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Houseless, Indigenous, Disabled Youth & Elders Teach, Share, Pray and Walk Homeless Peoples Solutions to Homelessness in Occupied Tovaangar Lands (LA) What/Where/When: 5pm Thursday, March 14th -Part #1 UnSelling Mama Earth Talk at UCLA- 12noon Friday, March 15th- Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour - Pacific Palisades- 21st and San Vicente-(pls text 510-435-7500 to confirm location) 1pm Saturday, March 16th PoPoets Writing Workshop for Liberation- EastSide Cafe 4pm Saturday, March 16th Ceremony for Ancestors Stolen by Homelessness *& Politricks - Without community there is No Life at Van Nuys Orange Line Metro Station (6060 Van Nuys Blvd) The Activities: 5pm Thursday, March 14th Rm 2235 Public Affairs Building - UCLA campus UnSelling /Unsettling Mama Earth into a decolonial vision of Healing, Rent-Free forever Housing, LandBack and Reparations for houseless LA residents and all of us. (see attached flyer) 12 noon Friday, March 15th Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour thru Pacific Palisades - 21st and San Vicente (text 510-435-7500 to confirm location )  Walk with Indigenous, Black, Brown, Houseless & Disabled Peoples to lay down prayers, share medicine of Radical redistribution and ComeUnity reparations with communities who have extreme wealth and excess resources while houseless people die on the streets of LA- 4pm Saturday March 16th - Ceremony for Ancestors on Aetna Street: Without Community There is No Life at the Van Nuys Orange Line Metro Station (6060 Van Nuys Blvd) Weekend Events Co-sponsored by POORmagazine/PrensaPobre,Krip Hop Nation, Relcaiming Our Homes, Aetna Street Solidarity and more to come All ComeUnities welcome to walk with us/co-sponsor/pray and/or speak. "This mayor doesn't let you set up a tent in LA, so what happens? you just have people sleeping without any blankets or covers and protection right out on the street," said General Dogon, LA Community Action Network. The weekend of March 14-17th Houseless Black, Brown, Disabled povertyskolaz from Occupied Huchiun and Occupied Tovaangar will teach, share, pray, honor and activate radical redistribution, ComeUnity Reparations and poor people-led solutions to homelessness in occupied Tovaangar (LA) Launched with the first in a series of land liberation talks at UCLA , the weekend will include a "Stolen Land Untour thru Pacific Palisades, a workshop with low-no-income LA residents and a ceremony for houseless relatives who have died from classist, racist, ableist policies that target and criminalize poor and houseless residents of LA, but rarely house them.

By Con Amor Jas and Tiny Garcia (aka Poverty Skola) February 19th, 2024 Last Monday evening, February 12th, 2024 over 50 people gathered at 24th Bart Plaza’s SW corner to pay respects to Guillermo who recently died at the age of 78. Unfortunately, Guillermo lost his housing over a month ago and was struggling to find work in construction as he was living homeless on the streets. A friend of Guillermo’s said he was last seen shirtless around the Bart Plaza at 2am, in which later that morning SFFD confirmed he was found dead at 7:45am, when the temperature was still in the 40s. The beautiful stencils used to honor Guillermo were created by Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer of Wood Street Commons. Another life lost at the hands of state sanctioned violence.. In Guillermo’s last weeks he was struggling to even find places to use the restroom, to get around, to find work, he lost his housing just recently, he literally was left to die on the streets. His friends helped him as much as they could but we know there is only so much when there really is no further support. Everyday is a sweep, waking up to a power wash, everyday he had to find a place to just rest. What if all these empty buildings became homes, how many people could still be alive, could live.. and heal? I want to speak to all the people judging from the comfort of their homes, this is your problem too, stop fighting the poor and help in fighting poverty. Stop calling the police and stop replacing people with your planters. Redistribute to the community you’re profiting off. Your discomfort is nothing compared to those outside, nobody should have to live and die like this. Everyone deserves housing and to atleast be treated like a human being. Homelessness isnt just going to go away. We need eachother and redistribution towards our real needs not more policing, not more fencing, not more sweeps, not closing off public space, not more fees, not more barriers & bans that keep us further away from life & closer to death. That’s all the system has for us tho, so no more waiting or depending on them mi gente, we keep us safe. We must urgently start doing our part and creating collectively. We mourn in love and action. Rest In Peace Guillermo. Con Amor Jas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evicted , Swept and kicked cuz settler towns like this Don’t give a shit These aren’t tiny homes - these are tiny Tombs- 6x6 boxes cuz gente pobre aren’t listened too SolutionsSolutons they call it Death, terror and incarceration We saw it We had dreams, we had love We had comeUnity called Wood Street Commons, Aetna Street 24th street Plaza…. “Guillermo was one of the sweetest men I had ever met, we will never forget him,” Maria X, a young houseless resident of Mission Street Plaza whispered through tears about Guillermo, a 78 year old elder who transitioned to the spirit world last week while sleeping houselessly in occupied Yelamu, (SF) Through the intense cold and hard rain, poltricksters and poLice continue to terrorize us with more and more anti-poor people lies (i mean laws) that make it illegal to sit, stand, or live while houseless. Not to mention the violence of “sweeping” humans like we are trash, which they do multiple times per day if you dare to try to rest. In cases like Guilermo, a Salvadoreno elder, already crossing false colonial borders to be in this occupied land to work as a humble care-giver for the protected settler class of wealth-hoarders, washing their dishes and caring for their babies, we have no place to rest, much-less sit. Violent architecture, spikes, gates, rocks and planters costing thousands and sometimes millions of dollars are installed so poor people can’t rest. Even in Death.(Luis Gongora Pat’s altar was destroyed and gentriFUKEd “planters” desecrate his humble space where police murdered him in 2016 on Shotwell street. All these blood-stained dollars spent on violently removing us instead of housing us. Mama Earth is NOT for Sale- Madre Tierra no Se Vende Mama Earth are commodities to be bought and sold for profit. Our lives only matter for as long as we are able to be productive servants and then when we face crisis or get sick or our minds and hearts get weary from the endless racism, classism and struggle, we end up unable to pay their exorbitant ransomransome for a roof (Rent) and get evicted. Now we are houseless, subject to their poLice terror, and unending criminalization and harassment and teror by poLice. Now we are dying. Grandfathers, Abuelitos, Abuelitas, Aunti’s , Tias, Tios, fathers and Mothers, Warrior elders like Guillermo, Luis Temaj, Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat, Tyrell Wilson  to name a few in the occupied Ohlone Bay.  Mike Flo, Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan in occupied Tongva (LA), we  are dying from their hate. Free stores, ComeUnity kitchens We need to lift the violence of “ownership off of Mama Earths tired back We have poor people-led solutions That have nothing to do with their blood-stained cash Survivors , poverty skolaz Held up with love from other broken hermanos y herman@s Who knew the pain of being alone When u have no home When u have no love When u constantly forced to roam… excerpt of for Guillermo by tiny And yet this is the plan. As i write this new LIEgisltions are being put into settler “law” that crimialize our bodies even more for the sole act of being alive while houseless on occupied land. From Poltricksters like London Breed their five Liegilations on the ballot giving more money to PoLice to harass, kill, terrorize and incarcerate our houseless bodies. I was housesless in the mission for many years- sometimes the cold would get so bad we coulnt feel out manos, “ said Israel Munoz, POOR Magazine povertyskola at a humble ceremony for Guillermo held on Monday night organized and co-sponsored by Mission Defense and POOR Magazine. Mama Earth is NOT for Sale/Madre Tierra No se Vende I scream this out to the small crowd gathered for Guillermo, hoping the ancestors will hear, hoping the animas and espiritus can walk with us to liberate Mama Earth and all the mamaz. To  unchain Mama Earth from this voilent commodifying so our elders and babies can be safe, so housing can  be free, so roofs can available. So we can manifest our own settler-free solutions Solutions like Homefulness, a homeless peoples rent-free solution to homelessness that we houseless folks walking along-side conscious housed folks with resources are *mamafesting right now in Occupied Huchiun (Deep East Oakland) with permission and guidance from 1st Nations relatives of this land. Mama Dee and me were houseless for years en la mision. Our solutions were created by each other,  poor and houseless, indigenous peoples at Prensa POBRE. Gente working together interdependly, with ancestors to build our own solutions that actually take care of us. Not kill us. Conclusion We would like to thank all groups who attended last Monday who paid respects for Guillermo: @poormagazine @muteado_silencio @missiondefence_sf @foodnotbombs_sf @woodstreetcommons @zesty_m3ss Please also watch our closing video of @muteado_silencio speaking about the violence our homeless community suffers on a regular basis. Guillermo Presente. Siempr Additional Quotes from Monday: “To be in some of these shelters, where they police you, where they tell you when to come in and leave; this is why a lot of our paisanos are not in these shelters. This is also violence that Guillermo had to sleep here.” -Miguel Muteado Silencio “This is part of the violence, genocide program that the government inflicts upon us. It’s homelessness, it’s COVID-19, it’s fentanyl, its incarceration, and depopulation; rest in power to Guillermo. We need to stick together and rise up. Ometeotl” - Aztlan Press “Guillermo was one of the sweetest men I had ever met, we will never forget him,” Maria X, a young houseless resident of Mission Street Plaza whispered through tears about Guillermo, a 78 year old elder who transitioned to the spirit world last week while sleeping houselessly in occupied Yelamu, (SF) “ We met in the 80s and he’s been like my father ever since, we took care of eachother” - Roberto “ What I want people to remember about him is how happy he was even though he was suffering, he celebrated life” - Jesus

povertyskola poltrickster round-up on two of the anti-poor people LIEgislations in upcoming Selection by tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola “OWWW, OWWWWWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW” Bobby, a houseless neuro-divergent relative had been screaming in 2 second intervals from the bed he was forced to lay on in in the nursing home for the last several hours. Picked up on a 5150 hold in Alameda, he was supposedly being “treated” rather than “tented” or  incarcerated. Bobby’s nightmare will get frighteningly worse with the upcoming statewide LIEgislation Proposition 1. Which is why  I need to drop some povertyskolaz knowledge on some of the ballot initiatives that will mess us poor folks up even more than we already are. LIEgislations loaded with and cloaked in so much double-speak you may not be able to untangle the truth from the BS.So Im gonna focus on Prop 1 (Statewide) and Prop F in SF (for F-U poor people with substance use struggles)  And to all my fellow houseless/po’ povertyskolaz- please vote on March 5th - your vote matters for local and state issues, no matter what you think bout the rest. Politrickster Propaganda: Proposition 1 – Treatment not Tents – will refocus billions of dollars in existing funds to prioritize Californians with the deepest mental health needs, living in encampments, or suffering the worst substance use issues. FACTS: Prop 1 will codify, LIEgislate and demand forced treatment of houseless peoples bodies. Period. Prop 1 will support the arrests, tent, belonging and medicine seizure of houseless peoples bodies and comeUnities. Prop 1 Would impose a new $6.4 billion bond to primarily fund forced treatment and institutionalization, so if we refuse their “shelter beds” we end up incarcerated and finally Prop 1 will divert money from beautiful education, art, afterschool and support services for poor youth and elders that keep us poor people from becoming isolated, abused and/or depressed, which often leads to our homelessness Notwithstanding the ironic prop 1 tag-line Treatment Not Tents, they are already violently and endlessly sweeping us houseless humans like we are trash all over California and the U$. “Newsom is pimping the Care Court, Prop 1 doesnt increase treatment at all, it funds the beds he said already existed in Care Courts,” one of my povertyskola mentors and truth-teller Paul Boden broke it down. For this povertyskola Newsom’s politricks on the backs of the poor is sadly nothing new. He literally became San Francisco’s Mayor by pimping houseless peoples struggles, causing this povertyskola to lose my measly cash crumb that helped keep me my mama and my Sun housed with the infamous LIEgilsation Care NOT Cash, which he created. Care NOT Cash demanded that poor people pay for their “shelter beds” instead of receive the little bit of money we were getting for toiletries, medicine, etc Care courts were another Newsom plan, adding an additional layer of allegedly more user-friendly court systems directed at poor people, which haven’t led to more treatment or beds, but instead have funneled alot more money to anti-social workers,  judges, non-profiteers and the injustice  system. “I lost my tent and I was raped,” Mary S reported to RoofLessRadio from Tongva (LA) skid row The sick, sad part is every settler town in Occupied Turtle Island has multiple LIEgislations, laws and codes on the books, new and old as the pauper and ugly laws that adjudicate our lives when we are outside, In a recent RoofLessradio interview I did with comrade General Dogon from LA Community Action Network in Tongva (LA) he broke down the insanity of LA's new Tent-taking law 41:18. "Under 41:18 this mayor doesn't let you set up a tent in LA, so what happens? you just have people sleeping without any blankets or covers and protection right out on the street," said General Dogon, LA Community Action Network. If a povertyskola I know needs substance use treatment or a home, I would NEVER refer them to Care Court,  I get to work referring them to my underground system of grassroots advocates and what we at  POOR Magazine call Revolutionary Love Workers, like JuneBug Kealoha, Manna from Heaven’s Diane and Omowale, Aunty Frances Moore and the Self-Help Hunger Program and all of us warriors at POOR Magazine and Homefuless, to name a few. “Prop one is just the next block in the structure that they have been building to force people into internment out of sight out of mind where they can continue to collect money off the backs of the poor. Like care Court, conservatorship, and now prop one none of these  provive the true resourcing and real time housing that is needed.” said warrior sisSTAR Crystal Rose Sanchez, Sacramento Homeless Union “They took my tent, I was in a silent meditation. Now I just want to get out of here,I’m not safe here, please let me out,” Bobby told me calmly in a rare break from his OWWW, “I mind my own business outside, I just need to be free, like you, like any human,” he turned his head toward the wall and stopped talking and resumed crying. Bobby, like so many of our relatives in deep struggle inside our own minds, living on the street, absolutely don’t want to be inside. Don’t want and are terrified of forced treatment and forced “housing”.Similarly, there are thousands of us on the street who are desperately trying to get inside, but there is no place we can afford or be accepted because of multiple hoops, credit checks, wait-lists, gatekeepers and the lie of rent. In the middle of all this, there are solutions like Wood Street Commons, Nickelsville (Washington State), Aetna Street, Camp Resolution and Homefulness. Solutions created by poor, houseless, neuro-divergent, disabled people. Informed by poverty scholarship and our own overstanding of each others lives and struggles. But these settler governments refuse to listen or see anyway but their own incarceration nation. “We had a community that took care of each other, we provided free, healthy food stocked kitchen, healing services and a free store, but most of all community, provided where people felt safe,” John Janosko, resident leader of Wood Street Commons, PROPOSITION F (For F-U low-no-income substance users) Poltrickster Propaganda: Proposition F would require anyone who receives CAAP benefits to be screened for substance use disorder if the City reasonably suspects the person to be dependent on illegal drugs. When screening indicates a recipient may be dependent on illegal drugs, the City will provide a professional evaluation and may refer the recipient to an appropriate treatment program. First of all, this is a racist, classist abelist invasion of privacy, as the majority of people seeking the cash crumb are people of color, disabled and/or houseless. 2) The cash grant itself keeps alot of poor people who happen to also be substance users, housed which will lead to more of us poor, disabled people holding on by a thread into the street. Finally, There is such a thing as harm reduction London Breed! There are beautiful, amazing warrior survivors of substance abuse who are working their harm reduction programs and thriving. No they wouldn't pass these tests, but they are low-income and will quickly become houseless when and if they fail them, or just opt out of the test and lose that urgently needed support. “No matter how many times you sweep me, jail me or count me, it doesnt give me a home,” tiny 2019 To hear more on the upcoming Selection poltricks for povertyskolaz tune in to Po Peoples Radio live radio and podcast at poormagazine.org/radio 6pmPT Tuesday, Feb 27th or find Po Peoples Radio wherever you get your podcasts-

By Audrey CandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul February 22nd, 2024 Hydeia Broadband Dies At age 39 I was heartbroken when I got the news out the blue it hit me. Like a dump truck the information I downloaded my heart was beating a million miles per hour I begin to sweat as if I were in a marathon run I felt as if I had been reunited with a long lost relative just to be told that they had passed away And disbelief I was she's gone Hydeia  sweet sweet Hydeia  Hydeia touch so many lives starting at the age of three her journey began truly I can say she has served her whole life ... I'd like to think of her as the gift that keeps on giving and I only use that statement with my beloved deceased son Torian Dajour Hughes You see we all have a purpose we all have at least one gift some of us operate in our purpose and some of us never operate in our purpose some of us are aware of our purpose and some of us are not aware of our purposes however in this life we learn quickly that we perish daily as we're growing we're dying simultaneously together the flesh gets old and we call it growing .... We celebrate when babies come into the world and we cry when people leave this earth  ... Somehow we managed to get it backwards we're supposed to cry when we enter Earth's realm and rejoice when we departure this tangible Realm called life in human form. Ashes to ashes dust to dust... Only what you do for God is lasting and so I think of these things when I think of the character and nature of Hydeia Broadband in case this name doesn't ring a bell and depending on the age bracket it may not ... I'd say anybody 35 to 80 ... Would possibly be the age range ... Hydeia Broadband started out her journey at the tender age of three , not knowing her fate this beautiful brown-eyed coily hair Earth bound angel Was Tasked TO Send A MESSAGE to AMERICA ONCE SHE DEPARTED FROM HEAVEN... ACCEPTING THIS TASK little Hydeia was Born June 14th 1984 Her parents were Loren and Patricia You see this family story is unique in the early 90s there was an illness that plague the land kind of like how Corona did in 2020 no one could escape it and there was no amount of money that could cure it .. It was like a plague taking everybody out from Hollywood to the ghetto and all in between blacks and whites Latinas and Asians we all lived in fear pure terror ... During this time there was a rapid increase of births and then a rapid decrease ... Folks were dropping like flies babies were being born ill Doctors were baffled and it didn't have a name eventually one surfaced and when it did , folks were mortified the terror was real ... One day while sitting at the family's table I was introduced through my television screen to a little girl by the name of Hydeia She was 5 yrs old she had a story to tell barely being able to speak she had a message to give "WE LIVE NORMAL LIVES JUST LIKE YOU " Would soon be the campaign and the start of an activist . She was sickly the doctors figure it out ... Couldn't pinpoint the calls didn't have a name for the sickness and wasn't sure what it was whatever it was HYDEIA  had it And IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER IN THE WORLD so of course the people in her lives were very concerned especially since her life had just begun . Determined to live little Hydeia and her family begin to crusade creating awareness seeking answers and sharing the knowledge at least what little bit they had which was none at the time ... At the time there was a Hollywood big name a superstar that had the SAME illness as Hydeia Threw Divine appointment the little girl made it to the news and was on my TV screen ... Her story was touching and she had left a mark on me I'm sure she had left the mark on the rest of the world ... Eventually Little Hydeia Broadband Was diagnosed with HIV come to find out she was born with it and by the time she was 5 years of age it turned into full-blown Aids ... Years went by and Hydeia would make guest appearances one of them was on Nickelodeon a kids program ... She also got the opportunity to meet magic Johnson face to face and together they shared their stories supporting one another and sharing the news of awareness ... Hydeia didn't stay in the limelight but she definitely got the attention deserved to help Kickstart Her Footsteps Paving The Way For her to Reach and receive the help/ Recourses She MUCH needed ... (Giving her access ) by the time she was 7 Hydeia A (The ) national symbol of HIV AIDS advocacy ... Hydeia never capitalized or went Hollywood when it came to the matter at heart she remained humble and utilize the platform to create longevity for herself and others that dealt with this unfortunate virus .. A REAL ANGEL Hydeia dedicated her life from start to end NOBLY she took up the torch of an illness that plagued her body with BRAVERY and RESPECT ... Never did we ever hear anything NEGATIVE about her ... Of course she was human and I'm sure she had her flaws before the most part she did exactly what she came to do ... And she did it with Grace ... And so I wanted to take the opportunity in the month of February Black History month to honor Hydeia As I gather the information of her passing on Feb 20th 2024 . What a Great Soul to have visited Earth Dear Sister you will be missed. The WORK Dedication Love And Devotion You have given To yourself and Our Community WORDS can't Express ... There have been so many causes and partnerships Sistah Hydeia Has contributed too Will And Has forever time stamp A significant phase of History Starting out As A BLACK Female Child Finishing As A Full Fledge Women Up until her most recent transition. You take the opportunity to do your research you will learn about the AIDS healthcare Foundation the God loves me billboard she spoke in 2014 in Los Angeles as an LONG LIFE Aids activist and Also She Was the speaker in 2015 Alabama AIDS forum ... Just to name a few ... Hydeia Broadband had no control over the life that she was born into however Hydeia Broadband CONTROLLED her destiny and accepted the path she excelled passing the test with flying colors and great strides to know her or to know of her is to love her and to be grateful for her because she did not have to step into the role but she did for if she didn't we may have never known of her and she may not have lived as long as she did May her spirit rest easy and live on forever for the greater good and cause of mankind and God's Kingdom fly high baby girl because of you age was never looked at the same . You brought the world together and made us humane no one could resist those brown piercing almond shaped eyes that REMIND ME OF my Torian ... Life is what you make it

El Robo de Tierra Negra y La Falta de Vivienda Negra en el Mes de Historia Negra Black Land Theft and Black Homelessness in Black History Month Come out and support a family who lost their family home hear the youth and elder poverty skolaz At DeeColonize academy with their WeSearch report Where: 5542 Harvey Ave Oakland, CA When: 1:30 Tuesday , Feb 27th Sponsored by poormagazine El Robo de Tierra Negra y La Falta de Vivienda Negra en el Mes de Historia Negra Salga y apoye a una familia que perdió su hogar familiar, escuche a los jóvenes y ancianos que viven en la academia DeeColonize con su informe WeSearch Donde: 5542 Harvey Ave Oakland, CA Cuando: 1:30 Martes 27 de febrero Patrocinado por prensapobre

By Leroy F. Moore “Black ableism,” a concept that I have been writing about for years (Moore 2024). Black ableism is a form of discrimination and social prejudice specifically against Black people with disabilities, perpetrated by non-disabled Black individuals. I helped coin this concept, addressing the unique historical and cultural context of ableism within the Black community, tracing its roots to slavery and the subsequent internalization of negative perceptions of disability. Since the 1980s I have worked in both my disability and Black community. Most of my activism and cultural work has been aimed to change my communities based on my identity as a disabled Black man. My work has mostly opened avenues in the disability community, including non-profits by utilizing cultural events, research books/literature and disability studies. In the mid 1990s after feeling used and discriminated against by dominant disability nonprofits I founded Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization (DAMO) which was active for four years. DAMO was established for people of color with disabilities and the greater Black community.  Upon evaluation of DAMO I realized I have been running away from my Black community because of open wounds unknowingly inflicted by them through forms of Black ableism. As we know, terminology and the power of defining language are really important. Most often new terminology comes from the streets. Often academia adopts this language therefore giving legitimacy to the work of disabled folks without acknowledging their work. Most areas of disability have been taken from us, including the medical industry, and professionals/experts etc.  Until we take it back, redefine it, politicize it, and sometimes change it all together our work will continue to belong to others. Although the term Ableism has been defined by disability advocates from dominant culture, if you put Black in front of anything coming out of disability it must first be stripped down then reshaped in the experiences, histories and words from the Black disabled experience. By now, we must know that the Black disabled experience in America has different roots than our White disabled counterparts. Because of the need of Black disabled people to heal our wounds inflicted by our Black community, one by one or collectively, it is imperative that we tell our stories and define new terminology, definitions, art, music, political views, and provide education and resources for our Black community. Many Black disabled people have had these same thoughts. According to a Black disabled lawyer educator and organizer Talila Lewis’s working definition of ableism is: “A system of assigning value to people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in eugenics, anti-Blackness, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. This systemic oppression leads to people and society determining people’s value based on their culture, age, language, appearance, religion, birth or living place, “health/wellness”, and/or their ability to satisfactorily re/produce, “excel” and “behave.” You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism.” (2022) If we view this definition from the perspective of the Black experience reaching back from the capture and shipping of slaves to the teaching of disability and our bodies, almost everything we have done has helped shape Black ableism toward Black disabled people. Due to the lack of awareness of race and racism that continues to exist in the disability rights movement, it is not surprising that the Black community has not made steps to recognize their own ableism. I have defined Black ableism as: Discrimination and social prejudice against Black people with disabilities or who are perceived to have disabilities from Black non-disabled people as far back as slavery. For example, slave owners used disability as a reason to devalue a slave because of what he/she could contribute to the plantation. And as we, a new people emerged out of slavery and saw by the slave master’s example that disability meant devalued. Therefore slaves internalized disability was a sin, something that needs to be healed using the outdated Religious Model of Disability mixed with The Tragedy/Charity Model of disability that says the following: The idea that disability is essentially a test of faith or even salvation in nature. If the person does not experience the physical healing of their disability, he or she is regarded as having a lack of faith in God. Mix with depicting disabled people as victims of circumstance, deserving of pity. (Moore, 2024) Unchallenged Black ableism not only holds the Black community from advancing the project of justice for all its members, but it also makes the Black community hurtful and irrelevant for the Black disabled people and their families. Black Ableism can cause many deep-rooted problems in a Black disabled person. The problems are as broad as low self-esteem, to trying to reach the unreachable, also known as overcoming or hiding their disability, to most importantly, not having a community. Ableism, like racism, manifests from individual to institutional, where it corrupts Black institutions. Black ableism can only be eradicated by stripping what the Black community has been taught about disability through the lens of oppression and then rebuilding. This rebuilding process must be conducted by coordinated teams of Black disabled people and family members who have had a presence in both the disability and Black communities. Also, part of the formula includes individuals who have held on to their identity politics and have a disability vision and reality for the Back community. In other words individuals who have a deep rooted love of their community and are willing to risk exposing their pain to help the Black community have an understanding of disability from a race and culture perspective. This process will be a long term commitment to healing and detailing the historical significance of disability to present day issues, including Black ableism. For Black disabled people and our families the rebuilding will lead to a path of Black disabled empowerment and a commonality with our Black community. The Black community will be all the richer by embracing their disabled sisters and brothers from a historical, political, participatory and cultural way of life. As Krip-Hop Nation we use Hip-Hop to reclaim, educate, advocate and Krip a space so to connect to the above, I have Krip Public Enemy’s 1989 song, Fight The Power to Fight Black Ableism. Go To “Kripped” Track of Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power”

Letters Dedicated Luis Temaj/Cartas dedicadas a Luis Temaj Dear Marisol, I am Kai and I go to school at Deecolonize academy. I heard about your brother and I’m really sorry that happened to him. I hope you and your family are starting to recover from that. I’m praying for you and your family to get better. Love from Kai to you and your family. Querida Marisol: Soy Kai y voy a la escuela en Deecolonize academy. He oído hablar de su hermano y siento mucho que le haya pasado. Espero que usted y su familia estén empezando a recuperarse de eso. Estoy orando para que usted y su familia mejoren. Amor de Kai a usted y su familia. Dear Marisol, I am Avery. I go to school at Deecolonize Academy. I’m in 5th grade and I’m 11 years old. I heard about your brother Luis. I am sorry. I’m giving you blessings. Prayers, Avery Querida Marisol: Soy Avery. Voy a la escuela en Deecolonize Academy. Estoy en 5º grado y tengo 11 años. He oído hablar de tu hermano Luis. Lo siento. Te estoy dando bendiciones. Oraciones, Avery Dear Marisol, My name is Anniyah and I'm 10 years old. I go to school at Deecolonize Academy. I'm sorry about your brother. I will give my heart to you and you give your heart to your brother. Love, Anniyah Querida Marisol: Mi nombre es Anniyah y tengo 10 años. Voy a la escuela en Deecolonize Academy. Lo siento por tu hermano. Yo te daré mi corazón y tú le darás tu corazón a tu hermano. Con amor, Anniyah Dear Marisol, I am Shane. I am 8. I go to school. I am sorry for your loss. Shane Querida Marisol: Soy Shane. Tengo 8 años. Voy a la escuela. Lamento su pérdida. Shane Dear Marisol, I am Donovan. I am 7. I go to school. I am sorry that your brother died in a fire. I hope you feel ok. Love, Donovan Querida Marisol: Soy Donovan. Tengo 7 años. Voy a la escuela. Lamento que tu hermano haya muerto en un incendio. Espero que te sientas bien. Con amor, Donovan Ziair- I am Youth povertyskola reporter for POOR Magazine and student at Deecolonize Academy. Temaj was set on fire by someone while sleeping in his sleeping bag, on San Francisco 25th & Van Ness. Around 5am they say. His sister Marisol does not have vengeance in her heart for who's responsible but does want justice. “I don't wish them to suffer or anything bad to happen to them” said Marisol. “I don't want any other family to go through this”, said Marisol. I believe someone did this to Temaj because they saw him in the neighborhood and saw him as “trash.” To Marisol : I'm sorry that you had to experience losing a Close relative, I have also gone through losing a Close loved one, especially when your loved one was a kind hearted person, not bothering anybody. I wish you all the justice you and your family deserve. Soy reportero erudito de la pobreza juvenil de POOR y estudiante de la Academia Deecolonize. Temaj fue incendiado por alguien mientras dormía en su saco de dormir, en San Francisco en 25º y Van Ness. Alrededor de las 5 am dicen. Su hermana Marisol no tiene venganza en su corazón por quien es responsable pero quiere justicia. “No quiero que sufran ni que les pase nada malo”, dijo Marisol. “No quiero que otra familia pase por esto”, dijo Marisol. Creo que alguien le hizo esto a Temaj porque lo vieron en el barrio y lo vieron como “basura”. A Marisol : lamento que haya tenido que sentir la pérdida de un pariente cercano, también he pasado por perder a un ser querido cercano, especialmente cuando su ser querido era una persona de buen corazón, no molestando a nadie. Le deseo toda la justicia que usted y su familia merecen. Jay- I am Jay - youth poverty skola at Deecolonize Academy and Youth reporter at POOR Magazine - The Written Story on a homeless man that was brutally murdered For No Reason Luis T A houseless man, Luis Temaj, was set on fire by a person who lit up his sleeping bag on October 8th, 2021, around 5:00 in the morning. I just couldn’t imagine one of my close family members passing away in that tragic way. The disgusting 1st- degree murder is sickening. While I was writing this report, I realized it has to be talked about and noticed. Yes, Luis was a “homeless man” but, he was a PERSON just like the rest of us and he had a family that loved him and I bet his family is still grieving. I do send all of my condolences and I’m so sorry that happened to his family. Soy Jay - erudito de la pobreza juvenil en la Academia Deecolonize y reportero juvenil en la revista POOR - La historia escrita sobre un hombre sin hogar que fue brutalmente asesinado por ninguna razón Luis T Un hombre sin hogar, Luis Temaj, fue incendiado por una persona que prendió fuego a su saco de dormir el 8 de octubre de 2021, alrededor de las 5:00 de la mañana. Simplemente no podía imaginar que uno de mis familiares cercanos falleciera de esa manera trágica. El repugnante asesinato en primer grado es asqueroso. Mientras escribía este informe, me di cuenta de que tiene que ser hablado y notado. Sí, Luis era un “hombre sin hogar” pero, era una PERSONA como el resto de nosotros y tenía una familia que lo amaba y apuesto a que su familia todavía está de duelo. Les envío todas mis condolencias y siento mucho que le haya pasado a su familia. Nija- I am Nija- Youth povertyskola reporter at POOR Magazine and Student of Deecolonize Academy - Homeless man was set on fire and killed. Luis Temaj  was killed by stranger after having his sleeping bag set on fire by someone in San Francisco. Luis was a 43 year old and was sleeping outside on 25th street and south Van Ness in the mission district on the 8th of October 2021 when he woke up to his sleeping on fire at 5:00am and called the police for help. He later died because of the attack. He had been homeless for less than a year when he was burned alive. And now his sister is still seeking justice for him in 2024 over two years later. She said even with the 25,000$ reward it's not going to bring her brother back. She is left with sadness and anger not knowing who did this. This is a Message for the family. I'm sorry this happened to you. This is very sad. I hope things like this doesn't continue to happen to homeless people. Soy Nija- Reportero erudito de la pobreza juvenil en la Revista POOR y Estudiante de la Academia Deecolonize - Un hombre sin hogar fue incendiado y asesinado. Luis Temaj fue asesinado por un extraño después de que alguien en San Francisco le prendiera fuego a su saco de dormir. Luis tenía 43 años y dormía afuera en la calle 25 y en el sur de Van Ness en el distrito de la misión el 8 de octubre de 2021 cuando se despertó durmiendo en llamas a las 5:00 am y llamó a la policía para pedir ayuda. Más tarde murió a causa del ataque. Había estado sin hogar por menos de un año cuando lo quemaron vivo. Y ahora su hermana sigue buscando justicia para él en 2024, más de dos años después. Ella dijo que incluso con la recompensa de 25.000$ no va a traer a su hermano de vuelta. Ella se queda con tristeza y enojo sin saber quién hizo esto. Este es un mensaje para la familia. Lamento que esto te haya pasado. Esto es muy triste. Espero que cosas como esta no sigan sucediendo a las personas sin hogar. Amir- I am Youth Povertyskola Reporter with POOR Magazine - and a graduate of Deecolonize Academy  - Luis Temaj was a 40 year old homeless Guatemalan man just living on the streets of San Francisco on 25th & Van Ness when he was burnt alive with his own sleeping bag. He was accounting while lost his job and came to America to find another job but instead lost his job due to the pandemic that he became homeless on the streets being exposed due to danger out in the world. Luis was a humble loving person that people loved him but hearing this terrible thing we shouldn't be killing homeless people because they have no place to go and whoever set Luis on fire, they had no remorse. Luis Temaj had a family too, he was somebody. The person who set that man on fire should turn themselves into the police, what he did to Luis wasn't right, he was still human at the end of the day. Soy reportero de erudito de la pobreza juvenil con la revista POOR - y graduado de la Academia Deecolonize - Luis Temaj era un hombre guatamalteco sin hogar de 40 años quien solo estaba viviendo en las calles de San Francisco el 25 y Van Ness cuando fue quemado vivo con su propio saco de dormir. Estaba contabilizando mientras perdió su trabajo y vino a Estados Unidos para encontrar otro trabajo, pero en su lugar perdió su trabajo debido a la pandemia de que se quedó sin hogar en las calles siendo expuesto debido al peligro en el mundo. Luis era una persona humilde y amorosa que la gente le amaba pero al escuchar esta terrible cosa no deberíamos estar matando a personas sin hogar porque no tienen a dónde ir y quien incendiara a Luis, no tenía remordimientos. Luis Temaj también tenía una familia, era alguien. La persona que prendió fuego a ese hombre debía convertirse en la policía, lo que le hizo a Luis no estaba bien, al fin y al cabo, era un ser humano.

For Immediate Release: Contact: tiny garcia or Muteado silencio (510) 435-7500 Broke, Black, Brown, Disabled Book UnTour: POOR Press Book Release 2024 Houseless, Black, Brown, Disabled, Indigenous Poet, Writer PovertySkolaz release 8 books of poetry, HERstory, liberation, disability justice and survival at venues in occupied Tongva and Lisjan/Ohone Lands Ohlone "Bay Area" Dates Confirmed: 6pm Sat, Feb 17th Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110 4pm Sun, Feb 18th Black Repertory Theater Tongva (LA) Dates Confirmed: 7pm Fri Feb 9th Re/Arte Centro Literario 1pm Sat Feb 10th Street Writing Workshop for Housless Poverty Skolaz (@ Palm Tree Hotel) 4:30 pm Sat Feb 10th Echo Lake Park (at Lady of the Park Statue) 1pm Sun, Feb 11th Eastside Cafe: 5469 Huntington Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90032 The notion of poverty scholarship was born in the calles, prisons, street corners, community centers, welfare offices, shelters, kitchen tables, assembly lines, tenements, favelas, projects, and ghettos—all the places people don’t look for educators, experts, leaders, researchers, lecturers, linguists, artists, creative thinkers, writers, and media producers......... excerpt from Poverty Scholarship - Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth In Black History Month (February) of 2024, a Press launched by poor and houseless poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine will be releasing 7 books! (see attached covers and below for bios of the authors and book descriptions) From the LandBack Turkey to Krip Hop Graphic Novel, Kai's Ancestral Shellmounds, Self-Help Hunger Program- the Original HERstory, Cuantas Veces Han Roto mi Corazon/the Many Times My heart was Broken, Flowers to the Dead, The Sidewalk Motel, Homefulness Handbook to Thee Poetz Promise, each of the books released in the POOR Press 2024 collection represents the lives and generations of homelessness, trauma, criminalization, migration, ableism, racism, colonization, and ultimately, resistance and resilience, of the povertyskola authors and HErstorians to the multiple struggles that poor, indigenous, disabled and houseless people in occupied Turtle Island face everyday. "Each one of these books are not only acts of literary resistance, but different forms of poverty scholarship/ curriculum and urgent medicine for a hurting Mama Earth struggling with hoarding, gentrification, eviction, ableism, racism, false colonial borders, homelessness, poverty and climate destruction," said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseless, incarcerated povertyskola and co-founder of POOR Press/POOR Magazine/Homefulness POOR Magazine co-founders Mama Dee and Tiny, a houseless, indigenous mother and daughter who were deep in struggle with their own homelessness and poverty, launched a publishing arm of the poor and indigenous people-led movement known as POOR Magazine to create a beautiful and sacred space for poor and houseless voices to be not only heard, but seen. POOR Press, conceived in 1998, was just one of many innovative ways that POOR Magazine has been dedicated to lifting the voices, solutions, dreams of poor people and helps to re-frame the voices of struggle into voices of solution-based visionaries who are teachers in PeopleSkool- a poor/indigenous people-led seminar offered to people with race and class privilege. Poetry, art, prayer and liberation is how us povertyskolaz mamafested a homeless people’s healing, rent-free solution to homelessness we call Homefulness. With this 2024 book release we will be working with fellow povertyskolaz in occupied Tongva (LA) and Yelamu (SF) to launch more media, cultural work and Homefulness projects The POOR Press/Prensa POBRE Books and their Authors 2024: Self-Help Hunger Program- The Original Herstory By "Aunti" Frances Moore Aunti Frances Moore is a formerly houseless Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader from North Oakland/South Berkeley. She was honored to work alongside with courageous geniuses of the revolutions as a member of the Black Panthers. She continues on with the legacy of the Black Panther party using food as an organizing tool to fight against gentrification and displacement. In her work, she has touched the lives of many community members, housed and houseless, through her Self-help Hunger Program. Frances is a brilliant actor and writer and has starred in Teatro de los Pobres productions since 2016. She is a founding member of Homefulness and the co-author of How to Not Call the PoLice ever and the Making of Aunti Volume 1 & 11 on poorpress.net The Self-Help Hunger Project- Original HERstory is a powerful poverty scholarship informed  community archive of a poor/Black elder led, self-determined, food justice movement in North Oakland, written by povertyskola and founder “Aunti” Frances Moore. The LandBack Turkey /El Pavo de devolucion de tierras, The Sidewalk Motel and the Homefulness Handbook By tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher, single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled, indigenous mama Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of A Decolonizer’s Guide to A Humble Revolution, When Mama and Me Lived Outside, and Poverty Scholarship:Poor People Theory, Arts, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth. In 2011, she co-launched The Homefulness Project , the Bank of ComeUnity Reparations, and Deecolonize Academy.  In 2022, she narrated a short movie based on her children’s book When Mama and Me Lived Outside - one family’s journey thru homelessness which has subsequently won 22 awards across the country. In 2023, she began production on a feature length movie Crushing Wheelchairs based on her first adapted screenplay with an all houseless cast, set to be released in 2024. The LandBack Turkey/El Pavo de devolucion de tierras is a bilingual graphic novel/allegory/message/Herstory for children and adults co-written by tiny and all the animal teachers at Deecolonize Academy, focusing on Indigenous, Black/Brown and houseless people’s Land Liberation, LandBack self-determination. The story is told through the eyes of a magical giant, ancestor turkey. The Homefulness Handbook, is a How-to primer on homeless, landless people’s movement-building and The Sidewalk Motel is tiny's first poetry anthology and glossary (PoShunary) of her own incisive language (or "linguistic liberation," as she calls it). Krip Hop Graphic Novel By Leroy Moore Since the 1990s, Moore, a disabled povertyskola, has been a member of POOR Magazine, starting with the column “Illin-N-Chillin,” and then as a founding member of PeopleSkool, the Homefulness Project, and Deecolonize Academy. Leroy has launched and helped launch organizations including Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization, Sins Invalid, and Krip-Hop Nation. Currently, Leroy is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at UCLA and a member of UCLA’s Hip-Hop Study Group. Krip Hop Graphic Novel is a beautiful graphic novel with illustrations by Ottis Smith depicting the power of self-determined poor, Black disabled Krip-Hop elders and youth convening, leading and manifesting solutions and grassroots community-based, real disability justice. The elders of Krip-Hop crown young Roxanne as the new leader of Krip-Hop Nation.  Find out the surprises Roxanne has for Krip-Hop's elders inside of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY. Thee Poetz Promise To Be Dope By Bella Martrice Bella Martrice is a povertyskola, Artist, published poet, published journalist, published song writer, and guerilla activist with POOR Magazine and beyond. She was born and raised in the Historically Black Fillmore district of San Francisco. Her writing is impenitent, her passion enchanting. She is Thee Ghetto Poet. Her music is rhythm and poetry literally! She is a wordsmith, painting pictures with words; Beats are another one of her canvases. Thee Poetz Promise To Be Dope is a powerful collection of poverty, wordz and ghetto scholarship on life, racism, gentrification and survival. Each poem/Word/Rant screams off the page to the reader the struggle of a poor single mama of color, trying to survive in this broken, racist system. Kai's Ancestral Shellmounds By Angel Heart Angel Heart, Quechua-Puna, is an Activist, Author, Poverty Scholar and formerly houseless (now Homeful) Homefulness Resident. She is currently leading a project and radio show with POOR Magazine on 96.1 FM - PNN - KEXU - titled, "The People's Botanica." Angel Heart is an Intuitive-Empath with many years of knowledge & practice in Espiritismu & Brujeria. She is the creator of The People's Botanica - A spiritual wellness & supplies market. About Kai's Ancestral Shellmounds is the third in a series of children's books centered in the voice of a first Nations Ohlone/Lisjan child reflecting, HISstory-teling, and revealing the truth about the genocidal California mission system. Angel Heart was granted permission to launch and publish this series by Ohlone/Lisjan leader and spiritual leader of Homefulness Corrina Gould. Cuantas Veces Han Roto mi Corazon/the Many Times My heart was Broken by Ingrid DeLeon Ingrid is a formerly houseless, migrant, indigenous, povertyskola mama of four and grandmama of two, and refugee of domestic violence and false border terrorism from Guatemala. She is a member of the Po Poets Project of POOR Magazine since 2006 and a reportera with Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia with POOR Magazine and a teacher and povertyskola with PeopleSkool. Cuantas Veces Han Roto mi Corazon/the Many Times My heart was Broken is the third in a series of tragic and beautiful bilingual narratives on the struggle of survival of a houseless/poor, indigenous refugee mama forced to cross three false borders, fleeing domestic violence and poverty and trying to take care of her four children, mother and family in Guatemala. Flowers to the Dead By Lori Herrera Born in the chicano resistance of The Mission District of San Francisco (occupied Yelamu) and raised in the calles of Vallejo (occupied Karkin), Lori is a mixed brown Mama, Daughter, Grandmother, revolutionary writer, storyteller, artist, povertyskola with POOR Magazine and a love & liberation soulja, on a journey of decolonizing, remembering and connecting to roots. Flowers to the Dead is a collection of poems, prayers and offerings to the ancestors - a saga of grief and undying love. It's the first volume in a series of writings on death, loss and mourning, and will be the debut publication of Lori's body of work from her poetry archives.

By tiny, formerly houseless daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio aka @povertyskola Tiny tombs , I mean tiny homes Not a place to call our own Tiny tombs better describes the triggerr of those jail-like rooms The InsideNOTsafe is a public relations game by  politricksters to get us houseless peoples out the way From Huchiun to LA System Set up from the Get up so that we can fall deeper into our wounds Inside our minds which are struggling in a broken state All the time The Anti-social workers say No visitors, no locked doors, no cooking, no animals and no talking here-but never fear us houseless people aren’t actually real- these are low-key jails cuz us houseless humans aren’t supported to get well Holding on by shards of pain lost to deadly assumptions of what we could have been -we coulda made but never fear an  anti social worker is here - we have a number -we can wait- we allegedly have all the time to waste -we are on 1,200 housing waitlists from the feds, the county and the state This poemCast from a povertyskola goes out to all my fellow povertyskolaz who know the struggle inside our minds - of the isolation and the wait-times - of the inability to get basics even if we stand in all of their lines- Occupied Tongva (LA) “The death of  Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan who passed away last week in her tent, is a stunning example of the cruelty and failure of LA’s housing system. Because she had been hospitalized she lost her room and was sent back to the streets gravely ill with a pacemaker. She died within a week. Mayor Bass’ InsideSafe and Imelda Padilla’s offices were well aware of her grave health condition, “ Aetna Street Solidarity. From violent sweeps of our houseless bodies as though we are trash and vicious towing of our homes (aka cars/RV’s)  which happens incessantly across occupied Turtle Island from SF to NYC under Mayoral administrations from London Breed (SF) to Jesse Areguin(Berkeley) to Erik Adams (NYC) to Karen Bass(LA to Sheng Tao(Oakland), using money for “homeless services” to pay the exorbitant costs of sweeps, to Tiny home villages, navigation centers, scarce and temporary shelter beds and jail -transformed motel rooms, which like in Green Eyes case evict each person after three days out of their rooms even if they are in the hospital, and/or forced housing referrals/forced treatment like Newsom passed into law, are not solutions because they are not informed by the people impacted by them, aka us, the houseless people or as we call ourselves at POOR Magazine; “povertyskolaz”. These “solutions” to homelessness created “about us without us” aka without the guidance, direction or leadership of us poor and houseless people or what we call Poverty Scholarship informed, are not only bound to fail, but bound to harm, often leading to our death. The tiny tombs (Tiny home) villages such as the ones in Oakland and Bellingham and projects like LA’s InsideSafe, which i re-named InsideNOTsafe are actually the opposite of safe or a village and in fact are dangerous for houseless people. These projects and solutions aren’t guided by spirit, love, healing, elders or poverty scholarship like Homefulness. Instead they are rooted in numbers, budgets and scarcity models without any regard for our mental or spiritual heatlh but simply working on a quota and numbers system about “how many houseless people they can “serve” rather than listen to what we actually need. They breed calculated, institutional words and codes like “service resistant” and “non-compliant” which are *anti-social worker code for those of us who can't abide by carceral non-solutions like these. Occupied Nooksak (Bellingham , Washington) “They told me I can’t cook, can’t have friends over, can't stand outside my room, cant smoke and can’t store my belongings, this is worse than jail,” Bobbi, an indigenous povertyskola from Pacific Northwest Turtle Island layed out the hell of trying to survive in the politrickster created tiny home village in occupied Lummi Nooksak territory aka Bellingham, Washington that she was “lucky” enough to get a referral to move to when she was on the street, suffering increased criminalization and endless violent sweeps in the middle of a freezing winter.. My Roofless Radio conversation with Bobbi was in 2021 and for the last 2 years i have been *WeSearching war (ON the poor) stories like Bobbi’s from all across Turtle Island who have struggled with these non-solutions to our poverty and homelessness. (*Wesearch is a word I created to describe poor people led research) The framework of Poverty Scholarship is a theory developed and coined by me and my Mama Dee when we struggled with homelessness, poverty, evictions and housing insecurity for most of my childhood and young adulthood in tandem and collaboration with fellow houseless povertyskola co-founders of POOR Magazine and became a textbook in 2019 entitled:  Poverty Scholarship Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth *Anti-Social worker is a word i created to describe the often harmful, not helpful aspects of the so-called “helpers” or care-takers who are mostly acting as agents of removal and the participants in the carceral state system for poor people. Occupied Huchiun (West Oakland) “Who are you?,” the security guard asked us thru three layers of chain link fencing material separating Oakland’s “cabin community” that was the only referral given to about 50  of the hundreds of victims of the violent Wood Street Evictions earlier this year. “No visitors are allowed.” and then he proceeded to re-lock up the third fence between us. After some wrangling by the head Anti-Social Worker in charge, the security guard reluctantly unlocked the gates.  While a grueling process of ID checks and calls to supervisors ensued I asked the member of Wood street Commons who we had walked over there with what they thought of the “Cabin Community” set up by the politrickster class of Oakland. “I don’t like it and probably won’t last here very long with the insane rules but that’s all they are offering me and I have nowhere else to go,” the sisterwarrior  who asked to remain anonymous shook her head from side to side and fell quiet. “The only reason this place is a little less evil  is because of all the meetings we had with them and the ideas we homeless people gave them, which they sort of listened to,” said John Janosko, houseless founding member of Wood Street Commons about the tiny home cabins,  “But they are still not welcoming or live able for a lot of our folks,” The euphemistically named “cabins” installed by the City of Oakland poltricksters and anti-social workers enlist an admixture of fear, claustrophobia and impending incarceration for every resident, a dangerous situation that has since led to the cyrcle of homelessness continuing for the Wood Street Commons eviction refugees. These carceral communities specifically created for houseless residents are rife with  violence, which makes sense as they are all rooted in historical hateful acts of legislative brutality, like the Ugly Laws, Pauper Laws, Settlement houses and Pauper prisons, sundown towns and Jim Crow to name a few.  Multiple ways that being poor, houseless or disabled in public, inability to afford food or rent would be just cause for arrest or incarceration. These “laws” or lies as I call them enabled the profiting off of poverty and roots of the non-profiteer and carceral system we still deal with today  . One terrifying example was under previous Oakland mayor Libby Shaaf we had the life-threatning insanity of the “tuff-shed” a poison leaking, flammable particle board box that literally was dangerous to sit in, much-less sleep in, and the fact that these could even be created and taken seriously, is an example of the way that our bodies are seen when we are not paying ground rent in a krapitalist system. These violent “solutions” created about us without us poor people,  are flawed on purpose because our houseless bodies aren not seen as human. “ I am hiding out just so I can get my wallet and important belongings,” another Sister, warrior, povertyskola resident leader  with Wood Street Commons Freeway texted to me while she was getting evicted from the cabin she and her partner were placed in after the violent Wood Street Commons evictions. “They have no understanding or accommodations for people like me and my partner, we tried to be here, and now we are being evicted back to the street , again. “ Freeway concluded breathless as she ran. Occupied Yelamu- (SF) "Luis Temaj would still be here but this society thinks its ok to sweep humans like we are trash, like my mama always says," said Youth Skola Tiburcio Garcia. They are sweeping people right now down the street while we are mourning Luis," he concluded. Tiburcio spoke from a powerful ceremony POOR Magazine held last week for Luis Temaj, a humble loving houseless Mayan Sun, Brother, and friend, who was set on fire while sleeping on the streets of San Francisco on Oct 8th of 2021. To this day his family has received no justice. Occupied Huchiun (Berkeley) “Your friend can’t come in,” “This is my mama,” ,” “I don’t care if she is G-O-D herself, she’s not coming in,  we have a no visitors in room policy. period,” In one of the many iterations of me and mama’s homelessness we lived in several, cockroach and bedbug infested, box-size SRO’s (Single Room Occupancy Hotels), in other words, poor people housing. i place quotation marks around lived because I’m not sure if living itself can be achieved in the jail-like conditions of most of these SRO’s were “placed” in to get us off the street. If it wasn’t the insane litany of “rules” we had to live under, it was the ongoing poLicing we were subject to just being there. “Who is in there,?” “My mama and me,like always.” “Well we need to come in to inspect,” The knocks and accusations were once or twice a week  and eventually the management decided we weren’t a “good fit” because of my mamas trauma fueled tendency to collect too many things ,aka hoarding /cluttering (which i call having/keeping) and evicted us back to the street. This was just one of the many eviction wars we survived and one of the many murders of the soul that led us to dream/vision Homefulness. Homefulness, unlike these other projects,  is a homeless peoples, self-determined, rent-free, healing, forever housing solution to homelessness, created with spiritual guidance and permission from 1st Nations peoples of these occupied lands and which has been built and is thriving in Deep East Oakland which just welcomed in its 16th resident a houseless, single mama, on December 1st. We also are clear that any poor and houseless peoples-led land liberation movement must have spiritual guidance and permission of the 1st Nations relatives of that occupied land. Homefulness would not have happened without the spiritual guidance prayer and permission of the Ohlone/Lisjan leaders of this part of Turtle Island and rooted in LandBack and Black Land Return frameworks and actions. This is the work myself and Land protector and Ohlone/Lisjan co-founder of Sogorea Te Land Trust, Corrina Gould, we call Decolonziing Homelessness. Our funding sources are different as well, we povertyskolaz teach housed folks with race, class and formal education privilege about the concept of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity reparations in a poor people-led skool we call PeopleSkool . This is a solidarity economy in action. Self-determination means you are liberating your mind, actions and consciousness away from harmful extractive krapitalism. Other beautiful examples of solutions are Camp Resolution in Sacramento, a beautiful poor, houseless, disabled resident run space, Nicklesville, which is a poor and houseless revoluitonaries run tiny home village in Seattle, Camp Integrity, which is a newly launched safe camping site in Marin county and Wood Street Commons before the City of Oakland dismantled, destroyed and evicted everyone from it. Occupied Tongva (LA) “We lost one of our members, Mike Flo aka Michael Flores,” Carla, a warrior shero, povertyskola and co-founder of Aetna Street Solidarity in occupied Tongva, explained to me about the forced isolation of no visitor’s policy, no community convening demanded of houseless povertyskolaz placed in motel rooms in the InsideSafe project under so-called progressive mayor Karen Bass. “These aren’t places for healing, we are losing folks, so many folks,”  Carla continued. Inside Safe is a citywide, voluntary, proactive housing-led strategy to bring people inside from tents and encampments, and to prevent encampments from returning. It is one feature in a comprehensive strategy to confront the homelessness crisis. Quote from LA city Gov website. “The sweeps are constant and violent,  I can’t even stand in the places I used to hide  without police coming to get me, and then if i don’t take their referral i get arrested, they call me “service resistant ” said Johnny D, one of our RoofLess Radio-Tongva (LA) reporters spoke to the subliminal, not so subliminal threats stated in the LA gov website description of InsideNOTsafe, specifically the line; prevent encampments from returning, which is code for the implementation of metal barricades blocking off entire streets to anyone and/or violent architecture as we at povertyskolaz at POOR Magazine call it, i.e, weirdly large planters like San Francisco has placed everywhere houseless communities used to reside, or spikes, or removal of benches, making cities inaccessible to peoples with disabilies and elders, many of whom are also houseless, to sit, stand or live anywhere. Homefulness residents are all people called “service resistant” and non-compliant. We are people who have struggled with having/collecting, we are revolutionaries, we are, like all people outside All of us co-founders of Homefulness struggle with the multiple traumas from lives spent living outside, and lives spent living inside in a hurting krapitalist system. We know the violence of incarceration, racism, ableism, eviction, addiction.  And the violence of isolation and the struggles of recovery. We hold each other in accountability and its hard. We are constantly having to convene our internal restorative justice circles we call family elders, elephant councils and our HEAALZ groups to work toward healing and repair with ourselves and each other. We teach multi-media workshops and support micro-business enterprises and the communities we are in with whatever we are able to to give and distribute, to name a few of our many projects. But most of all we all know, equally importantly, that Homefulness doesnt just mean a room or a roof. It means interdependence, love and support. This povertyskola is currently working with fellow houseless povertyskola leaders and Dean Preston’s office from Yelamu (San Francisco) and Aetna Street Solidarity with support from students and comeUnity at the Luskin center at UCLA to mamafest a Homefulness, in Tongva (LA)  and Yelamu (SF) as well as Revolutionary lawyers from Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)  -stay tuned for more info.

By Momii Palapaz “It hit me that whatever we do impacts every other community confronting this issue, and vice versa. We’re fighting this environmental injustice in Guam, which is connected to environmental injustices experienced in all these different communities around the country—many of them communities of color and lower economic status. This is environmental racism,” said Monaeka Flores, a native of Guam, whose family has tended to their land for generations. “I was horrified to learn about the toxic chemicals that would likely be released from OB/OD including PFAS, which are linked to various cancers. And I was shocked that the Guam EPA said they didn’t know much about open burning and open detonation.” Inside Moscone Center, December 2023, the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference was underway, where corporate suits were schmoozing and partying with recruits. SF welcomed the visitors to discuss enterprising possibilities of capitalist expansion in Asia. Outside on the streets of the Embarcadero in SF, speakers rallied the crowd of thousands opposed to the collusion. During the 2023 months of October, November and December, millions around the world were already protesting the Israel government’s genocide of the Palestinian people. The meeting was a timely opportunity for the link to be made where annihilation of indigenous, poor, and displaced Palestinians make way for expansion. It makes way for creating further self-serving interests while desperation, homelessness, invasions of poor communities are enacted in the name of “blight” and eviction as the solution. I am outside converging among protesters on the block's long march to 5th and Mission. I am here, a Japanese American elder, to physically stand with the people around the world against imperialist expansion. My ancestors whisper to me and now as I get older, I’m finally listening. My curiosity has evolved to consciously seek more of my family history. The lack of conversation or total silence told me this is how we survive. Forget the past. Don’t bring up the past. Move on. I am on the streets in solidarity with the countries and islands affected by APEC. I feel the physical presence is important. I am here to walk with the communities of Pacific Islanders, the Moana Nui. As we talk the talk in the “woke” movement, there are organizers that, as well meaning as they are, disregard these communities. And much too often, and without invitation, non Moana Nui will talk for them. This goes unnoticed by the public as internal indifference toward participating indigenous communities particularly in the week of Anti APEC actions. “Like NAFTA, free trade for Canada, US, and Mexico and South America, APEC is for the countries that shore the Pacific Ocean. I’m here along with my relatives from Tonga, Samoa, Chamoro from Guam and Fiji,” said Loa Niumeitolu. “That’s what we call Moana Nui, our grandmother, our great grandmother…if we don’t have these stories, we are dead,” continued Loa, in an interview with tiny and Muteado on KEXU 96.1 fm. Why aren’t coalition leaders holding up the Moana Nui community? The most affected in the APEC expansion, indigenous brothers and sisters are forced off islands by the thousands. Climate terror will drown their land and people. The US military has conducted decades of environmental damage with toxic weapons. History has exposed the unlimited sexist depravity and racism of US power in all the places it fought Japan and China. To this day, neither the Japanese government and/or the US has responded to the relentless trafficking of women and children for sick sexual demands. I believe our own colonized thinking and conditioning is directly related to the system of imperialism we grew up and presently live in. Even the thought that I am an American is a surprise by both people of color and white. Within our own POC communities there is entitlement of nationalities. As woke as we think we are, there are numerous clues that show otherwise. We are all on stolen land. Ignoring the Moana Nui community and not inviting them to the table is supremacist thinking. The Moana Nui, representing the Pacific Islands and people for the anti APEC coalition, are collectively placed under the designated title as Asian Pacific Islanders. Moana Nui live on islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are categorically Pacific Islanders, not of Asian descent and cultural history. Those communities of small nations are getting smothered by the “American'' activists. Under the same platforms of colonization, we are under systems with Bored of Dissectors, and paper rules of order that all come from the established supremacist system we live under. The disregard of our indigenous ancestors and their descendants is glaringly clear.  We need to wake up and raise up our relatives.  We must welcome their leadership and knowledge, their history and story. They should be at the head of the table for international justice. Loa went on to say, “The biggest interest for (the) most profit. We’re standing in Chile looking at the Pacific Ocean, Mexico, China, standing looking at the Ocean. Take the Pacific Ocean, (it is) actually 1⁄2 the mass of the plant. All these countries…’What part do you want?’ And that’s a free trade agreement. They give the free legal rights to make decisions on what part of the ocean do you want. Let’s do it by mining, fishing, how much profits can you want from this fish, seaweed and mining. Indigenous people of their countries, Shoshone, aren’t called to the table. They are right near the ocean. Why (does) this mean so much…we are in the middle of that. Our island is in the middle of that. That is why it’s so important with all the communities around us…We’re in the height of the destruction…you can see the definition to reduce terrorists and other barriers of trade over time leading to the expansion of economic growth. Colonial papers, agreements, treaties never include the Indigenous. Indigenous people have needs and concerns for future generations.” Hundreds of islands from Hawaii west to Australia make up the area targeted for profit making development. Japan, Korea and the US and China, an under the table component, gather with other imperialist nations, carving up land, sea, air, space and underground. This list is not all the names of hundreds of islands in the Pacific experiencing climate decimation, the leveling of native living communities. For decades, the US military has made thousands houseless, forced to move to other countries.  For example, there are large communities of Moana Nui in Gardena, Hayward, Newark in California. On the island of Molokai and Oahu, Hawaii, Okinawans were forced to migrate at least 100 years ago. I looked on the map and some of the names of the islands are incorrectly spelled. Colonizers change names and spelling frequently. Papua New Guinea Solomon Island Vanuatu New Caledonia Tuvalu Fiji Tonga Norfolk Island Niu Wallis & Fauna Tokelau Samoa West AMerican Samoa Cook Islands French Polynesian Pitcairn Easter Islands Marshall Islands Palau Northern Mariannas Federal States of Micronesia Indonesia Malaysia, New Zealand and more. On the island of Guam, up against the 59 acres of the US military firing range, is the Guam National Wildlife Refuge. Thousands of years in the making, this is home to endangered species.  The fruit bat, geckos, insects and trees are being eliminated on 1,000 acres of a limestone forest.  Medicinal plants have healed a variety of illnesses from bronchitis to anxiety. 5,000 marines will be transferred to the island in 2025 from Okinawa, where for many years, the US military has been confronted by the community protesting its expansion and environmental damage. Julian Aguon an indigenous Chamorro activist and attorney in Guam, shared his disappointment at the loss of his people. “Such things are inevitably lost in translation,” he writes. “No military on earth is sensitive enough to perceive something as soft as the whisper of another worldview.” “Healer” in the Chamorro language is called Yo’amte, and his Auntie Frances Arriola Cabrera is one that writes about centuries of cultural and living traditions impacted by US imperialism. On the Marshall Island, “Everybody’s sick; they get sick and die young,” Jonithen Jackson told ABC News. “When the bomb is erupted, the white powder they come to the water…everybody realizes, oh, that’s the poison.” Poisons from radiation, bombing tests, destruction of the soil and vegetables all contributed to the forced migration of over 80,000 natives. Jackson moved from Enewetak Atoll in 1991, to Hawaii.  From then on, he was followed by over 300 Marshall Island family and citizens. They built their own homes plotted on Ocean View Estates on the southern part of the big island. With scattered patches of volcanic lava formations and rock, it was the most affordable place to live. Like back home on Marshall Island, Jackson wanted a place for his extended family and community to live near each other. The US government fund for those affected in Marshall Island sends him $82.00 every few months as compensation for his losses and eviction. Many Marshallese and Micronesians in Hawaii gravitate toward historically migrant communities. Many live in places like Waipahu or Kalihi, where public housing is more available. Listen to PNN RADIO archives “Po Peoples Radio” program and hear the full interview with Loa Niumeitolu.

University of California Berkeley, a purportedly progressive institution of higher learning, has been engaged in a 54 year war against a tiny corner of land known as Peoples Park By tiny- daughter of Dee/Mama of tiburcio 2024 Hundreds of armed humans lined up in formation. Pacing back and forth, stomping on flower beds, wood chips, recently cut down mama tree stumps, basketball courts and vegetable gardens, throwing away tents and sleeping bags and belongings, cocking and re-cocking their weapons, adjusting their batons and tasers, looks of robotic ferocity flashing under their vinyl and acrylic face shields. ….Houseless peoples, artists, students, elders, gardeners, flower planters, ecologists, humbly stood in front of armed poLice. They marched, screamed and begged them not to destroy the trees, step on the flowers, throw away the tents, fire their weapons, violently tackle us to the ground and arrest us. 1969: Demonstrators running from tear gas deployed by police during a protest over People’s Park. (Bettmann / Getty Images Contributor) 1969 Hundreds of armed agents of the state lined up in formation. On tops of buildings, in the street, in the park, stomping, marching, shooting, swinging batons, lead and rubber bullets, tear gas, flash grenades, wearing face shields, riot gear. .....Hundreds of humans, students, elders, artists, gardeners, florists, scientists, anti-war organizers, soil cleaners, arborists, land protectors scream, march, demand to leave a small part of Mama Earth alone for public use. TODAY To stand on Dwight near Telegraph gazing up at the tiny part of Mama Earth smothered in dangerously weaponized poLice in January 2024  was to suddenly be thrust into treacherous war zone anywhere on occupied Mama Earth, and thrust out of the comfy pseudo-warmth of “college town” make believe  (bookstores, record stores, cafes, tattoo parlors, and weed dispensaries). In the middle of a cordoned off “public” street and far into the unseeable horizon, there were giant stacked shipping containers, countless poLice SUV’s from multiple poLice agencies, hundreds of poLice officers milling about staring down anyone who watched them. This scenario was almost identical on Haste from Telegraph. Again, barricaded off with metal gates, shipping containers, poLice cars, and cops-hundreds of them-standing around, looking menacingly in anyone’s direction and/or not even looking at all. In the bizarre scene’s backdrop is the mural of the 1969 battle between poLice and the people painted beautifully and frighteningly by the revolutionary lawyer and advocate for houseless folks like me, Osha Neuman, who broke this houseless povertyskola out of jail for the crime of living outside when I was a houseless child and young adult in Berkeley and Oakland. Free Free Palestine - Free Free Peoples Park Last night I was present for a march that connected the dots of the siege on Gaza and the siege on Peoples Park. This connection is not hard to see. Or feel. “They came at us with everything they had, guns, tear gas, throwing our belongings in the trash. Throwing us in the trash. They took tents, our medicine, the kitchen we all built to serve free healthy food to houseless community like me and destroyed the garden and so much else and told us we had three minutes or less to leave," said Rob, a long-time houseless RoofLessRadio reporter for PNN-KEXU, about the most recent attack on the park and its inhabitants, family, and land on Jan 4th, 2024. Violent History Repeating Itself There has been an over 50 years long struggle, which has included multiple forms of building, planting, growing, living, art-making, performance, music, and the creation of a thriving comeUnity of Peoples of all nations, generations, classes and cultures. A comeUnity that doesn't believe in the krapitalist lie of private property. Who, just like us at Homefulness, knows that Mama Earth is not now, nor never has been, for sale, no matter what the devil-opers and land occupiers say. People who are willing to peacefully fight for their small part of Mama Earth and all the beautiful Mama Trees they planted over the decades. “They cut down over 40 shade and life-giving trees,” said Aidan Hill, a fierce warrior for Mama Earth and co-leader at Peoples Park resistance, in an interview last year in January when UC Berkeley began another one of its most recent assaults. “The rest of them are all gone,” Rob said about the beautiful shade trees that the Peoples Park protectors were able to save from the deadly bulldozers last year in the same month when they launched this “affordable housing" lie. While he spoke, he motioned upward from his tent in the direction of the sky. “Their relentless bulldozers took the rest of the trees, now we mourn,” he shook his head and became quiet. Excerpts from a disturbing letter from the UC Berkeley Chancellor to staff and students…. Early this morning we began work to cordon off the People’s Park construction site. Over the next 3-4 days, surrounding streets will be closed to traffic while crews install a secure perimeter consisting of double-stacked shipping containers. The Project plans include new student housing with more than 1,100 beds and permanent supportive housing for very low income, and formerly unhoused people…. Our concern about, and commitment to the well-being of our unhoused neighbors are long-standing. It's hard to see anything now in the park, because the shadowy supervillain, UC Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ, decided to surround the park with not only all of the millions of publicly funded cops, working overtime 24 /7 on both streets, but also stacked the space with huge shipping containers, which is ironic for us at Homefulness as we are desperately trying to raise the money to buy shipping containers so we can build rent-free forever homes at Homefulness#2 and 3 and 4 & beyond for houseless families, youth and elders. We can barely afford to buy two of them while she wastes them to fence and blockade people, mostly houseless people, from a safe sleeping space with a free kitchen and loving community, so she can build so-called “affordable housing” which won't, like all housing called affordable these days, be actually affordable. But instead uses the language of "affordable" to quiet any overstandable concerns from the un-knowing public who are witnessing this next bizarre chapter in the 54 years war of Peoples Park. Among other mis-truths in the chancellor's letter, she states that UC Berkeley's concern and commitment is to the well-being of unhoused “neighbors.” If that was even remotely true, then why did they come in the middle of the night with guns and tasers and tear gas, removing anything or anyone who dared to be sleeping, living or existing in Peoples Park, most of whom were longtime houseless residents of the park like Rob and so many others? Every night the people gather, mourn, pray and/or march. We will not be intimidated and we will not give up. Taking over a street ourselves, sitting, standing, rolling, music making and ceremony creating on Telegraph avenue near the blockade. To support, follow @PeoplesParkBerkeley on IG or Text SAVETHEPARK (all caps) to 41372 to be on the alert for the next attack.