it has without the support that we give them. It is clear that mother earth has a lot to do with this story and how our ancestors taught us and left us a wisdom, which says all tailed or all tailed. And that's how Mama Dee included her daughter, and her daughter included all the people, like me. They helped us not to be followers, but leaders and make all people count as what we are, People. And knowing how to trust oneself, not what they make you believe in the schools, which will act as if there is no other choice but to make us how they want. And they want to take away our schools, but they won't be able to take that away from us because we bring the wisdom of our ancestors. They will never understand that and they will never know the secret of how to work the land without selling it and how it's not just money in this life. Because when you return to be part of mother earth, the earth does not charge you a single coin. Mother Earth, like all our mothers, takes us back no matter how badly we behave and she never tells us no.

(Spanish/Espanol) Unas de las cosas que siempre me dará vueltas en la cabeza es como cambia la gente cuando cruzan la falsas fronteras y que cuando tienen la suerte de estar con un poco de estabilidad, empiezan a cambiar y criticar y discriminar a su propia familia. Lo más triste entre todo es que las propias familias son las que más se separan. las mismas familias de Sangre son los que actúan como los colonizados güeros. Lo más triste es que son prietos y criticados porque son como son. No hemos cambiado como ellos en el otro lado de la moneda. las familias de Prensa Pobre son las más chidas y en la cual siento que somos iguales y no hay diferencias. Eso me inspira para seguir siendo como soy y no amarillista y a ser confidente, no olvidar mis raíces. seguir aprendiendo cómo no ser algo que no soy y pretender ser como las personas falsas. Mi familia es donde actualmente soy residente prensa pobre home fulness (English/Ingles) One of the things that will always turn around in my head is how people change when they cross the false borders. When they are lucky enough to be with a little stability, they begin to change and criticize and discriminate against their own family. The saddest thing among all that is the fact that the families themselves, they are the ones that separate the most because we leave. Members of the same blood family are the ones that act like the colonized güeros. The saddest thing is that they are tight and critical because they aren't who they want to be. We have not changed like them on the other side of the coin, the Poor Mag families are the coolest and in which I feel that we are the same and there are no differences. That inspires me to continue being the way I am, and not tabloid and to be confident never forget my roots and keep learning how not to be something I'm not and never pretend to be fake people. My family is where I'm currently a resident poor press homefulness

(Espanol/Spanish) Esto es para todos los tipos de comunicación que nos señalan y por heder unas cosas que en este país llamado América y que en realidad no es América es un país no es un continente. Mientras las personas como yo les producimos dinero y ganancias. Les elevamos sus nombres en sus compañías en ese momento todo es color de rosas y cuando alguien cómo yo nos defendemos contra del sistema o de otras personas que nos quieren solo para su bienestar, Nos atacan y odian. o para que seamos cosa como las que el gobierno convierte a nuestros hijos cuando los hacen a ir a la guerra. La verdadera guerra está aquí con nosotros en contra de su estupido sistema y sus rádios en contra de la gente pobre, la gente como los políticos y sus derivados matan y matan no físicamente pero mental y espiritual. Es no quiere decir que no sean asesinos y ni los ponen en jaulas como a nosotros y que en realidad ustedes son los que deberían estar en esa jaulas por eso nos quitan del camino porque nos defendemos y así sigue su imperio falso como los que lo hicieron el tan famoso sueño americano y cuando pasamos a la edad adulta estando más se enfocan en desaparecernos de su país porque supuestamente no somos útiles para sus fechorías y nos echan al montón como lo que hicieron en las masacres con tantas gente inocente de las cuales no las puedo decir porque las tengo grabada en mi mente así como ustedes el gobierno de usa las tiene y no lo sacan porque tiene miedo al pueblo atentamente unviuda o más en es sueño americano falso (English/Ingles) This is for all the types of communication that they point out to us and for smelling some things that in this country called America and that in reality is not America, it is a country, it is not a continent. While people like me produce money and profits for them. We raise their names in their companies. At that moment everything is rosy but when someone like me defends ourselves against the system or other people who want us only for their well-being, we are attacked, harassed and hated on. so that we are something like the ones that the government turns our children into when they make them go to war. The real war is here with us against your stupid system and your radios against poor people, people like politicians and their relatives kill and kill not physically but mentally and spiritually. This does not mean that they are not murderers and that they do not put us in cages. In reality you are the ones who should be in those cages, that is why they take us out of the way because we defend ourselves and that is how their false empire continues. Like those who did it the so famous American dream and when we reach adulthood being more focused on disappearing us from their country because supposedly we are not useful for their misdeeds and they throw us out to the heap like what they did in the massacres with so many innocent people of whom they did not I can say because I have them engraved in my mind just like you, the government of the USA has them and they do not take them out because they are afraid of the people, sincerely a widow or more in the false American dream

(Espanol/Spanish) Hoy estoy un poco confundido conmigo mismo, porque cuando quiero cambiar y hacer algo para mis compañeros de los cuales hemos estado en las mismas situaciones en nuestras vidas. No se como hacer o cómo explicar las situaciones si hacer o decir algo que no nos haga sentir un poco fuera de lugar y explicar sin sentirme más traumatizado de lo que ya estoy. Por eso estoy aquí con las personas que si me entienden y me pueden dar soluciones estas personas están en presa pobre lo cual somos y venimos del mismo trauma y somos similares en el mismo tema y me siento mejor porque he sacado por medio de las juntas y me siento mejor sobre mis traumas. (Ingles/English) Today I am a little confused with myself, because when I want to change and do something for my colleagues who have been in the same situations in our lives. I don't know what to do or how to explain the situations if I do or say something that doesn't make us feel a little out of place and explain without feeling more traumatized than I already am. That's why I'm here with the people who do understand me and can give me solutions, these people are in poor prey, which we are and we come from the same trauma and we are similar in the same topic and I feel better because I have gotten through the meetings and I feel better about my traumas.

(Spanish/Espanol) Que es en realidad ser un policía alguien sabe la definición? La razón que yo me hago esta pregunta es que cuando yo estuve en la escuela regular, si se puede decir así, me dijeron que un policía es la persona que está de lado de lo que hoy llamamos justicia. lo que actualmente es separación de bienes porque justicia no hay lo qué hay es las diferencias de culturas y diferencias de colores aunque estas personas que dicen comprar las tierras y que tratan la madre tierra como oferta. No, nuestra madre que nos da la comida y el aire para vivir, está enojada y cómo todas las personas gritan para que el parque de la gente que está en Berkeley no quieren que desaparezca, porque no necesitan más unidades tan seria para la escuela. por otro lado las mismas personas quieren cerrar otras escuelas para la gente de la comunidad que somos nosotros los que aquí vivimos. Esta eliminación de este parque solo para hacer más apartamentos para estudiantes que vienen de otros lados y posiblemente ellos tienen un parque en su propia casa por eso no les importa. Este parque que tiene historia muy importante para nuestra comunidad desde generaciones y esos recuerdo nunca será removido de ese pequeña parte de nuestra madre tierra (Ingles/English) What is actually being a policeman does anyone know the definition? The reason I ask myself this question is that when I was in the regular school, if you can describe it that way, they told me that a police officer is the person who is on the side of what we now call justice. What is currently the separation of goods because there is no justice, what there is is the differences in cultures and differences in colors, although these people who say they buy the lands treating mother earth like an offer. No, our mother who gives us food and air to live, is angry and how all the people are screaming for the park of the people who in Berkley do not want it to disappear, because they do not need more expensive units for the school. On the other hand, the same land stealers want to close other schools for the people of the community, who are us who live here. This elimination of this park just to make more apartments for students who come from other places and possibly they have a park in their own house but they don't care. This park has a very important history for our community for generations and those memories will never be removed from that small part of our mother earth.

(Espanol/Spanish) Hoy, como todos, sigo con la lucha de cada día. Dejar el alcohol y con la ayuda de la gente que tuve la suerte de conocer a través de otra persona. Una persona con la que tuve el honor de compartir y aprender cosas que no se enseñan en la escuela, y compartimos emociones. Felices momentos especiales, y me enseñaron a retirarme de las mentiras que nos dicen y nos hacen creer sobre este país. Y así es como conocí a sus amistades que hasta hoy me apoyan y me enseñaron a ser diferente cuando estaba en mis adicciones y en mis peores días en la calle. Sin decir nada y sin reproches, eso es lo que debe hacer la gente. Como Miguel, Lisa y los jóvenes con paciencia me dieron su energía para salir adelante, y eso vale más que el dinero. Esto es lo único que nuestra gente necesita hacer para salir de las calles. Por eso, todos los días, trato de acabar con ese mal hábito que los colonizadores trajeron a nuestras vidas. Poco a poco el alcohol nos mata y separa a nuestras familias. Hoy los médicos solo saben dar medicina para volverte adicto, y en realidad los mejores remedios son los que nos da la madre tierra sin pedir nada a cambio. Por eso, gente ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos está explotando a la madre tierra, destruyendo todos sus riquezas naturales y abusando de ellas. No saben lo que tienen hasta que se acaba la tierra, y no tengan ni cómo sacar para sus propia adicciones, y quedan olvidados y sumergidos en sus adicciones, y sólo entonces sabrán el verdadero dolor. (English/Ingles) Today, like everyone, I continue with the struggle of each day. To leave the alcohol and with the help of the people who I had the luck of knowing through another person. A person I had the honor of sharing with and learning things that are not taught at school, and we share feelings. Happy extraordinary moments, and I was taught how to withdraw from lies they tell us and make us believe about this country. And this is how I met her friends that day. They supported me and taught me to be different when I was in my addictions and on my worst days in the streets. Without saying anything and without reproaches, that is what people should do. How Miguel, Lisa, and the young people with patience gave me their energy to get ahead, and that is worth more than money. This is the only thing our people need to do to get off the streets. For that reason, every day, I'm trying to stop that evil habit that colonizers brought into our lives. Little by little, alcohol kills us and separates our families. Today, doctors only know how to give medicine to make you addicted, and in reality, the best remedies are the ones that mother earth gives us without asking for anything in return. That is why ambitious and unscrupulous people are exploiting mother earth, destroying all its natural resources, and misusing them. They don't know what they have until the land runs out, and they don't have what they need for their addictions, and they remain forgotten and submerged in their addictions, and only then will they know their actual pain.

Dear Beautiful ComeUnity and Family, An excerpt from Mama Earth is NOT for Sale, a poem by Tiny Gray-Garcia @povertyskola Mama Earth is NOT for sale Mama Earth is not a paper plate A roll of tape A roller skate An extension cord or computer port Mama Earth gives us all so much The oil for the tape The rubber for the skates The energy the computer takes I know we have all been sold and told That we face eviction and poverty if we don't own her CONtrol her Extract from her Or detract from her But don't you see she was never yours That Indigenous ancestors Written in all of our herstories lore Held her with humble prayersFrom the rivers to the Mama Ocean Shores You were lied to Your silence, like her mountains was mined too So try a dream, a simple treat To stop and breathe the sweet air next to any mama tree To realize so many of us barely survive on the dry concrete That mama earth’s humility Must be protected like our ancestors and the trees No more NOT for SALE Not for your private prison or county jail Your profit margin or whole paycheck kale Mama Earth and all her dirt Is not a product or For income generating BUT for prayer, protection Food growing. care-giving and liberating UnSelling and UnSettling is the vision and the MamaFestation of Homefulness – with your blood-stained dollars (transformed and prayed into Love-stained Dollars), we have degentriFUKed two beautiful, humble corners of Mama Earth in an intentionally “blighted” poor people of color neighborhood in Deep East Occupied Huchiun (Oakland) . We have permanently housed 14 houseless youth, adults and elders and five houseless cats, dogs, chickens and goats. We have grown and shared healthy organic food, groceries & diapers with over 800 families per week. We have loved, lifted up and honored our ancestors of poverty and poLice Terror. We have produced revolutionary poor people-led radio and media. We have educated and graduated over 24 young people in poverty (ages 3-19). We have supported, with rent, food, transportation and ComeUnity Reparations, over 480 families and elders. And we are now welcoming in our relatives from Wood Street Commons, who have been brutally evicted by Settler Colonial lies of Rent, Eviction and Mama Earth exploitation from their neighborhood (encampment) by DPW, PoLice and politricks. We have created cultural work, theater, books and prayer with/for countless fellow poor authors, actors, writers and prayer-bringers… We are a living breathing movement of poor, houseless, indigenous peoples-led self-determination in a time when poor and houseless people are increasingly being violently swept, evicted, incarcerated and killed. So please help us UnSell more of MamaEarth. We have been invited into Pacific Northwest Turtle Island, so-called Bellingham, Chief Siahl (Seattle) and Olympia, WA to launch a Homefulness project there. We are trying to immediately build natural, earth-based homes (like our ancestors) for Homefulness #2 on BlackArthur, and we would like to unSell and DegentriFUK a third space here on BlackArthur in Deep East Oakland. On behalf of every one of us poor, houseless, indigenous, disabled and oppressed peoples, residents of Homefulness, members of POOR Magazine, and families of Deecolonize Academy, we thank you for all of the monetary, physical, and spiritual support that every one of you have given us over this past year. Please continue to support us - buy a hoodie or a mug (www.poorpress.net) or just send your love-stained dollars! In Love and Struggle, POOR Magazine Family 2022 has been a herstoric year at POOR Magazine. In the midst of the year’s many traumas, we have continued doing what we always have: fighting to dismantle the lies of crapitalism and wealth-hoarding from the bottom up and responding to the needs of poverty skolaz across Pachamama: After 11 year battle, we resisted & “won” shitty hall politricks & FINALLY MOVED 14 HOUSELESS YOUTH, ADULTS & ELDERS INTO HOMEFULNESS #1 DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 9th year with graduates becoming teachers 11th year of SLIDING SCALE CAFÉ, a healthy food, groceries , diapers & media, support radical redistribution (mutual aid) for deep east oakland every Thursday LISTEN TO PNNKEXU 96.1FM every Tuesday & Thursday, multi-generational radio programming Re-Launched in person peopleskool for East Oakland poverty skolaz with Theatre of the Poor and Po Peoples Radio workshop series Here are more 2022 highlights: People Skool Decolonization/DegentriFUKation Seminar on Zoom We held TWO People Skool seminars for people with race, class, and/or formal education privilege.When Mama and Me Lived Outside Film Screenings The animated short film based on Tiny's children's book of the same name, won its 15th award this year. The film had several screenings this year, including at the Peoples Film Fest in Harlem, the Seattle Social Justice Film Fest, and the SF Latino Film Festival.Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour thru kkkolumbia University in Occupied Lenape Lands This June POOR Magazine went on the Road for an Un-Tour to occupied Lenape territory aka New York City. We walked alongside thousands of evicted & displaced NYC residents, made houseless by akkkademic institutions like kkkolumbia Univeristy, feeding the Dorm Industrial complex.Homefulness #3 & POOR Magazine in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) This year we continued to build the sacred branch of the solidarity tree, supporting Houseless relatives struggling with sweeps violence with revolutionary media, healthy food and ComeUnity Reparations. We held a Po’ Poets Workshop in so-called Bellingham, RoofLess Radio in so-called Olympia, and Po’ Poets of POOR Magazine & PNW did a book reading at Clara’s Books at Chief Siahl (Seattle).Rehearsals have begun for Crushing Wheelchairs, a new Theatre of the Poor production Stay connected to hear about upcoming performances!

Global to Local Poverty by Monica Thompson The picture that we saw today is everywhere there is homelessness in Oakland and there's nothing being done. Everyone is looking for help but no one is reaching out to help. I don't know what to say or think, I'm always open to helping others, and it don't matter what color you are. ‘We welcome all people with open arms. You give the people what they're not asking for,” said Lamont. Lamont also said when he came to Oakland, he was proud to be black. He mentioned that for you to do an act of kindness by helping your neighbor. Maybe go to the supermarket for your neighbor. When I leave my house I always come across someone that needs help. I wouldn't mind putting out my hand to help. That's what the Lord did when he was on the earth, I would prefer seeing it face to face. I saw that people as a whole need help, so where do you go and who do you talk to because a lot of times, when you're in a bind there's a lot of promises and nothing happens. I have been in a situation like that in 2017, when me and my son lost our housing. So what would you do if you was against the wall? Who would you turn to, maybe a close friend. Positive resources, apply yourself, don't give up, write what you want and be positive about it, be strong and courageous.

Abolition de Police by Akil Carrillo According to The Washington Post, 1,000 people have been killed by the police in the Last Year. Every year since the Washington Post started recording Police killing (2015) cops have killed the same amount of people every year. It's always at least 1,000 people a year. I grew up in Guatemala where police corruption is clear. The cops happily take bribes, rob people they arrest and kill and harass women at night. These are just a few examples of what happens out there with the police (Which are all US trained). Moving to the United States things are different, not in what the police are, but their public image. Growing up in the Mission in San Francisco and now in East Oakland I've only met victims of police brutality; many youth my age are now drawn on walls and t-shirts. The names of these victims' memories are ingrained in the fight against police. I've heard many opinions on Abolishing the Police against and for it. Many statements against abolishing go along the lines of It wouldn't be safe without Cops, We should reform instead of abolishing and Community programs won't work. Like I stated before, every year 1,000 people are killed by police. Without police they would most likely still be alive, it wasn't safe for them to be around police. “We have little evidence, if any, to show that more police surveillance results in fewer crimes and greater public safety. Indeed, funneling police into communities of color and pushing officers to make arrests just perpetuates harm and trauma. Yet since the 1980s, spending on law enforcement and our criminal legal system has dramatically outpaced that in community services such as housing, education, and violence prevention programs. Those are the institutions that help build stable, safe, and healthy communities.” Stated Paige Fernandez (Former Policing Policy Advisor, ACLU National Political Advocacy Department) in an ACLU article. According to Fernandez, there isn't much evidence that proves that cops bring safety and actually more evidence that shows the harm police have caused in Black, Brown and poor communities. As someone who's lived in these communities, I see the fear and anger the police bring. Everyday after highschool I would walk out and there were about 3 police cars just circling the school waiting, preying on us. I was going to Mission High School at the time, a school in the Mission district close to the Castro District. It's right in the middle of a lot of gentrification and a bunch of black, brown and poor kids does not fit the aesthetic of the gentrifiers. “Police terror is a nightmare for us young black males who have to live in fear and watch our back from the police because we dont want to die young. I know Tamir Rice was a good kid who did nothing to other people, but his life was taken too soon. This could have been me because I had guns pulled on me and the police consider kids adults, not as kids. Tamir was only a 12 year old boy, and the officer who killed him is Timothy Loehmann, a 26 year old white man.” wrote Amir Cornish (Poverty Skola, Poor Magazine Reporter) in the book How to Not Call the Po’;Lice EVER. These experiences are common for black, brown and poor people. This is the fear and damage the police cause, it aint no sense of safety in their acts. Police are supposed to be trained in hand to hand combat but still people are shot and killed by police when it's a 1 man and 30+ cop situation. Another common thing said is that we should “Reform” the police instead of abolishing. “If you believe the police have been trained badly and that's why they kill many people, understand that any reform program relies on those same officers to administer and hold each other accountable to it. When I was a cop the state sent us mandatory trainings on sexual harrasment and disablity usually in the form of dvds and quizzes. We goofed off on our phones during the dvds and our watch commander gave us the answer key so that we would all pass.” Said Phil (That Dang Dad on youtube) who used to be an ex-cop until he realized it was wrong, now he talks about racial justice, disability justice and explains to his viewers his experiences as a cop and why he isn't on anymore. Clearly reforms wont work, when the foundation is cracked the building built on top will fall no matter how much one “reforms” the building. The police were built on a cracked foundation, a foundation that originates from the capture of enslaved people trying to escape. So the police will never mean safety to the poor, to the black and brown to any of us in the bottom of society (which is most of us). What I believe is the solution is to become a real community, a way of living that people seem to have forgotten. Currently I live in Homefulness, one of the many “branches'' of Poor Magazine. Poor Magazine is a group of houseless and previously houseless Poverty Skolas. We are people from the community getting together to build our own solutions. We don't take funding from the state or grants or any city money and without that money we've built homes in which we don't charge rent, we give out free groceries, diapers and classes to hundreds of families weekly, we have a radio station 96.1fm Po peoples radio and much more. Most importantly tho is that we do NOT call the police no matter what happens. We have the circles and meetings with each other like the elephant meeting or the Family council. In these meetings we all talk out issues or feelings that people might be feeling, if an incident does happen we get together and practice accountability and empathy. We are all traumatized and hurting people due to living in a twisted society so things ain't always sunshine and rainbows but we get through it and move as a family. Anti Police by Amir Cornish Lives are taken by the police and they never take full responsibility for their actions. Half of the lives that are taken are Black and Brown folks, even young teenagers, barely fully grown but yet still a target in this system. I look into the crime rates and the death rate/with ethnicity information of 4,653 people killed by the police, followed by 19% Black people, 2% Asians, 2% of Native America according to the study Black people and native Americans are roughly 3 times more likely to be shot dead by the police than white people. Over 4,600 people were killed by the police from 2015 to 2020. I believe we should Abolish the Police because we don’t need any more Black and Brown people dying. People believe that they wouldn’t feel safe if we abolish the police and would say the crime rate would go up. I have suffered through police terror as young person. This is my story. After a long day at school my mom decided to pick me and my brother up. Mom was driving back home before we went home. The Police were following us. We were forced into the East Oakland Eastmont Mall driving plaza, the Police hopped out the car with his guns while saying slowly “step out the vehicle.” My mom was in handcuffs on the concrete sidewalk, me and my brother was right beside our mom. Whenever I'm around the police I don't feel safe, especially being a mixed race person who walks the streets everyday. This is one of the reasons that my family at homefulness Never call the police and why we wrote the book How to Not Call the PoLice EVER (available on poorpress.net). Police Abolition everyday by Tiburcio Garcia 424 people have been killed in the United States by police this year so far. That is far too many for a system that is designed to serve and protect. What’s worse is that this system wasn’t designed that way at all, in fact, it is designed to enforce systemic racism in this country. Police officers do not have a place in a world that is moving towards equality and fairness. They take up too much funding that is sorely needed for education and other public resources, and cause more harm than good under their current system. The police department should be abolished- and their system dismantled- to make way for a community based protection system. I have family that have been terrorized and know people whose children have been killed by police. I think the police are dangerous, hateful and cannot exist any longer, for the safety of everyone, but especially black and brown people. In December, Eric Garner was choked to death using an illegal police chokehold. The officer who murdered him in cold blood in front of a streetfull of witnesses was fired 5 years after Garner’s death. In July 2016, this world lost Philando Castille, and the officer who murdered him was fired after a trial a year later. These are two examples among many police officers who killed black men in cold blood. These are killings that if the roles had been reversed would have triggered the death sentence without deliberation. This system is racist, and as we can see from the punishments given to these murderers, it encourages the killing of black and brown people. Originally, police were the men-for-hire who rode on horseback and hunted down escaping slaves. Those people were not rich themselves but usually working class white men living on the poverty line. They were veterans of wars who had experience in guns or just men who were white, in need of money, and willing to get their hands dirty. They were more than willing to police neighborhoods that were drawn by city zoners to be separated from white suburbs and house primarily black families and black owned businesses. Since then, the police and their assignment has not changed. Black people are 3.6x more likely to be killed by police than white people in California (Decimal Census, 2020). This is not a flawed system, rather a system designed to oppress people of color. Therefore, it should have never been started, as it was created to oppress poor people of color and carry out the demands of the ruling class. If a company needs to clear houseless people out of an abandoned parking lot, you can count on the fact that the police are there to threaten them and keep them moving. Workers going on strike due to unfair wages? The police will be there to make sure the march goes well, all while throwing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets on peaceful protesters. They do this while driving in new cars, flying helicopters, and operating mobile units. The state of California and its cities and counties spend roughly $50 billion annually on local law enforcement, the criminal legal system, and incarceration in state prisons and county jails (California Budget and Policy Center, 2020). According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the federal government allocated $23.2 billion in one-time aid (for education) in 2020–21 and another $9.2 billion in 2021–22. Those numbers should be reversed. We as a country should be spending far more money on schools, new housing for houseless people, and programs that support and uplift communities of color than law enforcement and prisons. The police department should be abolished, and we should make way for a new system, one that not only works with and for the community, but is only operated with members from the community either being a part of the system, or having a major say in the decision making process of this system. Police officers have been shown time and time again to abuse their power, but they are only falling in line with a system that promotes that abuse. My Mama, tiny gray-garcia (aka povertySkola), co-founder of POOR Magazine- a poor people led movement, calls them PoLice for a reason and it’s why POOR Magazine leaders like my mama and my uncle Leroy Moore have written the book How to Not Call PoLice Ever and do workshops on this all the time and why we practice this main core principal at POOR Magazine. We can take care of us. We do and we have. Abolition vs incarceration By Nija Gs. The prison system gets worse and worse every year. In the US alone, 2.3 million get incarcerated on a daily basis. The people in low-risk *tanks still fall asleep with knives in their hands and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The USA gets $134,400 per person detained, meaning that they get so much money to keep people locked up but after you go they won't spend anything to help you. You have no car, no job, no house of your own. Prisons should be banned because courts have made many mistakes before and put many innocent people in jail just because they're labeled gang-related, or have a lack of evidence. One ex-inmate said, “The truth is that our prison system does nothing to rehabilitate anyone. They throw you all together and take people who made stupid mistakes and expose them to hardened criminals who are pretty good at leaving impressions on people.” There are many undercover things that happen while in prison, and people with money calling all the shots. There was an online program that was bussed out for having multiple transitions to keep people in prison just because it was like a game with people's lives. Many people die in prison because they do not get proper medication. When you go to jail your medical history does not go with you, meaning if you get sick you can die or have a reaction to whatever they decide to get you and then die, or maybe you rot for a couple of days but still stay alive. 36,479 juveniles are incarcerated in US juvenile jails and prisons. Many are Black and Brown and they make up a large majority of victims of incarceration and police violence. This is just one of the reasons we do all the work we do at Homefulness, POOR Magazine and Deecolonize Academy to take care of us... as Black, Brown, indigenous and houseless youth and families. It’s hard but it works. Incarceration vs abolition: Debate By Ziair Hughes Incarceration : the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment. Police: the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order. "There are 2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding and fiscal burdens on states to accommodate a rapidly expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety." -The Sentencing Project, 2022 I believe that prison should be abolished because it was already rooted in classism and racism. The whole concept of police was to protect the elite class and prosecute the poor. Every year the police have an arrest quota that is illegal. The code makes it illegal for any state or local agency to force officers to meet a certain number of citations or arrests for promotion or disciplinary purposes, but chiefs and officers still do it and every year the arrest quota is 1,000 or a little bit less. Like the case of Tyrell Wilson– a Black man killed for being houseless in Danville by officer Andrew Hall, who also killed Laudemer Arboleda. Police chiefs and typical Karens bring up that the crime rate is too high but we find that people who go to jail–particularly those who go more than once a year–are disproportionately likely to have incomes under $10,000. Councilmember Sean Ashby says that “community programs don't work,” but if we have propositions that actually help the community, we may have the crime go down and it is seen that every time the community comes out everybody enjoys themselves. The United States is currently imprisoning roughly 1 million people for low-level drug offenses, property crimes, and various offenses indirectly related to their poverty. Roughly half a million people are imprisoned because of their inability to pay for their release. In Cypress Village we don't need the police, the elders act as the police and keep the community in check. That's why at Poor Magazine we have the How Not to Call the Police book. Prisons should be abolished and demolished because this whole government is built to insure the safety of the elite people of this world.

Espanol/Spanish En el estado de Monterrey, hay una escasez de agua y todos los medios de comunicación lo dicen, pero solo para ser noticia. En realidad no saben cómo las personas están sufriendo sin en cambio las corporaciones son las beneficiarias. Ellos son los que están guardando las reservas de agua, son los que nunca dejan de producir sus productos como Coca Cola y bebidas alcohólicas. Ellos nunca hacen nada por la comunidad, aun sabiendo que la propia comunidad es la que les da a ganar el dinero que tienen. son tan arrogantes y prefieren dejar a la comunidad minoritaria que sigan sin agua para que la corporación siga fabricando sus productos no respetando que el agua solo la madre tierra es la produce Y cuando se acabe ni ellos tendrán el suficiente dinero para calmar su sed. no tendrán el suficiente dinero para comprar a la madre tierra porque ella no se vende por cualquier cosa, cuando la madre tierra se enoje no hay poder humano que pueda controlarla pero no les importa y siguen destruyendo. Recuerden nadie tiene dinero suficiente para comprarla en su totalidad Porque no es de nadie English/Ingles In the state of Monterrey, there is a water shortage and all the media is saying it, but only to make news. They don't really know how people are suffering and corporations being the beneficiaries instead. They are the ones who are keeping the water reserves, they are the ones who never stop producing their products like Coca Cola and alcoholic beverages. They never do anything for the community, even knowing that the community itself is what gives them the money they have. They are so arrogant and prefer to leave the minority community without water so that the corporation continues to manufacture its products, not acknowledging that only Mother Earth produces water. And when it runs out, not even they will have enough money to calm their thirst. They won't have enough money to buy Mother Earth because she doesn't sell herself for anything. When Mother Earth gets angry, there is no human power that can control her, but they don't care and continue destroying. Remember no one has enough money to buy her in her entirety Because she belongs to no one

Free the Land /Heal Mama Earth - Asphalt lifting Day for Homefulness#2 Libera la Tierra / Sana Mama Tierra - Día de levantamiento de asfalto para Homefulness#2 When: Sunday, November 6th at 10am (Breakfast provided) Cuándo: Domingo 6 de noviembre a las 10 am (desayuno incluido) Where: Homefulness #2 -7600 BlackArthur Blvd (MacArthur) -Occupied Deep East Huchuin (Oakland) Dónde: Homefulness #2 -7600 BlackArthur Blvd (MacArthur) -el este profundo ocupado Huchuin (Oakland)