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Houseless, Indigenous, Disabled, Black and Brown Youth, Families & Elder Cultural Workers/Poets Perform, Teach and "UnTour" Stolen Land /Hoarded Resources in LA Dates and Locations of Events: Saturday May 6th at 6pm Po Poets Project at LibroMobile 1150 S. Bristol St. #A3 Santa Ana, CA 92704 Sunday, May 7th 11am Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour thru Occupied Tongva- (Entrance to Beverly Hills) Sun, May 7th 3pm When Mama and Me Lived outside Film showing at Children international film festival -UCLA's James Bridges Theatre Sun, May 7th 6pm at Re/arte centro literario-2123 Cesar E. Chavez Ave, Boyle Heights The Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tours were launched on MamaEarth Day in 2016 by indigenous, Houseless, Disabled Black, Brown and Poor Youth, adults and Elders who "Toured" through gated, poLiced, Guarded and protected neighborhoods of extreme wealth from Park Avenue to SillyCon Valley. The tours, visioned by tiny (lisa) gray-garcia aka povertyskola were inspired in part by the Bhoodan Movement of India launched by Vinoba Bhave, who walked through India asking wealthy "land-owners" to gift their land back to landless peoples. Now 7 years later they come back to occupied Tongva Territory aka LA with the medicine of a homeless peoples solution to homelessness and curriculum for a houseless, indigenous and disabled peoples pedagogy. Join us Indigenous, Black, Brown, Houseless & Disabled Peoples as we lay down prayers, share the medicine of Radical redistribution, ComeUnity reparations, Poverty Scholarship, Krip HopOlogy and Homefulness - a homeless peoples self-determined movement which is currently being built in Deep East Oakland, California, and reclaim Culture, Mama Earth, Ancestors, neighborhoods, Knowledge and collective resource collaboration to solve one of the most serious problems in our society at this moment in the 21st century.Homelessness. "There are literally hundreds of new laws created in Los Angeles to criminalize houseless people for being alive in public, but like i always say, no matter how many times, you study me, incarcerate me or sweep me, it doesn't give me a home" said (lisa) tiny Gray-Garcia, aka povertyskola formerly houseless Co-Founder of POOR Magazine, visionary and co-founder of Homefulness and author of Growing Up Homeless in America most of which was based on her homelessness in LA with her mama. "Capitalism continues to violently evict and sweep elders and communities and never listens to us poor people who have our own solutions like the Homefulness Project," -Aunti Francés Moore, Black Panther and Founder of Self-Help Hunger Program, povertySkola, author with POOR Magazine and Co-Founder of Homefulness "The Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Untours are not protests, they are a prayer for change to share the urgent medicine of redistribution , community reparations and Homefulness because we are all in a crisis of scarcity, land stealing and wealth-hoarding and need to understand there is a different way to live and walk interdependently," tiny concluded. In addition to the UnTour thru one of many wealth-hoarding enclaves in occupied Tongva territory aka Beverly Hills, the Poverty Skolaz will be presenting their books, curriculum, poetry and vision of poverty scholarship and Krip Hop Pedagogy in readings at Libromobile and Re/arte books in LA, Po Poets and cultural workers tiny gray-garcia, Aunti Frances Moore, Muteado Silencio, Leroy Moore and the whole Homefulness community will also be showing a short movie by Peter Menchini, based on tiny's childrens book about sweeps and homelessness her mother and her experiened in Los Angeles when she was a child and the vision of Homefulness at the Childrens' International Film Festival on Sunday, May 7th at 3pm- Co-sponsored by POORmagazine/PrensaPobre, Krip Hop Nation,Self-Help Hunger Program , Krip Hop Nation, All ComeUnities welcome to walk with us/co-sponsor/pray and/or speak.

“When you are a creuseur (miner), you are obliged to do what you can to make ends meet. To be scared, you must first have means,” recalled Odijon Kajumba Kilanga, an “artisanal” miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo who has been mining cobalt for 15 years, going from job site to job site. In the United States, technology that relies on this cobalt surrounds us, dictates our every move with marionette strings while we do the bidding of the corporations that create it. One of the biggest ways that companies like Apple, Samsung, and Tesla profit off of us is through the use of rechargeable batteries, prevalent in everything from EV (Electric Vehicle) sedans to smart watches. These rechargeable batteries are known formally as Lithium Ion Batteries, and one of their most important components is cobalt, a rare ore that is found primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “Soldiers would hunt us, if they caught you, they would beat you. If you sold your minerals, when you had money, there were street kids, thugs, who could stop you on the road and snatch your money. To pass safely, you had to pay five hundred francs (50 cents USD)” recounted 15 year old Ziki, a cobalt miner since the age of three, when asked about how the Congolese government makes artisanal mining illegal. You will find in nearly every single cobalt mine people working and digging this mineral out by hand, breathing in its toxic dust and often not using gloves while picking it up. The cobalt industry in the DRC has all but wiped out all other economies in the country, forcing people to work in these extremely dangerous conditions to support their families. Corrupt government officials working with tech companies all over the world severely undercut these miners, making it so they have no choice but to work 12 hours a day to afford rent that steadily rises. Tesla, one of the biggest profiteers of this system has unveiled a plan to expand their production of an alternative battery that does not use Cobalt. One thing I wonder is, will this change make an impact that will make cobalt mining unnecessary in the DRC, and if so, what will be the alternative? These “alternative batteries” called LiFePo (LFP) are lithium ion batteries that use lithium iron phosphate instead of cobalt. One of the things that makes this more appealing to companies is because it doesn’t use cobalt, the cost to manufacture these batteries is far lower than their ion alternatives, and they have a longer cycle life than the other battery types, meaning they last far longer after many different uses. LFP batteries are also far safer than others, due to their thermal and chemical stability. This comes at the cost of having a lower energy density, meaning the only way the battery can be used effectively and produce enough energy is if it's a bigger battery. This prevents the LFP battery from being used in smartphones, tablets, laptops, or any devices that need thin batteries. Eventually, hopefully, with jumps in technology production, someone will be able to invent small batteries that use the LFP system and don't need to have children being exposed to extremely toxic chemicals and dangerous work conditions. With Tesla switching over, that time may not be so far in the future.

By tiny aka povertyskola- We had dreams, we had love We had comeUnity called Wood Street Com-mons The couch got stuck on the stroller as it dribbled out of the teeth of the giant crusher. The sound of wood and plastic crunching became a terrifying melody . “This is only week one and they have already destroyed so much,” John Janosko, one of the warrior leaders of Wood Street Commons, a beautiful MamaFestation of homeless peoples self-determination in occupied Huchuin (West Oakland) had to scream above the endless drone of garbage trucks, poLice vehicles and the mouth of the omnipresent bulldozer lurching backwards and forewards in a violent dance. I watched, shouted, stomped and paced back and forth on that weary stretch of Wood street - a former industrial zone, train station and freeway overpass that seemed to stretch for miles until it didnt, butted up against an encroaching pale gray-green, off-white, pseudo redwood and glass slathered condominium devil-opments (or CONdumbMinions as I called them) with signs announcing New Units Starting at 800,000. This PovertySkola had barely survived 22 poverty based evictions and 3 sweeps when mama and me lived outside, not to mentions incarceration in county jail for tickets for living without a roof and suffice it to say, there are no words to describe the bulldozing of everything you own, nothing Wood Street Commons and Cob on Wood, two poor people -led autonomous land projects, have been building, loving , supporting and creating an inter-dependent safe space for fellow houseless people in Oakland for several years. Each project, next to each other on that empty pre-gentriFUked stretch of West Oakland, created free stores, a community kitchen, healing space, barbeque pit, tons of murals, a garden, and so much more. Each of them were strategically destroyed by the settler colonial state and city government. “Your sweeps take away peoples homes, peoples belongings, peoples lives, every scrap of them trying to take care of their families and their survival,” Jaz, one of the other long-time resident leaders, artists, visionaries of Wood Street who has worked for years to help their fellow residents live and thrive with love stood in the middle of a pile of chairs, tables, blankets and a lamp while the DPW workers paced unmoved around them and the Jaws of the crusher continued to crush. Day One with testimony “Why are you sweeping us? We have nowhere to go? Lamonte Ford, longtime resident of Wood Street, peacefully stood at the barricade the poLice already put up on Day one of this violent eviction while Rupa Marya from Doctors without Borders made the argument that these evictions are a public health crisis. By Day 2 the kkkops were roaming around the land with bolt cutters while the people tried to resist. One of the residents ending up injured and arrested for just trying to keep his home and James Burch of Anti-PoLice terror Project’s hand getting injured by the bolt cutters. On day 3 of the Wood Street Destruction after a grueling day of more belonging theft, bulldozing and poLice terrorizing, at 6:00pm when people had already retreated for the night and theoretically that day’s destruction was over, a rogue bulldozer came careeening down the street and into a fence - barely missing rumming into residents. “They acted with complete disregard to anyone’s safety and almost killed people in the process,” said two long-time residents standing by the fence. The Herstory of State Sponsored Lies about Houseless people It began with the lies about houseless peoples and the “fires” at Cob on Wood, who although they built a beautiful circle of natural, cob homes and bathrooms, were relegated to being talked about as through they were criminal for the sole act of being houseless. “They blamed all of us for the mysterious fires that happened at Cob on Wood and yet everytime there was a fire, CalTrans was oddly and magically nearby, ready with red tags, citations and false accusations,” said Lydia, longtime houseless resident and single mama co-founder of Cob on Wood. “They used the fires as the excuse to evict us,” concluded Lydia. The fires, the evictions, the harassment, the evictions and the endless and constant sweeps have rolled on at Wood Street incessantly. Last year after a series of lies by the city, radical interventions by council person Carroll fife and endless speakputs , actions and organizing moves by the residents and their large community of supporters (which includes all of us Houseless/formerly Houseless folks at POOR magazine) -they were violently pushed onto the last much smaller stretch of Mama Earth at 1707 Wood Street And true to Liberation form they built up their community space -they increased the capacity of their community kitchen and they held a series of beautiful parties, speak-puts , poetry readings (including a series of poormagazine street writing workshops- which produced all of this badass work) And then this day came. Following multiple Temporary restraining orders to block the sick inevitability of the looming jaws of settler lies of private property the final eviction notice was served and executed last week. These aren’t tiny homes - these are tiny Tombs… 6x10 boxes cuz lives like ours are’t listened to … Day after day the crushing CONtinues It has been truly deadly and exhausting. Day after day of crushing, removing, poLicing and harassing, All this so-called progressive city offered has offered is what i called in a recent poemSong i wrote for Wood Street; Tiny tombs, I mean Tiny homes. “We have no place to store our belongings, these aren’t homes,” said one resident as she was marched over to “see her new home” by the on-site case mangler present at the evictions, The anti-social worker was hired by the city to “supervise” the eviction of the Wood street residents out of their ComeUnity. The myth of tiny homes is just that, a myth, low-key jails, like SRO’s with untenable rules like no visitor policies and no cooking and no standing standing your box and beyond. These politricksters have so much to learn from self-governed movements like NIcklesville and Camp Resolution. “We are resisting - we wll not give up, “ said Xochitl Bernadette Moreno at a danza prayer circle we brought last week. Xochitl is an atrist, media producer and one of the many powerful solidarity supporters, prayer bringers, advocates and co-founders of Essential Food and Medicine who has been supporting and standing alongside Wood Street Commons and Cob on Wood from the beginning In addition to EFAM, Love and Justice in the Streets, Anti PoLice terror Project, POOR Magazine/Homefulness and so many more movements, there are warriors like Xochitl and Delphine and Veronica Ramirez from PLACE who will be here and will not stop fighting for liberated self-governed land instead of more hygienic metaphors about our houseless bodies and never-ending removal The heavily poLiced city Evictions CONtinue - the community still needs support- Follow @WoodStreetCommons on IG - go down to 1707 Wood Street to help move, document or redistribute.

On March 26th, POOR Magazine visited with Poverty skolaz of Share WHEEL where they participated in the Scholarship/Empathy Exercise as a part of the RoofLESS Radio Street Writing Workshop. Here are their stories. Pennie Gentzkow Not a hand me down The worst crisis would be relying on the education system to provide a wage that would support a family of three. A masters degree for a single mom was simply not enough. Even with child support from their fathers. This was a huge blow to my self esteem. Family departed from financial struggles. Ageism. It’s about the money or lack thereof. NO fault. NO Blame NO laziness NO Shame. All of my children went to college. AE CRISIS- how many people exist Why aren’t we educating people on the basic hygiene of a baby bottle cleaner in the vagina for prevention How many jobs exist? Not enough to sustain the artificially inflated population; through miseducation, lies and propaganda. If you need organ transplants to heal from your misguided behavior. Pay women – be honest – stop lying Workalem Aragaw EM Anitra Freeman My life was falling apart– job, home and family– and I didn’t find out why until 10 years later–undiagnosed bipolar disorder. One night, driving home from work, I stopped by a river, watched the dark water for a while, thought about just driving in. Wouldn’t it be easier on everyone? I started the car and drove hours

On March 25th 2023 The Poor Magazine / PNN PNW (Poor News Network Pacific Northwest) Group of poverty scholars hosted a RoofLESS Radio Street Writing Workshop at Nickelsville. in Chief Si'ahl. These are their stories. Slam-Bio Po Poets Project Exercise Name: Austin or Oscar “Home”: Las Vegas Where are your people from: Europe = ( A line about your struggle: I made it out but I wanna turn back And help others make It out too - in memory Of all those lost to death, addiction, prison, Or marriage Lovin you! Your Vision: Community of abundance beyond capitalism No cops, no guns, no abuse, just love, peace, justice, and life. No pain, reparations, land back, embrace and nurture trans, all, or ?gender folks, real equity and quality no more injustice, court bench warrants, handcuffs, or prisons. No more time clocks, Nordstrom or McDonald’s. Gabby Baltimore, descendant of East Coast slaves, unrecorded origin unknown, but not forgotten I grew up like them, traveling, unstable, lost My caged parents couldn’t see freedom And therefore, couldn’t see me But now I’m strong But now I see But now I’m love Name: Haile Where: The Great Pacific NorthWest Where are your people from: Africa A Line: The weather (being when dealing with things 24/7)- even if it is slight -documents -safety Vision: -all organizations collaborate to get actual data that will do something for all those in need Name “Where” you are trans Line -3 about struggle Fem (they/their) Dogs, free city, New Haven, CT, also a world of g’s and og’s and ug’s Having not arrived, Unsure where homefulness is, Being willing to be willing to Look, to land, being open to -, consolidating Being eater*-feeding/and be fed- sharing in placenta, coral becoming a nexus in a nest(?) A layer of nurturance, locating myself, becoming a dot, a grain in an electrical storm, shining in -- that I didn’t believe into. Becoming eater. Electrical charge I’m Fem (they/their) I’m from occupied Waupanog territory and released from psychiatric and addiction prisons. I raised - word - Pablo Eloie Not yet to homefulness but willing to be willing to -, finding - in my mouth that tastes the names of the dead, dying and the living, all of us electrified grains in an Aurora Borealis Name: Carol D Huey Where: Bremerton, WA, Seattle, WA Where are your people from: Charleston, SC area A Line: Today, I consider myself a survivor, having been through many struggles in life starting with addiction, mental health issues — to include night tremors + PTSD. I am grateful for where I am today; in permanent housing. I too went through a fire 1 ½ years ago. I thank ?, I survived that, lived in tent for short while, then tiny homes + finally permanent housing Name: Greg (they/them) Where: Seattle, Pacific Northwest Where are your People from: The Soufend, Seattle, (Rainier Beach, Othello) A Line: After an eviction, loss of my storage, RV, + car, I’m just glad to have a solid roof over my head. And that I still have my dog + cat after all these years. Vision: I aim to be the person I needed when I was younger. I strive to create a space around myself where folks feel comfortable being authentic. I’d love to see all my friends + family happy, healthy, + safe Haiku: Tiny, but Big I love my small home Having one is huge to me No more sleeping cold. Every time I shine some light on I really who I am I make it impossible for me to hide Name: John Where: Hamilton, Ohio Where are your People from: The south Georgia A Line: Mental health, oppression, housing at the moment Name: “Taffy” Harriet Inez Killgore Where: Bay Area, Earth, sometimes outer space : ) Where are your People from: Norwegian, Native American A Line: Housing Challenged All my 52 yrs. Helping Others wiping tears Overcome addiction, the struggle is real Name: Exquisite Where: San Francisco By Area Ancestral Land of the Ohlone Born in colonially Known Oakland, CA From the wounded womb of my blood mother My home, and where i’m from is Earth Mother Where are your People from: My people are from the Black, Dead, Red Sea of the colonizer’s way. Atlantic Yemanjả, Oya, Oshun...Orisha. Oakland Descendant of Arkansas. Scott Family, Caucom plantation. Slaves. Captives. Captured A Line: Liberating from White Supremacy Culture. Structure. I see the arrival of all Higher Powers, Creator and Source of peace, prosperity, purpose Soon. And very soon. Susan Marcos Chavela Crisis: self, health Self is Health The universal necessity of good form Is the universal need For ALL Inclusive Healthcare Universal Health automatic Coverage for ALL American Citizens A mandate to the Rewrite of the United States constitution Basic Primary needs- Dis? But Food - shelter- health care without People Die! NEW NATIVE Suey Mary Pelsri. - -- 3 “T” is Time Talent Taxes ---mixed - set aside for See This Primary- vote Native Established Inhabitants Generation occupied Homeland own Home city

On March 24th, POOR Magazine visited with Poverty skolaz of Real Change where they participated in the Scholarship/Empathy Exercise as a part of the RoofLESS Radio Street Writing Workshop. Here are their stories. Rudy Cabonias I was 18 years old managing a burger King in the nine months I had a house car Then my son passed away I gave up I Had a job, house, a car Life was good. Then my son Passed and I just gave up Crisis: DON’T KNOW, But it’s HARd BEiNg FREE to liFE with All Things around you. So much HAtE ANd PAiN ANd Hard, But I KEEP my HEAd up High ANd gET dowN that Road To HAppiNess – – U FROM MR. CORNbREAd #10880 Michelle McDonald Crisis: · Realization of lack of Justice and untruthful law · Separation from my child and a system I don’t trust!! · feeling that my life and my childs was ot handled properly! What would you do?: 40 hrs. Week. Before I located a job with that my hours and 3 children, I would establish childcare and locate resources and family. To properly establish, I would let my landlord know I’m working on resources to cover my rent and stay up to date on tenant laws and ? Anonymous Crisis: Overdoses ???? HIT N RUNS cancer murder BAD/NO NEIGHBOR POLICY BORDERLINE Diabetes The age of B.C.C.E.A/D/= O.D. CAR WREAK DRUNK DRIVER LIAR USERS ABUSERS THIEVES WIEDOES WAR ZONE HAUNT OF SID ROAD Pee URINE STATES OF AMERICA FINAL ANALYSIS Tanya Falk My Life I struggled from a little girl on I suffered molestation to beatings My eyes black and blue From my dad molesting me To going into group and foster homes Up til I was 18 I was In some type of government care They never loved me at all I was thrown away! Till in my 20’s I gotten married To a wonderful man Had 2 great wonderful kids Came to Seattle and Experience homelessness and A beat down my Husband and I We were at a park With our 8 year old When my husband gotten Hit I tried to protect him But I couldn’t I ended up getting a dislocated arm and a plate But enough about me Look at all the other people Black, oriental, Muslim and Natives They got teated worse than Me I cry and sob For their lives matter to me! Tanya M Falk (Falk) Dennis Wilsey Crisis: WHERE I liVED in MPLS- WAS condemned I BECAME HOMELESS I HAD NO PLACE TO LiVE I CAME TO SEATTLE TEN YEARS AGO I LiVED iN TENT CiTY FOR 1 YR - AND THEN WiLLIAM BOOTA CENTER FOR SiX MONTHS AFTER 1 ½ YRS. HOMLESS I GOT SUBSiDiZED HOUSiNG REAL CHANGE HAS HELPED ME WiTH ACTiViTEY AND A SOURCE OF SOME iNCOME-NOT A LOT WORKSHOP (SLAM BIO) VoluNTEER’S FROM OAKLAND CALiF. POVERTY SCHOLAR’S REAL CHANGE HElP’S ME TO CONTINUE FORWARD AND TO NOT JUST SIT AND DO NOTHING I’VE BEEN iN SEATTlE 10 YRS AND SElliNG REAL AHNGE 9 YRS. I DON’T SEll MANY PAPER’S ONLY A COUPlE HOURS A DAY BUT iT HElP’S ME TO HAVE A PlAN FOR THE DAY DENNiS WilSEY 12412 Joseph Howard Crisis: My worst crisis happened in 2015. I took a security job out of state in Florida. At the time I was in subsidized housing in Arion court. The job ended in six months. I however covered my rent so I did not owe any money. When I returned I could not get my place back.. I was told don’t call us we’ll call you. I stayed living on the streets every since What would you do?: I don’t know EARl AKA NEW YORK After Da DARKeST night Comes A BRighteR Day \ 2 PAC ↘ SAID this IN 1993 Angie Crisis: Being gay in this society has been one of my biggest struggles. Treating me like im nobody but I am somebody. Somebodies child, sister, aunt, mother I can only be thankful that the kind people outweigh the mean and ignorant ones. What would you do?: Definitely take the job and try to reach out to churches or places that are willing to help me with my rent until something else can come up for me. Anonymous Crisis: My family experience homeless and Crisis: financial, is maybe the worst! Family, none! Self fine!” …What do you do?: Need! Paper Work #SS card

Houseless/Formerly Houseless Mamas, Elders, and Youth Launch Homefulness #2 with the ancient architecture of our ancestors from all across Mama Earth When: 10:00 AM Tuesday April 11, 2023 Where: Homefulness #2 7600 BlackArthur(MacArthur) Bl Deep East Huchuin (Oakland) This event will feature Homes from Our Ancestors Report form Indigenous/formerly houseless Black, Brown Youth from Deecolonize Academy and houseless/formerly houseless builder/founders, poets & cultural workers at Homefulness/POOR Magazine With Special Guests Kenya Wright- Builder artist, healer from Butterfly Breathworks & Ras K'dee, Afro-Pomo musician, builder from AudioPharmacy Following the Press Conference there will be a free workshop for the ComeUnity in Natural Building Technologies- Space limited to low/no-income/houseless youth, elders, and families from Huchuin (Oakland)

Image of the UnTour “guides” by Israel Munoz/Povertyskola wit POOR Magazine Land Back Land Back Black Land Black Land Houseless humans housed Instead of swept like we r trash…. Tiny- excerpt of the Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour chant thru Occupied Salish Territory “They didn’t give us this land to use out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because we fought, we organized and didnt stop putting pressure on them,” said Peggy, a longtime warrior with Nicklesville, a self-determined poor/houseless people-led comeUnity in Seattle or occupied Chief Si’ahl as i have respectfully re-named it. Nicklesville was named after Mayor Nickles who perpetrated violent sweeps of homeless people like so many poltricksters across Turtle Island As Peggy spoke, i reflected on the impossible struggle of us houseless peoples “fighting” when we already have nothing left in us to fight with, fighting to not be constantly “swept” , removed, cleaned out, gentriFUKEd, evicted and/or hated, like so many of our relatives at Wood Street, Division Street, Blackarthur Blvd, Polk Street and all across the Bay. A "Hooverville" was a group of cardboard homes, tents, lean-to’s and shacks created in the 1930’s and referred to as “shantytowns” built by houseless, jobless, poor folks during the Great Depression They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United Snakes during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. They were all across the country but many of them were in the occupied Salish territory aka Chief Siahl (Seattle) One of the NicklesVille tiny homes The bright, sharp rays of Tonateu (the Sun) brought a warm glow to a small corner of occupied Salish lands (Seattle) where the Nickelsville comeUnity of tiny homes was located as Peggy spoke to RoofLESS radio/POOR Magazine family visiting/sharing on our recent Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour. Homelessness is not accidental or incidental…. Its intentional cuz we can’t afford a rental…tiny Houseless/Formerly houseless residents of Homefulness and Po Poets and Povertyskolaz from POOR Magazine took our tired and often broken but not giving up, spirits and bodies up to share the medicine of Homefulness- where we all finally reside with a safe and rent-free roof and forever home. Frances Moore, Juju Angeles, Israel Munoz, Brokin Cloud and Tiburcio Garcia, were blessed to share knowledge, prayer, solutions and love with fellow houseless povertyskolaz from SHARE/Wheel /Real Change News and Stop the Sweeps Seattle and the amazing Nickelsville… One of the participants in the RoofLEss radio street-writing workshop at Nickelsville “Everytime we got threatened with sweeps or removal, we would relocate, but we always stayed together. At each location we would last several months or a year, and then we would have to move again, each time we lasted a little longer, but our strength was, no matter what, we always stayed together”, Peggy repeated this multiple times. The first version of Nickelsville was established on Nov. 24, 1990, with leadership from a powerful organizer named Scott Morrow and houseless relatives from SHARE/WHEEL, Real Change and more. In response to former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ sweeping of homeless encampments across the city, Morrow, along with others involved with SHARE/WHEEL,Real Change and other community members, started setting up distinctive pink tents on unused public land as an act of protest. “We didn’t call it a tiny house village, from the beginning, we called it Small, Simple, Sturdy, Sleeping Structures,” Peggy added. She told us that over time there were many “corporate non-profits” who have also set up “tiny house villages” where poor and houseless peoples are not leading the movement. “People aren’t safe in those places,” she added. In Seattle they have one good thing, if an encampment is set up and there are more than three tents, they can call on the City to bring water and porta potties to the site, which is how Nickelsville has the water and sewer service they currently have. Peggy explained that for now they are “safe” at Nickelsville and actually on the brink of opening a second site. “This has been a looong struggle, to get here,” she concluded. Poor Peoples Skill Share “This is the pod that we built -it contains all the energy to power the whole village, roughly 3000 watts of solar energy, ” after we spoke to Peggy we were introduced to Moises, a young comrade with roots in East Huchuin, who explained the powerful off-grid solar hub he and his partner David O in their company called “Messx” created for the Nickelsville village. Aunty Frances, on of the teachers of the Po Poets Workshop at Nicklesville and her niece Erica At the end of this powerful teaching by Moises, they offered to help us houseless folks down in occupied Huchuin who are struggling just to figure out what to do to create Homefulness #2 off-grid. Refusing to spend another 11 years struggling to get the permit gangsters of these settler governments to “approve” a homeless peoples solution to homelessness. Losing houseless relatives like Laure McElroy and Kathy Galves, because the City government made it as hard as possible, charging us endless exorbitant fees we absolutely didn't have, so that poor and houseless builders like us could never build our own solutions. All that said, we also have to worry about safety for our families and elders and so we working so hard to build everything safely and beautifully, so Moises and the other founder, David O were life-savers. Wealth-hoarders False Borders Eviction and Politricksters Orders The Time is now for Homefulness…tiny We launched the Untour in Occupied Salish Lands at the site of “Pioneer Square” or what I refer to as a Klanmark, one of thousands of mis-named, occupied and stolen indigenous lands and sacred sites across Turtle Island, where the land-stealers, occupiers, genocidal perpetrators, aka colonizers are lifted up as heroes. Chief Si’ahl in Pioneer Square Pioneer Square is described as the “birthplace of Seattle” in tour guides. Settlers who were called “Bostons” by the native community, laid claim to this area as their “first neighborhood", the first settlement on this side of the water, thus the beginning of stolen land from the Duwamish and Suquamish people. In addition to a copper plakkk with inglorius blab-lies about the Pioneers, there was a beautiful sculpture of Chief Si’ahl, the 1st Nations elder who was lied to and stolen from by the settlers and their fake treaties into a horror story of genocide and why when i heard his actual name i forever refer to “Seattle” by his actual name Chief Si’ahl. Sweep of a houseless relative in Chief Si’ahl by Seattle PoLice Sweeping on Stolen Land While we were setting up for the opening blessing at that strange space where we were laying down prayers for the stolen Inuit totems that are centered in the square -three poLice officers and a city government trash truck swaggered over to a houseless elder who was sitting under the bus shelter in the cold rain trying to stay dry and began a full on sweep. “What are you doing,?” the baadaas organizers and cop-watchers from Real Change and Stop the Sweeps Seattle who sponsored us to come to these lands along with all of us from POOR Magazine were pulling phones out, filming, and getting in the kkkop’s faces lickety split At this point they started to put the yellow tape up to keep us out of the bus shelter area, but like any good kkkop-watcher that didn't deter us. Within seconds they changed their so-called goals into; We are just here to pick up trash, not sweep her. Black, Brown, Gold, Beige or White Is just pigmentation in the skin What matters is the strength and goodness Of the person that resides within… excerpt of a poem created in POOR Magazine’s Po Poets Project Workshop by an anonymous resident of the SHARE/WHEEL shelter From this first brutal and beautiful day, all of us povertyskolaz didnt rest, moving from one reading to workshop to prayer to walk. After the opening blessing we led a powerful RoofLess Radio workshop at Real Change Newspaper with the baadass houseless poverty skola reporters and vendors from that amazing newspaper (stay tuned for all of their voices writing published on POOR Magazine and broadcast on Po Peoples Radio Newz Hour) then onto a reading by all of Po Poets and Poverty skolaz from our books at Left Bank Books with a showing of the movie by Peter Menchini based on my children's book When Mama and Me Lived Outside -to the blessing of Nickelsville and a Po Poets Poetry Workshop to the amazing SHARE/WHEEL a shelter led by houseless and formerly houseless women, who have also produced an amazing series of poetry anthologies and finally to the final and ultimate move on the third day - the Stolen Land /Hoarded Resources UnTour… My life seems to be made up of waiting now Waiting for housing Waiting for the end of a hot flash Waiting for Laundry Waiting for a Shower Waiting to Lie Down Waiting for a prescription to be filled Waiting for a meal Before I used to make things happen Now i wait for them to happen …. By Peaches from The Sisterhood of Homeless Women in Poetry Anthology (SHARE/WHEEL’s poetry collections) Stolen Land/Stolen Lives Waiting to Lie Down “There are so many things i have to say about the pain of losing my brother…” RickTWilliams, brother of John T Williams, a houseless, indigenous relative who was killed by Seattle PoLice in 2010, spoke softly at the opening of the prayerful and powerFULL Stolen Land untour launched at Leschi Park. Rick’s opening was especially powerful because POOR Magazine’s Pacific Northwest family was involved in writing, reporting and supporting the Williams family since the horrible murder of John T and we included the story in Poverty Scholarship- Poor people-led theory, art, words and tears across Mama Earth From Left: Youth Skola Tibu leading us thru the four directions at the Stolen Land UnTour - photo by Eagleson Williams “I am a carver like my brother, and my son and whole family, carving is medicine, carving is healing,” John T Williams and his son Eagleson presented this poverty skola and POOR Magazine family with a beautiful carved offering that we have on our altar at Homefulness, in honor of John T Williams, one of the too many houseless, Black, Brown, Indigenous povertyskola relatives stolen by PoLice terror. The Stolen Land /Hoarded Resources UnTours were launched in Mama Earth Day 2016 to share the medicine of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity Reparations with wealth-hoarders and land occupiers across Turtle Island as well as to UnWash the Settler Lies told and sold about all of this occupied indigenous land, now held hostage by the lie of private property. It is not a protest or an action, merely a calling in to redistribute the excess homes and resources that wealth-hoarders acquire and hoard to folks who have no homes and no resources. Like all of occupied Turtle Island, there are Herstories and Histories intentionally silenced so that colonial possession can happen unabated. The warriors from this territory at Stop the Sweeps and Real Change who sponsored us to come and do the UnTour did this research about the location of our launch. LESCHI PARK This spot was once called Saw Grass Point, where Duwamish, Suquamish, Nisqually and other people would gather bulrushes for household mats. Leschi lived around the Nisqually River south of here. He was part of the Hachoo-absch, which means People of the Large Lake. Leschi was an organizer of indigenous resistance against the settlers known as Bostons. Leschi helped organize a major armed attack on the little logging town near Elliot Bay. The attack failed to dislodge the Bostons. Leschi was captured and hung in 1858 for his part in resistance. Thirty years later, a private cable car company owned this land and developed the park. The president of the cable car company named this park after Leschi. “We are here to propose radical redistribution and reparations of some of your stolen and hoarded wealth to the houseless, indigenous peoples of this town so they can build their own Homefulness…” Aunty Frances Moore, Black Panther, POOR Magazine author, Po Poet, co-founder of Homefulness and founder of the Self-Help Hunger Program spoke into the intercom system that fronted one of the multi-million dollar homes along the waterway in the Leschi area. Street -Writing Workshop at Real Change Newspaper in Chief Si’ahl “This is a calling in, an invitation to come to the next Decolonization/DegentriFUKation seminar at PeopleSkool to help heal you from the lies of hoarding and speculating and the violence of krapitalism,” I added walking into one of the heavily gated homes that happened to be unlocked. The doors were never opened, the intercoms were never answered but three people stood at their beautiful plate glass windows taking videos of our group of about 100 people walking peacefully down this street of so much excess, no doubt posting them on “Next Door” or some other website filled with hate of poor and houseless people. But healing from the settler lies of private property and hoarding aren’t overnight. De-krapitalising and DegentriFUKing are a life-long process. We have all been lied to in this stolen land. Tiny, Eagleson and RickT Williams- Brother of John T Williams - murdered by Seattle PoLice for being houseless and indigenous in that settler town - the Carvings were by Eagleson and RickTWilliams The weekend long circle of prayerful power of voices, love, learning and radical sharing to ultimately MamaFest a Homefulness #3 in Chief Si’ahl was completed by EagleSon who spoke a closing prayer in his tribal language. And like his father, Rick T Williams said, “this healing has only just begun.” To radically redistribute to build the Pacific Northwest Homefulness email poormag@gmail.com. For more information on the upcoming session of PeopleSkool go to poormagazine.org/education. The prayer walk was captured by a blog and images by indigenous youth artist Eagleson, nephew of John T Williams and son of Rick T Williams and part of the Williams family of carvers. Stay tuned for the video of the UnTour and stories which will be published in POOR Magazine/PNW column

On Cesar Chavez day March 31st - the 13th Houseless resident moved into rent free forever homes we houseless folks built Homefulness - Alohaaaaa uncle Francés ! From ancestors and all the spirits From Left, New Homefulness residents Brokin Cloud, Teo and Frances -

By Juju Angeles/POOR Magazine formerly houseless poverty skola/Homefulness resident On Thursday, February 23, 2023, we met with Keith Carson and some powerful black and houseless/poor women led organizations that directly work with feeding and housing our roofless/ houseless residents in Alameda county. In the county of Alameda, 30,000 people everyday are at risk of being evicted and according to an NBC Bay Area article, 37,000 are living on the streets in the Bay Area. The meeting was held to ask Keith Carson, who is responsible for the distribution of county funds in the fifth district, how can Self Help Hunger Program, Manna From Heaven, and POOR Magazine tap into the county’s budget that deals with the crisis of homelessness. All three of these movements work on the ground directly, everyday with houseless, disabled, in crisis communities. “We are the people we serve, “ says Aunti Frances Moore, Black Panther and formerly houseless founder of Self-Help Hunger Program and co-founder of Homefulness.. “Poor and houseless families and elders need to be listened to about our own solutions to our own problems, Homeuflness is public HEALth,” said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseless co-founder of POOR Magazine and visionary of Homefulness This meeting took almost a year to schedule despite Mr. Carson publicly stating that he looks forward to collaborating to solve the county's problems. Collaborating with who? Is he collaborating with folks who are literally outside in encampments, formerly houseless folks, or with mutual aid grassroots organizations? Oftentimes, people on the street aren’t seen as worthy enough to solve their own problems. The Board of Directors and Executive leaders of most not-for-profit organizations aren’t folks who are poor. How can people who have no real lived experience or expertise on homelessness solve a problem that the systems they work for actually created? What is the incentive for housed folks with class privilege to solve the homelessness issue when they have no urgency to actually house us? One of the main issues with the allocation of funds for houseless and those who are at risk of being houseless is that the current organizations aren’t redistributing the funds to help us. Mama Dee, the founder of Poor Magazine, used to say, “folks who have never missed a meal in their life” can’t tell us what we need. This is seen with the amount of bureaucratic red tape to access emergency funds. Everything from the need to make 3 times the rent to have access to emergency funds, you have to show proof of residency, or shelters closing and being full, shows how they don’t care what cash poor or houseless folks actually need. People in public service do not collaborate with community members who are experts in their own lives and their own experience because of the internalized disrespect for poor people. We aren’t seen as worthy of leading our own lives. We aren’t seen as intelligent. Support often looks paternalistic, criminalized, and we are seen as untrustworthy. The popular belief is that we did this to ourselves. That we are all drug or alcohol addicts, lazy, or that we created the problems of poverty. When anyone who has any education, like most officials, knows that capitalism is a system that depends on poverty and the exploitation of cash poor folks. Capitalism literally depends on a hierarchy of have and have nots. Those who do not have are working for folks who do. This machine is well oiled. When we asked Keith Carson how could these community grassroots organizations get access to this very important county funding, his response after two years of waiting for a meeting was, “We don’t deal with land. We deal with public health.” As if houselessness isn’t a public health issue. Any doctor will tell you that a safe and secure home is one of the pillars of health for any individual or family. He then went on to say that he has “been doing a whole lot” in terms of housing. After all the storms we have gotten, Alameda county has provided no resources for flooding to its houseless residents. The homelessness problem has doubled in the last five years and the number continues to grow due the average cost of a home being one million dollars and unlivable wages. In addition, it came out last year that Alameda county cannot account for the allocation of funds for homelessness. What Keith Carson could have said is, Let’s find ways to work with one another. I value the houseless residents of Alameda County instead of doing NOTHING and basically verbally masturbating all the ways that Alameda County has done a poor job at the homelessness problem. The proof is everywhere. Look outside your car window driving in any part of the Bay Area and you see more and more people on the streets, surviving by any means necessary. Homelessness is a public health emergency. No one should be unhoused. We have enough land to house everyone but not everyone has the money and those who do aren’t sharing — and therein lies the true dilemma.

Broke, Black, Brown and Disabled Book UnTour Poor, Homeless, Indigenous, Black/Brown peoples go on an "UnTour" to share curriculum, workshops, film, poetry, performance, and prayer to promote an innovative model to solving homelessness called Homefulness. The Po Poets Project, a grassroots project of the houseless, poor and indigenous peoples led movement known as POOR Magazine, will be in Chief Seattle March 24th-26th. All of the Po Poets, formerly houseless, Black, Brown revolutionary poets, will be reading from their books and promoting their publications. They will also be sharing the medicine of UnSElling Mama Earth and building poor and houseless peoples’ solutions to poverty and homelessness, what they call Homefulness. These land liberators, from all four corners of Mama Earth, will be offering readings and workshops from their newest books: How to Not Call the Po'Lice Ever and Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth. Po Poets will also be leading a Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour: prayer, vision, dream teaching, sharing of Radical Redistribution, Community Reparations, and Homefulness with wealth-hoarders, inheritors of stolen Mama Earth, and/or protected/occupied wealth neighborhoods. When Mama and Me Lived Outside, an award-winning short film by Peter Menchini, will be shown followed by a Q&A. The film is based on the children’s book of the same name written by tiny gray-garcia and focuses on one family’s journey through homelessness. Po Poets will lead writing workshops with Real Change vendors and with residents of Nickelsville. They will also meet with the WHEEL Writing Group for local unhoused women. PUBLIC EVENTS INCLUDE: FRIDAY 3/24,10:30 AM, Pioneer Square: Opening Blessing FRIDAY 3/24, 7:30 PM, Left Bank Books, 92 Pike St. #B: Book reading/performance and film showing: When Mama and Me Lived Outside SATURDAY 3/25, time/location TBA: ROOFLESS RADIO Street Writing Workshop SATURDAY 3/25, 5:30 PM, Ada's Technical Books and Café, 425 15th Ave E: Po Poets book reading/performance SUNDAY 3/26, 3:00 PM, starting at Leschi Park, Lakeside Ave S and E Yesler Way: UNTOUR of CHIEF SI-AHL

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