By Amber Lynn Whitson Recently, a group of very inspiring Berkeley youths held a rally and march in Downtown Berkeley, declaring their solidarity with Where Do We Go and the unhoused population. The following is my speech from that rally: My name is Amber. I am human. I was born in Santa Monica, CA. I did not move to California from some other state. I graduated high school at 15. I am not uneducated. When I was 16, I left Santa Monica with some friends, headed for Seattle. We made a pit stop here in Berkeley. I was once an adventurous teenager, as many of us are at some point. People here warned me about the Berkeley Vortex sucking me in. I laughed. I used to get bullied in school where I grew up. Here in Berkeley people were so open-minded and accepting of my enthusiastic and quirky nature. I've now been living here in the Berkeley and Albany area for 27 years. I am home, here. For nearly all of that time, I have been living on the streets, in one way or another. I am a survivor. (I have slept directly on the sidewalk, in abandoned buildings, parks, tents, cars, hotel rooms, doorways and carports of kind-hearted neighbors, in the courtyards of compassionate churches, under a bridge on UC campus...) I am resourceful. And, for about the past 10 years, I've been living in an RV. I don't just live in one, I also keep everyone else's running. Today, I stand before you not as a statistic or a stereotype, but as a human being—a person with a story, with dreams, and with dignity. I have been an activist and an advocate for many years. But, even those who fight for the fair treatment of others, sometimes need others to fight for them. When I was younger, I still had hopes of living in traditional housing (house, apartment, etc.) someday. At the time, that felt like what I was supposed to be aspiring towards. But as the years passed and I became more aware of the harsher realites of life, I began to see the world differently. I met friends who had lived indoors their whole lives who developed a health problem and could not afford their medical bills and rent and subsequently lost their housing. I saw the extreme inequalities in our society, and I experienced firsthand the struggles of living unhoused—struggles that are often made harder by judgment, misunderstanding, and even harassment and bullying at the hands of the police. All it takes is one "homeless ticket" for sleeping in public in Berkeley... The courthouse is in Oakland!... And, when you miss your court date because you can't get someone to watch your dog or your camp... Now you have a warrant for your arrest. Good luck getting out of the system while you are still homeless. Over time, I realized that for me, living in my RV is how I can live within my means and also maintain my independence and my dignity. The cost of living in this country is absolutely obscene. I own my RV, outright. I would happily pay for a space to park it off the street. But, there are no such places in Berkeley. And, if there were, they would almost certainly be out of my price range. So, I park on the street. But here’s the thing: living on the streets doesn’t make me less human. It doesn’t make any of us less human. Yet, too often, people who have never lived on the streets see us as something other—something to be feared, ostracized, marginalized and sometimes outright hated. People often fear what they don’t understand or can’t relate to. Stereotypes, and media portrayals along with societal biases and societal stigma dehumanize unhoused people, reinforcing stereotypes and dehumanizing unhoused people turning their struggles into something alien instead of relatable and distancing those wiho have never lived on the streets from seeing shared humanity. There is something called the leaf-blower effect. It's defined as "when you blow your problems onto someone else's sidewalk". And that is all that sweeps accomplish. That’s why what you’re doing here today is so important. This movement is about bridging a divide. It’s about seeing each other as people, not as problems. It’s about listening, understanding, and finding common ground. It's about holding the city that we ALL live in accountable to ALL OF US. Unhoused people don't pay property taxes. But, our government squeezes us for every last cent that they can, just like they do everyone else. And it’s about recognizing that everyone, no matter where they live, deserves respect, compassion, and dignity. Forced displacement is wrong, whether it be driving people from their homeland or running people out of the city that they call home because their economic status makes them undesirable in the eyes of the government. To the students here today: you are doing something extraordinary. You are choosing to see the humanity in people who are often looked upon as though we were a rat infestation or broken windows. Just another nuisance for citizens to complain about and for the City to abate in response. YOU are choosing to challenge stereotypes and build connections. And you are showing the world that change starts with small acts of kindness and courage. I want to thank you for seeing us—for seeing me—as a person. And I want to encourage you to keep going. Keep talking to people who live differently than you. Keep asking questions. Keep standing up for what’s right. Because when you treat people who live on the streets as human beings, you’re not just helping us—you’re helping to create a better, kinder, and more just society for everyone. And thank you for reminding us all that no matter where we live, we are all human, and we all deserve to be seen.

Mourning houseless babies in Detroit, Cornelius Taylor in Atlanta and anyone in Fremont  By tiny aka povertyskola, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio  Bones seem to crumble Under mountains of wet wool    Hands Chapped, hard  Nothing makes you warm  Not even mamas arms  We looked at each other  Slits of eyes - tryin to lift up the eyelid ice   The vinyl seats slippery sharp  You ache from the inside Mountains of fabric and plastic lock u up Everything is old and wet… excerpt from homelesscold   I remember the first time i was homeless cold. I was in the back seat of one of me and mamas hoopties, we had just been evicted and had nowhere to go. The battery died  and slowly the air crept into ice. I felt this same terrifying cold when i heard the story of the two babies who died last week in Detroit from hypothermia while sleeping in a parking lot with their family.  Homeless cold isn’t i need a jacket or a scarf cold but more like freezing your blood as it travels thru your veins cold. Cold that seeps into your brain from your hands. Indescribable cold. Terrifying cold. I'm not sure how i made it out alive from that night. But I did and it was only the first of many nights. After that, it became normalized. Sometimes we had to sleep in doorways filled with layers of old pee. Sometimes huddling up in a bus shelter. Eventually that homeless cold became the trigger for a serious trauma response that i have to this day anytime the temperature drops.  "Every time I called they said they don't have a bed, they don't have family beds," said Tateona Williams, single mama of her 2 and 9 year old precious babies who died last Sunday of Hypothermia while sleeping in their van in a Detroit parking lot. Tateona was talking about her desperate pleas for help from Detroit's homeless solutions agency and even her children’s father who both told her they couldn't help.  These babies lives were stolen by the baked in disinterest, disdain and hate for our lives if we are poor/houseless as well as this sick krapitaLOST system that only ensures we have a home if we have enough money for the lie of rent, it doesn't matter if we are babies or elders.  We are already reduced to trash in society’s eyes.  When this grief hit i was already deeply grieving the story of Cornelius Taylor run over while sleeping in his tent in Atlanta in January, in one of these violent sweeps that CONtinue to rage across occupied Turtle Island, made worse since the Grants Pass Vs Johnson ruling that claimed we as houseless humans are officially not protected under the 14th amendment of the CONsitution, effectively saying we no longer are even seen as humans and therefore our lives, our cold, our heat, our sleep, our hunger, doesn't matter.  (Image of Tent City 3, Seattle) Which of course is why the settler town known as “Fremont” aka more occupied Ohlone land has just passed yet another anti-poor people LIEgislation making it illegal to “camp” which is just code for “be houseless” in their town and added an extra hate measure making it illegal for people to support houseless people with life-giving/life-saving food, supplies or medicine like sleeping bags, blankets, narcan, hygiene kits and hot meals. In other words, starving or freezing us to death if we make the deadly mistake of being houseless in Fremont. “They conduct sweeps in the snow, rain, sleet or hail, if a sweep is scheduled they proceed and don’t care if they leave us out in the elements with nothing,” said Marcus, one of the RoofLESS radio workshop participants on a recent UnTour we houseless folks at POOR Magazine made to the Pacific Northwest to help the fellow houseless warriors of so-called Olympia, Tacoma, Bellingham and Seattle build their own HomefulnessPNW  “Every day is a struggle when we live outside, many times we have almost poisoned ourselves by lighting a fire in our tent, just to stay warm,” said Kienard Ganes, a RoofLESSradio reporter and single father in so-called Tacoma who has been struggling with homelessness for 3 years in the freezing weather of that territory. He spoke while the snow flurries raced through the freezing air. This violent disinterest, hate and anti-poor people violence of sweeps, eviction, cold, heat, fires, r ain and snow exposure, lack of safe and warm beds, hate and poLice terror to us when we are outside is not new. Before Cornelius there was Shannon Marie Bigley, run over by a CAlTrans vehicle in Fresno. Luis Temaj burned alive for sleeping outside. Green Eyes, Mike Flo and Jessca “Queen” Mendez in Tovaangar (LA) Papa Bear, Tyrell Wilson, Steven Taylor, Mario Gonzales, Luis Gongora, killed by anti-poor people poLice Terror in the Bay Area.  This hate, like we see now in Encampment bans, sweeps and anti-helping LIEgislations both societal and personal, system wide and implicit in so many people and politricksters who “vote against us outside”  must be fought, must be organized against like so many movements are doing now, but it is also why us poor and houseless mamas and children and families and elders at POOR Magazine, Wood Street Commons, Aetna Street Solidarity, Reclaiming Our Homes, Share/Wheel and Homeless in Fresno work so hard to lift up our own self-determined solutions like Homefulness , Nickelsville, Wood Street Community and Tent City 3 &4 in Seattle.  We know that as evictions rise and more and more of us end up like Tateona’s and my family, we will lose more relatives to this hate and we cannot wait for people who have never experienced the violence of homelessness to save us. Support the GoFundMe of mama SisStar Tateona at this link so she can get housing for her and her other babies.  Support the building of Homefulness in Oakland, San Francisco, LA and the Pacific Northwest by donating to www.poormagazine.org/donate (make a note on your donation if you have a preference of which region’s Homefulness you want the resources to go to).

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February 4, 2025 To the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, and Chair of Department of Medicine: In the 15 months between October 2023 and January 2025, Israel murdered over 60,000 Palestinians  in its genocidal campaign on Gaza. The small, U.S.-backed nation-state is inarguably attempting to ethnically cleanse Palestinians—even the International Criminal Court has warrants out for the arrests  of Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant, because the evidence is crystal clear. Those in power in Israel wish and intend to “ wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth. ” Why, then, has UCSF been targeting the staff and professors speaking out against this behemothic atrocity, rather than prioritize the emotional and physical safety of students who may be impacted by the genocide and any other forms of settler and white supremacist violence? Dr. Rupa Marya is correct to question how medical and educational institutions should respond to the prospect of training doctors who were formerly engaged in the Israeli Defense Forces (or, since we prefer to tell it like it is, the Israeli Offensive Forces). Even before the siege began in Oct. 2023, the IOF was the police and military arm by which Israel maintained its apartheid system, and its soldiers used force and violence to uphold an apartheid state. All soldiers are trained to kill, brutalize, and steal, and for soldiers following the orders of officials who publicly claim “There are no innocents [in Gaza],” it is only logical to assume former IOF soldiers have been brainwashed to feel good, or at least justified, about committing cruel atrocities. PBS , BBC , and CNN  have all reported on the videos and photos Israeli soldiers have gloatingly posted of themselves humiliating and terrorizing Palestinian families, vandalizing and ransacking homes and buildings, and destroying food and supplies.  It is almost inane to have to explain Dr. Marya’s logic. Should we not scrutinize prospective students who have participated in a genocidal military? Militaries everywhere train their soldiers to kill, to maim, to destroy—objectives that are fundamentally incompatible with the ethic of care that the field of medicine is supposed to uphold. The Israeli military goes beyond in its violence, because Israel is not just waging war, it is committing genocide. And it is a commonly known fact that Israeli citizens are required to serve in the IOF. What is truly “ intellectually bankrupt ” is to insinuate that speaking the truth about the IOF’s role in genocide is a tired, anti-Semitic, racist trope. Yes, it is true that Jewish people face discrimination and prejudice in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, but in the context of Israel and Palestine, one side is clearly attempting to “wipe [the other] off the face of the Earth” and has billions of dollars in weapons to do it. Israel, not Palestine, is the one controlling land, water, and movement. Israel is the one violating international law by funding settlements in Palestinian territories. Israel is the one limiting how much water  Palestinians can consume. It is morally reprehensible to use Jewish peoples’ history of struggle to obfuscate a present-day genocide and censor those who care to speak against it. We can see right through your veneer of concern for oppressed peoples. As a poor people led / Indigenous people led organization, our family at POOR Magazine knows all too well about the white supremacy, anti-Blackness , ableism, and settler coloniality baked into the foundation of U.S. medicine. When poverty scholars try to seek care, medical institutions respond with dismissiveness and criminalization . They allow us to suffer, and even to die. It is professors, doctors, and nurses like Dr. Marya, who are helping to revolutionize the field of medicine from the inside, by demanding that medical professionals examine and contend with the power structures that shape your field. We hope that you can open your eyes to the truth and make the decision to support your assets, not censor them.  In addition, firing Dr Marya will only foment more distrust and terror for your medical institution from disabled, houseless and communities of color who are already afraid of institutional medicine prone to dumping our disabled and houseless bodies, rarely listening and healing us.    Signed, POOR Magazine ComeUnity

Por/By It Wasn't Me Una de las cosas que el presidente nunca ha tomado en cuenta es todas las personas que han estado trabajando y nunca han reclamado taxes. Todo el dinero que los EE.UU recoleta de miles y miles y miles de personas que no reclaman. Todos los años que la gente inmigrante dice al tonto presidente en “¿d ó nde está ese dinero?” o “¿Por qué este dinero no aparece en los salarios de la economía estadounidense?” y “¿ese dinero está en las bolsas de quien?” Todos estos factores son importantes porque no habla nada de las personas que han dejado millones de dólares que el presidente usa para deportar a los mismos personas que trabajaron para ellos por años. Después de todo, los Estados Unidos está formado de desertores de todo el mundo. Aun la mamá del presidente era inmigrante. Así es como el dinero cambia a las personas. Él cree que tener poder se les puede dar por el rabo. Así está posando el USA. Que ejemplo perfecto que ahorita la economía de los estados unidos está en las manos de los latinos de todos lados. One of the things the president has never considered is all the immigrants who have been working and have never claimed their tax returns. All the money that the USA collects from thousands and thousands and thousands of people who do not claim their return. Every year the immigrant population asks this stupid president, “where is that money?” or “why doesn’t this money appear in the wages of the US economy?” and “In whose pockets is all that money?” It’s important to ask these questions because the president doesn’t talk about the people who by not claiming their tax returns have given millions of dollars that he then uses to deport the very same people who worked for the US for years. After all, the United States was formed from deserters from all over the world. Even the mother of the president was an immigrant. It shows how much money changes people. He believes that having power means he can screw immigrants over. This is how he is setting up the USA. What a perfect example in the way that the US economy is held together by the hands of latinos from all over the world.

By Lisa Wheeler Photo: SisStar Dana with boyfriend Joseph I am so sad to know that my new friend Dana passed! I will miss her determination and her lovely smile and her firm intention of getting off the cruel streets of San Francisco. She and I froze that night due to misinformation. The authorities need to be clearly informed as to what is required to enter a city shelter, be it navigational, 311, normal (whatever normal city shelters are - that's an oxymoron), or emergency winter shelters. Either way, there are processes. My heart is truly broken that Dana, a truly gentle, smart as a whip, comedic, caring soul is no longer with us. Sadly, many of our homeless friends and family pass from living in such dire and chronic circumstances. I send out love and hugs to her biological family as well as her friends and family here. She touched my heart and we enjoyed an amazing adventure that night - one I will not ever forget. The entire time she worried about her boyfriend and told me they were friends to a couple since young. Awww, he was a tremendous priority in her life and she told me she called him Husband and would like to marry him one day. I listened to the dreams of a beautiful woman all night long as we smiled and laughed together. I love you, Dana. Always. Love, Lisa W

Por Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez/ By Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez Xitontekiza (Danza) Coneccion a la Madre Tierra con los pies descalzos Expresión a través del amor, la pérdida y la sanación Los años que llevo en mi tradición he expresado mi rezo con los pies descalzos, ahora expreso mi rezo con huaraches después de un proceso de reemplazo de rodillas. Ver que casi todas las culturas alrededor del mundo tienen esa práctica de orar, danzar, caminar, etc con los pies descalzos, es impactante para gente que no entiende el porqué. Coneccion con TONANTZIN (Madre Tierra) Cuando empecé a ejercer mi tradición Mexica por medio de la danza mis maestros me explicaron el por qué se danza descalzo y ¡es simple!  Todo nuestro cuerpo tiene los elementos que tiene la tierra y al estar uno en rezo y descalzo se produce una armonía con nuestra Madre Sagrada, es por eso que todas las expresiones de rezo (danza) son dedicadas a los elementos que nos dan la vida Tierra, Agua, Fuego, Viento, Sol, luna, a los animales que vuelan Aguila, Colibrí, Cóndor, etc, tambien al Venado, Mono, Conejo, etc. Culturas de todo el mundo me motivan a mantener y seguir aprendiendo más mis tradiciones y otras culturas. Es importante seguir manteniendo de generación a generación como lo han hecho nuestros abuelos por miles de años, ya que vivimos en un momento que nuestras tradiciones se están  perdiendo por medio de la forma que vivimos hoy, bosques destruyendo, cambio climático, comida procesada y mucha jungla de asfalto! Vamos a retomar esa práctica de estar en armonía con TONANTZIN (MADRE TIERRA) Xitontekiza (Danza) Connecting to Mother Earth with Bare Feet  Expression Through Love, Loss, and Healing Over the years that I have been practicing my tradition, I have prayed with bare feet, now after a knee replacement, I pray with huaraches. Seeing that almost all cultures around the world have this practice of praying, dancing, walking, etc. with bare feet, it is shocking for people who do not understand why. Connection with TONANTZIN (Mother Earth)  When I began to exercise my Mexican tradition through dance, my teachers explained to me why we dance barefoot and it is simple! Our whole body has the elements that the earth has and being in prayer and barefoot produces a harmony with our Sacred Mother, that is why all expressions of prayer (dance) are dedicated to the elements that give us life Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, sun, moon, to the animals that fly Eagle, Hummingbird, Condor, etc, also to the Deer, Monkey, Rabbit, etc. Cultures from all over the world motivate me to maintain and continue to learn more about my traditions and other cultures. It is important to continue from generation to generation as our grandparents have done for thousands of years, as we live in a time that our traditions are being lost through the way we live today, destroying forests, climate change, processed food and lots of asphalt jungle! We are going to return to the practice of being in harmony with TONANTZIN (MOTHER EARTH)

Por Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez/ By Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez XITONTEKIZA (DANZA) En las Marchas y Protestas Por Que? La migración ha sido parte de la vida de nuestros antepasados por generaciones, las fronteras son inventadas por los verdaderos ilegales, siempre ha sido un modo de supervivencia migrar de un lado a otro. Lo que estamos viviendo ahora no es nuevo. Siempre hemos estado bajo el ataque de este sistema capitalista y racista, es un miedo y terror como están tratando a toda nuestra raza no solo de México sino de todo el mundo, solo tratamos de tener una vida mejor y trabajar, pero lo que estamos viendo es separación de familias, encarcelamiento, racismo, odio. Es por eso que seguimos expresando nuestras tradiciones en ceremonias, eventos, marchas, etc. Hay que recordarles a todos los ilegales que cruzaron todo un océano que estas tierras desde Alaska hasta Chile son tierras sagradas son tierras nativas de nuestros antepasados. La Tierra no le pertenece a nadie, nosotros pertenecemos a la tierra!! NINGÚN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL EN TIERRA ROBADA XITONTEKIZA (DANZA) In the Marches and Protests Why?  Migration has been part of our ancestors’ lives for generations, borders are invented by the real illegals, migrating from one place to another has always been a form of survival. What we are living now is not new. We have always been under attack from this capitalist and racist system, it is a fear and terror the way they are treating our entire race, not only from Mexico but from all over the world, we just try to have a better life and work, but what we are seeing is separation of families, imprisonment, racism, hatred. That is why we continue to express our traditions in ceremonies, events, marches, etc. We must remind all the illegals who crossed an entire ocean that these lands from Alaska to Chile are sacred lands and are native to our ancestors. The Earth does not belong to anyone, we belong to the earth!!  NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND

Por Teo/ By Teo Es una historia que muchas personas hemos esperado, al emigrar a otro país. Por lo regular viajamos en auto o caminan de pasajero. También, últimamente barcos, el tren, caminando, o pidiendo ayuda para transportarse. En los últimos 10 años hemos llegado muchos más inmigrantes a este país, los EE.UU. Algunas veces nos encontramos con otras costumbres de vivir. Unos dicen que hay mucho racismo y otros no entienden el idioma para comunicarse. Algunos otros los encontramos con problemas de todo tipo- muchas veces se da una cuenta que no estamos preparados para encontrar buenos trabajos por no haber recibido educación suficiente en las escuelas de nuestra países. Para preparar por nuestro tiempo, miramos otras inmigrantes por las necesidades. “Vin” dice el sueño Americano porque supuestamente este país ofrece oportunidades a las personas que son responsables con su trabajo, con su persona, y también cuando son buenos ciudadanos. Constantemente venimos muchas más personas de diferentes países. Por ejemplo México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Panamá, Chile, y muchos más países. De todas partes del mundo vienen inmigrantes incluyendome. Yo soy inmigrante también. También las políticas nos hacen sufrir. Por tantos inmigrantes, llegamos a tratar de vivir y explorar el sueño americano. En este tiempo, cada vez más es más difícil por las injusticias de los políticos. Algunos políticos racistas nos acusan de invadir su país. Muchos nos acusan de ser criminales por venir a este país. Cuando son las elecciones para buscar el próximo presidente, nos usan de excusas para proteger sus ideales y nos criminalizan a todos. Pero no es correcto generalizar así.  He aprendido que no importa quien sea, tu o yo, en estas regiones del capitalismo incluyendo todos pros y contras, todos tenemos derechos de vivir una vida feliz y útil. It’s a story that many people have longed for, to migrate to another country.  Usually we travel by car or walk. Lately we travel by boat, by train, or by asking for a ride. In the last 10 years many more immigrants have come to the USA. Sometimes we find ourselves in other cultures and ways of life. Some of us face a lot of racism. Others don't understand English and can’t communicate with people. We encounter problems of all kinds. Many times, a story is told that we’re not qualified to find good jobs because we have not received a good education in the schools of our home countries. In order to prepare for our journey, we watch other immigrants closely for the necessities. “Come” says the American Dream-- because supposedly this country offers opportunities to people who are responsible workers, responsible people, and good citizens. So many people are constantly coming from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, and many more. Immigrants come from all over the world, including me. I am an immigrant too. Policies also make us suffer. For so many immigrants, we come with hope for the American dream. But it’s increasingly difficult to achieve because of the injustices of politicians. Some racist politicians accuse us of invading their country. Many say we’re criminals for coming to this country. When the presidential elections come around, they use us as excuses to protect their ideals and criminalize us all. But it can’t be right to generalize like that. I have learned that no matter who you are, for all the pros and cons in these capitalist states, we all have the right to live a happy and productive life.

Por Teo/ By Teo Muchos, se puede decir que la mayoría de los que había convivido me platicaron sus planes de emigrar aquí a los Estados Unidos. Unas personas piden dinero para viajar, otras sus padres les consiguen dinero. Algunos otros tienen alguien aquí en los EE.UU y los ayudan a emigrar. Muchas personas dicen que en este país siempre hay inmigrantes porque las personas emigran- vienen con un propósito ayudar a su familia. Es un gran sacrificio dejar sus países, su gente. También, enfrentarse al terror de ICE. ICE es la migra que detiene a las personas que vienen de otros países. En los últimos años, cada vez más nos incriminan de todo lo malo que se refleja en la sociedad. El capitalismo nos afecta a todos en general, directa o indirectamente. Pero los políticos luchan por discriminar a los inmigrantes, y en especial a los políticos que dicen que los inmigrantes han hecho daño al país. Y es el trabajo de ICE a lograrlo. Cuando detiene a un inmigrante, le quita sus derechos porque el racismo y la injusticia se refleja en las falsas políticas que dirigen en estos tiempos de ICE. Many, perhaps even the majority of the people I used to live with talk about their plans to emigrate to the United States. Some people ask for money to travel, others’ parents get them money. Others have someone here in the U.S. who helps them emigrate. Many people say that in this country there are always immigrants because people emigrate - they come with a purpose to help their family. It is a great sacrifice to leave your people behind and face the terror of ICE. ICE is “la migra” that stops people who come from other countries. In recent years, they increasingly incriminate us with all the bad that is reflected in society. Capitalism affects us all, directly or indirectly. But politicians fight to discriminate against us, especially the ones who say that immigrants have done harm to the country. And it’s ICE’s job to carry out their orders. When you detain an immigrant, you take away their rights because racism and injustice are built into the fraudulent policies that run rampant in these times of ICE.

TL/DR: A month into the fires, Resource Generation is hosting a learning & action call for people throughout turtle island to radically address emergencies in LA with immediate needs and long-term, transformative solutions. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/LAFiresBriefing This Thursday, Feb. 6, Tiny & Poor Magazine will be joining Resource Generation's virtual event "LA Fires: Past, Present, & Future" to talk about long-term, transformative solutions to the emergencies in Tovaangar. From Resource Generation: “Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society.” - Grace Lee Boggs   Wildfires continue to devastate communities and land across our city and region, most severely impacting unhoused, incarcerated, disabled, poor, working class, and Black, Latine, Indigenous, people of color. This crisis has revealed the failures of our economic and political systems, designed to prioritize profit and property over people and mother earth, amidst an escalating climate emergency and housing crisis. Nonetheless, millions of people have shown up for each other in miraculous ways, both to meet immediate needs, utilizing mutual aid groups, grassroots organizations, and unions, and to collectively invest in a liberatory future for all people and living beings.    We’re excited to share with you what we’ve learned about the past that has shaped the present and what’s possible for a more liberatory future. We need your support in resourcing critical work that will support our communities as we recover and grow, and ensure that we not leave anyone behind in years to come. We will hear from several organizations and projects, including RG LA’s chapter partners, and other local projects and organizations that are both addressing immediate needs and building sustainable, long-term projects in the face of harmful forces of capital and extraction. We will share a spectrum of solutions to address our ongoing land and housing crises and how we can support the return to living in reciprocity with fire and land.   This event is designed for people outside of LA, but all are welcome regardless of location and access to wealth. If you’re not able to attend the event, please sign up and we’ll share a recording.    We invite you to read or watch the following resources in advance of this call:  Poor Magazine (tiny): It’s a fire everyday when you live outside The Lever: The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation   Mike Davis: The Case for Letting Malibu Burn LA Times: The Tongva's land burned in Eaton fire. But leaders say traditional practices mitigated damage Teen Vogue: What is Disaster Capitalism   Resource Generation is a multiracial membership community of young people (18-35) with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth. Learn more at https://resourcegeneration.org/ .   Justice Funders is is a partner and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world. Learn more at https://justicefunders.org/ .  Register on Zoom to attend live or receive a recording! Link here: https://bit.ly/LAFiresBriefing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: tiny gray-garcia, Muteado Silencio POOR Magazine/Homefulness, 510-435-7500  Black, Brown, Indigenous, Houseless Peoples Release New kind of (Un)Tour Book  This new genre “guide Book” is full of poetry, prayer, stories and art on indigenous resistance to settler colonial erasure, poLice terror, homelessness and the many acts of indigenous/Black/Brown-led resistance from Turtle Island to Palestine and all across Mama Earth  What: Book Release Ceremonies from Seattle to San Francisco to Los Angeles  Feb 9th Seattle, Wa 5pm RoofLEss Radio Writing/Media Workshop at Tent City 3  Feb 10th Seattle, Wa 6pm Cafe Red Book Release Prayer Ceremony Feb 11th Seattle, Wa  4pm Bulldog News Book Release Reading  Feb 12th Olympia, Wa 6pm Orca Books Cooperative 315 5th Ave SE Feb 13th Tacoma, Wa 5pm - King's Books 218 St Helens Ave March 29Tovaangar (LA) 4pm LA Mutual Aid Fest Midnight Books 3382 E Florence Ave April 12 Coast Miwok Land (San Rafael, Ca) 1pm San Rafael Mission 1104 5th Ave  April 26 Huchiun (Oakland, Ca) EastSide Arts Alliance 2277 International Bl May 20 Yelamu (San Francisco) City Lights Books 261 Columbis Ave On February 9th houseless/No-income, indigenous, Black, Brown, Disabled visionary poets and cultural workers from the Bay Area begin the long journey to retrace their Herstoric Stolen land /Hoarded Resources UnTours to release the powerful UnTour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island.  The UnTour Book chronicles their walks into occupied land and stolen resources in the US. Sites like occupied Lenape Territory aka Philadelphias’ main Line and the historic “Old Philadelphia” rife with examples of what tiny gray-garcia calls Klanmarks and ManUmeants, honoring the multitude of self-proclaimed “discoverers” such as Cristopher Columbus who in actuality perpetrated great harm on indigenous peoples both personally and historically or Clayton Duncan and other indigenous Pomo leaders work to unwash the lies about the Bloody Island  Massacre in so-called KelseyVille named after the murderer who perpetrated the genocide of hundreds of innocent indigenous women and children, or Priscilla Hunter, the Pomo Mama Tree Warrior and Protector of so many old growth trees from the violence of the Lumber Industry to the Resistance Marks of Alex Nieto, Mario Woods and Sean Monterrosa to name a few, killed by PoLice but honored in San Francisco in beautiful street-based murals of resistance to the warrior work of indigenous women creating their own Land Trust, and the story of indigenous women taking down the ManUmeant honoring a Spanish missionary who committed genocide on California Indians, to sites of BlackLand Return and resistance, all of this and so much more, reaching globally into Palestine, West Papua, Hawai’i and Kashmir.  KlanMarks, ManUMeants and Plakkks- UnTour Guide Across Occupied Turtle Island “KlanMarks” are my word for all the colonizer blight claiming sacred spaces and sacred stories and washing the truth of genocide off the stolen land— 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. The names of the murderers, the rapists, the robbers, the stealers, the re-writers, and the occupiers litter Turtle Island. But, in this book, there are also so many powerful acts of re-creating, redefining, LandBacking, and land-returning  stolen Mama Earth—from Palestine to Chief Siah’l (Seattle) on Turtle Island, from Bloody Island to Lisjan Land—so this UnTourBook is also meant to honor, pray, dream, and lift up the voices of resistance until all of the KlanMarks are gone and all the LiberationMarks replace them.  Tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola - visionary and co-writer of the Untour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island  Book release events will feature prayer bringers from many traditions and many of the poets and land liberators featured in the book and in the Pacific Northwest will be dedicated to John Williams, of the Williams Family Carvers, a houseless, indigenous wood carver from Seattle who was killed by Seattle PoLice dept and will feature his brother and nephew Rick T Williams and EagleSun. 50% of book sales will go to the Williams Family Carvers and the remaining 50% to the building of Homefulness in the PNW. This will be the same for all of the Book release Ceremonies in all of the other settler occupied towns. It must be said that none of this powerful book would have been possible without the tireless work of the design/ klanmark research team from POOR Magazine's Solidarity family of Linguistic Liberators:, Asa Ikeda, Frankie Carter, Bridget Cervellie, Maya Ram, Ruby Roebuck, and Greg Barton! @poormagazine POORPress.net   Or websites: poormagazine.org