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(CHICANO GANG TASK FORCE) What is Kop watch Aztlan and Chicano gang task force? This is the Chicano peoples, Indigenous peoples, poor peoples and all oppressed peoples led movement towards Liberation and Self Determination. This is a mobilization to hold the oppressor accountable for their actions by documenting a database of name and badge numbers of all cops in Aztlan, (also known as South West United snakes of Amerikklan). Kop watch Aztlan is the name of the movement and youtube channel. Chicano gang task force is the name of our peoples who go out and save lives while advocating for the people of this occupied Territory.  Investigative journalism is back with cop watch Aztlan where Independent Journalist, 1st Amendment Auditors, Poverty scholars, and Revolutionary Reporters go out and do our own private investigation into Officer involved shootings, into their relation to the cause of death in any and every incident, the results and findings from court documents regarding the cause and the nature of the causes related to the death of a “subject” (one of us). We are Photographers who record the police for social justice and accountability reasons. By Filming the cops and Government agencies they hire to oppress us, we are able to document just a small fraction of all the Tyrannical behavior on video cameras when we collect name and badge numbers live on the spot. We do this ultimately to create awareness and change.   How do you do kop watch? Collect name and badge numbers by any means necessary. This means going out and recording the police every time we see them. Being brave and assertive when requesting law enforcement to identify themselves in their active line of duty.   The Chicano gang task force takes a closer look into the Tyrannical behavior and corruption being displayed by law enforcement as we do cop watch throughout cities, counties and States within these occupied Sacred lands that filter the bodies and spirits of our ancestors. This form of community kon-trol is necessary in this day and age where the po-lice are killing 3 to 4 people a day all across Turtle Island aka USA. What the Chicano gang task force does everytime we see a pig does not matter if its a Federal Marshal or if it is an armed security guard at Walmart , we collect name and badge numbers by firmly asking them to show transparency do to the fact that they have qualified immunity, which in peoples terms means a “license to kill”. “Hello sir ,or mam, would you mind showing transparency can i have your name and badge number please”,is how we engage in conversation not answering any questions by them because we know that anything we say can and will be used against us in the court of law and they escalate our encounters to the point of arrest or in many events DEATH. So after requesting them to show transparency, depending on the response, we will either say “thank you for showing transparency” or persistently and affirmatively demanding them to identify themselves to the public , requesting a supervisor if they Kon-inue to refuse or ignore us.  Where do you do kop watch? Kop watch can be performed anywhere that law enforcement or Government entity is present. Kop watch is typically done in poverty stricken communities where hyper policing is an ongoing occurrence and where Tyrants frequent,(which is everywhere). We do kop watch at locations where the police harass the people the most but any video of Kop watch is an important and educational form of resistance by Chicano gang task force that put their lives on the line to save lives on their ancestral homeland protecting the inhabitants of this stolen land. When do you do cop watch?Whenever you see a pig even if they are at 711 buying a donut and coffee they are up to something, facts. On or off duty they are up to Tyrannical behavior in one way shape or form. Especially when you suspect them to be up to no good. Record anytime you get in contact with law enforcement for your own safety and evidence. Always film the po-lice FTP every time you see them because 10 times out of 10 times they are doing something wrong. Film law enforcement anytime you see them and kon-tinue to record them until they leave, while advocating for the people that they are engaging with in or out of the act. Why do you do Kop watch? We do cop watch for obvious reasons like, police brutality and social injustices like false imprisonment and officer involved shootings that always cut the pigs a break due to “qualified immunity”. We do this to end pig terror and to fight for those murdered by the pigs. We do this because in political philosophy the right of Revolution is the right and the duty of the people of a nation to overthrow a Government who acts against their common interest and threatens their safety without cause. Who created Kop watch Aztlan? This is a grass roots project created by poverty scholar Aztlan Native “the Chicano Che Guevarra” also known as Gera at poor magazine.

By Aztlan Native/POOR Magazine/PNN A 63 year old man Mike Casey was found dead last week in his small, camouflaged hut that he built near the entrance to the 880 freeway off Davis streets off ramp in San Leandro near Oakland 98th avenue exit. Everyone knew Mike in the area, he was a well known guy I had the honor of meeting and socializing with this past year. Mike enjoyed socializing and working with his friends on motorcycles and all bikes, but his passion was airplanes. He always bragged about being a pilot and telling stories about how he used to have girls in his planes and they loved it when he took them for a flight up north.                             He was content with his homemade hut all by himself where he fell victim to poverty violence going 2 days before a friend went to check on him finding him extremely overweight from the gasses and toxins trapped in his body. A female friend, one of the 2 friends that found him in his hut said, "the smell was really bad and flies came swarming out once I opened the doors to his shack” another said “he was a good man”. Mike was an air force veteran and had been homeless for the past 5-10 years due to a falling out with his father and family over property up North.                               Mike was not healthy and refused to get medical attention because he felt like hospitals were killing more people then they were healing or curing. This is another sad reminder how homelessness kills and death is an ongoing occurrence here in the United snakes of Amerikkka. This is a form of Genocide that we are faced with among all the other epidemics and pandemics.No obituary was published on behalf of Mike Casey, this is a tactic of the oppressors to sweep our tragedies under the rug.  Mike’s LoveUary will be honored at POOR Magazine’s Dia de los Muertos ceremony at Homefulness - this Thursday, Oct 31 at 2pm- 8032 MacArthur Bl Deep East Huchiun (Oakland)

Oct. 31st at 2pm Prayer and Danza from all 4 corners Honoring ceremony for ancestors of genocide, homelessness, and police terror Homefulness, 8032 MacArthur Blvd. Huchuin Oakland 2pm, Thursday, Oct. 31st Resos y Danza de los cuatros rumbos Ceremonia honorando ancestros de genocidio, desemparamiento y violencia de policia Homefulness, 8032 MacArthur Blvd. Huchuin Oakland 2pm, Jueves, 31 de Oct.

by tiny, a resistance to colonial linguistic dominance Cause we can’t use the kkkolonizers words to liberate ourselves, our ancestors and our MamaEarth Akkkademia / akkkademiks — most if not all of the institutions of higher “learning” across Turtle Island were built by land-stealers, wealth-hoarders and colonizers. Most of the buildings on their “campuses” are named after eugenicists, or people that actively promoted, supported or benefited off of pure race science and/or the theft of land, lives, bodies, knowledge and culture across Mama Earth.  Amerikkklan —  The Stolen indigenous territory of Turtle Island named after one of the colonizers who aided and abetted in the stealing of this land and building/creating the mythology of discovery. AMON-strazon — (remix of Amazon) as it has become a literal monster, “owning,” destroying, buying, selling ideas, art, life, and our Mama Earth AnthroWrongOlogy and Arkkkaeology  — The theft, storage, display, removal, and displacement of indigenous ancestors, poor, Black and Brown people for study, research, profit, entertainment or devil-opment without the descendants’ inclusion, permission, leadership, direction, prayer protocol, and/or ceremony. Anti-Social Work & Case Manglers  — The angry-at-poor-people, working-for-the-man, believing-in-the-“sys,” hegemony-filled people who often work in the non-profit industrial complex as front-line staff or advocates, or in Social Security, welfare/Hellfare offices, shelters or drop-in centers and ascribe to the scarcity model of the “deserving vs. undeserving poor” notion that poor people are lazy, crazy, etc.—which is often translated/taught in training sessions, academia, and/or existent in a person who lacks poverty scholarship. AristoKrazy —  Wealth-Hoarders/Land-stealers who believe that they know more inherently, because of their “bloodlines” of privilege and so-called wealth, about survival, thrival, use of resources and Mama Earth and life itself  Blood-Stained Dollars : US Dollars or Euros (and all other empire monetary systems) gained off the exploitation, wars, removal and/or genocide of people. Love Stained Dollars - radically redistributed stolen and hoarded wealth for liberation of Mama Earth and her sacred resources  Brother-Ship/Sister-Ship/Mama-Ship  — The opposite of a “fellow-ship”— a designation, support for loving and caregiving for your family, community and village. ComeUNITY  — A village of poor/indigenous and/or in-struggle folks operating interdependently.  CONfused CONsumer — using billion-dollar ad campaigns to “sell” happiness and love and so-called sexiness to people, resulting in people associating love with material things in a kkkrapitalist system. Side effects/impacts—hoarding/cluttering illness, the lie of “credit,”  bankruptcy and the violence of debt CorpRape / CorpRapeShun —  remix of “corporate/corporation” as these entities exist to extract, destroy, desecrate, kill, poLice and profit off of poor, indigenous, Black and Brown peoples, animals, Mama Earth, Mama Ocean and her resources, Air, Water, Land and resources  Eldership  — The active (as opposed to passive and in name only), non-capitalist practice of caring for, honoring, and showing deference to elders in your family and in society. Folks in Struggle  — We don’t say “homeless people,” as if “homeless” were our only identity just because we don’t have access to a roof. “Homeless” is a grant-pimp guideline word/determination. We don’t say “low-income”—because whose idea of low-income are we talking about within a capitalist society? And we don’t even always say “in poverty,” because that isn’t the only way to describe the struggle of people who struggle with other oppressions like racism, ableism, gender oppression, border fascism, and more. So, as often as we can, we say “folks in struggle” instead, adding that folks are in struggle with poverty, ableism, houselessness, landlessness, and more. GentriFUKation —  Gentrification and displacement of poor peoples of color and indigenous peoples from their rooted communities, jobs, and land. Hellthcare  — The treatment received (or not received) by poor, unhoused, disabled, migrant/immigrant, indigenous and/or very low-income people. Homefulness — a homeless, landless, self-determined movement solution to homelessness (currently being manifested in Deep East Occupied Huchiun)  Houseless/Landless/Unhoused  — As poverty skolaz we resist the term “homeless.” Like “youth” and “seniors,” “homeless” is another way that nonprofit industrial complex organizations, philanthro-pimped grants, legislators, politicians, corporate governments, media, and akkkademics “separate” us from the tables of decision-making and power, so they can talk about us instead of talking with us. By claiming the term “landless,” we align ourselves with landless peoples movements in Brazil, Kenya, South Africa, and Mexico. Our relationship to a roof does not define us as people—we are multi-layered, multi-generational, multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-lingual—we just don’t have a roof—also many folks live outside in a neighborhood, community or town, that doesn’t mean that we are any less residents than someone with access to a roof on this stolen, indigenous land. Interdependence  — The intentional connectedness of people, families, and community. Interdependence is the reliance on each other with an open acceptance that, as people, we need each other. It is a rejection of the bootstraps, capitalist ideal of separateness, isolation, and western, Euro-centric ideas of individuation and independence. kkKrapitalism/KrapitaLOST — a person of any culture or melanin who believes that the harming system of “capitalism” is our way to be “free,” rooted in violent exploitation of your fellow human, mama earth resources or activity. Krapitalism is a word I created to clarify the racist classist, violent system known as Capitalism  KkkrapitalisMas —  a day wrongly associated with the born-day of the revolutionary indigenous, melanted man known as Yeshua (Jesus) so that kkkrapitalists could make billions of dollars of bloodstained dollars in the CONsumer kkkrapitalist industry KlanMark — So-called landmarks like Mount Rushmore and the Alamo (and so many more all across occupied Turtle Island) where colonial terror and colonial terrorists who stole Mama Earth, enslaved people and perpetuated genocide on indigenous, Black, Brown and Disabled bodies are held up as “leaders,” “thinkers,” artists, visionaries, scientists and “presidents”    Lie-gislators / Politricksters  — The people known as legislators and politicians who use bloodstained and stolen dollars and power to abuse, criminalize and profit off of the backs of poor peoples and people of color. These folks should not be confused with conscious peoples who try to be in the race, classed and colonized space of politricks navigating the settler-colonizer laws for collective justice. Linguistic Domination : Linguistic domination privileges the colonizers’ languages and speech, which results in the exclusion, shame, silencing, segregation, disempowerment, and destruction of voices speaking their indigenous languages and tongues. Proficiency in the colonizers’ tongues affords access, space, resources, and power to a small group of people with race, class, and/or educational privilege. Linguistic domination rewards people who can master not only the master’s language but also the dominant way of thinking, forming ideas, and living. These institutionalized forms of silencing dictate which words and information are considered legitimate, who and what is funded to create media, and who is considered valid as an expert, a media maker, a communicator. The colonizers’ languages have been afforded this legitimacy and “privilege” via access to stolen resources and imperialistic stability—e.g. libraries, endowments, institutions of academia, media corporations, and the like. Media Resistance  — Media resistance occurs when people who are usually intentionally silenced by media channels create media for the purposes of change, resistance, and revolution. MiddleClassMedia Missionary (MCMM) — Media creators who have, as my Mama Dee would say, never missed a meal (in other words no poverty scholarship) and do “exposés” on marginalized peoples and communities with the idea that by telling our stories for us without us they are “helping” us. Writing about us poor and houseless peoples with no accountability to us or inclusion of our voices, a media missionary is silencing the peoples and communities they purport to help. Like all missionary work, media-missionary work is misguided; the “help” can be a form of genocide, telling a story that’s not the media-maker’s to tell, leading to/enabling the destruction of a community. Media-missionary work is not specific to corporate media, but it started there. Non-Profiteers & the Savior Industrial Complex — Non-profiteers—in the tradition of capitalist paper-theft projects like real estate, multinational corporations, hedge funds, and fake insurance policies based on “capital” earned on long-ago-stolen land. Nonprofit organizations are created as corporations, beginning with 501(c)3 papers that use language very similar to that of for-profit corporations. They are all created with capitalist, individualistic structures like boards, secretaries, and presidents who follow strict guidelines and codes of conduct meant to “keep everything in line.” The organizations function in the same way corporations do—sometimes even worse, depending on what they do. Big poverty-pimped organizations like Goodwill and Salvation Army compete for government contracts to “provide” services to poverty, disability, youth, and migrant skolaz and then create large shelters that operate like jails, with piss tests and shut-down rules. Smaller organizations insist that we respect “boundaries” and create punitive requirements/actions if we don’t follow the “rules”—which often means that we are punished for acting in the ways of our ancestors, with indigenous love and respect. Nonprofits within the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) create projects based on the “guidelines” of big philanthro-pimps, which leads to separatist, individualistic ways of allegedly providing services. In reality, though, they keep people sick, in the system, and out of control.  Philanthro-Pimping  — The industry of philanthropy includes a heavy pimping aspect with covert and overt ways of commodifying and exploiting people and their pain, struggle, and oppression. This process of commodification and exploitation often includes language about the “sexiness” of a project, initiative, or problem. See Chapter 10 of Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words & Tears Across Mama Earth . Po’Lice  — Paid agents of the prison industrial complex (PIC) who protect property and provide customers for the PIC. Poor Peoples’ Equity  — Within a capitalist context, equity means the falsely bolstered property values of stolen land acquired through paper theft. Within a context of landless/houseless people, though, it can mean many things: fair access to a roof that we aren’t at risk of being kicked out of due to non-payment or lack of access to blood-stained amerikkkan dollaz (which landless/houseless people never have, due to many racist and classist setups and paper thefts and boundaries and dominations that happen every day to poor people/indigenous peoples); the ability to walk into a store and not have a security guard follow you; access to mental health services; the knowledge that someone is caring for you or will care for you if you are an elder; relationships, from academic networks to knowing there are people you can count on to provide a job or a place to stay, or anything else. Equity is covert, intangible, and at the root of race and class separation. Poor Peoples’ Sweat Equity —  Access to land, housing, and food security, not based on how many bloodstained amerikkkan dollaz we have or the over-used and oftentimes ableist, racist and classist concept of “sweat equity” based on how much physical labor humans can do. Poor peoples’ sweat equity is based on “whatever we can do” as poor elders, youth, disabled and differently abled poor people, i.e., child care, media, chairing of meetings, cleaning, organizing, i.e., the time, love, sweat, labor, struggle, and spirit we put into caring for our mama, each other and Pachamama. Povertyskola —  a person who has struggled with homelessness, poverty, eviction, false borders, racism, incarceration, profiling and/or other forms of colonial oppression in this stolen land. Real E-Snakes & Devil-opers —  Real-estate snakkkes and developers are the people or organizations who imagine and oversee real-estate speculation, from conceptualizing new real-estate developments to buying land to financing and managing construction to selling and leasing. Most developers are devil-opers, key agents of community destruction and displacement. When a developer uses “redevelopment” of an area to destroy and displace a thriving community of color, they get statues and plazas named after them. For example, Justin Herman, head of San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency in the 1960s, oversaw the displacement of tens of thousands of people of color from a neighborhood that was once described as the nation’s most diverse. That neighborhood now has a plaza named after him. See also gentriFUKation. Underground Economic Strategies —  Unrecognized ways of work, labor, and business such as selling products on the streets without a license or selling services not seen as “legal” or sanctioned by society. Underground economic strategists include recyclers, panhandlers, and unlicensed street vendors or artists. WeSearch —  I launched the concept of We-Search because I don’t believe in the akkkademic domination of research. Academic research uses philanthro-pimped and funded initiatives to study, deconstruct, and survey poor youth, adults, and elders in struggle. This research creates papers, thesis projects, and studies that talk about how poor we are, how much racism there is, and how bad our neighborhoods and schools are. We-Search is poor-people-led research and proactive media that deconstructs the lies told about our criminalized and mythologized communities. Wite  — Not to be confused with the “color” or the melanin in someone’s skin, this relates to the system of “White supremacy” that rules institutions of learning, housing, hellthcare and service provision in the US. Wite-Science  — Post-colonial science, medicine, biology, eugenics, rooted in/based on the study, experimentation, torture, exploitation and/or death of indigenous, Black, Brown, Disabled peoples stolen, disrespected, poisoned, incarcerated bodies.

By Seamus O'Quill October 31st is known as Samhain in Irish (pronounced saw-when). It's the start of the new year and the time when the veil between worlds is thin, a time of honoring ancestors and the spirit of the land. As the churches colonized Irish culture and language the day became known as All Hollows Eve and then Halloween, but many indigenous cultures continue to find voice even within the systems that tried to silence them. The practice of Dia de los Muertos is a cousin of the Irish Samhain.  In solidarity with oppressed people around the world and standing in my Irish tradition, I'm going to join my song with the ancestors in the Pauper's Graveyard in the Steilacoom and Puyallup land named Tacoma, Washington, where those too poor to afford a grave or funeral were buried.  The poor of every tribe and clan have been the primary victims of colonization. My poor Irish ancestors starved off their homeland, rejected as refugees and sold the lie that land out west was free for the taking. The Chinese who built the cities and railroads and were then excluded. The Native kin who faced the awful choice facing colonized and oppressed people even today: where are we supposed to go but the land of our ancestors?  We will likely never know who all lies in the Pauper's Graveyard and can only guess at the stories, but we know them too well because we keep retelling the myths of supremacy and manifest destiny. We sweep unhoused kin where we can't see, dump their bodies in mass graves, bomb their hospitals and schools, and blame them for fighting back. New graveyards are sprouting like plague where the unnamed tell the stories of our undoing.  Every indigenous knowledge system, that is cultural worldviews of native humans living in balance with the land, has a teaching akin to the Native American idea of living for the next seven generations. To consider our actions today as they will be understood by those who follow after us, to become future ancestors. And it's impossible to think forward seven generations without looking back and understanding the stories that got us here.  It's why I study the history of colonization to understand how my people who were oppressed came to be White and oppressors. It's why I seek to learn the history and living culture of the native kin on whose land I dwell. And it's why I sing to graveyards. Because I want to be a part of a story that's changing.  On Samhain I will sing funeral songs to the paupers, perhaps some never had. But not just to ease the spirits on the day when they are most restless, but to connect to a future ancestor story that I see in the Homefulness project of Poor Press.  Since learning from Tiny in People Skool and joining them for the first visit to the Pacific Northwest with the vision of Homefulness, I've seen a dream and story that can last seven generations. Unsell mamma Earth. Stop charging rent. Start listening to women and indigenous voices.  Faced with the daily violence and grief and rage of the alternative, and all the new pauper's graveyards being filled by stories of men needing to own land and bodies, it is the one story that gives me hope, that continues to transmute my grief into joy. I see lot after lot of land being unsold as neighbors and communities realize that the unhoused have always known what they need. I see the generations that can grow without rent or the threat of eviction hovering always. I see a small graveyard dotted with White Oak and Douglas Fir, where my bones may nourish the trees for seven generations, at least.  To paraphrase Chief Si'ahl, the White Man will never be alone, the spirits of the people who love this land, love her still and throng in the forest and street and shop and in the quiet of the woods. I sing because I am not alone.

So-called California Settler towns wage a war on our houseless bodies- we fight back by Tiny @povertyskola, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Swept and swept and swept away How much disappearing can u do to us  Before our lives and destroyed bodies don’t make it to another day  I can't say  Clearing and Cleaning, towing, killing and disappearing  But guess what we aren't going away  Humans housed or unhoused are here to stay  We live , we breathe, we have viable solutions and dreams We are poets, and consumers - taxpayers and voters We are fighting and writing  We are building and crying  And so this an invitation of love in the face  Of all of your poltrickster hate  To listen to us  To hear - NOT CLEAR -  To Listen to our Dreams NOT perpetrate more tows & sweeps  A love letter to Sheng , Karen , London and Jesse and Gavin too  We are right here, on that park bench, in that tent on the street corner- Your system- Krapitalism built Us, evicted us, placed us outside -right beside you.... excerpt of CLearing - a love letter by tiny .  “F#$%K Berkeley, full of so-called progressives, but they just as racist and classist as any of these cities…”, my mama held her head in her hands while she screamed this out to the poLice and their tow trucks scraping and lurching our home (car) away into the distance. We had been pulled over for driving while poor in Berkeley (expired registration, broken taillight, hooptie). Within minutes i was arrested, thrown against the wall and our car-home was seized while my houseless, disabled mama was left on Haste and Telegraph with no support person or wheelchair. These violent memories clutter my head all the time. Me and mama were houseless in Berkeley, Oakland, LA and San Francisco, all of them operating under the english colonial law that deems poor people criminal for being poor and in this 21st century have created specific demands for our disappearance from so-called public lands all across California. In occupied Huchiun a new land reclamation move has erupted and it’s called Where Do We Go    All of my deep trauma memories of childhood and adult homelessness, evictions and sweeps  came back to me in force while i stood at the edge of the newly established Where Do We houseless ComeUnity at 8th and Bancroft in West Berkeley.  Whether it’s so-called Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, or  LA  now or in the late 90’s, my mama was right. There is a mythos about the alleged progressiveness of these Calififornia settler towns, but like all of occupied Turtle Island and the world, their policies towards its poorest residents of their towns  are broken and violent and dangerous.   “My medicine was stolen, my walker was crushed, my dog was taken, all in Berkeley but before that i was staying on MLK and West Grand, where they stole my tent and my clothes” said Alvin, a 64 year old RoofLEssRadio reporter huddled near a recylcling can in downtown Berkeley. And no,” he added, “I was given no referrals for housing in either place, just a shelter that wouldnt let me bring my dog.” Since the Grant Pass Vs Johnson ruling every houseless person in so-called California has been brutally swept, displaced and removed. On MLK and West Grand  in occupied Huchiun aka Oakland, where many of POOR Magazine’s RoofLessRadio reporters were peacefully trying to sleep, the mayor of Oakland who claimed her own experience with homelessness to get elected, launched a viscous “clearing” campaign of her own, followed by a city wide mandate to sweep every single houseless person who dares to sleep in occupied Huchiun. Her order and Newsom's order are also unCONstitutional as POOR Magazine reporter and poverty skola Jeremy Miller was able to prove In Occupied Yelamu aka San Francisco as reported and WeSearched extensively  by POOR Magazine RoofLESs reporters , houseless, disabled, elders, families and folks across occupied Yelamu have been harassed, bullied, arrested, interrogated, intimidated and removed by London Breed’s administration and  given bus tickets to nowhere.  In Occupied Tovaangar aka LA Mayor Karen Bass has created a poltrickster “solution” that incarcerates houseless people in “jail-like” motel rooms, or locked up “detention-like” centers, where if the system doesnt get us, our own minds struggling with depression and trauma will. Isolation Kills as me and my houseless mama often repeated and one of the inspirations for the healing, housing  Comeunity that is Homefulness. Meanwhile the “Housing Authority” of LA aka HACLA harasses, and evicts houseless mamas and uncles from their own reclaimed homes in another liberation solution movement who call themselves Reclaiming Our Homes.  In Fresno, Antioch and beyond, new and increasingly violent anti-houseless peoples measures are being implemented as I write all with the goals of disappearing our houseless bodies from this occupied land.   Resisting the Disappearing  - Refusing to Go  On September 28, 2024, a “protest encampment” was launched outside “Old Berkeley City Hall.” by the organization known as  Where Do We Go with help from the Berkeley Homeless Union and the Berkeley Outreach Coalition. Housed and unhoused community members of Berkeley came together in solidarity to demand an end of the inhumane policies that have been recently enacted against unhoused residents of Berkeley.  The comeUnity at Bancroft was one of two new commUnities that were launched when Berkeley poltricksters threatened the Old City Hall site with yet another violent sweep as they are constantly doing to our houseless bodies.  Whether its the violent clear-cutting, sweeps and displacement of Peoples Park or the refusal to approve a cease fire resolution for Palestine or the endless anti-poor people votes like clearing the Berkeley Marina of RV’s and the recent vote by Berkeley City Council to “clear” 2/3rds of Berkeley’s Houseless ComeUnities  as demanded by poltrickster Newsom following the Grants Pass versus Johnson anti-houseless people ruling, Berkeley operates with a veneer of performative progressive acts but ultimately  their moves and decisions are rooted in a fascist, KrapitaLOST framework, which is somehow even feels more evil because of the alleged civic consciousness of settler occupied Huchiun .  “If you are unhoused then your human existence in private and public spaces is unlawful. If you are not a property owner or a tenant you are defined as a trespasser,” said Andrea Henson, Executive Director of Where Do We Go, “Every single day is one lived in fear of where you will end up next or if you will be harassed by a community that has made it clear that you are not welcome. Yet despite knowing that our most vulnerable citizens have no protection under the law, our government continues to segregate and discriminate against them. It is inhumane and wrong.” Henson concluded. The beautiful warriors from Where Do We Go have pledged that for every encampment that is swept, they will establish an occupation encampment in the most visible public spaces they can find.They/We as houseless people refuse to be disappeared. This is a beautiful move because the insane point about these non-stop sweeps being conducted across occupied Turtle Island is we HAVE NOWHERE TO GO.  From Wood Street to Mission Street, the trash trucks, tow trucks PoLice/Sheriff and Public Works crushers barrel down the streets of occupied Yelamu to Occupied Maidu, From Tovaangar to Huchiun moving us from pillar to post, with no plan, no housing,  and never listening or acknowledging that us poor people have solutions, viable, powerful solutions like Homefulness,  and Reclaiming Our Homes. Street based comeUnities like Aetna Street and Wood Street. We have viable solutions. And they are places to go. Safe, loving, comeUnity because when we have survived the multiple traumas of homelessness, abuse, poverty and more, we don’t just need a roof. As i always say, we need healing.  “This encampment is an act of protest, but its also a place where people are living,” said Ian Cordova Morales, president and advocate of Where Do We Go at a press conference they held on the launch day of the 4th and Bancroft protest encampment. “Houseless and housed people staying here are protesting not only the Governor's clearing order, but the clearing order by Berkeley City Council, who at first said they would reject the Governor's order and then went back on their own decision, ” concluded Morales.   I have had a lifelong struggle with staying housed and endless traumatic experiences with homelessness, poLice and eviction from LA to San Francisco,  but after that terrifying day in Berkeley with my Mama I ended up doing three months in Santa Rita county jail for the sole act of being houseless, the piled up fines and fees we received ,so high for the act of sleeping outside or in our car while poor, which is a crime according to the settler colonial lies, i mean, laws. that i could never get ahead of them These fees and fines were  given to me because we were too poor to afford what i call “the Lie of Rent, , so of course, the irony is, how could i ever pay them?  These multiple traumas have led myself and other houseless povertyskolaz at POOR Magazine to educate,  liberate and work  alongside housed, conscious wealth-hoarders, with permission, prayer and guidance from 1st Nations relatives,  to build the healing, housing solution to homelessness we call Homefulness, we are currently working with houseless relatives in Tovaangar and Yelamu to launch their own iterations of Homefulness, in all of these violent settler towns while we all collectively scream, demand, walk and reclaim Where Do We Go…. and No We Are NOT going anywhere!  If you are interested in being involved in POOR Magazine's upcoming land l land liberation move email poormag@gmail.com . The next degentriFUKation/decolonization seminar offered for folks with race, class or formal education privilege to learn and unlearn the many lies of krapitalism and the liberation of Mama Earth, Homefulness and Poverty scholarship will be Jan 25 & 26 and you can find out more information or register here   From Where Do We Go:  Our resistance will continue until the following is achieved:   First:  The immediate cessation of encampment “sweeps” and the end of criminalization of homelessness. Any act of state violence against the poor is completely unacceptable and undermines all attempts to provide actual solutions.   Second:  The emancipation of all vacant bank and state owned property so that it may be used for housing. It was reported in 2022 that there are approximately 1.2 Million vacant properties in California. This means there are six vacant properties for every unhoused person in the state.   Third:  A permanent moratorium on rental evictions for non-payment of rent. The only way to address the homelessness crisis is to prevent any more people from becoming homeless. The traumas associated with living on the streets often lead to permanent physical and mental health conditions making it far more difficult and expensive to navigate a person into housing.   Fourth:  The complete overhaul and restructuring of the HUD coordinated entry and Section 8 housing processes. The current wait for permanent housing is anywhere between 1-10 years. Navigating homeless housing through coordinated entry is so difficult and inaccessible that despite their want for housing, many people will never be able to get close.   Fifth: The implementation of oversight for all non-profits receiving government funding for the purposes of homeless housing, shelters, and services. At this moment there is little to no accountability for the behavior and spending habits of major non-profits. Current homeless shelter conditions in California are deplorable and dangerous. If a program can not maintain a person's safety and dignity, it should have no right to public funding.   Sixth:  An accessible and non-carceral approach to mental health care. The United States has completely failed to defund its police forces in favor of improving mental health care services. Instead, 5150 holds, medical incarceration, and forced conservatorships through Gavin Newsom's care courts threaten to circumvent due process and other constitutional protections.   Seventh: Creation of laws that protect individuals who are experiencing homelessness or who are formerly homeless that are similar to tenant protections. When you are not a tenant or a property owner, your very existence is unlawful. That must change so that individuals who cannot afford to pay rent, who are forced into shelters or substandard living conditions, are not victimized by a system that uses poverty as a vehicle for profit.

10/22, 10/24, & 10/26 Krip-Hop Nation’s first LA Event entitled, Trans-National Strategies in Erasing Black Ableism- A Krip-Hop Meet-Up will happen October 22nd, 24th, and 26th 2024 . Sponsored by UCLA Hip-Hop Study Group, UCLA Disability Studies, Faith Without Borders (USA) and Beloved Community Coalition (South Africa), LAAC, Soul & Strategy Center & Poor Magazine. 10/22 12:45pm-2:45pm- Los Angeles City College- Holmes Hall 6 (855 N Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90029) 10/24 12:45pm-2:45pm- Los Angeles City College- Student Union- 3rd Flr. Multipurpose Room (855 N Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90029) 10/26 10am-1pm Strategy & Soul Center (3546 w Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90008) We will discuss Trans-National Strategies in Erasing Black Ableism, Krip-Hop Nation locally and internationally- from US to Africa, a Global Perspective on Ableism Rights Resistance Reimagination, the upcoming Krip-Hop Institute, Homefulness, and Linguistics from Poverty Scholarship to Krip-Hop Terminology with Tiny gray-garcia aka povertySkola ( co-founder, POOR magazine and co-editor/visionary of Homefulness and Poverty Scholarship-Poor people led theory, art, words and tears across mama earth) joined by other poverty skolaz/Poor Press authors at POOR Magazine. Because Krip-Hop Nation is an international movement, we will look at the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent rights especially Article 30: Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport that includes the arts. Event Schedule Tuesday Oct. 22nd 12:45pm-2:45pm at LACC Leroy and Kelvin Sauls talk about Krip-Hop, Krip-Hop work in Africa, Disability Justice, Black Ableism and Leroy's Ph.D. studies and the upcoming Krip-Hop Institute. We will close with giving thanks and providing information about how to get involved. Thursday Oct. 24th 12:45pm-2:45pm at LACC We will be talking about Linguistics from Poverty Scholarship to Krip-Hop Terminology with Tiny gray-garcia aka povertySkola ( co-founder, POOR magazine and co-editor /visionary of Homefulness and Poverty Scholarship-Poor people led theory, art, words and tears across mama earth ) joined by other poverty skolaz/Poor Press authors at POOR Magazine. Leroy is a long-term member of Poor Magazine and a co-founder of Homefulness. We will also present the answer to homelessness that we call Homefulness through poetry, songs, skits and video. We will close with next steps needed to make Homefulness and Krip-Hop Institute a reality. Saturday Oct. 26th 10am-1pm at Strategy & Soul Center Leroy Moore, Kelvin Sauls, and poets talk about Black Ableism its effects in the Black community locally and internationally. They will talk about their work in LA and in South Africa. There will be performances from a poet in South Africa and musician from Zimbabwe via Zoom. Leroy will discuss his graduate studies at UCLA and the upcoming Krip-Hop Institute. Leroy F. Moore Blackkrip@gmail.com 1-424-467-6407

Prop 36. A true double edged sword. It’s a proposition aimed at re-working aspects of a previous law, Prop 47, passed almost 10 years ago, originally aimed at tackling the still major issue of prison overcrowding. Defenders of Prop 47, which include Governor of California Gavin Newsom argue that rolling back those sentencing aspects of the law will bring us back to the overcrowding in prisons, while also highlighting the fact that the California GOP doesn’t actually care about the recovery of the people who will get sent to prison for these minor offenses. On the flip side, the California GOP and a coalition of law enforcement and business owners would have you believe that by bringing back greater punishments for the minor offenses in Prop 47, it would lower the high retail crimes, and it would take people committing these crimes as well as petty drug crimes off the streets and into prisons and jails.   The reality is that this is a bill aimed at putting more people in prison as some insane deterrent to drug crime, retail crime, and homelessness. This will not stop those crimes from happening. They don’t plan on helping these people, they just want to shove them in cages to be forgotten. I urge everyone to vote NO on 36.

America, I didn’t think we’d be back this fast. When I first wrote my original award-winning article about how Mayor London Breed was a fraud who broke many of the promises she was elected on, I talked about how over a period of time, she slowly revealed who she really was and how her comments especially over the last year or two started to show that the Mayor was on this sort of right wing pivot, and today we are going to go into more detail on that. Mayor Breed has recently been going full steam ahead on the removal of tents and other encampments in the City after the Supreme Court decision on Grants Pass vs Johnson as well as the executive order signed by Gov. Newsom following that case. We saw the real start of her true opinions on this during the APEC conference in 2023, when the whole of SOMA and Downtown San Francisco was meticulously swept, with people losing the only home they had left and in most cases losing almost all of their belongings. She’s even been on these sweeps herself, speaking on one such occasion Breed says “ When I went out with encampment teams two weeks ago, our city workers had already been there over 15 times this year, offering people shelter and cleaning the area.” She would have you believe that these actions, and the ones she's undertaken recently are good things, and that she’s cleaning up the city but the truth is she’s just shuffling people around.  A representative from the Coalition on Homelessness, River Beck, said it best. “Right now, we’re seeing a political response to an election year.” London Breed is just shuffling people around, neighborhood to neighborhood, and most recently she’s even threatened those people, trying to force them to accept resources from the City and County of San Francisco, saying “ We will bring a new reality to our streets, built on both compassion and the clear directive that San Francisco is not a place where anything goes.” But let us be honest. London Breed is demonizing the mentally ill in our homeless communities calling them “Service Resistant” just so she can score brownie points with the moderates in her party. All of this is to gain as many votes as she can for an election, not for the betterment of the City. She does not and has never cared about the homeless, she wants to eradicate homelessness by getting rid of the people, not tackling the issue, and I hope that people don’t fall for her nonsense.

By Jay Paulino/ Youth Poverty Skola reporter /POOR Magazine There is a RV Community down the whole street near the back of the Stonestown mall. The Government plans on getting rid of at least 110 or more Rv’s when that’s peoples homes. While there are housless folks with tents and their belongings get thrown out with their homes, which would be tents.The amount of disrespect the city has for their people is so crazy to me. So this Rv community is “getting pushed out “SF State University.  “It really is distressing news," said Margot Sevilla, 27, who works in construction as a painter. Sevilla lives with her grandma, two cousins and uncle in a single Rv. “They’re going to remove us and we don’t have anywhere to go,” also said Margot Sevilla. As I am researching on houseless people with sweeps, It’s still happening as we speak. It’s one of the top 10 issues in California today and definitely has to be more recognised. The Government is sleeping on our Community. The fact that San Francisco is ramping up efforts to remove houseless folks in general is beyond me. There is all kinds of Violence in the city, “Where is the Police now that’s protecting and serving and not harming our people.” The Police now are sadly too busy kicking us poor folks off the street. I”m saying for myself--I, Jay Paulino--say this is wrong as hell as a young writer scholar.          Resuming 10-1-2024: As we talked about houseless sweeping with RVs, There’s folks out there still getting swept, the two actions I was at were in San Francisco City Hall and a Harmless parking lot in East Oakland, California. I asked every Officer “Why do they keep kickin us poor folks out?” They replied with “ask Ivan.” Since when did the public community workers have a higher power with police. The attitude when they know it's illegal to kick us out in broad hell daylight. What do the Police have to say about that one? The first action was “Police hurting the Poverty poor folks” by kicking out families out of their own homes that are considered tents, RV’s and their own built homes when the Government knows from right and wrong. I just didn’t understand how difficult it is for police to protect and serve our community. There’s crime every single day where’s the Police then. With out of respect this is frustrating to watch when there is real harm out there, when the System is failing to serve and they get paid like that is beyond me.

After the article in the San Francisco Bay View (September 2024) by Nehanda Imara pandemic profiteering  exploiting our poverty and pain  b/c if we don't work we don't get an hourly wage i ain't selling nothing cause all i have is fear and a mask can’t cover  that up  or a glove come near the world health organization hasn’t said it's over nor any authority on disease but still we going to the restaurants and movie theater and sitting in the middle row dr. noha says:  “what has been said is  that the public health emergency  is over” so go get back to work keep producing b/c we’re not paying for anything  no mo as capitalism continues yelling  aint nothing free so pull your bare feet by your bootstraps  and let the wealthy and rich be… juju angeles  9/23/2024

4 men were deemed guilty on RICCO Charges BY Momii Palapaz, poverty scholar In retaliation for 4 incarcerated men participating in a hunger strike against solitary confinement,  the Federal government won a verdict of guilty.  Charged with gang conspiracy and racketeering,  James Perez, David Cervantes, George Franco and Guillermo Solorio were participants in hunger strikes to end solitary confinement and united with the Short Corridor collective that produced an “Agreement to End Hostilities” amongst residents of the Pelican Bay State Prison and prisons throughout California.  Thousands got involved by not eating, building unity and protesting the inhuman conditions of the prison system .  Sponsors Silicon Valley De-Bug and POOR Magazine rallied at the Oakland Federal Courthouse prior to the trial, emphasizing the inumanity of solitary confinement. I’ll Never Leave Him Alone “I’ll never leave him alone.  My parents weren’t able to drive up there” to Pelican Bay State Prison.  Said Mary, sister to one of the 4 men who stood trial.   Mary’s brother made her “understand that he was never getting out.  Maybe he didn’t want to be a rat.  If you don’t know anything you can’t talk.”   Long, dark and white, wavy and graying strands of hair down her back, at 70 years old, Mary has spent a lifetime standing by her brother.   “The older guys don’t have any family left to visit anymore”.  Yes, there were few relatives sitting in court during the 80 plus days of the trial. Thursday, September 26, 2024 in Oakland Federal Court, Mary and I are at the Oakland Federal Courthouse waiting for the verdict.  There is no one else waiting.  After two and a half months of trial, it is day 10 with the jurors still deliberating. Her brother and 3 other men were charged with gang conspiracy and racketeering.   I left and received a text from Mary later in the day.  “Yes, when you left, like a half hour after, I saw the attorneys going to the courtroom.  I asked him (lawyer) did anything happen, they said yes they think they made up the verdict already.  So I asked him  if i could go in and they said yes.  It was so sad to see them sad.”  She looked to her brother who gave a slight movement of his face, a weak smile.  All the men gave her recognition.  She tried not to cry, so her brother wouldn’t worry.  “ It’s all prejudice and the government side was happy.”  Mary saw many federal government colleagues/attorneys there to hear the verdict, laughing and smiling.  “I cried all the way home”.  Boy, I wished I stayed a little longer to be with her for the bad news. Solidarity in hunger and an end to fighting   Mary expressed her surprise saying, “I didn’t know all this stuff about (Nuestra Familia) NF. I learned a lot.  I didn't know about my brother having to be in a gang to stay alive.  All this was new to me.  Now  I hear about the government lying so much.  I didn’t think there were crooks like that. I feel bad for my brother”. In 2011,  between July 1 and September 26th, James Perez, David Cervantes, George Franco and Guillermo Solorio were part of a hunger strike protesting solitary confinement. Organized by The Short Corridor Collective, the residents sent messages that spread Statewide and throughout prisons and jails on turtle island.  These men lived in the (Special Housing Unit) SHU, and could only receive non-touch visits,  separated by a window, with a telephone.  They were denied the right to free movement beyond a cage, denied the right to quality nutrition and the right to touch earth.. In 2012, The Short Order Collective at Pelican Bay constructed “An Agreement to End Hostilities” in the continued ongoing struggle for unity amongst the imprisoned.  Both the hunger strike and the “amendment” simultaneously targeted the federal government and the US industrial prison complex.  Much to no one's surprise, the Feds and CDRc (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)  immediately tried to suppress and cover up the uprising. Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, co-writer of  “An Agreement To End Hostilities” and co-leader of the hunger strike.  Member of the Short Corridor Collective at Pelican Bay State Prison. Toward the end of the trial an inmate and witness for the prosecution admitted he was also a confidential informant for the CDCr.  This witness was known to have set up individuals outside the prison walls, involving the CHP and local police.  In addition, several government witnesses were all housed together in county jail during the trial.  Another witness identified a CDCr officer telling him to hide the cell phone during call searches.  Even though Federal prosecutors failed to provide proof with confiscated cell phones and cash from supposed drug transactions, this lack of evidence didn’t deter the jury’s decision of guilt. UFW- Symbol of unity and pride   Mary’s parents worked in the fields, with Mary and her older brother.   The family had four children.  Mary is the eldest. They went “town to town;  Barstow, Mendoda, San Jose”.   “When I was small, 5, 6 or 7, we lived in Barstow in a round trailer house by the railroad tracks.  Mom would yell out “don’t go near the tracks.  We suffered a lot, maybe that’s why I like the fields.”  We used to “make clothes for school”.  At 9 years old, I “picked tomatoes, garlic, onions in Salinas, apricots, strawberries and walnuts in San Jose.”  I thought about my mom’s family who also lived in San Jose.  Mary and I are both the same age.  We both grew up appreciating those days when San Jose was mostly orchards, green houses and fields. “I worked out in the fields with my brother.”  In San Jose,  her parents bought a house and “at 15 or 16, got a job at the Head Start program.  I met a woman  who worked with the United Farm Workers (UFW). She would take food to farmworkers in Fresno during the strike.  She would do a lot of talking  with the workers.  I remember all the workers, and boxes of food.”  I too remember the 1970’s, when the UFW campaigned heavily to boycott grapes.  Organizing and marching in cities across the State of California, and reaching out to grocery stores, thousands became aware of the farmworkers struggle for humane conditions, pay, and right to strike.  Supporters passed out leaflets urging shoppers to not buy grapes.  My father was a union man, so we boycotted as well.   All the men deemed guilty, are descendants of migrants and have memories as youngsters in Fresno, San Jose, Salinas, Sacramento, Central and Southern California.  As children, along with their parents, they worked or sat by in the fields of vegetables and fruits. They planted and harvested millions of tons of produce for independent small farmers and billionaire agri businesses.  Migrant farmworkers made dimes compared to the profits of big corporate farms. The United Farm Workers and the symbol of the Eagle was respected and honored.  The flag of the UFW was tattooed proudly on many of Mexican heritage.  This was the symbol of unity, an emblem of the Mexican and Indigenous who crossed false borders for a better life.  It was also prominent on the bodies of Mexicans housed in prisons throughout California. As her parents aged, it became more and more difficult to make the nine hour drive to the Pelican Bay State Prison.  For 35 years, their son has lived near the false border of California and Oregon, 10 minutes from Crescent City.  They told Mary, the oldest daughter, to continue keeping in touch with her brother.  “No matter how long I live, I’ll be there for him.  My son says, ‘what about you and your health, take it easy’ but I say, no, ‘he’s my little brother and ‘if it were you, I would not leave you alone either.’  he said, ‘But mom, we want you to be okay too’.”  Mary’s large sparkly eyes conveyed hope behind glasses framed with lilac.  Sentencing TBA. POOR MAGAZINE presents ceremony for 4 men on trial.  Silicon DeBug and supporters before the trial June 26, 2024. We Are All Connected