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Dear Beautiful ComeUnity and Family, An excerpt from Mama Earth is NOT for Sale, a poem by Tiny Gray-Garcia @povertyskola Mama Earth is NOT for sale Mama Earth is not a paper plate A roll of tape A roller skate An extension cord or computer port Mama Earth gives us all so much The oil for the tape The rubber for the skates The energy the computer takes I know we have all been sold and told That we face eviction and poverty if we don't own her CONtrol her Extract from her Or detract from her But don't you see she was never yours That Indigenous ancestors Written in all of our herstories lore Held her with humble prayersFrom the rivers to the Mama Ocean Shores You were lied to Your silence, like her mountains was mined too So try a dream, a simple treat To stop and breathe the sweet air next to any mama tree To realize so many of us barely survive on the dry concrete That mama earth’s humility Must be protected like our ancestors and the trees No more NOT for SALE Not for your private prison or county jail Your profit margin or whole paycheck kale Mama Earth and all her dirt Is not a product or For income generating BUT for prayer, protection Food growing. care-giving and liberating UnSelling and UnSettling is the vision and the MamaFestation of Homefulness – with your blood-stained dollars (transformed and prayed into Love-stained Dollars), we have degentriFUKed two beautiful, humble corners of Mama Earth in an intentionally “blighted” poor people of color neighborhood in Deep East Occupied Huchiun (Oakland) . We have permanently housed 14 houseless youth, adults and elders and five houseless cats, dogs, chickens and goats. We have grown and shared healthy organic food, groceries & diapers with over 800 families per week. We have loved, lifted up and honored our ancestors of poverty and poLice Terror. We have produced revolutionary poor people-led radio and media. We have educated and graduated over 24 young people in poverty (ages 3-19). We have supported, with rent, food, transportation and ComeUnity Reparations, over 480 families and elders. And we are now welcoming in our relatives from Wood Street Commons, who have been brutally evicted by Settler Colonial lies of Rent, Eviction and Mama Earth exploitation from their neighborhood (encampment) by DPW, PoLice and politricks. We have created cultural work, theater, books and prayer with/for countless fellow poor authors, actors, writers and prayer-bringers… We are a living breathing movement of poor, houseless, indigenous peoples-led self-determination in a time when poor and houseless people are increasingly being violently swept, evicted, incarcerated and killed. So please help us UnSell more of MamaEarth. We have been invited into Pacific Northwest Turtle Island, so-called Bellingham, Chief Siahl (Seattle) and Olympia, WA to launch a Homefulness project there. We are trying to immediately build natural, earth-based homes (like our ancestors) for Homefulness #2 on BlackArthur, and we would like to unSell and DegentriFUK a third space here on BlackArthur in Deep East Oakland. On behalf of every one of us poor, houseless, indigenous, disabled and oppressed peoples, residents of Homefulness, members of POOR Magazine, and families of Deecolonize Academy, we thank you for all of the monetary, physical, and spiritual support that every one of you have given us over this past year. Please continue to support us - buy a hoodie or a mug (www.poorpress.net) or just send your love-stained dollars! In Love and Struggle, POOR Magazine Family 2022 has been a herstoric year at POOR Magazine. In the midst of the year’s many traumas, we have continued doing what we always have: fighting to dismantle the lies of crapitalism and wealth-hoarding from the bottom up and responding to the needs of poverty skolaz across Pachamama: After 11 year battle, we resisted & “won” shitty hall politricks & FINALLY MOVED 14 HOUSELESS YOUTH, ADULTS & ELDERS INTO HOMEFULNESS #1 DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 9th year with graduates becoming teachers 11th year of SLIDING SCALE CAFÉ, a healthy food, groceries , diapers & media, support radical redistribution (mutual aid) for deep east oakland every Thursday LISTEN TO PNNKEXU 96.1FM every Tuesday & Thursday, multi-generational radio programming Re-Launched in person peopleskool for East Oakland poverty skolaz with Theatre of the Poor and Po Peoples Radio workshop series Here are more 2022 highlights: People Skool Decolonization/DegentriFUKation Seminar on Zoom We held TWO People Skool seminars for people with race, class, and/or formal education privilege.When Mama and Me Lived Outside Film Screenings The animated short film based on Tiny's children's book of the same name, won its 15th award this year. The film had several screenings this year, including at the Peoples Film Fest in Harlem, the Seattle Social Justice Film Fest, and the SF Latino Film Festival.Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour thru kkkolumbia University in Occupied Lenape Lands This June POOR Magazine went on the Road for an Un-Tour to occupied Lenape territory aka New York City. We walked alongside thousands of evicted & displaced NYC residents, made houseless by akkkademic institutions like kkkolumbia Univeristy, feeding the Dorm Industrial complex.Homefulness #3 & POOR Magazine in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) This year we continued to build the sacred branch of the solidarity tree, supporting Houseless relatives struggling with sweeps violence with revolutionary media, healthy food and ComeUnity Reparations. We held a Po’ Poets Workshop in so-called Bellingham, RoofLess Radio in so-called Olympia, and Po’ Poets of POOR Magazine & PNW did a book reading at Clara’s Books at Chief Siahl (Seattle).Rehearsals have begun for Crushing Wheelchairs, a new Theatre of the Poor production Stay connected to hear about upcoming performances!

Global to Local Poverty by Monica Thompson The picture that we saw today is everywhere there is homelessness in Oakland and there's nothing being done. Everyone is looking for help but no one is reaching out to help. I don't know what to say or think, I'm always open to helping others, and it don't matter what color you are. ‘We welcome all people with open arms. You give the people what they're not asking for,” said Lamont. Lamont also said when he came to Oakland, he was proud to be black. He mentioned that for you to do an act of kindness by helping your neighbor. Maybe go to the supermarket for your neighbor. When I leave my house I always come across someone that needs help. I wouldn't mind putting out my hand to help. That's what the Lord did when he was on the earth, I would prefer seeing it face to face. I saw that people as a whole need help, so where do you go and who do you talk to because a lot of times, when you're in a bind there's a lot of promises and nothing happens. I have been in a situation like that in 2017, when me and my son lost our housing. So what would you do if you was against the wall? Who would you turn to, maybe a close friend. Positive resources, apply yourself, don't give up, write what you want and be positive about it, be strong and courageous.

Abolition de Police by Akil Carrillo According to The Washington Post, 1,000 people have been killed by the police in the Last Year. Every year since the Washington Post started recording Police killing (2015) cops have killed the same amount of people every year. It's always at least 1,000 people a year. I grew up in Guatemala where police corruption is clear. The cops happily take bribes, rob people they arrest and kill and harass women at night. These are just a few examples of what happens out there with the police (Which are all US trained). Moving to the United States things are different, not in what the police are, but their public image. Growing up in the Mission in San Francisco and now in East Oakland I've only met victims of police brutality; many youth my age are now drawn on walls and t-shirts. The names of these victims' memories are ingrained in the fight against police. I've heard many opinions on Abolishing the Police against and for it. Many statements against abolishing go along the lines of It wouldn't be safe without Cops, We should reform instead of abolishing and Community programs won't work. Like I stated before, every year 1,000 people are killed by police. Without police they would most likely still be alive, it wasn't safe for them to be around police. “We have little evidence, if any, to show that more police surveillance results in fewer crimes and greater public safety. Indeed, funneling police into communities of color and pushing officers to make arrests just perpetuates harm and trauma. Yet since the 1980s, spending on law enforcement and our criminal legal system has dramatically outpaced that in community services such as housing, education, and violence prevention programs. Those are the institutions that help build stable, safe, and healthy communities.” Stated Paige Fernandez (Former Policing Policy Advisor, ACLU National Political Advocacy Department) in an ACLU article. According to Fernandez, there isn't much evidence that proves that cops bring safety and actually more evidence that shows the harm police have caused in Black, Brown and poor communities. As someone who's lived in these communities, I see the fear and anger the police bring. Everyday after highschool I would walk out and there were about 3 police cars just circling the school waiting, preying on us. I was going to Mission High School at the time, a school in the Mission district close to the Castro District. It's right in the middle of a lot of gentrification and a bunch of black, brown and poor kids does not fit the aesthetic of the gentrifiers. “Police terror is a nightmare for us young black males who have to live in fear and watch our back from the police because we dont want to die young. I know Tamir Rice was a good kid who did nothing to other people, but his life was taken too soon. This could have been me because I had guns pulled on me and the police consider kids adults, not as kids. Tamir was only a 12 year old boy, and the officer who killed him is Timothy Loehmann, a 26 year old white man.” wrote Amir Cornish (Poverty Skola, Poor Magazine Reporter) in the book How to Not Call the Po’;Lice EVER. These experiences are common for black, brown and poor people. This is the fear and damage the police cause, it aint no sense of safety in their acts. Police are supposed to be trained in hand to hand combat but still people are shot and killed by police when it's a 1 man and 30+ cop situation. Another common thing said is that we should “Reform” the police instead of abolishing. “If you believe the police have been trained badly and that's why they kill many people, understand that any reform program relies on those same officers to administer and hold each other accountable to it. When I was a cop the state sent us mandatory trainings on sexual harrasment and disablity usually in the form of dvds and quizzes. We goofed off on our phones during the dvds and our watch commander gave us the answer key so that we would all pass.” Said Phil (That Dang Dad on youtube) who used to be an ex-cop until he realized it was wrong, now he talks about racial justice, disability justice and explains to his viewers his experiences as a cop and why he isn't on anymore. Clearly reforms wont work, when the foundation is cracked the building built on top will fall no matter how much one “reforms” the building. The police were built on a cracked foundation, a foundation that originates from the capture of enslaved people trying to escape. So the police will never mean safety to the poor, to the black and brown to any of us in the bottom of society (which is most of us). What I believe is the solution is to become a real community, a way of living that people seem to have forgotten. Currently I live in Homefulness, one of the many “branches'' of Poor Magazine. Poor Magazine is a group of houseless and previously houseless Poverty Skolas. We are people from the community getting together to build our own solutions. We don't take funding from the state or grants or any city money and without that money we've built homes in which we don't charge rent, we give out free groceries, diapers and classes to hundreds of families weekly, we have a radio station 96.1fm Po peoples radio and much more. Most importantly tho is that we do NOT call the police no matter what happens. We have the circles and meetings with each other like the elephant meeting or the Family council. In these meetings we all talk out issues or feelings that people might be feeling, if an incident does happen we get together and practice accountability and empathy. We are all traumatized and hurting people due to living in a twisted society so things ain't always sunshine and rainbows but we get through it and move as a family. Anti Police by Amir Cornish Lives are taken by the police and they never take full responsibility for their actions. Half of the lives that are taken are Black and Brown folks, even young teenagers, barely fully grown but yet still a target in this system. I look into the crime rates and the death rate/with ethnicity information of 4,653 people killed by the police, followed by 19% Black people, 2% Asians, 2% of Native America according to the study Black people and native Americans are roughly 3 times more likely to be shot dead by the police than white people. Over 4,600 people were killed by the police from 2015 to 2020. I believe we should Abolish the Police because we don’t need any more Black and Brown people dying. People believe that they wouldn’t feel safe if we abolish the police and would say the crime rate would go up. I have suffered through police terror as young person. This is my story. After a long day at school my mom decided to pick me and my brother up. Mom was driving back home before we went home. The Police were following us. We were forced into the East Oakland Eastmont Mall driving plaza, the Police hopped out the car with his guns while saying slowly “step out the vehicle.” My mom was in handcuffs on the concrete sidewalk, me and my brother was right beside our mom. Whenever I'm around the police I don't feel safe, especially being a mixed race person who walks the streets everyday. This is one of the reasons that my family at homefulness Never call the police and why we wrote the book How to Not Call the PoLice EVER (available on poorpress.net). Police Abolition everyday by Tiburcio Garcia 424 people have been killed in the United States by police this year so far. That is far too many for a system that is designed to serve and protect. What’s worse is that this system wasn’t designed that way at all, in fact, it is designed to enforce systemic racism in this country. Police officers do not have a place in a world that is moving towards equality and fairness. They take up too much funding that is sorely needed for education and other public resources, and cause more harm than good under their current system. The police department should be abolished- and their system dismantled- to make way for a community based protection system. I have family that have been terrorized and know people whose children have been killed by police. I think the police are dangerous, hateful and cannot exist any longer, for the safety of everyone, but especially black and brown people. In December, Eric Garner was choked to death using an illegal police chokehold. The officer who murdered him in cold blood in front of a streetfull of witnesses was fired 5 years after Garner’s death. In July 2016, this world lost Philando Castille, and the officer who murdered him was fired after a trial a year later. These are two examples among many police officers who killed black men in cold blood. These are killings that if the roles had been reversed would have triggered the death sentence without deliberation. This system is racist, and as we can see from the punishments given to these murderers, it encourages the killing of black and brown people. Originally, police were the men-for-hire who rode on horseback and hunted down escaping slaves. Those people were not rich themselves but usually working class white men living on the poverty line. They were veterans of wars who had experience in guns or just men who were white, in need of money, and willing to get their hands dirty. They were more than willing to police neighborhoods that were drawn by city zoners to be separated from white suburbs and house primarily black families and black owned businesses. Since then, the police and their assignment has not changed. Black people are 3.6x more likely to be killed by police than white people in California (Decimal Census, 2020). This is not a flawed system, rather a system designed to oppress people of color. Therefore, it should have never been started, as it was created to oppress poor people of color and carry out the demands of the ruling class. If a company needs to clear houseless people out of an abandoned parking lot, you can count on the fact that the police are there to threaten them and keep them moving. Workers going on strike due to unfair wages? The police will be there to make sure the march goes well, all while throwing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets on peaceful protesters. They do this while driving in new cars, flying helicopters, and operating mobile units. The state of California and its cities and counties spend roughly $50 billion annually on local law enforcement, the criminal legal system, and incarceration in state prisons and county jails (California Budget and Policy Center, 2020). According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the federal government allocated $23.2 billion in one-time aid (for education) in 2020–21 and another $9.2 billion in 2021–22. Those numbers should be reversed. We as a country should be spending far more money on schools, new housing for houseless people, and programs that support and uplift communities of color than law enforcement and prisons. The police department should be abolished, and we should make way for a new system, one that not only works with and for the community, but is only operated with members from the community either being a part of the system, or having a major say in the decision making process of this system. Police officers have been shown time and time again to abuse their power, but they are only falling in line with a system that promotes that abuse. My Mama, tiny gray-garcia (aka povertySkola), co-founder of POOR Magazine- a poor people led movement, calls them PoLice for a reason and it’s why POOR Magazine leaders like my mama and my uncle Leroy Moore have written the book How to Not Call PoLice Ever and do workshops on this all the time and why we practice this main core principal at POOR Magazine. We can take care of us. We do and we have. Abolition vs incarceration By Nija Gs. The prison system gets worse and worse every year. In the US alone, 2.3 million get incarcerated on a daily basis. The people in low-risk *tanks still fall asleep with knives in their hands and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The USA gets $134,400 per person detained, meaning that they get so much money to keep people locked up but after you go they won't spend anything to help you. You have no car, no job, no house of your own. Prisons should be banned because courts have made many mistakes before and put many innocent people in jail just because they're labeled gang-related, or have a lack of evidence. One ex-inmate said, “The truth is that our prison system does nothing to rehabilitate anyone. They throw you all together and take people who made stupid mistakes and expose them to hardened criminals who are pretty good at leaving impressions on people.” There are many undercover things that happen while in prison, and people with money calling all the shots. There was an online program that was bussed out for having multiple transitions to keep people in prison just because it was like a game with people's lives. Many people die in prison because they do not get proper medication. When you go to jail your medical history does not go with you, meaning if you get sick you can die or have a reaction to whatever they decide to get you and then die, or maybe you rot for a couple of days but still stay alive. 36,479 juveniles are incarcerated in US juvenile jails and prisons. Many are Black and Brown and they make up a large majority of victims of incarceration and police violence. This is just one of the reasons we do all the work we do at Homefulness, POOR Magazine and Deecolonize Academy to take care of us... as Black, Brown, indigenous and houseless youth and families. It’s hard but it works. Incarceration vs abolition: Debate By Ziair Hughes Incarceration : the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment. Police: the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order. "There are 2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding and fiscal burdens on states to accommodate a rapidly expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety." -The Sentencing Project, 2022 I believe that prison should be abolished because it was already rooted in classism and racism. The whole concept of police was to protect the elite class and prosecute the poor. Every year the police have an arrest quota that is illegal. The code makes it illegal for any state or local agency to force officers to meet a certain number of citations or arrests for promotion or disciplinary purposes, but chiefs and officers still do it and every year the arrest quota is 1,000 or a little bit less. Like the case of Tyrell Wilson– a Black man killed for being houseless in Danville by officer Andrew Hall, who also killed Laudemer Arboleda. Police chiefs and typical Karens bring up that the crime rate is too high but we find that people who go to jail–particularly those who go more than once a year–are disproportionately likely to have incomes under $10,000. Councilmember Sean Ashby says that “community programs don't work,” but if we have propositions that actually help the community, we may have the crime go down and it is seen that every time the community comes out everybody enjoys themselves. The United States is currently imprisoning roughly 1 million people for low-level drug offenses, property crimes, and various offenses indirectly related to their poverty. Roughly half a million people are imprisoned because of their inability to pay for their release. In Cypress Village we don't need the police, the elders act as the police and keep the community in check. That's why at Poor Magazine we have the How Not to Call the Police book. Prisons should be abolished and demolished because this whole government is built to insure the safety of the elite people of this world.

Espanol/Spanish En el estado de Monterrey, hay una escasez de agua y todos los medios de comunicación lo dicen, pero solo para ser noticia. En realidad no saben cómo las personas están sufriendo sin en cambio las corporaciones son las beneficiarias. Ellos son los que están guardando las reservas de agua, son los que nunca dejan de producir sus productos como Coca Cola y bebidas alcohólicas. Ellos nunca hacen nada por la comunidad, aun sabiendo que la propia comunidad es la que les da a ganar el dinero que tienen. son tan arrogantes y prefieren dejar a la comunidad minoritaria que sigan sin agua para que la corporación siga fabricando sus productos no respetando que el agua solo la madre tierra es la produce Y cuando se acabe ni ellos tendrán el suficiente dinero para calmar su sed. no tendrán el suficiente dinero para comprar a la madre tierra porque ella no se vende por cualquier cosa, cuando la madre tierra se enoje no hay poder humano que pueda controlarla pero no les importa y siguen destruyendo. Recuerden nadie tiene dinero suficiente para comprarla en su totalidad Porque no es de nadie English/Ingles In the state of Monterrey, there is a water shortage and all the media is saying it, but only to make news. They don't really know how people are suffering and corporations being the beneficiaries instead. They are the ones who are keeping the water reserves, they are the ones who never stop producing their products like Coca Cola and alcoholic beverages. They never do anything for the community, even knowing that the community itself is what gives them the money they have. They are so arrogant and prefer to leave the minority community without water so that the corporation continues to manufacture its products, not acknowledging that only Mother Earth produces water. And when it runs out, not even they will have enough money to calm their thirst. They won't have enough money to buy Mother Earth because she doesn't sell herself for anything. When Mother Earth gets angry, there is no human power that can control her, but they don't care and continue destroying. Remember no one has enough money to buy her in her entirety Because she belongs to no one

Free the Land /Heal Mama Earth - Asphalt lifting Day for Homefulness#2 Libera la Tierra / Sana Mama Tierra - Día de levantamiento de asfalto para Homefulness#2 When: Sunday, November 6th at 10am (Breakfast provided) Cuándo: Domingo 6 de noviembre a las 10 am (desayuno incluido) Where: Homefulness #2 -7600 BlackArthur Blvd (MacArthur) -Occupied Deep East Huchuin (Oakland) Dónde: Homefulness #2 -7600 BlackArthur Blvd (MacArthur) -el este profundo ocupado Huchuin (Oakland)

Prayer from all four corners of MamaEarth for ancestors of poverty, homelessness, false borders, poLice terror & colonization. Oracion desde los cuatro rincones de MamaTierra por los antepasados de la pobreza, la falta de vivienda, las fronteras falsas, el terror policia, y la colonizacion. Art, food, face painting, danza and prayer from Maya to Africa. Arte, comida, pintura facial, danza y oracion de Maya a Africa. Tues. Nov 1st at 5pm/Martes, 1 de Nov@ 5pm Homefulness 8032 BlackArthur (Mac Arthur) in Deep East Huichin (Oakland)

(Spanish/Espanol) Una de las estadísticas que nunca se puede encontrar un número exacto es todas las personas que usan drogas por receta médica. Porque Estados Unidos receta drogas sin que el paciente dé su consentimiento? La mayoría de estos son pacientes latinos y afroamericanos los cuales nunca les dicen nada para cuestionar al doctor. Los doctores muchas veces si no siempre tratan de atinarle al malestar del individuo con medicina. Medicina para el dolor crónico, para la depresión y por si fuera poco todavía nos señalan cómo drogadictos crónicos, ellos son los que provocan la maldita adicción. y así como nos atacan encima de todo esto estados unidos son los que producen más drogas . Legales e Ilegales, Debajo de la mesa y no se diga que son corruptos porque les duele que les digan que son corruptos hasta el alma pero lo son. Igual que otros países que los apoyan y por eso Estados Unidos, está en la mira de todo lo que supuestamente ha hecho sin dar explicaciones.pero cómo todos sabemos no todo es perfecto y eventualmente saldrá ala luz. después viene la oscuridad y eso es cuando se tienen que preocupar, porque cuando se oscurece ya no se ve el camino y es cuando te puedes perder o peor ser olvidado. (English/Ingles) One of the statistics that you can never find an exact number is all the people who use prescription drugs. Why does the United States prescribe drugs without the patient's consent? Most of these are Latinos and Afro-Americans patients, who never say anything to question the doctor. Doctors often if not always try to target the individual's discomfort with medicine. They give us medicine for everything, for chronic pain and for depression. and as if that were not enough they still call us drug addicts,when they are the ones who cause the damn addiction. While they attack us and on top of all this, the United States are the ones that produce the most drugs. Legal and Illegal, Under the table and do not say that they are corrupt because it hurts them to the soul to be told that they are corrupt but they are. The US is corrupt and they don't have to be accountable to anyone. But as we all know, not everything is perfect and it will eventually come to light. Then comes the darkness and that is when they have to worry, because when it gets dark you can no longer see the road and that is when you can get lost or worse be forgotten.

(Espanol/Spanish)English below ¿Qué es en realidad ser un policía? Alguien sabe la definición? La razón que yo me hago esta pregunta es porque cuando yo estuve en la escuela regular, si se puede decir así, me dijeron que un policía es la persona que está de lado de lo que hoy llamamos justicia. Actualmente es separación de bienes porque justicia no hay, lo qué hay es las diferencias de culturas y diferencias de colores. Estas personas que compran las tierras, ponen la madre tierra en una posición política aunque nuestra madre tierra nos da la comida y el aire para vivir. Sin ella no tendríamos la estúpida policía y cómo todas las personas que gritan para que el parque de la gente en Berkeley no desaparezca porque no necesitan más y más unidades para esta universidad las cuales un bajo porcentaje se gradúa. Por el otro lado las mismas personas quieren cerrar otras escuelas para la gentes de la comunidad que somos nosotros los que aquí vivimos y esta se debe de parar porque solo para hacer más apartamentos para estudiantes que vienen de otros lado y posiblemente ellos tiene un parque en su propia casa por eso no les importa este parque que tiene historia muy importante para nuestra comunidad. Esos recuerdo nunca será removido de ese pequeña parte de nuestra madre tierra (English/Ingles) What is it really like to be a policeman? Does anyone know the definition? The reason I ask myself this question is because when I was in regular school, if you can put it that way, they told me that a police officer is the person who is on the side of what we now call justice. Currently it is separation of goods because there is no justice, what there is is the differences of cultures and differences of colors. These people who buy the land, put mother earth in a political position even though our mother earth gives us food and air to live. Without her we wouldn't have the stupid police and how all the people screaming for the people's park in Berkeley not to disappear because they don't need more and more units for this university in which a low percentage graduate. On the other hand, the same people want to close other schools for the people of the community, when we are the ones who live here. This should be stopped because its only to make more apartments for students who come from other places and possibly have a park in their own house, that's why they don't care about this park, which has a very important history for our community. Those memories will never be removed from that small part of our mother earth.

Espanol/Spanish La vida entre el sueño americano y nuestros ancestros y la madre tierra son dos muy diferentes estilos de vida. la vida artificial y la vida natural. Con el paso de los años muchísimas cosas, que sin la madre tierra no estarían, constantemente pasan como la fabricación de medicinas artificiales. En el sueño americano que supuestamente se encuentra en este país, el 70 por ciento de los ocupantes de este país está bajo la influencia de medicina artificial. Por ese lado el gobierno los controla y nos hacen creer que nos están salvando pero por el otro lado, Millones de personas están muriendo por medio de estos medicamentos falsos. Con todo ese dinero hacen otras cosas como el alcohol y armas. creando armamentos para matar a los más humildes y los cuales le dieron la sabiduría de cómo usar la madre tierra para sanar no para matar. pero con todo esto siguen destruyendo los Árboles y explotando la naturaleza. ni con todo el dinero ni con todo el ejército que tengan se podrán salvar de la furia total de la madre tierra que hay dice un dicho ni debajo de la tierra te podrás ocultar. English/Ingles Life between the American dream and our ancestors and mother earth are two very different lifestyles. artificial life and natural life. Over the years, many things that would not exist without Mother Earth constantly happen, such as the manufacture of artificial medicines. In the American dream that is supposed to be found in this country, 70 percent of the occupants of this country are under the influence of artificial medicine. On that side the government controls them and they make us believe that they are saving us but on the other side, Millions of people are dying through these fake drugs. With all that money they make other things like alcohol and weapons. creating weapons to kill the most humble and which gave him the wisdom of how to use mother earth to heal not to kill. but with all this they continue destroying the trees and exploiting nature. not with all the money nor with all the army they have can they be saved from the total fury of mother earth that there is, says a saying, not even under the earth can you hide.

The brutal evictions of hundreds of already evicted people from the largest Houseless Community in Oakland and the journey to Safe Ground By tiny gray-garcia aka povertyskola "We want to make sure the housed neighbors here know we are being very conscious about all of us being safe, both us housed and unhoused residents of this land, said fierce povertyskola and resident leader of Wood Street Commons La Monte at a press conference on Indigenous Peoples Day and World Homeless Day. Thanks to the tireless work of unhoused povertyskolaz across the state from Oakland to Sacramento and the liberation moves of conscious legislator Caroll Fife the Wood Street Community moved many of their RV's and trailers onto a vacant CalTrans lot at 34th and Mandela streets in West Oakland on October 10, 2022 . from Left: Xochitl, John, LaMonte, Delphine and LeaJay speaking to Mia Bonte's aide- picture by Israel Munoz The Journey to Mandela “We have nowhere to go, we are asking you, begging you to stop these evictions, “ John Bowman Janosko, one of the houseless poverty skola resident leaders of Wood Street Commons stood alongside LaMonte, LeaJay, Tamara and advocates/supporters Xochitl, Delphine, Jas and more truth warrior residents, pleading to the poltrickster to actually listen and do something to stop this violent displacement of already displaced people at Wood Street Commons and Cob on Wood - one of the largest ComeUnities of houseless residents in the Bay Area. (I refuse to call it “an encampment” as this is more otherising language from poltricksters and krapitalist haters. Its a comeUnity, a neighborhood, a village of poor people who support and care for each other like all us poor folks do.) “Throughout this past week and over the past month, the California Highway Patrol and California Department of Transportation have been permanently evicting Wood Street encampment residents en masse at the request of Governor Gavin Newsom, destroying their tiny homes, vehicles and the community they have created together there over the past decade,” said formerly unhoused Oakland-based advocate Delphine Brody, who biked with Wood Street resident organizers and advocates to Sacramento On Oct 1st Wood Street residents traveled up by bike from Oakland (Lisjan land) to Nisenan/Maidu territory aka the sacramento State Krapitol, to visit with legislators (what i call LIEgislators) to raise funds for the Wood Street community, demand an end to the evictions of Wood Street residents, other unhoused Oaklanders,and unhoused warriors from the Sacramento Homeless Union and call on state officials to support the civil and human rights of unhoused people with access to permanent housing, water, electricity, trash removal, and other basic resources that allow them to live with dignity, safety and stability POOR Magazine /Homefulness formerly houseless and houseless povertyskolaz from Ohlone Lisjan land (Oakland) joined them. “All of these evictions cost so much money, millions of dollars in personnel. From PoLice to sheriffs to administrative personnel, why not give it to us to create our own solutions,” LaMonte, one of the resident leaders said, going on to say that the city of Oakland received over 6 million dollars for “homeless services” and spends most of that on sweeping homeless people. photo of hundreds of poor workers on the march to evict poor people at Wood Street - photo by Israel Munoz /PNN Our group of approximately 20 people in total walking from LIEgislator to another explained the impossible situation of evictions of hundreds of residents from where they have been living for the last several years to a series of LIEgislative aides who repeated half-heartedly multiple times, “well, there isn't much we can do,” It hurt my heart to hear John use the B word (Beg) to the LIEgislative aides who barely bothered to “take notes” for their bosses and yet thats where this krapitalist system has put us poor folk. Begging to not be displaced,removed,evicted, terrorized. Like Iris Canadá, Elaine Turner, Shannon Marie Bigley, Desiree Quintero, me and my mama and all of our POOR Magazine family, when we were on the street and so many more Houseless and barely housed elders and families evicted, swept and killed by this violent settler lie of private property. “We have built a thriving community there, with a free store for clothes, a save haven to rest if you are currently in crisis, food and supplies, this is what they are destroying, a community of homeless people helping ourselves,” John concluded “When you keep sweeping us we keep being homeless, the only thing that helped me out of homelessness is Homefulness, said Israel Munoz to the LIEgislators, one of the formerly houseless residents of Homefulness- a homeless peoples rent-free housing and healing solution to homelessness we poor and indigenous peoples have built in Deep East Huchuin On Sunday, October 2nd, 2022, Oakland and Sacramento unhoused organizers held a potluck and a press session at the reclaimed community space on a vacant city-owned lot at Arden Way and Colfax Streetmin Sacramento The importance of the location they chose was to highlight the ongoing politricks of The City of Sacramento who, like most of the settler towns across Turtle Island would rather sweep people than house people, had spent $617,000 to fence and pave a lot designated for safe parking for houseless people. Instead, they moved approximately 150 unhoused residents in circles around the lot and ultimately, last April, forced them off the lot to fence it off and lock people out, displacing people throughout City The city of Sacramento spent millions of dollars to force people back onto the streets. At least 300 cops and 150 workers. POOR Magazine poverty skola reporters who are Houseless ourselves due in large part to the city of oakland charging us endless permits and delays for over 11 years, refusing to let us open our own solution to homelessness we call Homefulness, have been to Wood Street to report, support, build and vision with residents for the last several years but since the “mysterious” fires started happening, over the last two months which this povertyskola has her own theories about, CalTrans, has had the ammunition to tow, demolish, destroy and evict a thriving comeUnity, a neighborhood of people, who unlike most neighborhoods in most settler towns, actually got along and supported each other. “We had beautiful tiny homes built out here which were our homes until they put a notice on it and told us we had to move because they were going to demolish it,” said Kelly, one of many residents of tiny homes and RV’s who were forced to leave the Wood street community. The City has done nothing really for the residents, except enable more violent sweeps and removal. The city coughed up a total of 40 beds and even they werent easily attainable. The large non-profiteers are hit and miss with their support and requiring of so much red tape most people give up in the process or lose more of their belongings or vehicles in the process of supposedly “getting help” like Wood street resident and RoofLESS radio reporter Tony reported at the Revolutionary Journalism class at POOR Magazine. Thanks to the fierce moves of SisStar warrior Carroll Fife, who also helped cut through the endless red tape of settler politricks in Oakland so Homefulness could finally open last month, a proposal was created by Fife for the Wood Street residents relocation to the Oakland Army Base RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO ALLOW ACCESS TO THE UNDESIGNATED EIGHT ACRES ON THE NORTH GATEWAY PARCEL LOCATED AT THE FORMER OAKLAND ARMY BASE TO SERVE UP TO 300 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED DUE TO THE WOOD STREET ENCAMPMENT CLOSURE, AND DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR, IN COLLABORATION WITH STATE AND ALAMEDA COUNTY LEADERS, TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO STAND UP A MORE STABLE HOUSING INTERVENTION WITH SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ON EIGHT ACRES OF THE NORTH GATEWAY PARCEL TO SERVE UNHOUSED COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT DISTRICT 3, WITH PRIORITY TO RESIDENTS FROM THE WOOD STREET AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAY ENCAMPMENTS The City ended up watering this down to a mostly useless proposal that would not benefit the residents who are in immediate danger of being scattered to the wind. Because, like my mama Dee used to say, they wouldnt get the danger of homelessness, they aint never missed a meal, much-less a roof. “All the places people have been scattered to are also being swept, removed and threatened, where are we supposed to go?” said Wood street resident, Jas Colibri added to the aide. “While climate terrorism is raging across MamaEarth, it is time to actually try something different, like working with 1st Nations and houseless warriors like Sogorea Te Land Trust, Homefulness and Wood Street to unSell and UnSettle land instead of more buying and selling, re-devil-oping and stealing, can you tell Assemblymember Bonta that ?, I pleaded with one of the CONfused looking aides…“When you actually listen to poor and houseless people you find out we have our own solutions, when you support our ideas, we solve our own problems, like we are doing with homefulness. Join Wood Street ComeUnity and Homefulness ComeUnity and other leaders and indigenous prayer-bringers for the announcement of their collaboration to build Homefulness#2 at the site of Homefulness#2 at 7600 Black Arthur (MacArthur) Bl Deep East Huchuin (Oakland) on November 15th at 10am. To support the Wood street relatives follow them on Instagram @woodstreetcommons or @cobonWood .To read the Wood Street residents’ own words written by them at POOR Magazine’s revolutionary journalism class click here Reach tiny on twitter or IG @povertyskola or at her website at lisatinygraygarcia.com

"We had nothing, we were wiped out." John Bowman Jonasko One of the worst crises that happened to me was when the first time CalTrans evicted me and street family from Mosswood park. They came at 8 am in the morning with at least 20 CalTrans workers dressed in orange and fluorescent green vests and garbage bags in hand. They said we had 5 minutes to get some of our personal belongings and then we had to get out of the way. They came through and munched through all our stuff within 30 minutes. Within the next hour all we had left was a few tents and a suitcase of clothes. We had nothing, we were wiped out. The worst thing about that was we knew nobody cared about our situation at that time. CalTrans packed up their equipment and workers and drove the fuck off. There were know referrals nor did they give any suggestions where to go! We were homeless—for the very first time I felt homeless. Tony Ray Allen My friend got murdered last month—by the time I got there, the fire it burned down, and then my trailer burned down 3 times and they gave us a room for 3 weeks but then kicked us out. I’m just trying to get another trailer. I can’t just dread on it, I just have to get up and start over again. I learned how to survive quickly after spending half my life in jail. I learned how to get my stuff back quickly and it keeps getting taken from me. Leejay I’ve had so many things that have fucked me up in my life, it’s way too much bullshit from the same thang we’ve all heard before, but one thing that I’ve been dealing with that I can’t really grasp the reason—and I’m not sure if I’ll ever get it answered—but when I realized my mother hates me because I’m black, I’m thinking maybe I fucked up things for her with my family because I wasn’t really accepted. She uses me as the “way you don’t wanna live when you grow up.” Or she never talked bad about my father that beat her numerous times but she uses “well you can go live with your mom” as a threat or a punishment to my children, and the fucked up thing is that she has tried to alienate me from my babies by feeding them hateful lies poison false memories making up stories of drugs & abuse & them being both abused by drugs to where my babies questioned me for truths, but I was able to spark their memories. Video Transcript: My name is Tony Ray Allen and my story is about Wood Street. They had an RV park over there and the reason we went up to the RV park is they said they would get all our RVs fixed, make sure that when we leave them there we’d be legit and they couldn’t take our RVs but went up there and access gives them seven things that we wanted so we gave them seven things we wanted but after two—a year and a half of this we never got any of it. The electricity stuff was messed up up here so we got a lot of guys were kind of trying to fix it to keep you going but one of the wires caught my vehicle on fire and they didn’t do anything about it, so I ended up getting another one in the same spot and that one a lady gets out of jail—I mean she didn’t get out of jail, her boyfriend got out of jail and didn’t wanna be with her anymore so she said she was going to burn something but then nobody believed it. She set hers on fire by the neighbor, killed his dog, and he had a heart attack in front of mine and another person burned up all of his and put us in a room for three weeks. After the third week they put us out and we didn’t have no say about getting another RV or no nothing and here I am, homeless.

InflaSHAM -it’s a CorpRape scam -We all must OVERstand de-Krapitalism lesson plan Meant to cause us po folks hunger pangs Rigged to make AmonstraZon & besos even more bank Gas 6 dollaz po Mamaz can’t get drive our elders to doctors or pick up our suns and daughters Filled with a lot of poor people lies Like we just don’t work hard enough or pull up our bootstraps high While transportation costs rise so even if we get a job We cant afford the ride Now now vegan nazis yea we should bike and walk only But some poor /disabled workers still need their need their cars -homey we can’t all b witey rocketing to the moon & stars taking all our stolen money up to mars Fuk u and your CorpRape lies Tyson chicken price gouging chicken thighs Fuk us poor peoples wit not enuf to feed our families Fuk the elders let them get on the Reno bus and gamble We got profits to make More people to break And besides we rich people always win Any damn way So we talk about InflaSHAM - I wanna un-pack the krapitalist aspect of this scam ITs deep family- The wealth-hoarders rig the prices and make as much money as the “market” will allow Then we we cant keep our jobs, pay for child care or food to eat They make money on our crash and defeat You see family they make money every which a way- and sometimes the slactivists should be including blood-stained ekonmiks in their strategy planning days This PoemCast from a poverty skola goes out to all my fellow poverty skolaz tryna make it from one day to the other - trying to feed our babies when the Ekkkonomiks don’t make no sence- But its also a deep lesson for all of us- poverty skolaz and folks wit privilege and a safe place to rest- InFlaSham must be un-packed if we want to clearly overstand Krapitalist krap- Its not just the frog in the hot water accepting rising costs until they get boiled. Its the specifics about what these krapitalists do with what they call the Market- its realizing that to them we arent humans with feelings and struggles - we r a thing - that can b played with - how high can we charge them for chicken legs before they don’t buy no more chicken- how much can we rake in for our diapers before they stop buying diapers-( and earn for our parent company Monsanto) its calculated and evil and needs to be related to any kind of our poor people resistance. Since before recorded colonial time our mamaz , uncles and comeUnities have been pooling their monies to support each other - not a one-off kick—down - not oh u got a crisis- I got to show up in yo town- - but ongoing indigenous community interdependence - if anyone has a job- everyone eats, if people pool money they all eat - they all have businesses - In the 80’s a small group of women from the global south ( Bangladesh) started one of these circles - an akkkademik named Mohammad Yunis launched the Bank of Grameen. Which at its core was a beautiful progression of our interdependence - each of us survives and thrives if one of us does. Making small loans to people in poverty so they could create their own “micro-businesses” in “savings circles” with other micor-business peoples in poverty. At its core the root principles of the Bank of Grameen and Savings Circles resists krapitalism and subsequently the lie of the “free market” where the prices are gouged and fixed and our ability to survive inside of it relies on a wealth-hoarders decision to steal from us. But like most things in this world - Muhammad got a Nobel prize - got soul-ed out by the IMF - the World Bank - one of the Neo-liberal lies of global poverty and terrorism of poor and indigenous nations across Mama Earth- they brought the concept here and began the IDA loans at places like Bank of Apartheid - all of it is sad- and pimped and I know cuz me and mama tried to get help from it for our micro-business when we were still houseless and trying everything to be stable All of that said, for us revolutionaries to truly create self-determined movements in resistance to krapitalist terror, violence and hoarding - we also have to learn back, walk-back, Land-Back, and live back the indigenous economics of our ancestors-NO Black Brown and indigenous krapitalism isn’t the answer - but Lifting up all the micro-business owners in poverty, lifting up our fellow communities in poverty collectively so we can all not only survive but thrive- now thats an actual resistance to the wite- supremacist, evil that is Krapitalism- from street newspaper sellers, to artists, to shoe-shiners to (gardeners) jardinieres - we need to take back our street corners ,cuz like I always say- Change won’t come from a savior a pimp or an institution - change will only come from a poor people led revolution….. Resistance to greed is real- but family we won’t make it ALONE but we WILL make it together…. Stay tuned for our mercadito de cambios to bloom at Homefulness - into rent-free spaces of bartering and support and radical sharing - and next installation on Radical Interdependence led by and for poor people -