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By AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul December 15, 2022 Suicide. Coincidentally, the word was brought up on today and it was a topic that I had intended to discuss and so today it looks like we will be diving back into a topic that often coincides with mind over matter... This seven-letter word happens to be a new killer on the horizon of the backs of children and young adults. Now, we've known for it to lurk & manipulate its way around the circles of adults, BUT... Never before in history has this word been accepted. Most of the time this seven-letter word has been hiding in the closet and often the elephant in the room. Lately, people have been talking more and more on this topic. The bodies’ number count has risen to an all-time high. Recently, one of my younger family members unfortunately had the honor of comforting one of his peer’s mothers due to the youngster taking their lives... It's been one year. I remember when I first heard of the news and just like that a year has passed and the mother and family are forced to deal with their new reality. The loss to suicide... What a touchy tablet in a tobacco of a situation. Back in the early '70s people would say folks were possessed... Then in the 80s they said folks were crazy, In the 90s, the new way of thinking of it is mental illness... Now that we are in the 2000s, we understand it's an emotional crisis which entails possibly one or all of these circumstances... Most people are driven to suicide due to hurt and pain whether it be physical or emotional internal or outward. Over time we have come to understand that these are a few common factors of why one would want to end it... What I do find to be interesting is people are always shocked once the body is found limp and lifeless with or without a note attached depending on the fixation of the body. Professionals are always able to state the obvious... A suicidal mission complete. Loved ones are always left behind with the thoughts of “If I only had a sign or a clue.” Sometimes people do leave clues, others flat out tell you. The point is, who gets the help...? Is it an illness or a feeling...? Some people take to prayer, others take to pharmaceutical drugs... Some people take to both. Therapy isn't counted out. Often, people need to be counseled. Hell, some people are placed into an insane asylum/crazy house—the 51/50 nut house . In the worst-case scenario, death is always the ultimate established place set for those who unfortunately go through with it. It seems to me the pressures of the world are on so many people’s shoulders that we don't know how to cope. Our eyes and minds are filled with so much from day-to-day traumas, the spirit breaks. The soul is weakened, and a transformation takes place. The will to live no longer has a will to live... It's sad, the best gift of life is the fulfillment of living! Is life only full of misery and torment? Surely there must be more to life than trauma. Of course, this judgment is all in the eyes of the beholder, the one that's trapped in the body with the soul it dwells in... Suicide is on the rise, it has been riding the tide now for a very long time. Suicide is like a plague, a silent killer, and we don't have the antidote. There may never be a cure. Anyhow, there have been whispers that one might call mythical, however some are radical enough to give it a try. It's told to be a knockout concoction, a pair of three combinations which are: LISTENING , LOVING and DEDICATION to the NEED... This is the remedy, it's non-traditional and we all need it believe it!!! SoarTorianSoar

Holiday Arts Market and Knowledge Xchange Mercado de las artes navidenas y intercambio de conocimientos RAIN OR SHINE Sunday December 11 /Domingo 11 de diciembre 2-6pm 8032 BlackArthur (MacArthur) in Occupied Deep East Huichin (Oakland) On the sacred land us houseless peoples call Homefulness En la tierra sagrada que los pueblos sin hogar llamamos Homefulness Artists, Crafts, Poets, Music, Food, Houseless/Indigenous Poverty Skolaz/Prayer Bringers & Youth Performances, 1st Nations Danza Azteca & Ifa Prayer & More Artistas, Artesanos, Poetas, Musica, Comida, Sin Hogar/Indigena Pobreza Skolaz, Portadores de oracion y Actuaciones juveniles--1st Nations Danza Azteca y oracion de Ifa y mas

This is not the board game, monopoly, it is now New Work and California passed by a democratic governor. In New York, ex cop turned mayor just made the board game monopoly into reality for people with disabilities and in California governor Newsom added one more stop on the board and that is mental health courts. What makes this reality an update game is when you put on a virtual reality headset that you can transport you back into time where politicians, police and bureaucrats could just pick up a person with a disability if he/she/they/them were outside and brought to a mental hospital this was made into law called The Ugly Laws. However you take off the virtual reality headset to find out again this is not a game and it is not in the past. Welcome to 2922 where politicians don’t care about our civil rights and are pissing on the Olmstead Act and the newly grave of Lois Curtis! Don’t pass go, don’t collect two hundred dollars, go directly to a mental hospital or jail or be shot by police is the 2022 reality for mostly poor Black/Brown disabled people and like I said this is not new. In the 1980’s I, a Black physically disabled teenager, I was stopped by NYPD officers in Manhattan, NY who thought I escaped from a mental hospital. So today under a Black mayor we return to my youth and even further back to the ugly laws thus institutionalizing poor disabled people in the time of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so called Black Lives Matter, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. But we want to talk about Black celebrities. Remember Allen Moye, a Black blind man in Harlem, NY. who was just standing outside of a store and was stop and frisk by NYPD for now reason back in September 2010 well he took the Stop & Frisk policy to court. From the August 30th/2013 article in the Chicago Defender newspaper it reports as follows: “Moye’s suit is the first after Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin recently ruled against stop and frisk. Her decision noted that the department routinely performed “unconstitutional stops and conduct[ed] unconstitutional frisks” that targeted young Black and Hispanic men. Her decision came after a class action lawsuit against the city by the Center For Constitutional Rights, which brought victims of the policy and NYPD whistleblowers to center stage. She ordered a federal monitor to oversee the department’s stop and frisk policy. Her ruling also made it easier for New Yorkers to sue the city if they feel they’ve been unfairly stopped and searched.” I bring up Allen Moye to show you that once again Black disabled people are the one target by politicians when they pass harmful policies that are carried out by police. Here in California activists especially houses and mental health action know the history of anti poverty, anti houseless that Galvin Newsom continues to run on and helped implement from Care Not Cash when he was mayor of San Francisco to now establishing a mental health court system that will have the same affect to what Mayor Adams just done in NY aka Don’t pass go, don’t collect two hundred dollars, go directly to a mental hospital. Like I said this is nothing new in early 2000 I wrote an article against force treatment bill in California assembly. The concept of force treatment have always been tossing around in our local government and it never dies from my youth experience on the street of Manhattan, NY to today Mayor, Eric Adams, recently is “ordering police and emergency services to more aggressively hospitalize those with mental illness who are on the streets, even if the hospitalization is involuntary and they pose no threat to other people.” This is coming from a Black mayor who recently talked about his learning disability matter of fact also Governor Gavin Newsom also came out with his learning disability both men have dyslexia ummm. Both men have redesign the monopoly board game in real life with their policies and given power to police and so called Care Courts to do one thing and that is to continue to lock up poor people with disabilities majority people of color. By Leroy F. Moore Jr. 12/4/22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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