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While the US government signs an executive order to literally disappear houseless comeUnities from cities across the Nation and California settler towns implement more violent sweeps and sweeps orders against houseless residents  - A powerful new movie is created by houseless/formerly houseless artists, cultural workers, poets and survivors that tells the stories of the people being disappeared. Last Benefit Screenings of the Trailer Huchiun (Oakland) & Tovaangar (LA): 6pm Thursday, SEPT 25th Trailer benefit screening, panel of houseless/formerly houseless Sweeps Survivors on Hate, Politricks & Resistance by Houseless ComeUnity and poetry from the Po Poets Project  at East Side Arts Alliance 2277 International Bl Huchiun BENEFI T SCREENINGS OF THE TRAILER IN TOVAANGAR /LA  -12 noon Friday, Sept 26th- UCLA Health Equity Hub - rm 242B Center for Health Sciences -7pm Friday, Sept 26th - Tia Chuchas Cultural Center and Books 12677 Glen Oaks Bl Sylmar -7pm Saturday, Sept 27 Midnite Books  941 East 2nd st LA  -5pm Sunday, Sept 28  All Power BOOKS- 4749 W Adams Bl LA   Screenings and panels, poetry with Aetna Street /POOR Mag Tovaangar family  “That’s my Wheelchair...” Reggie, a disabled, Black elder screams at a bulldozer coming for her comeUnity and her wheelchair. Crushing Wheelchairs, with an original screenplay written by houseless poet and povertyskola tiny gray-garcia, adapted from her award winning  play of the same name focuses on the violence of homelessness, city and state sponsored sweeps, and poLice terror. The movie includes an all houseless/formerly houseless cast whose motto is: “We aren’t acting, we are living.” It was shot primarily in houseless communities (encampments) and on the streets in Oakland and San Francisco.  The story of Crushing Wheelchairs is written in a prayer, a dream, and a scream felt and barely survived by me, tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola, my houseless, disabled mama, and all of my fellow poverty/disability skolaz & ancestors portrayed/lived in this movie/story. This is the art of our lives, our almost survival, and our death at the hands of laws that say our bodies and lives are criminal and that we are trash. The lead characters in this powerful movie feature tiny and her mother, who struggled with homelessness throughout her childhood and later were arrested for sleeping on the streets of Oakland; Aunti Frances Moore, a formerly houseless Black Panther in Oakland; Stephanie Grant, who was pregnant and homeless when she witnessed the murder of Luis Gongora Pat by poLice in 2016, for being houseless and indigenous in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco Mission neighborhood. The ancestors of homelessness we also focus on include Steven Taylor, murdered by poLice in Walmart while houseless for having a mental health crisis; Papa Bear, a houseless veteran of three tours in Vietnam, who died on the streets of San Francisco after receiving 280 citations for being houseless on the street, iris Canada , a 100 year Black Elder evicted to homelessness from her longtime home in the Fillmore due to gentrification, Shannon Marie Bigley, Cornelius Taylor and James Edward Oakley, all run over by bulldozers in sweeps of their tents in California and Atlanta, Anjileen “Green Eyes” Swan, who died after being violently swept in Los Angeles and Luis Temaj, burned alive while asleep in his sleeping bag  and so many more.   We are living in a moment when the US President signed an executive order yesterday to disappear houseless peoples bodies and comeUnities off the streets by force, and in addition is cutting all of our housing and treatment resources all of which further enhanced already dangerous sweeps that were amped up last year’s Supreme Court ruling that stated living while houseless in the US is a crime (City of Grants Pass vs. Johnson, 2024) and that houseless people have no protection under the Constitution. And that this crime is punishable by arrest and incarceration. But how can you incarcerate someone for being poor, for being disabled, for not having enough money or credit to pay rent to attain shelter? How can we be punished for living outside without access to shelter, for being poor? In the state of California, the Governor has claimed that our bodies are equivalent to trash and is proposing yet another anti-houseless people bill. In the city and county of San Francisco, the mayor has deemed our presence a blight; and passed a ban of all houseless peoples living in their vans and in Los Angeles where, on average, six unhoused people die everyday, our outside comeUnities (encampments) are being destroyed, evicted, and disappeared. and in Huchiun (Oakland) Ken Houston is proposing a new level of hate and violence that will kill more of us houseless residents. Our Lives are now deemed unworthy of human rights, so I suppose in the eyes of the State we are not human, we are in fact trash. The panels in this last series of Trailer screenings will focus on these acts of violence and our active resistance to them. “Because we are not trash. This movie at this time is urgent medicine for humanity itself, who through this art can realize that we as houseless people are just like housed people. We are workers, and artists, and poets and innovators, and survivors. We have solutions and backstories and HERstories and visions – this movie lifts up those urgent stories, those urgent solutions – this movie is Medicine for Mama Earth and all of us, “ concluded tiny gray-garcia. The movie was co-directed by Adrian Diamond and formerly houseless povertyskolaz, tiny gray-garcia, and Muteado Silencio  and produced by Green Diamond Projects and POOR Magazine. It includes renown poets Tongo Eisen - Martin, Ayodele Wordslangar Nzinga, Luis Rodriguez, Devorah Major and Po Poets; Dee Allen, Frances Moore, Leroy Moore, Muteado Silencio and tiny gray-garcia, as well as indigenous leaders and prayer-bringers Corrina Gould, Tony Gonzales, OG Rev, Harry Williams, and Brother Mink as well as formerly houseless leaders from Wood Street Commons and Homefulness.

Council member Ken Houston proposes a life-endangering anti-houseless policy against Black, Brown, Disabled, Poor, and Elder Residents of Oakland  For Immediate release:   contact: tiny 510-435-7500,  Jo​hn Jan​osko/ (510) 712-7639 Wood Street Commons or  James Burch, Black Solutions Lab   What: Press Conference of houseless, formerly houseless sweeps survivors, housed allies, and advocates to demand NO to the murderous “EAT”  policy and lift up actual solutions to homelessness  When: 9 am Monday, Sept 15 Where: Oakland City Hall   “The City wants houseless people to die,” said John, a houseless resident of Sycamore Street, and lifelong resident of Oakland who lost his home due to foreclosure in 2008 when he became houseless. John went on to explain that Sycamore Street was a houseless comeUnity that was swept over seven times, only to be swept again and that in the last very violent sweep on July 28th,  one of their long-time comeUnity leaders, Charlotte, passed away. “We have nowhere to go, where are they sweeping us to? He concluded. Under Council member Ken Houston’s proposed policy,  Oakland police can arrest houseless people just for being houseless. The city’s existing policy says Oakland “will not cite or arrest any individual solely for camping, or otherwise for the status of being homeless,” but the proposal slashes that provision.  The daily violence of sweeping houseless humans like they are trash,  that longtime Oakland residents have already been facing since the Grants Pass Vs Johnson ruling by the Supreme Court in 202  has resulted in several deaths of houseless people, who lose their shelter and their support systems and end up back on the street.  Most of the houseless residents of Oakland are Black elders with chronic health conditions. Studies have shown that sweeps lead to higher rates of death, and sweeping this community without offering residents any of the accommodations provided in its grant proposal, it effectively set out to eliminate 80% of all Black residents from the project. This is according to the city's own data. This deeply violent policy by Houston, aptly named by the acronym EAT, as it will in fact EAT houseless people alive, will result in more deaths of houseless, Black, Disabled elders in Oakland  The only modicum of humanity that has existed up to now is that the City had to offer houseless residents some alternative shelter to stay in (which oftentimes they didn't even do), but under Houston’s plan , Oakland can shut down encampments regardless of whether the city has other shelters to offer residents.  In addition, the policy follows the lead of San Francisco and so many other cities' anti-houseless policies spurred on by the current federal administration  and promises to cite and tow the last vestige of home many people have on the street, their cars and RVs   Councilmember Houston’s proposed legislation exposes the city to further liability under state and constitutional law. In the past, expending funds on costly sweeps has led to costly court challenges - a situation that Oakland cannot currently afford.  The proposed legislation disproportionately targets Black and disabled Oakland residents, exposing the City to liability under the Fourteenth Amendment .  James Burch, Black Solutions Lab “These violent sweeps of elder, Black, Disabled lifelong Oakland residents by the City of Oakland are shameful. Literally thousands of dollars are spent removing, displacing, and poLicing us. To nowhere. We houseless peoples have solutions, why is this still happening?” said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseless, co-founder of POOR Magazine and Homefulness.   Houseless/formerly houseless sweeps survivors, advocates, and allies will gather for a press conference on September 15th at 9 am preceding the hearing at Oakland City Hall to demand the City vote NO on this murderous proposal by Ken Houston and listen to houseless people about their own solutions.  Please follow: @poormagazine (Will Broadcast Press Conference LIVE on IG) @woodstreetcommons @oakland.homeless.union @oakland.revealed  @blacksolutionslab

My name is Amir Cornish from West Oakland. I'm 20 years old and a youth poverty skola reporting on the Executive Order that was made by President Donald Trump across the United States.  An Executive Order is a directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations within the federal government, but this one basically gets rid of all homeless across the United States. This Executive Order aims to increase accountability and safety in American homelessness programs by ending support for “housing first” policies, in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.  This Executive Order seeks to “[shift] homeless individuals into long term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment” to ensure safety and public order in America. The Trump administration says that by removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting them towards the substance abuse program, they will ensure that Americans will feel safe in their own communities, and that the individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get help from these resources.  This is not going to solve the problems with the homeless in the United States or all around the Earth. But our President, Donald Trump, made this law to get rid of homelessness to make Washington look better and also to make crime go down. This Executive Order is nonsense because basically President Donald Trump thinks by making this law he will get rid of homelessness in D.C. Also, our President said that he has all these benefits for the homeless, but I highly doubt it is gonna be any help for homelessness.

Oakland (and the whole state) turns up the violent hate against houseless communities. By tiny/formerly houseless, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio “If we park it here they will probably call the poLice.. And we will lose our only home”  Me and my Sun were driving around San Francisco aimlessly. We had just lost our home to a violent eviction and although some friends said we could sleep on their couch we knew it wouldnt be long before we might need the car to sleep in again. But the car was a “hooptie” and had a broken taillight and expired registration and in San Francisco that has always meant a possible tow. In this case a tow of our only home. Now because of SF Mayor Lurie's RV Ban in SF and Ken Houston's anti-houseless proposal in Oakland- these violent and life-threatening tows, are guaranteed.  Inspired by the fascist statements about houseless comeUnities by the  current violent fiefDUM B who currently inhabits the white peoples house-a multitude of new anti-houseless LIEgislations have popped up across the US. These 21st century LIEgislations are adding to the already thick arsenal of anti-houseless laws that sweep our houseless bodies and tow or throw away our homes everyday all across this stolen land everyday. From Oakland to Fresno to San Bernadino From Oregon to San Francisco, all of the new LIEgislations, created by pseudo-progressive poltricksters are cloaked in 19th century settler codes like Exclusion zones and Buffer zones (Oregon and Washington) Encampment Abatement Plan and Inside Safe The RV Ban in San Francisco, and a state-wide bill in California  AB 630, which is a bill from LACity Mayor Bass that would increase the towing and destruction of RVs used as housing.  Above all these are acts of violence against our bodies. Locally in Occupied Huchiun (Oakland) the violence being proposed is a 2025 re-mix of the Encampment Management Plan - which amped up the violence of sweeps in October of 2020 and then became even more abusive and constant once the Supreme Court’s Grant Pass versus Johnson in 2024 ruling determined that houseless peoples had no protection under the 8th amendment of the constitution, enabling the politricksters to sweep and tow and destroy belongings with arrogance and threat of arrest, while millions of dollars are spent on multiple state PoLice and Sheriff agencies at every sweep. Which of course, if it needs to be said, could be redirected to an actual solution, housing. This ruling led to POOR Magazine, Wood Street Commons, Where Do We Go Berkeley, Homeless in Fresno, Aetna street solidarity and Stop the Sweeps Seattle to name a few,  to launch a state-wide land liberation move demanding hoarded and vacant so-called public and private land be given to houseless communities so we could build solutions like Homefulness and Wood Street Commons Academy.   In Oakland the new evil is being proposed by fake-friendly politrickster Ken Houston who is re-packaging the original  Encampment Management Plan of 2020 as the Encampment Abatement Team and yes the acronym is EAT(???) This one has all the hate of all of these other LIEgilsations rolled into one.  It promises to tow RV’s, not even give the requisite 72 hours notice to people who are about to be swept, arrest houseless people just "for being homeless" as the proposal reads and in general reek even more havoc on the most vulnerable, majority elder, disabled, Black and Brown Oakland residents   But what is even more disturbing to me is this evil, violent killing LIEgislation uses conscious language and research done by povertyskolaz and allies at Black Solutions Lab, Care 4 Community, POOR Magazine and Wood Street Commons to name a few.  Using terms like Equity Considerations and naming that Black populations are most impacted by homelessness while in the same breath planning to violently erase, arrest and disappear those same Black populations. And what’s the final kicker in terms of their poltrickster spin of this violence is their constant use of the word Safe. Like Newsom, the code word Safe is thrown around when talking about houseless peoples bodies and lives. Not our safety, of course, but the safety ( or perceived lack thereof) of the so-called public which never includes the unhoused public, but is always only referring to housed people who have to “see” our houseless bodies in their landscape and are bothered by our mere presence.  Which also makes no sense to me. You are housed. Be thankful for your connections and sanity and organizational privilege that enables you to stay and pay on the ongoing krapitalist hamster wheel so you can afford the lie of rent. We aren’t hurting you by the mere presence of our existence. Krapitalism caused homelessness and until and unless this system stops profiting off of mama Earth and our poverty as an industry, it will continue to perpetrate this violence on our lives whenever possible.  “When I was swept from Wood Street, I lost contact with my health provider. I was already struggling with health issues living outside, this put my health even more at risk,” said Leajay Harper,an organizer with Wood Street Commons who was formerly houseless on Wood Street and is now Homeful at Homefulness , a homeless peoples solution to homelessness that currently houses 25 youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever, healing housing in Deep East Oakland.  With the advent of this violence, we will die. It’s already happening. From the violent sweep of East 12th street we lost a Black elder, J.T, a leader, a caregiver of other houseless elders whose vehicle home and all of his belongings were towed away so he was left on the street with nothing. From the violent sweep at Sycamore Street we lost another houseless Black sister, Sycamore Charlotte, aka Charlotte Rene Anderson, a warrior leader of that comeUnity who lost everything in that violent sweep and as we always say, sweeps kill us all.  “I’m disabled and I lost all of my things including my walker and medicine,” said a disabled elder to one of the DPW workers throwing and bulldozing his belongings in front of him in Oakland. “I will never recover from this,” he looked down and shook his head.  Please activate to liberate.Please come to the Oakland City Council Hearing on Sept 10th at 11am for the first hearing and then on Monday, Sept 15th at 9am and speak up about this and/or please Contact the Oakland city Councilmembers and tell them to vote NO on the Encampment Abatement Policy. Contact POOR Magazine to get a copy of a draft letter to sign on at poormag@gmail.com . Come to the panel Politricks, Hate and Resistance- a panel by houseless/formerly houseless povertyskolaz on how to resist the violence of sweeping humans like they are trash benefit screening of the trailer Crushing Wheelchairs on Thursday, Sept 25th at East Side Arts Alliance at 2277 International Bl Oakland.

Por Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez/ By Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez Mi nombre es Alvaro soy un sobreviviente de desplazamiento de hogar y llegar al punto de quedarme sin hogar y vivir en mi carro por casi 3 años. Despues de vivir “El sueño americano” se convirtió en una pesadilla e impotencia de no poder darle un hogar a mi pareja! Nos hace impotentes ante un sistema capitalista, esto me hizo investigar y leer sobre el desplazamiento que ha sobrevivido nuestra gente desde años atras hasta este tiempo! El desplazamiento de MexicoAmericanos o mudanza forzada de personas de origen Mexicana que vivían en Estados Unidos. No hay una fecha específica para el desplazamiento sino que es un proceso continuo que se ha dado a lo largo del tiempo. Algunos eventos y factores que contribuyeron al desplazamiento de MexicoAmericanos. “La guerra MexicoAmericana {1846-1848} y El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo” “El Programa Bracero {1940-1964} “Cambios en las Politicas de Imigracion en Mexico {1980} “Discriminacion y Segregacion en Estados Unidos” En resumen el desplazamiento de MexicoAmericanos ha sido un proceso continuo a lo largo de la historia impulsados por factores Politicos, Económicos, y Sociales, así como la discriminacion y segregacion. Tambien me gustaria comentar por lo que la gente de Palestina esta pasando por este desplazamiento que ha llevado a un genocidio sobre civiles incuyendo mujeres y ninos. “Displacement” My name is Alvaro, I am a survivor of displacement. I reached the point of being homeless and living in my car for almost three years. After living “The American Dream,” it turned into a nightmare and the helplessness of not being able to provide a home for my partner! It makes us powerless against a capitalist system. This led me to research and read about the displacement our people have endured from years ago to this day! The displacement of Mexican Americans, or the forced relocation of people of Mexican origin who lived in the United States. There is no specific date for displacement; it is a continuous process that has occurred over time. Some events and factors that contributed to the displacement of Mexican Americans: “The Mexican-American War {1846-1848} and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” “The Bracero Program {1940-1964} “Changes in Immigration Policies in Mexico {1980} “Discrimination and Segregation in the United States” In summary, the displacement of Mexican-Americans has been a continuous process throughout history driven by political, economic, and social factors, as well as discrimination and segregation. I would also like to comment on what the Palestinian people are going through due to this displacement, which has led to genocide against civilians, including women and children. “NAKBA DAY” Memoria de una catastrofe, dia que se conmemora el Nakba tambien conocida como la catastrofe de Palestina que comprendio la destruccion de la sociedad y patria palestina en 1948 y el desplazamiento permanente de la mayoria del pueblo palestino. “MOHAMED BADR” No vamos a emigrar de Gaza por dificiles que sean las circunstancias, no dejaremos la franja de Gaza aunque nos sigan matando y bombardeando y no contemos con medicinas, alimentos, bebida, ropa, ni refugios. Si creen que nos iremos se equivocan; Aunque desaparesca el mundo entero, aunque los peces abandonen el mar nosotros no vamos aemigrar!! -Palabras de ressistencia de un pueblo que solo quiere sobrevivir y mantener sus tierras sagradas! Noquiero comparar el desplazamiento en Palestina con el que estamos pasando en esta parte del mundo, es totalmente diferente pero sigue siendo lo mismo “DESPLAZAMIENTO” Espero unas mejores politicas para evitar este tipo de Genocidios en todas las partes del mundo donde los más debiles son los que sufren mas! Hoy estoy agradecido con mi familia de Homefulness y Poormagazine.org  por darnos la oportunidad de vivir dignamente y a escribir este tipo de Blog Revolcionario. “TLAZOCAMATI” "NAKBA DAY" Remembrance of a catastrophe, a day commemorating the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian catastrophe, which included the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the permanent displacement of the majority of the Palestinian community. “MOHAMED BADR” We are not going to emigrate from Gaza, no matter how difficult the circumstances. We will not leave the Gaza Strip even if they continue to kill and bomb us and we have no medicine, food, drink, clothing, or shelter. If you think we will leave, you are mistaken; even if the entire world disappears, even if the fish abandon the sea, we will not emigrate!! -Words of resistance from a people who only want to survive and maintain their sacred lands! I don't want to compare the displacement in Palestine with what we are experiencing in this part of the world. It is totally different, but it is still the same: “displacement.” I hope for better politics to prevent this type of genocide in all parts of the world, where the weakest suffer the most! Today I am grateful to my Homefulness family and Poormagazine.org for giving us the opportunity to live with dignity and to write this kind of revolutionary blog. “TLAZOCAMATI”

Momii Palapaz August 13, 2025 “When you see something happening to someone who is being attacked, sooner or later it will be coming to you. The attacks we are having now is not only about immigrants but about class. It now affects anglo americans who are middle americans and lower class,” said Manuel de Paz- East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. American citizen, Birthright citizenship, alien, illegal alien, alien enemy, undocumented, temporary protective status, Bracero program, amnesty, dreamers, permanent resident, H1-B visa, immigrant, emigrant, migrant, All these categories are racist. It purposely compares and divides. It is used to dehumanize us and distract us from the greed of capitalism. If the centuries of US imperialism created turmoil, war, death and displacement were not history, we wouldn’t be here today in crisis. Today, millions of people crossing false borders are being harassed, and even kidnapped by the government, without justifiable purpose. Millions of residents in the US are being labeled criminals not only because of skin color, but to take away more of poor people’s land. ICE Out Of Dublin, CA “They are fleeing the wars and we’re involved in that war. We’re involved in that war, if not boots on the ground. They’re (migrants) looking for a better life, like what the pilgrims did and all the other Europeans, escaping poverty, famine, religious persecution.” said Board of Directors Kim De OCampo of the Sogorea’Te Land Trust. If US imperialism wasn’t causing wars and invading countries, people wouldn't be forced to migrate here. US Concentration Camps The policies that are being used to arrest, detain and deport were used on my family 85 years ago under the Alien Enemy Act of 1798. In 1941, on December 23rd, my father’s father, my grandfather, was violently thrust into an FBI vehicle. My father, Takeshi, had just turned 21 years old the month before. Rikito was a few years older, James a few years younger and Tomo was 16 years old. Four children and Matsu, my grandmother, watched as FBI men interrogated my grandfather. Then they ransacked their home and belongings looking for evidence of sabotage. My grandfather, born in Japan, was a journalist, a newspaper man and associated with his homeland’s government of Emperor Hirohito. After much cruel treatment, grandfather Kizaemon Ikken Momii was taken away that night. He never saw his wife, my grandmother, alive again. In 1942, February 19th, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This order stated that all persons of Japanese ancestry, even citizens, were to report to designated sites throughout the west coast. There was a global real estate war going on and Japanese in Amerikkka were the targets of raids, kidnapping, racist mobs and incarceration. In Yelamu/San Francisco, one of the sites for rounding up Japanese people was Kimmon Gakuen, a school in the Japanese community, which still exists today. It is on the same street where my father’s family was living. 8,000 Japanese Americans and their families were bussed to the Tanforan Racetrack. It was made into an assembly center, fully equipped with horse shit, hay and crude dehumanizing accommodations. Executive Order 9066, 1942 i.d. Tags  ICE OUT OF DUBLIN, CA. After a month or two, all the families were railroaded to various sites on the west and midwest of turtle island/usa. For 2 plus days, without any knowledge of where they were going, my dad’s mother and brothers rode with shades permanently drawn. They met their destination in Utah at a newly constructed concentration camp called Topaz. 11,212 people were processed into this prison camp. My grandmother, Matsu died in 1943, 45 years old, while incarcerated at Topaz Concentration Camp. She had a treatable condition, but medical support was not available. Ikken was railroaded to New Mexico, then Louisiana and ended up in Kooskia, Idaho, at a prisoner of war camp. His sons wrote letters to the government begging for their father to be let out as his one son, Tomo, not yet 21 years old, was still alone in Topaz. Even though there was no evidence of sabotage, it took over 2 years for him to finally be released. This terrifying experience was a dark cloud over the whole family. Fear, Division and Racism “This administration wants chaos, wants terror, wants us to lose hope. We are continuing to fight until we win. One of the wins is permanent residency. We are resilient and fight for dignity and respect for the communities. We cannot give up the value of our community. “ said a member of the National Temporary Protective Status organization. Kim, a Tulolumne Mewuk PPL continues to fight the racist dialogue and images, “We were boots on the ground. We were removing racist ass Indian mascots from public schools…got rid of in Vallejo, the Vallejo Apaches. Ain’t no Apaches in Vallejo. We got rid of the racist Washington football team. Always remember the herstory history and all of what we did because of that racism that continues. As organizers, activists & community members, we know it is up to us to fight back against Trump’s racist draconian Administration. We will not support this travesty, we will not go back to oppressive policies of the past!!! No more stolen families!!! Sanctuary for our families!!!”

Por/By Teo de/from California Collaborative For Immigrant Justice Desde hace mucho tiempo, la historia desde que el país de los estados unidos es un país de oportunidades. Reconozco que es un país de mucha dedicación y constancia y esto lo hace un país fuerte. Yo recuerdo que la gente platicaba que venían a los Estados Unidos de braceros. Decían que les daban oportunidades de trabajar. También el país produce más productos y por supuesto más trabajo, pero eso era cuando la gente practicaba mucho más el respeto para todos los humanos.  Todos los tiempos, la política nos afecta a los inmigrantes porque cada vez más, el capitalismo en conjunto con las leyes anti-inmigrantes nos afectan a todos. En general, directamente o indirectamente, a todos regresando un poco de tiempo yo mi propia experiencia cuando cruce la frontera no había muros. Cruce por las playas de mi país al país vecino. Cuando la marea del agua bajó yo caminaba por la playa y así vine a este país, En 2006, se empezó a notar el racismo ante los hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes que venían a tratar de cumplir sus sueños de triunfar. Osea hacer una vida buena para sus familias y los mismos inmigrantes.  Pero todos los políticos nos usan para bien o para mal pero la comunidad que vienen a USA de cualquier parte de nuestra madre tierra que son muchos países hoy en la actualidad se mira más directo el racismo.  También están estropeando los principios de nuestros ancestros antepasados por mucho tiempo por lo tanto políticas inues as estropeadas que traen el terror a todos nosotros los inmigrantes que venimos de diferentes culturas y diferentes costumbres. El dia de hoy el #57 nos está demostrando todo su poder fuera de control con su racismo contra todos los que supuestamente no pertenecemos a su club de personas racista sin escrúpulos que afectan a todas las naciones del mundo. Pero la gratuita de nuestros países así que tenemos el derecho de quedarnos callados por que si hablamos todo el racismo todo se va a usar en su contra. For a long time, the United States has been a country of opportunity. I recognize that it's a country of great dedication and perseverance, and this makes it a strong country. I remember people talking about coming to the United States as braceros. They said they were given opportunities to work. The country also produces more products and, of course, more jobs, but that was when people practiced much more respect for all humans. Politics always affects us immigrants because, increasingly, capitalism, along with anti-immigrant laws, affects us all. In general, directly or indirectly, all of us. Going back a little bit, I remember my own experience when I crossed the border, there were no walls. I crossed the beaches of my country into the neighboring country. When the tide went out, I was walking along the beach, and that's how I came to this country. In 2006, racism increased against our immigrant brothers and sisters who came to try to fulfill their dreams of success—that is, to make a good life for their families and the immigrants themselves. But all politicians use us for good or ill. The community that comes to the USA from any part of our motherland, which is many countries today, faces racism more directly. They are also destroying the principles of our ancestors, long held by our ancestors, thus creating flawed policies that bring terror to all of us immigrants who come from different cultures and customs. Today, #57 is demonstrating his uncontrolled power with his racism against all of us who supposedly don't belong to his club of unscrupulous racists that affects all nations of the world. Our countries have free spirits, but we have the right to remain silent because if we speak out, all the racism will be used against us.

Por/By It Wasn't Me Yo no sé cómo una nación tan fuerte fue a caer tan bajo, siendo una de las potencias más fuertes. Ahora es una de las más criticadas y hasta ahora no puede apoyar a nadie. Tanto tanto dinero que se gasta que gasta es en cosas que no son tan importantes como darle una casa digna para cada persona.  Solo por sus inventos están matando a nuestra gente, si no a la suya también, con este presidente tan racista. No deberíamos vivir en las calles o pasar hambre. Nadie en este país debería vivir en las calles o sin cuidado médico. Todo ese dinero que se les da a las grandes compañías lo pueden usar para dar mejor servicios médicos. No ponen el dinero en lugares que no nos ayudan.  Nos abusan física y mentalmente nos quieren tapar su mismo veneno que ellos mismos crearon y nos dieron por vía legal como los doctores y las grandes farmacéuticas    I do not know how such a strong nation was to fall so low, being one of the strongest powers. Now it is one of the most criticized and so far cannot support anybody. So much money that is spent is on things that are not as important as giving a decent home to each person. Just because of their inventions they are killing our people, if not yours also, with this extremely racist president.  We should not be living on the streets or going hungry. Nobody in this country should live on the streets or be without medical care. All that money given to big companies can be used to provide better medical services. They do not put the money in places that help us.  They abuse us physically and mentally and they want to cover us in the same poison that they created and gave us, by legal means as the doctors and the big pharma.

Houseless/Poor, Black, Brown, Disabled ComeUnity in collaboration with 1st Nations Peoples of this land create a HERstoric document to decommodify a small part of Mama Earth in Huchiun (Oakland)  For Immediate release: contact tiny 510-435-7500, , Janelle Orsi 510-649-9956 What: Spiritually and legally UnSelling Mama Earth Prayer & Signing Ceremony  When: 1pm BlackAugust 10th, 2025   Where:Homefulness#1 8032 MacArthur Bl Oakland  I overstand and agree that We are stewards of the land- we, the landless, houseless, indigenous, poor peoples who launched Homefulness & our children & childrens children and generations beyond-  who thanks to Homefulness are now Homeful-  DO NOT OWN MAMA EARTH. None of us who live here own the land, and never will .  Excerpt from the Liberation Easement and Peoples Agreement of Homefulness On August 10th with legal support from Sustainable Economies Law Center, POOR Magazine/Homefulness and Sogorea Te Land Trust will hold an all nations prayer ceremony to celebrate the creation of a new legal document within the settler colonial government of the US that solidifies the decommodification and holds the land of Homefulness in permanent protection from real estate speculation, eviction and gentrification. “Me and my disabled mama were evicted 22 times, most of these evictions were for non-payment of rent. As a no-income, disabled, woman of color my mama had no money for rent. We ended up on the street for the rest of my youth.  279 people (on record ) became houseless after the end of the eviction moratorium in Oakland and thousands more across the country. People talk about “the homeless problem” all the time, but they never talk about the krapitalist problem of buying and selling mama earth. If Mama Earth was taken off the commodities market tomorrow, we could end homelessness.This is the articulation of that dream,” said tiny gray-garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine and Homefulness.   Houseless/landless Black/Brown, indigenous, disabled peoples who have faced chronic homelessness, poverty, evctions, displacement,racism, criminalization border terrorism, gentrification and violent sweeps have built a solution to homelessness they call Homefulness. Before they began the creation of this solution, they asked for permission, protocol, spiritual guidance  from 1st Nations peoples of this stolen land. In the case of Oakland that is the Ohlone/Lisjan Nation.  “200 years ago, before colonization there wasn’t even a concept of homelessness,” said Talking chief/spokesperson of the confederated villages of Lisjan/Ohlone and co-founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Family Elders Council member of Homefulness. As poor and houseless people on stolen land they clearly understand the settler lie of ownership of Mama Earth and the ongoing speculative markets’ impact on their lives, families and communities, as first Nations/indigenous peoples from all four corners have lived, taught  and practiced since the beginning of their creation stories.  “This is the most creative, unusual, and moving legal document I have seen,” said Sustainable Economies Law Center attorney Janelle Orsi. “The words of the Homefulness residents brought members of our legal team to tears.”  POOR Magazine, which holds title to the Homefulness land, will be granting a “Liberation Easement” to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust. This is a form of conservation easement under California law. The easement preserves the land as a hub of poor people-led organizing, a site of Indigenous cultural revitalization, and permanent collective stewardship of the land, protecting it from returning to the speculative market.  “For years, the leaders at POOR Magazine have been asking us how to legally ‘unsell’ land, to ensure that it is never again treated as a commodity for sale. Our legal system makes it hard to liberate land from the speculative market. The Liberation Easement is our effort to use the legal system’s tools to permanently ‘unsell’ the land,” said Janelle Orsi. Veryl Pow, staff attorney at the Law Center adds, “The liberation easement extends the abolitionist practice of ‘non-reformist reforms’ from the carceral context to the liberation of land. We can strategically and selectively use so-called ‘property law’ mechanisms to construct a world where Pachamama is unowned in practice, and people can live together and begin to heal from the unending violence of colonialism and capitalism.” Testimonies from houseless, now Homeful residents of Homefulness  To watch the ceremony Live follow @poormagazine on IG

By Crystal Sanchez, Western Regional Co-Director for The National Union of the Homeless, President of Sacramento Homeless Union 3/24/2025 Taken By Crystal Sanchez Count the dollars that you make From each tent that you forsake— Eighty bucks per empty bed While we sleep on concrete, dead. Your shelter-industrial scheme Profits from our broken dream. Million-dollar contracts flow To "fix" the crisis that you grow. Empty offices reach highWhile your "programs" pass us by. You build your empires on our backs, Then label us the ones who lack. Ten years of "emergency"— Your business opportunity. Each "sweep" brings funding to your door While we get beaten, blamed, and more. You call it "services provided" While human rights remain divided. Your "navigation centers" rise Like prisons touching troubled skies. Two toilets for a hundred souls, While you collect your payroll rolls. You say there's "shelter" when we call, But waiting lists become our wall. We see through your bureaucracy, Your forms of new hypocrisy. While billions flow through city halls, Our people freeze behind your walls. Your "housing first" became last place, Your "help" a mask on profits' face. But we're not numbers in your game, Not statistics you can tame. We're humans rising from these streets, Our Union growing with heartbeats. Your industry of homeless pain Won't break our will to fight again. From Sacramento's burning ground To every profit-poisoned town, We stand together, proud and strong, Exposing every systemic wrong. Your complex built on others' grief Will fall before our disbelief. So count your dollars while you can, Your "homeless services" grand plan. Our power grows with every lie, With every budget you deny. The truth breaks through your money wall: United people cannot fall.

Houseless, Black, Disabled ComeUnity Refuses to Be Swept Again to Nowhere   For Immediate release: contact tiny 510-435-7500, Satya: 408- 425-2627 or Jaz 413-522-3116 What: Speak-Out and Protest to Resist More Violent Sweeps to Nowhere When: 8:30am Monday, July 28th  at 8:30am Where: corner of Sycamore and Northgate, West Oakland Houseless, Oakland residents who have been living on Sycamore and Martin Luther King Bl  have been violently displaced 7 times since last September and the city is scheduled to evict them again next week. They are fed up, have nowhere to go and putting out a clear message to the city - stay away from Black elders and STOP THE SWEEPS! The demands are for the City of Oakland to: 1. Offer all residents of this community long-term housing 2. Stop sweeping and displacing the people who live here “These violent sweeps of elder, Black ,Disabled lifelong Oakland residents by the City of Oakland are shameful. Literally thousands of dollars are spent removing, displacing and poLicing us. To nowhere. We houseless peoples have solutions, why is this still happening?” said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseless co-founder of POOR Magazine and Homefulness.  Residents at Sycamore were displaced from 23rd/MLK last September when the city of Oakland was awarded a $7.2 million grant to give them interim housing with private rooms before offering them permanent housing by Sept 2025. When the city unexpectedly moved to sweep the community, it did so without providing residents with any of the accommodations outlined in its grant proposal. Since that time, residents have been subjected to 6 additional city-led sweeps - indiscriminately destroying tents, sentimental possessions, legal documents, essential medicines and medical equipment, etc., and towing vehicles - driving residents from one block to the next, in a strategy of attrition, undoubtedly aimed at pushing them out of the neighborhood they - and for many, their parents and grandparents - grew up in. Most of the residents are Black elders with chronic health conditions. Studies have shown that sweeps lead to higher rates of death and sweeping this community without offering residents any of the accommodations provided in its grant proposal, it effectively set out to eliminate 80% of all Black residents from the project. This is according to the city's own data. Residents will be available to speak on Monday at the protest

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