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Medicine for Mama Earth and All of us By Tiny @povertyskola Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders , land stealers who know that something is wrong- that are uncomfortable with the feeling But have been lied to for way too long Your paralysis is our violence As you sit and consider More of mama earth is bought and sold by twitter These are quiet conversations - Don’t include bankkksters And philanthro-pimped “givers” With so much hoarded money sometimes they don’t even remember With legacies of enslavement, exploitation and Colonial terror So what to do ? Deeply overstand stealing/devil-oping, leeching mama Earth must end These silent thieves can’t get away with this unholy war They can’t trade her, steal her, fix her, sell her like she was an old car Cant keep watching as poor/unhoused folks are swept like we dirt on the floor Your paralysis is killing us Please, open your hearts and Listen “This is a request for ideas, I’m thinking about a philanthropy strategy…”Jeff Bezos, (richest man in the world”? Says before he “gives” 98.5 million “away” - which seems like so much to us poor people but come to find out is a mere fraction of his extreme hoarded blud-stained dollars. I want to help cure all the diseases in our childrens life-times,” said Mark Zuckerberg, while slapping his name an a new shiny starbux like facade onto the front of a poor people hospital that still charges poor youth of color for teeth extraction. “I am a conscious billionaire, and I give a lot of my money away,” another global billionaire There are so many wrongnesses with all of these statements. But the first one is that so many people even have all that F..ing money, in the first damn place. These people have undiagnosed hoarder/clutterer disease. These kinds of wealth-hoarders have four to 10 luxury cars when they only need one to drive them, 3 homes and four condominiums, when they only need one to live in? And please don’t tell me its because they have good luck or because they worked hard, all the poor people, families and folks I know work everyday, sometimes three and four jobs like me and my mama did when I was growing up and still can’t afford rent, bills, etc - some of us work just to survive the pain and trauma in our heads and heart from toxic wite supremacy, ableism, gentriFUKAtion and homelessness and then a lot of us do both But one of the main lies here is that no-one critiques, criminalizes, pathologizes or truly questions is the actual accumulation, hoarding, stealing, exploiting of the wealth-hoarders themselves, while us houseless and poor people are criminalized, called names, evicted and “swept” or displaced for the act of hoarding /cluttering things like socks or bags of clothes or paper. These H/C sufferers continue to hoard, fence out, and speculate more and more - rooted in the CorpRape exploitation of Mama Earth, indigenous and poor peoples backs, lives and land. Is Zuckerberg a healer, scientist, doctor or even innovator just because he launched Faccrak? Is Bezos a care-giver, therapist, teacher or any kind of “expert” because he has successfully accumulated billions of blood-stained dollars. How about the Waltons, the Gates - these are people who have had endless wealth and race privileges in this occupied land, they had access to even go to a school like “Harvard” or Stanford, even if they did “drop out” because they were housed as children and fed and not poLICE terrorized and their families and friends knew people that knew more people and had more stolen wealth and on and on the krapitalist cycle repeats itself. Why is anyone thanking them for these meager crumbs? They need Hoarder/Clutterer Buried Alive staff to come in with a series of trucks and move that stolen wealth out of their multiple offshore bank accounts and homes But Im not just talking about conspicuous consumptors like these arrogant tech bros - im talking about the silent violence of trust-funders and wealth-inheritors and even the middle class, comfortable peoples living on this occupied, stolen, lied to land. People who have been lied to for years about “hoarding” and hiding, keeping, succeeding, and the associated CONfusion of consumption, krapitalism and toxic wealth-hoarding, so that they are literally paralyzed into inaction even if they have resources to redistribute. Seeing with their own new eyes the violence, exploitation, terrorism, abuse and murder of their ancestors and yet unable to activate emergency redistribution. From the person who won’t give a dollar to an unhoused person because “they don’t know what they are going to do with the “dollar” to the wealth-hoarder who would rather “give” to huge CorpRape non-profiteers ad philanthropimped admin heavy organizations in times of crisis, cause they don’t “trust” the small on the ground care-givers and service providers, these “issues” this anxiety, this dangerous paralysis is all rooted in the lies you have been told about poor people, about resources and about the ability to accumulate wealth and land. About how much you need to feel “safe” and about safety itself. The success in this occupied indigenous territory is valued by how much of Mama Earth you have stolen, “made” and kept. About the shame you should feel if you haven’t “made” it and how people who have more are implicitly considered “smarter” better, keener, or more strategic. So many lies, so little time. These wealth-hoarding and poverty shaming concepts are also related and entwined with the separation nation I teach on a lot, the ways that we are separated as families, as communities as people to be better CONsumers, krapitalists, workers, producers, exploiters, bosses, hoarders, etc. But really whats happening is we are being used without knowing it. As we leave our communities to go to better schools, jobs, markets we are also leaving our cultures and deep structures and actual safe spaces and are then forced to purchase things, land and love. We are collectively told the only way to “make it” is to hoard and hide and to never tell the truth. We are encouraged to fly to places we aren’t from and “save” poor people there and in so doing we displace and do harm to the cultures and communities already there. Colonial lies aren’t done they are just re-packaged in a 21st century success model. Medicine for Mama Earth and all of us When a houseless/poor person asks you for a dollar or sells you a street newspaper, if you have it give them a dollar not a sandwich, And guess what, yes they might be using it for drugs, so what , do you question what Bezos, Gates, your boss, or your landlord does with the money they make. Similarily, wealth-hoarders, mama earth-owners, trust-funders, inheritors, let your first mind, your heart mind if you will, guide you in your radical redistribution of the resources you have. It is not your place to over-think, to question. The only question you need to ask yourself is what you need for you and your family to survive and thrive, which always has less to do about money and more to do about straight-up accounting and real community work. And for the stupidly “rich” please consider that just cause you have all these blood-stained dollars and stolen land that doesn’t make you any better at figuring out where it should go and what should happen to that land and actually you should be asking/checking with poverty, indigenous skolaz who have had to struggle and our entire lives for mere survival, whose lands and lives were long ago stolen and whose everyday a struggle to be ok ensues. And lastly, please carry the "giving spirit" throughout the year, we houseless and poor folks don't stop living, needing, struggling, being swept after the kolonizer holidaze are over. Politrickster protected and wealth-hoarder promoted scarcity models are a lie, that there isn’t enough for everyone, enough space, enough dollars, enough healthcare, enough service, there is plenty for all of us, we just need to stop believing in the lies we have had shoved down our throats for 527 years and more. What there is plenty of is psychotic greed, dangerous denial and extreme speculating of Mama Earth - privately “owned” and so-called “publicly” owned while people die on the street. Yet another POOR Magazine roofLESS radio reporter was being “swept” off the streets in deep east Oakland last week and another one SF reporter near 3rd st, both of them right next to huge “empty” lots, fenced in, lay bare, with no people or homes on them so greed-filled realEsnakes basing their business models on the buying and selling of mama earth could wait for the "property" values to rise - read: the gentriFUKation could set in Medicine for Mama Earth and all of us When a houseless/poor person asks you for a dollar or sells you a street newspaper, if you have it give them a dollar not a sandwich, And guess what, yes they might be using it for drugs, so what , do you question what Bezos, Gates, your boss, or your landlord does with the money they make. Similarily, wealth-hoarders, mama earth-owners, trust-funders, inheritors, let your first mind, your heart mind if you will, guide you in your radical redistribution of the resources you have. It is not your place to over-think, to question. The only question you need to ask yourself is what you need for you and your family to survive and thrive, which always has less to do about money and more to do about straight-up accounting and real community work. And for the stupidly “rich” please consider that just cause you have all these blood-stained dollars and stolen land that doesn’t make you any better at figuring out where it should go and what should happen to that land and actually you should be asking/checking with poverty, indigenous skolaz who have had to struggle and our entire lives for mere survival, whose lands and lives were long ago stolen and whose everyday a struggle to be ok ensues. And lastly, please carry the "giving spirit" throughout the year, we houseless and poor folks don't stop living, needing, struggling, being swept after the kolonizer holidaze are over. Politrickster protected and wealth-hoarder promoted scarcity models are a lie, that there isn’t enough for everyone, enough space, enough dollars, enough healthcare, enough service, there is plenty for all of us, we just need to stop believing in the lies we have had shoved down our throats for 527 years and more. What there is plenty of is psychotic greed, dangerous denial and extreme speculating of Mama Earth - privately “owned” and so-called “publicly” owned while people die on the street. Yet another POOR Magazine roofLESS radio reporter was being “swept” off the streets in deep east Oakland last week and another one SF reporter near 3rd st, both of them right next to huge “empty” lots, fenced in, lay bare, with no people or homes on them so greed-filled realEsnakes basing their business models on the buying and selling of mama earth could wait for the "property" values to rise - read: the gentriFUKation could set in

The chaos started in the Bay Street Mall Emeryville,also known as Ohlone shellmound at 4:30 the afternoon on Sunday, National Cinema Day. People were fighting, shooting, slamming. There was a girl that got stabbed in the neck. There were people recording the chaos for views and clout.‘’I don’t think kids were gathering to fight. I think kids were gathering to get a lot of energy out And i think there's alot of built up rage, anger, frustration and anxiety,’’ said Selena Wilson. The police were using mace and had guns. I dont think it was ok to hurt eatch other and it was different dance groups facing eatchother. I think they were hurting eatch other for clout and views on the internet. I will pay for everyones therapy. -Kai, 11 On 4$ movie day at the bay street mall in Emeryville its shopping malls libraries vr rat stores and more plus that where all the teens go to link and watch movies. I was in Claires at Bay Street Mall getting this expensive bottle of salelean solution and when I was checking out I went outside. I heard a gunshot and screaming but I had to find my cousin who was in the barns and mobile in the bathroom. i'm running on the lower level and calling my cousin and the link and i went to the top level though the Starbucks and it was ppl fighting everywhere escalation was packed even the stairs was packed and this one person fall and it was mad funny but we were stuck up there so once we got on the first level we ran near best buy to get away from all the stuff that was happening to call our uber but it was heka cops like lined up in front of the door. My opinion is that kids should stop trying to be the best fighter or add to their fight page just to be cool on social media. -Nija, 15 A number of fights broke out, a gun got fired, people were maced and arrested. On Cinema day at 4:30pm, hundreds of teens went to Bay St. to “link up”. that's when cameras got turnt on and people felt like they had to fight for the internet and the views, AT that point a lot of people were fighting for the attention of the crowd. After one fight happen then another one happen , one fight that eventually end the mayhem, was when a couple of teens were fighting and a gun was grabbed and fired. Eventually heavy backup was called and the mayhem ended. I think that the group of teens should have waited to fight, I know that there may have been beef between curtain groups, but the group of teens should have at least waited to get off Bay st. ground, and then go fight in a garage nearby. I think guns were used because the police were there so people felt like they had to over power the police. -Ziair, 14 to listen to these stories on Soundcloud, click here

The DegentriFUKation / Decolonization Seminar is a bi-yearly seminar geared to help people with race, class, and/or formal education privilege decolonize and degentriFuk their family, community, and self. Running August 26th and 27th with follow up sessions to be announced, this two-day seminar is geared to bring/teach the medicine of hoarded wealth/inherited blood-stained dollars redistribution, settler colonizer decolonization, the ongoing violence of the Charity Industrial Complex, The Real Esnakkke industry and the revolutionary liberation of Community Reparations to as many folks as possible- because politrickster solutions are NOT solutions and we MUST spread POOR Magazine's poverty skola-led solutions in this time of so much mass distraction, unhoused, gentriFUKEd, criminalized, mass incarcerated, racism/wite supremacized miseducated, silenced and intentionally dismantled peoples- in the triple pandemics of COVID-19, Poverty, PoLice Terror and Colonization. This seminar is powerful for ALL people-doing work in law, medicine, social justice, history, art, media, ComeUnity, or akkkademia. An application and Sliding Scale Tuition is required to register—this is the first part of each participant's decolonization. Applications for people with race, class, and/or formal education privilege OR poverty skolaz can be found on this page. Weekend seminar Day 1 ​is for poverty skolaz AND people with race, class and/or formal education privilege. It will center Poverty Scholarship & the medicine of poor, houseless and indigenous people-led movements & media. Weekend seminar Day 2 ​is for people with race, class and/or formal education privilege (optional for poverty skolaz), aimed at service providers, media creators, educators, organizers, researchers, artists, legislators, policy-makers, donors & philanthropists, students, community members, and anyone who wants to learn about following Black, Indigenous, POC, and poor leadership and aligning your work with poor people-led self determination movements.

The End of the Eviction Moratorium Causes Homelessness - a 2023 Youth PovertySkola Led ©WeSearch Summary (WeSearch is poor people-led research informed by the theory of Poverty Scholarship- Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth Over 243 Eviction cases have been filed just since the end of the eviction moratorium in May in Alameda County- POOR Magazine WeSearchers are 36 recently evicted tenants from Alameda County. 86% of the recently evicted tenants are low, very low-income or below the poverty line. 65% are single parents with children 35% are elders with disabilites 92% of the reporters stated that eviction from their homes has caused them to be homeless or dangerously housing insecure. The following are two statements from POOR Magazine WeSearch Reporters "Once we are evicted it is very hard for us to get back inside," said Lila, a mother of 3 who is currently houseless in Oakland and is asking to remain anonymous as she is afraid she won't get re-housed if potential landlords know her rental history. “I am houseless now, after they ended the eviction moratorium in Alameda, I tried to make payments, I applied for all the federal aid, but I got long covid and I can’t work, I'm probably living in this trailer for the rest of my life, if they don’t arrest me, that is,“ said Mark D, WeSearch Conclusion: Evictions stay on our records as tenants, making it even harder to get inside when you outside. Lila and Mark D are two of over 243 new evictees who just became officially houseless after the eviction moratorium in Alameda county expired on April 29th Wesearch Youth facilitators: Ziair, King, Gabino, Gerry, Raheru, Tiburcio, Zion, Amir, Akil Their conclusions: Ziair- In my perspective, the mortarium should stay because it was established in 2020 when people were unable to work so they shouldn't be responsible for paying rent. The mortarium's termination results in people being evicted onto the streets, which leads to sweeps and power washing. Zion- I'm one of the former students of Deecolonize Academy and currently a part of the leadership program. As someone with experience with being houseless in the past I side with continuing with the eviction moratorium meaning putting a freeze on eviction. So it can allow people to stay in their homes, and at least help not escalate the numbers of people houseless in the streets. TIBURCIO-I believe that the Eviction Moratorium should continue, and that when it eventually ends there needs to be a solid plan of action to make sure the rent buildup doesn’t immediately evict everyone who couldn't pay during the Pandemic.- In addition that cities like Oakland and San Francisco should listen, honor and follow poor and houseless peoples solutions like Homefulness and Wood Street commons rather than making more of us houseless Gabino- As A poverty skolar and a part of the youth program. I believe we should continue the eviction moratorium because gentrification is wrong and we shouldn’t treat Mother Earth as a product/sales pitch. Eviction is unjustified and it kills. Amir-I feel like if they took the moratorium from the community it would be more people on the streets while we are still going to this pandemic and more and more it's too hard finding a job King- I think people should not be taken away from their homes. Raheru- I think there's multiple perspectives to eviction, the owner is running a business and needs their money and if someone isn’t paying then they might find someone who is gonna pay. The people living in the house need somewhere to live but can’t always afford to. There should be free housing for everyone. Ziair - Also once we are on the street the city sweeps us like we are trash - We know That we poor folks have our own solutions - two examples are Wood Street Commons - and Homefulness- a homeless people's solution to homelessness- so maybe these cities and towns can actually support our own solutions and keep the moratoriums in place until they do

“It just shows how close all of us….. are to…. homeless….ness,” Mr Owens, Sensei Owens, Master Owens, 50 year resident of BlackArthur and founder of Cascos Martial Arts in Deep East Oakland, lowered his voice as he finished the last word of this last sentence at the Street Newzroom at Homefulness on BlackArthur. For over fifty years Sifu Bill Owens has owned and operated Casco's Martial Art Academy in Oakland, California. Over the years Bill Owens, with his wife Mary Owens, has taught self defense, cultural awareness, educational values and self confidence to students of all ages. The school has been recognized as being an integral part of the colorful history of Oakland , as it is one of the longest running martial arts schools in California. From their GoFundMe page Mr Owens is the embodiment of all that Martial Arts teaches to any of us that seek out that medicine. Mr Owens is one of the most humble, careful and disciplined men I have met. Mr Owens is a Black Elder, a care-giver, a pourer of knowledge and love into the Deep East Oakland (Huchuin) ComeUnity. Mr Owens is being evicted. “My wife and I got ensnared in a predatory loan by a less than legitimate company while we were trying to survive the pandemic’s impact on our studio,” Mr Owens explained. “We were keeping up with the payments then they somehow jumped up by 200%. We could barely pay them already, but that made it impossible.” Mr Owens explained in more detail the insane situation he was dealing with just trying to stay open and stay housed under the weight of impending foreclosure. As he spoke, carefully explaining the impossible paper theft his family was experiencing this povertyskola’s blood boiled. This is the way they steal homes and lives from poor peoples, Black and Brown communities and specifically elders everyday in this violent krapitalist system. This is nothing new and the very reason when Homefulness first visioned a homeless peoples solution to homelessness right here on Blackarthur built by us poor and houseless people in struggle with eviction, housing insecurity , mold poisoning, scamlords, criminalization and endless poLice harassment, we also visioned our work as DEgentriFUkation. We could not even dream of mamaFesting this vision of building without making sure everyone already here was able to stay here. Whats the use of a solution to build and house houseless people if you couldnt also make sure elders and children were also safe to remain in the homes they were already in . When we launched Homefulness - all of us already from Deep East Oakland, San Francisco and the Bay area were in struggle with gentriFUKation, predatory bankkksters and real Esnakkkes. To this day we are constantly being hit up by texts and emails of loan agents and RealESnakkes trying to speculate, steal and sell this small part of Mama Earth. And finally the very reason we say to end homelessness we all must DegentriFUK our hoods and towns and spiritually and legally UnSell Mama Earth, following spiritual guidance and leadership from 1st Nations relatives who have been taking care of Mama Earth since before the colonizers got to Turtle Island and stole it with papers and pens and treaties and blood-stained dollars. “It went from 40,000 that we owed them to 80,000 and we don’t even know how,” Mr Owens concluded to Po Peoples Radio podcast To save his studio and this Deep East Oakland life-line open Mr Owens and his wife had already moved into the studio and so now not only does he face his 50 year old studio’s closure, he faces his and his wife’s homelessness. At 80 years old. In his own comeUnity.?? This is the violence of krapitalism. This can’t happen. And like Frohms Martial Arts, why isn’t there reparations for these urgently needed Black establishments. Why is Mr Owens and his wife even facing home-lessness ? Mr Owens has a Go Fund Me - PLEASE make sure another Black Elder isn’t evicted, erased and houseless on this stolen land.

When I hear the word scholar, I imagine a specialized scientist, writing on a scroll with ink and quill, and everything looks like a renaissance painting. But what is it actually to be a scholar? What is Scholarship? In the last couple years that I have been part of a poor magazine, participating in Deecolonize Academy, summer programs, eventually living there and the youth mentorship I learned a lot. Many ideas and beliefs I was implanted with were challenged and now I walk with a different perspective. One of the most crucial concepts I learned was the idea of Poverty Scholarship. This concept challenges the mainstream idea of scholarship and it acknowledges the experience and knowledge people in struggle have. Growing up in poverty is a constant fight for survival, crucial things like food, shelter, heat, and clothes are uncertain and coming and going. But all those who have lived and experienced this know it all too well. Homelessness specifically is one of the harshest forms of poverty. A lot of times people dealing with homelessness can’t go to school or study for certain trades because of reasons like, they won’t be accepted, no house to change or bathe, or just simply too busy surviving, looking for food and shelter. This means a lot of people get called and labeled as incompetent or illiterate. When I read and learned more and more about the Poverty Scholarship poor people led theory. All these ideas got flipped on their head to me. The book speaks on how everyone has knowledge, how experience is one of the best teachers and people in struggle sometimes ain’t got nothing but experience. Instead of being labeled “ poor people '' or “the homeless people” this book and concept changes all those labels to teachers, construction workers, healers, artists, engineers, writers, poets and much more. When one is in these situations of survival, adapting and learning is crucial, being creative is important. Very early on when I had just joined Poor magazine, we were doing Roofless Radio. Which is when we go out to housers communities to give out food and write workshops. We help people get their story out in their own terms and words. One thing I remember while listening to these people's stories and situations, was that these people are anything but stupid, dumb, lazy, illiterate or any other stereotypes that are placed on houses people. While I had grown up (up to this point) I had mainly heard all the hate and stereotypes that housless people get but I had never heard their perspective or stories. And just doing that alone with teach you a lot. I could have never guessed how much I would grow from just listening to someone tell their story. All this is Poverty Scholarship. Our stories are experiences passed thru words, and experiences are knowledge. This is why it’s important to have a media platform like Poor magazine, where people who are usually silenced and unheard have a place to express and teach. Without having to worry of their words being manipulated or changed. We are all scholars, experience teaches so we all have knowledge. We are all human, all individuals with ideas, feelings and opinions, no one more than the other. It’s been four years that I have been part of Poor Magazine, because of Poor, I have grown as a person, my perspective has been widened and beliefs solidified, I have nothing but respect and gratitude for everyone is the community and hope to repay all that has been given to me.

Mark Rivera had won the day against the City of San Rafael. 72 hours before the City Manager had ordered all camping to be prohibited at Falkirk Cultural Center. Sergeant Cleland of the San Rafael Police Department had posted a Notice to Vacate on his home - his tent where he has lived for the past three years by the Falkirk Cultural Center for Marin. The Notice threatened to arrest Mark and his property. I had come to Mark’s spot just a few hours after the notices had been posted. We looked it over, and saw on the notice that “shelter referrals” were being offered by the City. We called the number, and got a voicemail of Lynn Murphy saying she would be out on vacation until August 7th. Mark indicated to me that he was going to make a stand, and he wanted as many people with cameras and reporter to come on Monday to bear witness. I agreed, and suggested we also seek a restraining order in US District Court. Immediately, we started on working on the lawsuit. Within 48 hours, we completed the lawsuit, along with an ex-parte motion for temporary restraining order with a single declaration from Mark. The complaint and restraining order was focused. Mark, who is a survivor of two strokes, suffers from anemia, and a complex form of malnutrition induced dementia relied on the water, shade, and nearby bathrooms by the Falkirk Cultural Center to survive. Under the Fourteenth Amendment State Created Dangers Doctrine, putting Mark’s life in danger would be unconstitutional. We also challenged the anti camping ordinance. Mark had been threatened with arrest for living outside when no other shelter was available in violation of the Eighth Amendment under the Ninth Circuit Case Martin v Boise and Johnson v Grants Pass. There were also claims under the American with disabilities act, and breach-of-contract because Mark had lived at Falkirk for 3 years clearing the grounds and watering the plants with a good relationship with the manager there. On Sunday, we emailed the lawsuit to the City of San Rafael. I served it at the clerks office at 8:30. Jason Sarris drove over to the US District Court House in Oakland, and right when the courts opened filed the lawsuit. ABC 7 News was covering the story and their television van was parked in the parking lot. Around 11:30, City Officials Chris Hess and Mel Burnette appeared at the camp with the television cameras glowering over them. They had no offers of shelter or housing. They did not have any guidance for other places to camp nearby. They had nothing to mitigate the danger they were placing Mark in. In spite of that, they still said unless the court issued a restraining order they would go through arresting Mark and his property if he did not leave around 12pm. Thankfully, the Court Room Deputy Clerk for US District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers called at 12:05. He said the “TRO will issue”. We informed Chris Hess and Mel Burnette, who then left. By 1pm, the restraining order was posted on the docket of the lawsuit, and we printed copies to post onto Mark’s tent. This was the fastest restraining order I have ever seen issue. Within three hours an entire City had been stopped. A hearing is scheduled for next week to see if the restraining order will be expanded into a preliminary injunction.

There is a 70 year old pipeline owned by the foreign oil company called Enbridge that runs through the Great Lakes in so-called Michigan. The water from the Great Lakes makes up 21% (over 1/5th) of the world's fresh water. “An elder once said that by the year of 2030, water was going to be more valuable than gold.” said Hadassah GreenSky to us youth and adult povertyskola reporters at Po Peoples Radio 96.1fm. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources started issuing licenses for the oil pipe-line 3 to cross the public water to run oil through the pipe causing more damage to sea life and Mama Earth, also The Anishinaabe tribal lands. This Enbridge oil pipeline is past its due date and Enbridge wants to use the pipe again and they have taken this to federal courts. “They have so much money and they are promoting the pipeline on the ads and on commercials like it doesn't benefit them at all,” added Hadassah. This pipeline 3 is going to ruin the water for the Anishinaabe fishing tribe. This pipeline is going to have no gain for the people. This pipeline goes through both of the tribes on each side and their rivers go up and down going 180 during this pipe. They tryna rebuild an oil pipe that can leave a big oil spill that could contaminate all sea life. This pipeline is destroying Mana Earth and polluting the water where the tribe lives and it mostly affects the indigenous people who live there that use that water for everything for themselves and for the community. Water is so important because we all need it. Us humans can't make water only Mama Earth can, so we should watch how we treat Mama Earth. Nowadays It is becoming more and more difficult to get a cup of water and some places don't even have lakes or rivers. I'm scared that we might not have water for the community or for society because we are not being careful of Mama Earth instead humans and corporations are being greedy and corrupt, damaging Mama Earth where there is no water for our future. Water is life and makes everything possible. Hearing Hodassah’s story was very powerful for me as a low-income youth of color living in West Oakland. I never even knew about the struggle for water. I hope more youth realize this is our future and we need to stand up, or we will all end up dying of thirst .

In 2018 a new program called Urban Alchemy was implemented in the city. Urban Alchemy (UA) presented themselves as a group made for the purpose to get people off the street, stop drug usage and overdoses and to mediate and defuse violent interactions. Nowadays 5 years later, there are lots of UA “practitioners” patrolling and posted all over Downtown San Francisco, more specifically in the tenderloin. However, some people would argue that they are causing more harm than good. Just recently on July 20th, 2023 a video was recorded showing an urban alchemy employee flashing an alleged knife or baton to a housless person sitting in the street. Regardless of what it was, having any weapon as an employee violates policies that UA have and it contradicts statements they make: “So far, we’ve engaged in over 6,000 de-escalations that kept the community safe without police involvement.” being one of them. “What I heard was a bunch of yelling that alerted my attention, so then i just started recording, and then this guy he just pulls something out, i didn't even understand what i was recording at that time, within minutes I realized this guy had a machete, he pulled it out of his pants” explained Charles, a poverty skola and longtime POORMAGAZINE family member who is currently housless and who recorded the video that got published in many places including sf chronicle. While i was searching online for more info on this incident i ended up running into countless articles on incidents caused by Urban Alchemy, some examples were, Guns being shot by UA, sexual assault allegations, and lots of stats arguing against their efficiency. I was surprised cause in the media they are shown as a solution to homelessness, apparently they house people. “Urban Alchemy has been an invaluable partner in keeping our city safe, clean and welcoming for all. Every day Urban Alchemy's workers are out on the streets providing essential services and support for so many in our city, and we appreciate their continued partnership in bringing out the best of San Francisco.” said Mayor London breed Some Urban Alchemy staff members did drugs on the job and sexually exploited homeless females, according to more than 10 current and past residents of the Sausalito camp who spoke to the Pacific Sun. “It sounds good on paper,” says Couper Orona, a street medic who was homeless in San Francisco from 2016 until recently, but the reality is that UA is “another Band-Aid instead of fixing the actual problem” of homelessness. “It’s a security force that can bully people into doing what they want—but it’s OK because it’s not the police.” Earlier this year, Orona sat down with Kelsey, an unhoused man who had spent time living in a tent city run by UA next to the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, for the first of a series of video interviews with unhoused individuals to record stories of Urban Alchemy’s maltreatment of unhoused people in San Francisco. “The guards are constantly making it hard on us living there,” Kelsey says on camera. “They steal from us. If anyone tries to speak up, like I’m doing, they bully us. There’ve been accounts of violence against people from the workers.” Some people argue it's just the individuals. Like the bad apple in a good batch metaphor. But really in my opinion it's a flawed system. It is good how Urban Alchemy hires people who were previously incarcerated. Most of them dealt with really long sentences. But when u get people who are fresh out the cage, which is a very violent and traumatizing environment where one is in a constant state of survival, and put them institutions where they are dealing with more traumatized people in struggle dealing with extreme poverty things will pop. especially since Urban Alchemy doesn't actually do any training in situation defusing, unarmed defense or grappling techniques, psychology or really anything that would help in those incidents. We are constantly sold and given these “solutions" when in reality UA, DPW, “affordable” housing and other forms of these programs and organizations are not solving anything. The sweeps DPW do arent house anybody, in fact it destroys the little bit of shelter people built. The bullying and abuse UA perpetuates to people in struggle and dealing with homelessness is another form of a not solution. All these affordable houses that keep coming up are way above any sense of affordability. Which is why Poor Magazine, a media organization run and created by poor/Houseless /Black/Brown /Indigenous people, started Homefulness. Homefulness is a landless/homeless peoples solution to homelessness. Housing that doesn't charge rent, a community that holds each other in respect and accountability and a place to heal from our addictions and traumas. All this is done without city funding or grants. Resources come from people with privilege and wealth redistributing what they have. This happens by teaching people in better financial situations what its like to struggle. The Untours that we do here in Poor Magazine are one of the ways we spread our teachings and stories. The Stolen land/Hoarded Resources Tours, loosely based on the Bhoodan Movement of India launched by Vinoba Bhave who walked through India asking wealthy "land-owners" to gift their land to landless peoples will be sharing a similar vision with SF poltricksters, akkkademik land-stealers & wealth-hoarders who are planning to evict thousands of Houseless mostly disabled, majority Black and Brown elders who are currently residing in motels onto the freezing San Francisco streets ( and 500 residents) four days before the holidaze. "Leadership requires making space for everyone. In a time of COVID on Winter Solstice, Mayor Breed is attempting to turn people out onto the streets without a plan in place. Creating the further dehumanization of people by not acknowledging them as fellow human beings. During these eight months of shelter in place, the leadership had time to create an alternative to the hotel vouchers, if they truly wanted to "fix" the problem. There are no new shelters, no-income/low low income housing built. There is no plan... The worst kind of Grinch, the mentality that was taught out of colonization...Colonization created poverty/Greed and homelessness. Facism creates laws that throw away other human beings and US Hastings is acting just as the royalty and gentry that use laws to sweep away human made conditions. Breed and Hastings Law school are on the wrong side of history. Leaders should create a better way for ALL not create more destruction," stated Corrina Gould, Indian People Organizing for Change. While she connects early versions of colonization to our modern problems and struggles. Specifically in the San Francisco area, she also critiques london breed for prioritizing public image and money spending instead of creating or supporting actual solutions to these issues. As poor people we know what we need and how to help ourselves. We dont need anyone to save us, we need to be heard, listened and looked at as leaders, and people with knowledge.

Theater of the POOR free workshops starting! Create your own theatre for healing, life, and change. The workshops start July 30 at noon and run for 4 weeks. Location: Redstone Building 2940 16th St San Francisco Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los Pobres -a project of Poor Magazine- begins its free workshops for low/no-income/Houseless survivors of the ongoing war ON the poor.

By tiny, and Youth PovertySkola reporters Zion, Tiburcio, Gerry, King, Ziair, Ru, Akil, Amir and Gabino Eviction Moratorium for Mama Earth - To truly liberate her from her paper dollar worth Eviction Moratoriums = Forever Houzin can weave a different story For the mom and pop landlord class who have been told and sold the lie of buying mama earth with cash support then with resources so they can pay their occupied land taxes How bout a moratorium on Mama Earth The end of seeing her for how many paper dollars she is worth No some of us can’t function in the increasingly unjust Hamster wheel Forcing us to steal Looking for the WalMart deal Closing brick and mortar jobs every second of every day- Roboting and AI’ing our paychecks away So how bout the trillionaire class who makes cash on our broken backs Support permanent safe housing that forever lasts How bout all the next door haters who don’t want to see our homelessness Support us to live without the lie of rent ? You say you want to end the “homeless problem politrickster?- then don’t end the Eviction Moratorium, securing safe housing for ever for us with no end…tiny/povertyskola “Mama what is rent,? My five year old sun came home from school one day and saw the notice first. $700.00 rent increase effective July 1, It was a pink sheet of paper with black lettering taped to the front door of our rented house we called MamaHouse in the Mission district of San Francisco. I had launched MamaHouse, as a safe home for me and other houseless, no-income single mamas and children where we would support each other with child care, resources and love. My Sun was too young to understand what that notice meant but knew that something was wrong. I sat down and cried. It was already too much. My loca vida with eviction came back to me as I tracked the impending end of the eviction moratoriums in all the cities that still had post-pandemic moratoriums in place. Cities like Oakland and San Francisco who are expecting literally thousands of people to be added to the already thousands of houseless people in these cities. “I am houseless now, after they ended the eviction moratorium in Alameda, I trid to make payments, i applied for all the federal aide, but i got long covid and i can’t work, im probably living in this trailer for the rest of my life, if they don’t arrest me, that is, “ said Carol D, who wanted to remain anonymous because she hopes to get into an apartment somewhere and after the eviction moratorium got evicted by her landlord. Evictions stay on our records as tenants, making it even harder to get inside when you outside. Carol is one of over 243 new evictees who just became officially houseless after the eviction moratorium in Alameda county expired on April 29th of this year. To lift up this terrifying situation POOR Magazine’s Youth Leaders in our Summer program at Deecolonize Academy, who have all struggled with housing insecurity or homelessness, decided to launch one of our WeSearch Projects about how many more people will become houseless when the moratorium ends this month and demand these settler colonial towns never end the eviction moratorium. In fact, as one of our youth put it “make all the housing rent-free” like we do at Homefulness- a homeless peoples solution to homelessness that never charges rent because we know thats what makes us poor folks houseless. Evictions in Alameda county shot up the day after the moratorium was lifted. Over 240 cases were filed and we know there are more to come. “As someone who has experienced being houseless I side with continuing with the eviction moratorium meaning putting a freeze on all evictions. So it can allow people to stay in their homes, and at least help not escalate the numbers of people houseless in the streets. Zion Angeles, Youth Poverty Skola Reporter with POOR Magazine Cities across the United Snakkkes can’t file those papers fast enough. Eviction filings are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities. The cities struggling the worst with post -moratorium evictions are Houston, In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, Phoenix and Rhode Island And to prove the buying and selling mama earth greed has no limit rent prices nationwide are up about 5% from a year ago and 30.5% above 2019 I am on the street now because the eviction moratorium was lifted in Alameda County - John Bowell reported to WeSearch reporters at POOR Magazine. The store i was working at closed. Im’ 67 and disabled, who is going to hire me and no, my SSI doesnt cover rent. I have been on BACS wait list for a year and I’m tired.” He concluded by shaking his head. Carroll Fife Oakland District #3 Supervisor who has worked tirelessly to support houseless communities and helped us at Homefulness is implementing the Rent registry in Oakland to help tenants get support and clarity from the lies and loopholes of the so-called “rental market” The mission of the Rent Adjustment Program is to promote community stability, healthy housing, and diversity for Oakland residents, while preventing illegal rent increases and evictions, and ensuring a fair return for property owners. “I believe that the Eviction Moratorium should continue, and that when it eventually ends there needs to be a solid plan of action to make sure the rent buildup doesn’t immediately evict everyone who couldn't pay during the Pandemic. Tiburcio Garcia Formerly houseless youth Povertyskola reporter with POOR Magazine My name is Gerry. I am a youth student at poor magazine researching how you become homeless in your own hood. In my opinion lots of people become homeless in their own hoods because of eviction or increase in rent prices. Lots of landlords sell their property to bigger companies to make more profit in their hands. Lots of families that rent the property aren't notified that their landlords have just sold the property till the last minute and the last minute becomes very stressful to families because they have nowhere to sleep and their house isn't theirs anymore and are eventually kicked out of their homes having nowhere to go but live on the streets. Evictions are very common and are one of the main causes towards homelessness around the world. Gerry Matias, Youth PovertySkola reporter POOR Magazine As the child of a disabled mama, i had already struggled with paying rent and staying housed for so much of my life, living homelessly, sleeping in doorways and shelters for over 10 years of my childhood and young adulthood and then years later when my mama was sick and i had my infant sun. My connection to safety always came down to resources. If i didnt have a job, I had to choose between food and rent. MamaHouse was eventually destroyed by an eviction- causing all of us poor mamaz and children to be houseless again. We didnt recover and we lost sisSTAR Laure McElroy in the process, cause poverty and homelessness kills. After many more years we launched Homefulness and are working right now with Sustainable Economies Law Center and Sogorea Te Land Trust to implement the Land Liberation Legislation, a dream I dedicate to all the poor mamaz and elders who have died trying to stay safe on these occupied streets. Land liberators, conscious just transitionists, and legislators, how about we consider keeping these moratoriums on indefinitely? This krapitalist system encourages the lie of rent, buying and selling of colonized mama earth, and keeps us engaged with it by forcing us to do the same. We need to break from this violent cycle, and remove ourselves from the idea of Stolen Land as a commodity. Join houseless /formerly houseless Youth and Family poverty skolaz from POOR Magazine/Homefulness, Wood Street Commons and more as they release their WeSearch findings at Oakland City Hall on Thursday, July 13th at 2pm in the Oscar Grant Plaza 14th & Broadway in Oakland

By Juju Angeles As a daughter of an indigenous disabled migrant single mother, men have violently abused her. As her legs and right hand young girl, I also became an outlet for poor choices. The hollowness behind having no blood family, leaving her island breeze shack and ten in a two room home to the crack cold New York, perhaps left my mother looking for blue skies and warm sand in a brick and concrete layered city. But all she found was the heat of a cracked nose, running bloody down her lips in broken men who only had empty promises and balled fists. And all I felt was fear, different homes and different beds and a childhood left on the fingers of grown men who were rapists and not fathers. Domestic violence is a huge culprit of houselessness. 73% of women on the street were/ are victims of domestic violence. According to the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project, the lack of affordable stable housing, leaves women at risk of domestic violence. The lack of alternative housing leaves women in abusive relationships and makes it hard for women to leave. The report also states: “In 2005, 50 percent of U.S. cities surveyed reported that domestic violence is a primary cause of homelessness.” These facts not only speak to the unfair power dynamics of men over the safety of women and children, but it also shows how poverty is a causation factor to domestic violence which leads to homelessness. Domestic violence is a symptom of patriarchy and capitalism, ideas that women do not have inherent power or dominion over their bodies, their children, or their homes. With the case of my mother, those men did not support us in any way. They took my mother’s resources and because my mother was physically vulnerable with small children and no family we were isolated and eventually lost our housing and we were on the streets, couches, and shelters. Aside from the trauma of domestic violence and homelessness, it also led to her children being abused as well. It wasn’t until working in the Crushing Wheelchairs production put on by Theatre of the POOR, which is a poor people led theater production of Poor Magazine where their primary focus is “on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices,” did I learn that domestic violence leads to Homelessness for a lot of people. Then, I realized our family was never actually alone, even though that is how it felt. To learn more about the report cited: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/dvhomelessness032106.pdf - Como hija de una madre indígena migrante con discapacidad, hombres la han abusado violentamente. Como sus piernas y la mano derecha joven, también me convertí en una salida para las malas decisiones. El vacío detrás de no tener familia de sangre, dejando su choza de brisa de la isla y diez en una casa de dos habitaciones a la fría Nueva York, tal vez dejó a mi madre en busca de cielos azules y arena cálida en una ciudad de ladrillo y hormigón estratificado. Pero todo lo que encontró fue el calor de una nariz agrietada, corriendo ensangrentado por sus labios en hombres rotos que solo tenían promesas vacías y puños cerrados. Y todo lo que sentí fue miedo, diferentes hogares y diferentes camas y una infancia dejada en los dedos de hombres adultos que eran violadores y no padres. La violencia doméstica es un gran culpable de la falta de vivienda. 73 % de las mujeres en la calle fueron/son víctimas de violencia doméstica. Según el Proyecto de Derechos de las Mujeres de la Unión Americana por las Libertades Civiles, la falta de vivienda estable y asequible deja a las mujeres en riesgo de violencia doméstica. La falta de vivienda alternativa deja a las mujeres en relaciones abusivas y hace que sea difícil para las mujeres salir. El informe también dice: "En 2005, el 50 por ciento de las ciudades estadounidenses encuestadas informaron que la violencia doméstica es una causa principal de la falta de vivienda". Estos hechos no solo hablan de la injusta dinámica de poder de los hombres sobre la seguridad de las mujeres y los niños, sino que también muestran cómo la pobreza es un factor causante de la violencia doméstica que conduce a la falta de vivienda. La violencia doméstica es un síntoma del patriarcado y el capitalismo, ideas de que las mujeres no tienen poder o dominio inherente sobre sus cuerpos, sus hijos o sus hogares. Con el caso de mi madre, esos hombres no nos apoyaron de ninguna manera. Tomaron los recursos de mi madre y debido a que mi madre era físicamente vulnerable con niños pequeños y ninguna familia, fuimos aislados y finalmente perdimos nuestra vivienda y estábamos en las calles, sofás y refugios. Aparte del trauma de la violencia doméstica y la falta de vivienda, también llevó a que sus hijos fueran abusados. No fue hasta que se trabajó en la producción aplastante de sillas de ruedas puesta por el Teatro de los POBRES, Que es una producción teatral dirigida por los pobres de la Poor Magazine donde su enfoque principal es “proporcionar medios de comunicación, arte y educación no colonizadores, basados en la comunidad y dirigidos por la comunidad con el objetivo de crear acceso para voces silenciadas”, aprendí que la violencia doméstica conduce a la falta de vivienda para muchas personas. Entonces, me di cuenta de que nuestra familia nunca estuvo sola, a pesar de que así era como se sentía. Para obtener más información sobre el informe citado: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/dvhomelessness032106.pdf