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A man killed people. A mass murderer infiltrated a community, fueled by a system that hates the same people he does. A scared man with fear in his heart after watching Fox News day after day, wondering if he will be the victim of the same crime that his ancestors perpetrated on this country. Black lives will always matter, as long as this system encourages people like this man to do what he did then hides behind its money and power and says it would never condone these actions. We don’t need to talk about this man, because we know what he chose to be remembered as. We need to talk about Andre Mackniel, a loving father who was picking up a birthday cake for his three year olds son's surprise birthday party. We need to talk about Margus Morrison, a man who took care of his disabled mother. We need to talk about and keep talking about all of the people whose lives were taken from them by a man who had hate in his heart and access to things he shouldn’t have had.

Where would I be without Homefulness? That’s a question I have been asking of myself lately and I have begun to realize that there are so many people who have that question answered for them already. People who have been failed by every system in their life. A redlined neighborhood that forces young people to grow up at a young age, a school that shuffles them along, not having enough of a budget to care much about where they end up, and finally, a judicial system that takes none of that into account. Especially because that very system is the one who put their ancestors into those neighborhoods, and who underfunded those schools, and finally, will be the one who will keep you in and out of their prisons for the rest of your life for crimes that it doesn’t care if you committed. It’s so formulaic and overtly planned that it has been likened to a pipeline, a stream of people rushed through and out into an ocean of nothing. However because of Deecolonize Academy, a school for young people that have been failed by this system and are currently struggling through poverty and houselessness,, this pipeline has sprung a leak, and through the cracks have emerged remarkable and brilliant young men filled with potential, helping others who have been beat down by this system. But, Deecolonize Academy is not the only program that interrupts this pipeline. The Young Adult Court or YAC, is a program supervised by Superior Judge Bruce Chan, and it helps youth from the age of 18-24 overcome these obstacles that have been placed in front of them by that system that he works within. “As I stand before you all today, I want to share with everyone this adventure, journey, our way of life, in a world with many uncertainties and obstacles, like mine of trying to survive the school to penitentiary system. Deecolonize Academy recognized the situation I was in, a brown youth of color surrounded by many distractions and traps.”, those were the words of Kimo, a youth scholar who graduated from Deecolonize Academy. Deecolonize Academy and the YAC are preventing those young men and women who would normally have no chance of extricating themselves, from traveling through this pipeline and ending up in a prison system that prioritizes punishment over rehabilitation. Most who are not fortunate enough to be helped by these organizations and others are shuttled to these massive, overfunded prisons. These prisons which up until now, have also held Death Row blocks and Protective Custody areas. That all changed with new implementations instituted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and other CA government officials that bring all of these inmates together, removing/ restructuring Death Row and Protective Custody blocks. “We are starting the process of closing Death Row to repurpose and transform the current housing units into something innovative and anchored in rehabilitation," California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Vicky Waters told The Associated Press. While it is amazing that they are finally closing Death Row, something that has been used to get rid of many political prisoners including journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, as is common, there is more behind this decision than making prison a rehabilitative space. The United States prison system as a whole does not rehabilitate. It is a punitive system that puts you through hell to force you into submission. This is proven to not work, as more than 50% of prisoners released from prison or jail have been reincarcerated. Most of the time, US prisons are used as a punishment for people that the US wants silenced, like Huey P. Newton, the leader of the Black Panther party, Leonard Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was one of the only journalists telling the truth about the Black Panther Party in the 1970’s. These people and many more were incarcerated for their resistance to this government, not the crimes that have been pinned on them. Prisons are given a massive budget. In fact, when compared to schools, CA prisons have more than a 53,000$ budget difference. However, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, that budget has been drained down to the point where they have been forced to release offenders who aren’t flight risks. Them mixing in all of these different cell blocks is not at all a rehabilitation issue, rather an issue of not having enough money to keep doing as they were. This doesn’t change anything. These people are still in prison, and most likely will be for the rest of their lives. Because prisons make money from people being in jail. They need the pipeline that funnels young adults from bad to worse situations, because that is the only way the government is able to keep these prisons open and make a profit. My issue lies in them making this change and claiming that they are turning prisons into something that wants people to leave prisons rather than stay in them for as long as possible which is where their true intentions lie. I am not in that pipeline because of Deecolonize Academy. My work here has helped others who are being funneled through, giving them a similar chance to what I have been given, a way through the crack in the pipe and a way out of that system.

“They have shelters here…” Her voice was soft, she was looking down at her hands. Her eyes darted from me to the cement sidewalk she was sleeping on.”They aren’t bad or anything, but their rules are so strict that…” she paused again to rub her legs, “its hard to be in them,” she whispered trailing off. Her name was Shiela and she was houseless and one of our newest RoofLEssRadio reporters from the streets of Occupied Western Turtle Island the colonizers called Salt Lake City, Utah. Home to the huge Mormon temple and all of their strange savior narratives and 21st century missions. We houseless and formerly houseless, indigenous youth and elders were there on our last day of what we called the Stolen Land /hoarded Resources UnTour across occupied Western Turtle Island. We provide protection for the new frontier of discovery. (from a “tagline” on the wall of the Mormon Temple) As we UnToured and unWashed so-called Salt Lake City - so named because of its huge lake of natural salt now “owned” and commodified by CorpRape entities, one of the many gifts of Turtle Island that lured the colonizers to steal and pillage this sacred land, we walked into the “HIStoric Mormon complex. There were multiple “tag-lines” like this one- romanticizing the violent lie of empty frontiers, protection and so-called discovery. Sculptures and images of the humble “pioneer” and the washed herstory of land theft already occupied, already inhabited everywhere. In all of these “*ManUMeants (my name for them) there was not even one mention of the the Paiute, Dine, Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyanne and Ute peoples who were already there , thriving, living , creating, building, and existing before the Mormons, Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans and pretty much every colonizer arrived to “save” them. Stolen land/Hoarded Resources Untour praying at a “landMark” (not KlanMark) of Little Raven who was one of the elders/ancestors of that stolen territory, aka Denver) - photo by Momii Palapaz All of these pieces of colonial public relations were oddly back-dropped with a Munsters style temple that brought up horror movie daymares and signified a constant presence of colonial domination everywhere. KlanMarks, I call them which is the subject of a new POOR press anthology we are writing and living called KlanMarks and ManuUments - Unwashing Settler Colonial Lies across Mama Earth - An UnTour Guide. “Half of my family are Mormons, they believe that you aren’t “human” if you are melanated, because you have been “marked” by God.” Muteado Silencio, one of our POOR Magazine poverty ,indigenous skolaz, prayer-bringers and co-builders/co-founders of Homefulness has direct experience with the Mormons so it was especially strange to be there. He went on to explain that the missionary work of Mormons is all over the world and often includes “adopting” Brown children by Mormons to “save” them. In addition to WeSearching ( my name for our poor people-led research) for this new book - the points of these Untours are to connect the dots of colonial genocide, land and culture theft, homelessness, poLice terror and MamaEarth’s destruction and to share the medicine of Radical Redistribution, with wealth-hoarding inheritors and land-stealers so the LandBack and CultureBack movements of poor, indigenous and houseless peoples can connect to build their own movements like Homefulness and Sogorea Te Land Trust. Self-determined housing. Land and cultural reclamation solutions to our problems built by us , for us. “I’m scared to go in those places, its too much”, Roger, another RoofLessRadio contributor reported. The Salt Lake City shelter system was featured in a story by SF Chronicle writer Kevin Fagen as a “model” for San Francisco to follow in 2014. And yet this poverty skola witnessed the streets of this city in 2021 filled with unhoused people. Many of whom were hiding, dying of thirst and/or holding on by a thread, refusing to go into to these amazing “shelters” . The main issue that these RoofLess radio reporters called out were that these model shelters were filled with programs created by anti-social workers and case manglers, poltricksters and “executive directors” non-profiteers and “churches” people who had as my Mama Dee used to say, Never missed a meal, or even if they did miss a meal were bought and sold , pimped and played into a system of “non-profiteering which is focused on “helping” us without hearing us.Making money on our rehabilitation, caging, housing and fixing. Rarely if ever taking into account the system that led us to even be in that situation in the first place was the one they built. Conversely, we as poverty skolaz, ourselves traumatized and trying to heal houseless or formerly houseless root our Homefulness projects in healing, and constant LoveWork, knowing that merely "putting a roof on our trauma is just the beginning" that our lives are actually rife with all the other remnants of krapitalst poverty shame, racism, abuse, criminalization and violence. “Sweeps are scheduled in this town, literally three times a week and oftentimes more than that, we are working on every front to resist them, but they have increased now with the so-called opening back up, so what we are doing now is to figure out workarounds with people,” said Therese Howard, Denver Homeless Outloud. Youth and adult poverty skolaz, Amir, Tibu, Muteado, myself and elder Elephant council member Momii from POOR Magazine sat with Therese and Benjamin and other houseless and formerly houseless leaders /organizers with Denver Homeless Outloud. While they spoke we all reflected on the same violent sweeps happening in so-called Olympia, Washington, Oakland, San Francisco and Marin County. Sweeps we resist, fight, scream about and stand against everyday in the Bay. Sweeps, the hygienic metaphors like we are trash, arent a Bay Area thing or a California thing, or West Coast thing, they are a United Snakes thing, used as the tool to eradicate, get rid of and dispose of houseless people using many of the same early settler colonial laws that were used to incarcerate, silence and remove 1st Nations peoples from their own land. “The next thing is the brownshirts, the private security, that the mayor has even signed onto,” added Benjamin. As Benjamin spoke I was thinking from “Clean-teams to Cal-Trans, from Cob on Wood to Where do We Go Berkeley to the Poor Peoples Army in Philly, its the same thing here and everywhere. And as all of us houseless and poor people and our advocates say and have “proved” as though it had to be proven, Sweeps Kill. Denver Homeless Outloud are warriors who currently fighting a lawsuit along with comrades from the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) this killer violence against disabled, houseless elders and poor people is an epidemic and it is not just the poLice or the evil politricksters and CorpRape business interests. Its also the so-called progressive legislators like we have in Oakland who voted unanimously for a “camping ban” making it illegal to be anywhere in Oakland while Houseless. The Unhoused Bill of Rights SiStar shero Cori Bush, the first congresswoman who was a houseless mama before she was voted into office, is baadass and just released a bill of rights that would make it illegal to harass anyone who is sleeping outside. We know that WRAP tried to get that passed in California and it went down in a lengthy stupid poltrickster fight, so we wish her luck and love. And right as she was making a move to get the eviction moratorium saved in amerikkklan, by sleeping on the Krapitol steps because Congress went on recess while people were facing mass homelessness, the City of Oakland went on recess too. Instead of voting on the emergency ordinance that would have let our homeless peoples solution to homelessness we call Homefulness open up the four multi-family townhouses that it has taken us poor and houseless people 11 years to build because it so costly and hard for poor people to build our own solutions, but now sit vacant, because Oakland City Council took a vacation instead of hearing this housing emergency that so many of us are dealing with. From Colonizers to PoLice “I called 911, I didnt think they would kill my Sun, he was having a mental health crisis,” Lynn Eagle Feather cried as she spoke, a fierce 1st Nations warrior and boarding school survivor taught and shared with us, the tragic story of the murder of her Sun Paul Castaway. Lynn Eagle Feather whose story was first told to Lisa Ganser POOR Magazine poverty skola, made the connections with the brutality her family shared from her own violent life in the racist boarding school system to her ancestors murder in the Makato Massacre of 38 Native American men ordered by the so-called good president Lincoln. She also, as an indigenous poor woman traumatized by the violence of krapitalism, was houseless in her own lands of origin for over three years and sees the ways all of these issues are deeply connected and how our healing lies in our connecting up our struggles. We held a ceremony at the site of the Sand Creek Massacre in So-called Colorado, just one of so many sites of genocide in stolen Turtle Island, that we planned as one of the UnTour stops to connect the dots of Washed unSeen colonial genocide in herstory to now- a ceremony that could never be felt or described with mere colonial words, but was unspeakably powerFULL. We had the blessing of Lynn Eagle Feather and another warrior Ruby Left Hand Bull, both Boarding School survivors launching us with an altar and prayer songs in their traditions as well as support and love from members of the “Denver Communists who support sisSTAR Lynn and do so much truth work in those lands. This poverty skola also laid down prayer for all the warrior mamaz who like Lynn and my own Mama Dee and myself, barely made it out alive of poverty, homelessness, trauma to even be here now fighting. Gated Communities that are NEVER swept “Im here to share the medicine of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity Reparations with people who have more homes than they can actually live in, and more money than they can ever spend,” I stood at the entrance of a huge wrought iron automatic gate in the Cherry Hill Village area of Colorado. Houses ( if you could call them that) were larger than the eyes could even see. Miles of stolen Mama Earth with nothing on them, but private golf courses and driveways and stables and green manicured grass. There were only a few of these extreme wealth-hoarder mansions on every street off a road of the “gated” community of Cherry Hill, which wasn’t really gated, but they had their own poLice station, their own park, their own roads and their own signage. No amount of wealth-hoarding surprises me anymore as this is the 5th year of these painful tours across Turtle Island, where I share the concept of Radical Redistribution. We always get a police escort within seconds who usually realizes they cant arrest us even though they would like to, but this was up there next to Philadelphias Main Line Bel Air and Tiburon in so-called Marin. All colonial cities that just like Denver, practice this violence called Sweeps, from the evil destruction of poor peoples boats in Marin and then their peaceful encampments, to the arrests with weaponry of houseless people on Venice Beach last week to the violence of scheduled sweeps in Denver and People Cages ( open air cages created for houseless people) in St Petersburg, Florida and San Francisco under London Breed to the violence threatened against Cob on Wood right here in Oakland. These wealth-hoarders are never approached to share these resources they continue to hoard, as a matter of fact they are never even mentioned as a resource for support of people who have nothing. This is why we say its not a protest, its a sharing of a medicine to the disease of wealth-hoarding and land-stealing. Because we have all been lied to. Including wealth-hoarders. But the only way we poor and houseless people were bale to build homefulness is though this medicine of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity Reparations and so we know that housed people and houseless people can actually collaborate and my new hashtag #WeCanKeepUsHoused is real. It just takes wealth-hoarders to listen to poverty skolaz and stop the lie of about us without us moves like Slat Lake City’s Model that no-one wants to be in. Denver is a huge example of violent gentriFUKation, there are brand-new condos and high rises springing up in every corner. There are multi-plexus and strip mall and huge CorpRape malls and poLice stations and hipster bars and just like San Francisco, in the devil-oper, starbux dream of “clean” there really is no place for poor people. its not shocking that removal of houseless people is constant and violent and organized. But lo and behold , just like every one of these colonial towns from Occupied Shinnecock Nation ( aka the so-called Hamptons) to occupied Tongva land aka LA, to San Francisco, there were neighborhoods hidden, places so gated you don’t even know they exist. No-one talks about them and they are never considered when discussing budget shortfalls and even so-called income inequality “The PoLice come around here at least twice a day, and then a private mall security, we have to move all the time, we can usually sit here for maybe an hour and then its arrest or harassment.” Said Billie from So-called Denver. The UnTour also included a visit to Amache, the site of a Japanese Concentration Camp, we were graciously give a tour by high school students in the area and the words and images were reminiscent of this plantation nation, full of colonial genocide, incarceration, arrest, death and removal. “My family were in a place like this called Tule Lake, “ said Momii Palapaz, an elder poverty skola who joined us on this UnTour and helped to steward us through this very difficult journey of tears and resistance. “We have our own ways of healing and living and honoring our culture and Mother Earth.,” said elder medicine and prayer carrier Chief Lee Plenty Wolf to us gathered at the location of this years Sundance ceremony in Boulder Colorado. He was explaining how we as indigenous peoples have our own ceremonies and traditions that need to be returned to so we can heal ourselves. This is why we do so much work on healing in all of our poor and indigenous people-led programs at POOR Magazine. It is complicated to actually MamaFest ( as I call it) a poor people led solution to poverty, its complicated to hold all that trauma which doesn’t end just because you get a shelter bed or a pill or a roof. These are the teachings we share and learn and live at Homefulness and we’ll be inviting people into the upcoming Decoloniation /DegentriFUKation Seminar at PeopleSkool on August 28/29th ( it will be on zoom and in person, for poverty skolaz and people with privileges) we are working with folks across Turtle Island to launch their own Homefulness - and maybe just maybe the City of Oakland can just let us houseless people how houseless people. Homefulness.

Tiburcio Garcia Lisa Garcia Revolutionary Journalism 28 July 2021 Deecolonized Un-Tour: Chief Plentiwolf “Spirituality, ceremony is our core, our center,” said Chief Plentywolf, an indigenous elder who just finished the annual Sundance ceremony, which is a ceremony where native people gather for prayer and sacrifice of sweat and pain. We came days after to talk to Chief Plentywolf at the invitation of Cynthia, one of our solidarity family. The solidarity family are people with race and class privilege who we teach why they need to give reparations. After a hearty lunch with Chief Plentywolf, Cynthia, her husband Tom and all of us multi-generational, multi-racial poverty skolas who came on this tour, we went out to the site of the Sundance Ceremony. It felt as if the land was welcoming us. One, solitary tree stood in the middle of a grassy field, covered with flags from many indigenous nations. We were told not to take pictures of that tree, and I had no objections. There was little to no wind, and the sun beat down on us, but we were surrounded with trees that wove together like a basket, the leaves from each individual tree coming together to form one continuous growth. We walked over to a small clearing next to a dirt road that slopes up and curves around a bend. In that meadow stood a Teepee, the fabric stretched taut over the supporting posts. “We pray every time we do something, or every time we prepare and even meetings and talks like this,” Chief Plentywolf continued, his eyes focusing on each one of us at a time, making me feel as if he was looking through me, looking at everything I could ever be. He talked about the difference between a massacre and a battle, saying that when the white settlers slaughtered women, children and elder indigenous people it went down in history as a battle, yet only when the indigenous people fought back and killed many white men was it called a massacre, and when that happened, the government was able to justify in the history books the genocide that they continued to do, with or without the native people fighting back. Chief Plentywolf ended it by talking about Sundance, and how the youth was actually coming back, and how he was excited for the future of Sundance and prayer as a whole. He talked about a16 year old who was the strongest young warrior he had ever seen, and thanked us for being youth and continuing to work and pray with our elders. We thanked Cynthia once more, and before leaving we visited the sweat lodge that is used in the Sundance Ceremony. I came away from the sacred place having learned so much in a short span of time. I would love to join the Sundance Ceremony sometime in the future, and I'm looking forward to being able to speak with Chief Plentiwolf again, to learn a small part of the vast amount of knowledge he has.

Press Contacts: Muteado Silencio /Tiny (510-435-7500 Landless/houseless, Indigenous Black, Brown and Disabled People Lead an "unTour" thru wealth-hoarding neighborhoods and sacred indigenous sites in Denver aka Stolen Ute, Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne Territory When: 12pm Thursday, July 29th Where: Tour launched with Multi-Nationed Prayer & Speakers at Confluence Park (1500 16th street, Denver, Colorado) "When they take our land, our tents and our belongings, we have nowhere to go,... " said Israel M., formerly houseless, indigenous co-builder of Homefulness. "As colonial cities and towns ‘open Back Up’ we indigenous, houseless and poor folks know that means, increased sweeps of houseless bodies, increased evictions of poor families and elders, increased desecration of indigenous peoples lands and sacred sites increased poverty and poLice Terror of Black and Brown and working class people," said Tiny, formerly houseless co-founder of POOR Magazine. POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led art, culture, and liberation movement. Our multi-generational, multi-cultural houseless/indigenous people-led movement will be going on the road to connect the dots between our shared oppressions and struggles, share the urgent medicine of how to build self-determined land movements, take back land, healing, and our own knowledge systems and cultures right here in occupied Turtle Island. This leg of a summer long Un-Tour is in occupied Southern Ute, Mountain Ute, Arapahoe and Northern Cheyenne Territory, aka Denver - the site of high-speed gentrification, homelessness, poLice abuse, murder and terror as well as a silenced bloody history of colonial genocide. As we all grapple with Mama Earth burning, flooding and all of us trying to survive, these Un-Tours connect the dots between eviction, homelessness, colonization, desecration, poLice terror, Devil-oper Land grabs, mining and other extractive industries, desecration of Mama Earth, and the removal, incarceration, police terror of Black, Brown, indigenous, disabled and poor people. In so-called Denver we will launch the tour with prayer from all four corners and ancestors of this land with 1st Nations warriors like Lynn Eagle Feather whose sun Paul Castaway was murdered by Denver PoLice as well as liberators from Denver Homeless Outloud, members of Western Regional Advocacy Project, who are on the front-lines of resistance efforts for unhoused Denver residents. In each UnTour we share poor people-led solutions of Radical Redistribution, Homefulness, Land Back movements and ComeUnity Reparations informed by POOR Press books How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever and Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth, with houseless and poor communities and communities with different forms of race, class and/or education privilege with the goal of supporting local resistance movements and helping poor and indigenous people launch their own solutions like Homefulness. Smoke from fires across the Western States to the midwest blanket the skies. Sweeps and invaders concrete the land to cover up history of slaughter and murder. Gentrifuckers completely program the same blueprint from King St, SF to 16th St mall in Denver. Houseless cannot be eliminated, said Momii Palapaz , family elder from POOR Magazine's Elephant Council (one of the models we teach and live into at Homefulness and share in the How TO Not Call PoLice Ever handbook.) We are inviting all organizations to co-sponsor, walk with us, speak and/or learn more about this important new/old way to walk on Mama Earth in this time of so much pain. Links to some of our Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tours Stolen Land/Hoarded Resurces Tour thru Akkkadeia- May 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489FkHJQWxs&t=91s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NFtYpE64s&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-N1FCWAdY&t=57s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0j6baUl1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHj4zzCmWk Links to books: How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth Po' People's Survival Guide thru COVID-19 and the Virus of Poverty Children's books: When Mama and Me Lived Outside The Hard Worker (Trabajador Fuerte) Krip Hop Nation Graphic Novel Decolonewz - Newspaper led by youth in poverty for everyone ( available in paper form only) Workshops: See this link Po' Peoples Radio Broadcasts: See this link More info on Homefulness: See this link and www.poormagazine.org/homefulness Articles on this from the SF Bay View and POOR Magazine: Stealing our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule Selling our Homes to Private Investors Public Housing Privatization The Privatization From Privatization to Reparations Section 8 and Public Housing at Risk

Tiburcio Garcia Lisa Garcia Revolutionary Journalism 27 July, 2021 Deecolonized Un-Tour: “O My Father” “O my Father, thou that dwellest In the high and glorious place: When shall I regain thy presence, And again behold thy face?” -Eliza R. Snow As a young, light skinned formerly houseless poverty skola and journalist with Poor Magazine, this place was a new sight. Not this town, with it’s empty sidewalks and quiet 1950's houses that felt like they had eyes focused on your back. What was a new sight for me was the poem and plaque that made a point to honor the poem of a woman who’s class and social status was low, which led to many deeming her as useless, yet showing that she created a work of art that was immortalized as among The Most Beloved of Mormon Hymns. I believe the message behind this if any is that no matter what status or position you are in you have the potential to create something beautiful. Now here is my question. Does that apply to the Ute, Dine, Paiute, Goshute, and Shoshone people who were forcibly removed from their land in order to allow for Salt Lake City to become the home of the Salt Lake Temple, the Headquarters of the Morman Faith? It doesn’t. It never has, because the voices, stories, art and songs of native people all over Stolen Turtle Island have never mattered, and the only thing that remains in the stolen and hoarded spaces and places are these bronze plaques, honoring the colonizers who created works of at such as “O My Father”, on land that was never theirs. That is the purpose of this Western Turtle Island Un-Tour, where me along with my family from Poor Magazine and Deecolonize Academy are doing we-search (that’s poor people led re-search) on the colonization and genocide that has happened in Utah and Colorado. For 12,000 years before settlers moved into Utah, there were people living there. The Native people of Utah, which were many, as Utah is a big area, stewarded the land long before colonizers claimed it as there’s. Most of that changed, however, when the Mormons “settled” into Utah in 1847, beginning in Salt Lake Valley, and then moving up and down Utah, effectively cutting off Ute trade routes and displacing them from their land. The Black Hawk and Walker War were the Ute people raiding their own land that was stolen from them by the Mormons, for the sole purpose of avoiding starvation. Knowing this, I think back to the Capitol Hill Neighborhood we visited that featured the oxidized copper plaque of Eliza R. Snow and many other women and prominent Mormon figures. I didn’t see a plaque showing the absolute forced removal of the indigenous people of Utah by the Mormons. When I read that plaque honoring Eliza for her poem, I wondered how much art created by native people was destroyed, how many voices were permanently silenced. I can’t help but feel sick looking at the bright flowers and freshly cut grass, blue skies and calm, well paved streets, knowing that all of it was built on lies and death.

Poor/houseless/indigenous folks share models of landless peoples' self-determination, Po'Lice-free land liberation, revolutionary media, and art. When: Tour #2 July 27-August 1st Where: So-called Colorado POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led art, culture, and liberation movement. Our multi-generational, multi-cultural houseless/indigneous people-led movement will be going on the road to share the urgent medicine of how to build self-determined land movements, take back land, and our own knowledge systems and cultures right here in occupied Turtle Island. Sharing the medicine of Homefulness- a homeless peoples solution to homelessness- and offering readings and workshops from our newest books "How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever"/"Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth", as well as leading a Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tour through wealth-hoarding neighborhoods, museums of Anthro-Wrongology, and Academia to share the urgent medicine of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity Reparations. And finally, we will be meeting/sharing and teaching poor and houseless people-led media production with fellow unhoused comeUnity in that territory so they can launch their own media hubs like POOR Magazine's street-based media projects. We are inviting all organizations to co-sponsor, host us for a book reading, performance, or workshop, or walk with us in the Stolen Land Tour. Below are links of Stolen Land Tours we have done before and information about our books and work. Links to some of our Stolen Land Tours which were launched on MamaEarth Day 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489FkHJQWxs&t=91s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NFtYpE64s&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-N1FCWAdY&t=57s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0j6baUl1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHj4zzCmWk Links to books: How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth Po' People's Survival Guide thru COVID-19 and the Virus of Poverty Children's books: When Mama and Me Lived Outside The Hard Worker (Trabajador Fuerte) Krip Hop Nation Graphic Novel Decolonewz - Newspaper led by youth in poverty for everyone ( available in paper form only) Workshops: See this link Po' Peoples Radio Broadcasts: See this link More info on Homefulness: See this link and www.poormagazine.org/homefulness

By: Meiriely Amaral Mama Cheryl Canson’s story is one of resistance. She spoke on Po' People's Revolutionary Newz Hour: Keeping the "A's" even if Poor Peoples Cant Stay on April 13, 2021 (listen here) about her experience at Canyon Rim Apartments in San Diego. “While we’re fighting a pandemic we’re fighting amongst each other, and that’s really a saddening thing and we don't realize the solution to a lot of our issues is unity” - Mama Cheryl Mama Cheryl has been living at Canyon Rim for the past 2 years. When she first moved in she got a lot of glares and stares, and there was a lot of racism and prejudice. She is Black and the neighborhood had few people who looked like her, and ever since moving in she’s been getting harassed. The goal of this has been to get her uncomfortable enough to move. Some of her neighbors have used glares and mean mugs to show their displeasure of her moving there and becoming their neighbor, but Mama Cheryl is going to stand because she is not ashamed in her Blackness. She was thinking about moving, but then she got connected with the San Diego Tenants Union. They have stood with her united, and let her know that she’s not alone, fighting side by side with her. Mama Cheryl has a history of mental illness in her family, which sometimes leads to loud moments and that’s just something she deals with. Sometimes she’s told neighbors in the past about this but it’s a catch 22 - do you let your neighbors know about your situation or do you not for fear of targeting. None of these things can change, not her race nor her mental illness, and Mama Cheryl is not going to fight against that. “I am what I am ... I’m sure you’re proud of who you are but I’m not bothering you, Ima let you be who you are and be proud of who you are, you know, but allow me to do the same” - Mama Cheryl There was an initial complaint made against Mama Cheryl, and legal aid was initially representing her, but it was the San Diego Tenants Union who was able to find mistakes in the original complaint. Shout out to the tenants union in San Diego!! People united can conquer anything. Since this complaint wasn’t answered in time, it was rendered invalid. It’s still unclear to Mama Cheryl the exact details of the process she is in, but she knows she is waiting for a court hearing. She got together with the tenants union and knocked on doors, together they were able to empower others by being united, showing her fellow neighbors that if they should experience or were experiencing any of the things she was, that they were not alone. In the pandemic, there are laws preventing landlords/scamlords from using lack of payment to evict people, so these scamlords look for other reasons to evict people. Mama Cheryl was paying her rent electronically, but they blocked her access and wouldn’t accept her rent, so they clearly wanted her to move for other reasons. When that initial complaint was filed, the poLICE came to her door to “investigate”, and it was clear that the noise and arguing that was complained about didn’t exist. The only explanation for how this has gotten so full blown is that the office has been discriminating as well. Especially because in a building of 197 tenants or so, where she was open from the start about her mental illness history, they could have placed her in a more accommodating space around more tolerating neighbors, but they chose not to listen to her. Mama Cheryl is in good hands in her resistance, and in her unity with the people through the tenants union.

By Tiburcio Garcia and Amir Cornish/Youth poverty Skola reporters for POOR Magazine (Editor's Note: Tiburcio and Amir are students at Deecolonize Academy- the poor and indigenous people -led liberation school on the sacred land we houseless poverty skolaz call Homefulness) The metallic crunching fills the air, the screeching sound of metal destroying metal pierces the skin harder than the whipping ocean breeze. Homes, belongings, memoires, being crushed like tin cans by the city of Marin County, the people that resided in them for generations being shuffled around while forced to watch everything they knew be destroyed. Preventing this from happening on a larger scale, preventing this from happening to thousands of other houseless and poor people was the reason behind Tuesdays #SupportNotSweeps action in front of CalTrans. “People living on their boats for hundreds of years are now in jeopardy as much as people living under freeways,” a houseless sailor yells, looking back at the corporate building that stands as a monument of terror. “The Harbormaster is smashing boats, the City Council and the Counsellors are agreeing to it and there's tons of money being made on the backs of the people. This man, along with many others who came out to speak out on their situations of being harassed by entities just like CalTrans, who don’t care if human lives are being put at risk because of their actions as long as they make profit. We youth and family poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine re-ported and sup-ported on the Support Not Sweeps action through theatre and presence. The theatre acted out the very real violence so many of us at POOR Magazine have dealt with and still deal with - people being forcibly removed in the form of a Theater of the POOR, where some of us acted out a very familiar scene, houseless people in tents being harassed by cops and DPW officers, the DPW officers chanting louder and louder over the desperate cries of the people, “WE ARE JUST DOING OUR JOBS! WE ARE JUST DOING OUR JOBS!'' I hope that no matter how many times they say that they won't be able to sleep at night. When I was younger, me and my mother were houseless, evicted over and over again in the city of San Francisco. I was never on the streets, but we always knew from our friends and family the violence of the sweeps that happened then and continue to happen nearly a decade later. Then, Homefulness was born out of a dream from my grandmother's head, from years of teaching people with race and class privilege to give reparations. Now, we are being tied up by the City of Oakland, the same that sweeps so many houseless people, unable to complete a project that will take us and our families out of houselessness. We all went to Oakland City hall to demand Free Homefulness right after the Support Not Sweeps sit in at Caltrans The struggle unhoused people are dealing with now is nothing new - what my mama Tiny calls, the Violence called Sweeps, or the Violence of exposure, swept like we as houseless people are trash.. But it is getting worse. From Liveaboard and poor boat residents to people sleeping in tents, people are constantly being “swept” and thrown away and demolished and displaced. The sweeps and destruction is increasing in the so-called “opening back up” cities all across this state are increasing evictions of houseless peoples from their tents and lands when they have nowhere to go. This #SupportNotSweeps action, near downtown Oakland, filled up nearly the entire block with houseless and poor people exclaiming their human rights and demanding justice. Boats being destroyed in front of their now houseless owners eyes, lifelong belongings being thrown in a dump truck by glass eyed workers, day and day it happens and it never stops. As long as there is money to be made this government will colonize and pillage and destroy to get it. Stand with Liveaboard Mariners as they fight an eviction of their whole encampment where they have been forced to live after their boats were crushed in front of their eyes by the wealth-hoarder poltricksters of so-called Sausalito Marin County - aka Occupied Miwok Territory on Tuesday, June 28th 7am-7pm, 300 Locust Street Sausalito, Cal

By Akil Carrilo and Ziair Hughes/Youth Poverty SKola Reporters for POOR Magazine (Editor's Note: Akil and Ziair are students at Deecolonize Academy- the poor and indigenous people-led liberation school on the sacred land we houseless poverty skolaz call Homefulness) “The poLice pulled my brother out of the car and left his two white friends alone,” said Talika, sister of Roger Allen at a prayer ceremony for Roger Allen and his family that POOR magazine youth and family elders re-ported and sup-ported on last week. On April 7, 2021 Roger Allen was killed by Daly City Police for being Black while changing a tire. He was on the side of the road with a flat tire, a drug task force unit of the Daly City PD pulled up. Instead of helping him with the flat they began to harass him and were trying to search his car for drugs. Roger Allen was with two white friends, the cops only asked Roger Allen’s friends to step out of the car while he was asked to remain inside. One thing led to another and the cops shot and killed Roger Allen. This happened April 7, about 3 months after I am writing his story. This is because there is absolutely no media coverage on his story. Roger Allen’s life is just one of the many Black and Brown lives lost due to police brutality, after they are killed everything is forgotten about and never learned. The only thing left are the tears of the family left behind. George Floyd and Roger Allen are no different but why was George Floyd’s death on national tv, while Roger’s was not on any mainstream media outlet. This happens on a daily basis, so many people are killed by cops that no one knows about. This is a common occurrence, it's not a surprise anymore, just a constant struggle. Living each day with the fear that it might be the last. “A human was killed for a flat tire, we know it's because of systemic white supremacy,” said Conamor Jas, one of the organizers of the beautiful ceremony at Garfield Park, close to where the family lives. The cops used a division tactic with Roger Allen, then separated him from his friend leaving him alone and vulnerable. These tactics have been used for years, this is why Racism exists, to separate us and once we are separated we slowly get picked off. “Daly City and South San Francisco are klan towns - it's dangerous to be a Black person there. Period. The Family of Shaleen Tindle were pulled out of their car in that area and seriously harassed in 2010, which is just one of many experiences we have reported and supported on of this sickkk place,” said Tiny Gray-Garcia, POOR Magazine Co-Editor. All these corporations, laws, cops are all the same people, It's all the same hate and fear. They all see us as pests that need to be squashed. We are nothing to them. This is shown to us on a daily basis when poor, houseless, Black and Brown people get murdered, when we aren't allowed to build solutions for ourselves.

by Lisa Ganser On July 4, 2016, 18-year-old Latino Loved One Anthony Nuñez was in a mental health crisis in his home in San José, CA. Anthony had shot himself, grazing his head with a bullet, was bleeding, and was in desperate need of medical attention. Two pleas for life-saving medical support to 911 were made by Anthony’s family. Even in the life-threatening heat of the moment and with language barriers of Spanish and english, at the 911 dispatcher’s request, the gun was separated from Anthony well before emergency response units arrived. Anthony was no threat to anyone but himself that day, and after shooting himself, was wounded and needed immediate medical assistance. Unfortunately, medical help never made it to Anthony. Instead it was the militarized poLice, who committed to Use of Force before even arriving to the scene, who were first to Anthony. They arrived in massive numbers and in tactical gear and placed snipers, keeping medics and Anthony’s family from him. Instead of providing care and assistance, SJPD officers Michael Santos and Anthony Vissuz violently shot and murdered Anthony Nuñez in his family’s home. Anthony Nuñez is very loved. He was a handsome Mexican teenager who often got haircuts (he loved getting good haircuts). His Momma, Sandy Sanchez, jokes about how he would constantly look in any mirror he saw. If he could see his own reflection, Anthony would look. Anthony loved to dance, to joke around, he liked to rap, he had a lot of friends. Anthony’s family members, including his cousins Natalie and Jason, say that Anthony was human, he made mistakes, like all teenage boys. They say he was an amazing young person, he was working at a new job the day he died, that he was held close by a strong family. Anthony’s death has taken a very serious toll on his family members, especially his Mom, Sandy, who has raised him since his birth Mom died when Anthony was very young. This made Anthony like a brother and sister with his cousins, they were raised together and are his siblings. Sandy is disabled and the impact of grief, trauma, the complete lack of accountability and lies of the poLice and the way it is pushing her family apart is literally killing her. Sandy says that her Son, Anthony, was never treated for any mental illness or psychiatric disability, and no one but Anthony knows what was going on for him that day he died. It is not uncommon for boys and men, especially men of color, to not address or receive care for their mental health. Anthony’s death has forever changed those who love him. Anthony’s death has caused a ripple effect within his immediate and extended family, causing disconnect and serious health problems. Depression got ahold of Anthony Nuñez on July 4, 2016, and ultimately, it is the San José poLice who violently stole his young life. Rest in Power Anthony Nuñez. Please support Justice for Anthony Nuñez by showing up with his family and friends for kourt support at the civil trial at the San Jose, CA Federal Kourt House on June 17th, 2019 at 9am, that trial is expected to run a couple weeks, Mon-Thurs. The family is also fundraising to have a headstone for Anthony at his gravesite. #JusticeforAnthonyNuñez Lisa Ganser is a white, Poor, Disabled, Queer, non binary, artist and organizer living in Olympia, WA on stolen Squaxin, Chehalis and Nisqually land. They are a sidewalk chalker, a copwatcher, a dog walker and the Daughter of a Momma named Sam. Lisa uses they/them pronouns, has survived suicide attempts and poLice terror, and sends deep love to those mourning Anthony’s death.