#Poets4Palestine by Shayla Chandler i never cared much for the idea of heaven or religion at all for that matter but by god do i pray and pray that those lost are carried by angels off to somewhere beautiful. Photo From: @eye.on.palestine

#Poets4Palestine by Robin Nardi Photo from: @eye.on.palestine reshared from @iAmien Put your feet in the street Let them know where you stand. Put your feet in the street The feelin' will be grand. Put your feet in the street Let them know they're out of hand, Cause in our democracy Protest can't be banned. Let them know they can't do it Let 'em know genocide is bad Let him know our democracy Will fight for peace in other lands. Ignore our Human Rights. And war will come within. Lying to our faces Is wearing very thin. Watch out for us pacifists Watch out for us all Cause you're in for a lesson That is counted by foot fall. Hold hands, sing together Make signs big and clear We'll be out there in bad weather We're a force to be reckoned with A force to be reckoned with A force to be reckoned with

We, the children of DeeColonize Academy, in Oakland CA USA support the children, families and elders of Gaza and Palestine. We believe that the children of Gaza should get clean water We believe that they shoulds get their land back We believe that they should get food We believe that they should get medicine We believe that they should stop bombing Gaza We believe that the people of Gaza should get their power back We believe that the children of Gaza should get clean clothes and socks

by Devorah Major, third Poet Laureate of San Francisco Palestinian children are writing their names on their bodies so they can be identified if they are killed. One writes, “No, I will not die.” child hands and legs and memory child hands and legs and memory do you remember holding your small child hand up to your father’s large comforting hand amazed at its size compared to your vine thin fingers? do you remember making fingers and palms Into church and steeple and then opening to see all the people? do you remember drawing eyes and mouths on fingers creating silly finger people? thumb folded around pointer finger making a mouth opening and closing- silly games of childhood laughter crawling down our bodies dissolving in the air and reappearing as a tickle giggle finger wiggle. Remember? not wanting to be one of the missing or one of the unable to be identified killed the little girl wrote on the inside of her heart shaped palm between heart and lifelines in neat Arabic script “if my hand survived this is my name” before she was slain. these children do not have numbers burned into their arms but many have written their own names statements and identification numbers. pants legs rolled up reveal the brothers inscribed legs reading Ahmad Nateel Jowan Nateel Rebhan Nateel. did the oldest write it for his younger brothers or were they perhaps written by a trembling mother or a father writing while damming his own tears? now they lie next to each other softly browned saplings chopped down before they could bear fruit. the whole family it seems assassinated in what their killers call a cleansing a mowing of grass a righteous final solution arer you old enough to remember being a child old enough to remember growing up maybe even remember becoming old they are not their dead bodies reflect the memories they will never have one child has written on her arm “no I will not die” does she still live land, settlers, and genocide: land, settlers, and genocide: america, australia and palestine 1. and the land was covered with trees pine to oak, maple to beech to redwoods stretching upwards for thousands of years and the first peoples were the only ones there to harvest the land’s bounty they nursed reeds until they were strong enough to be cured and woven into basket threads they prepared for the hunt deer to buffalo whale to otter to caribou every part of each animal used and honored they made their homes from rain forest to desert mesa snowed tundra to ocean shores and they danced together in celebration and they danced together in mourning and yes at times there was discord disagreement and conflict but yet they flourished until the ones who called themselves settlers the skinless ones came from Europe claiming destiny they manifested calling the first peoples savage animals less than human and showed no mercy in the massacres of women of children of elders and of the warriors who sought to protect them they created and taught the art of scalping Invented to prove the number of indigenous kills and when they had cleared land of most of the ancient trees dammed rivers and decimated buffalo the genocide was close to complete leaving only 2.9 percent of the population of the first peoples 2. and the land was covered with green and brown rainforest to eucalyptus forests woodland to savanna and the people gathered to share dreams and nourishment they carved masks tattooed skin for power and to celebrate their clan and calling walked their dream walks and they loved the land as she loved them and they sang in celebration and they sang in mourning and yes at times there was discord disagreement and conflict but yet they flourished until the ones who called themselves settlers the skinless ones came from Europe the poor, the criminals, the unwanted shipped from England to clear the land and the land’s people claiming the right as colonizers calling the first peoples savage animals less than human and they showed no mercy massacring women, children, and elders and the warriors who sought to protect them aiming at genocide leaving only 3.8% of their population to live in the smallest parts of their ancestral lands 3. and the land was covered with crops olive trees and carob trees dates and almonds rows of wheat and barley and the sweetest of pomegrantes and the people prayed facing the rising sun kneeling to the noonday heat backs to the evening sunset and the children played and laughed with abandon and the people sang and danced in celebration and in mourning and yes at times there was discord disagreement and conflict but yet they flourished until the ones who called themselves settlers the skinless ones came from Europe claiming that their god called them chosen naming the land’s people savage animals less than human and they showed no mercy because jehovah gave them the right for over 75 years to massacre women, children, elders and the warriors who sought to protect them to rape, to starve, to uproot the people brown skinned like the trees planted and nourished and the people resisted genocide as they were forced from the land they had farmed and loved for a millennium until they found themselves confined in an open-air prison with bombing as a part of life, with water that they used to swim in and drink wash and cook with controlled and cut off by these colonizers who without remorse exploded the bodies of children eviscerated mothers buried still breathing elders beneath the rubble of demolished buildings until surviving children saw dead bodies and splattered brains in their sleepless nights walked over a severed hand there a flattened skull there a still bleeding torso around the corner and the land’s people fought back resisted genocide while they were taught of terror and terrorism from those who had learned it themselves from the nazis those settlers had become but the people knew that their hope lied in the world rising up and demanding that the carnage stop and that Palestinians remember their olive trees which after fifty years roots buried underground beneath israeli planted pine trees grew out and began one by one to split the pines open and beckon to the the palestinians to to resist and survive to resist and survive so that one day they could flourish once again

by Tiny Gray Submit poetry to poormag@gmail.com for blog, online column, and/or radio by Dec 1st This screamlove Poem goes out to the Mamas of Gaza terroized daily by settler colonial Trauma Who wake up daily to never -ending profiling, harassment, surveillance and now bombss The mamas scream to the bombas Where should we go This is our land and please dont destroy our homes But guns scream louder than mamaz And drown out the screams of them and their murdered daughters And suddenly there is no more food or water and no-one can breathe or see the mamaz, the suns or the daughters And Suddenly the paycheck prophets call genocide a Confict And the United Snakkkes settlers say we got u- kill them all - been there doing this - so we can build more condos and malls To Occupied Turtle Island Where poor/indigenous mamaz face daily evictions, removal trauma From their homes and lands of their mamaz Where 1st peoples lives and lands were stolen by weaponized paper that kills Removing desecrating and destroying for profit - numbing us all with alcohol and pills This is our Juice the Poltricksters say and do this same evil, right now right here- to this day ! Use guns, dump trucks, sweepers & wite mans phosphoros So they can kill ALL of us sweeping, evicting, removing for profit Normalizing hoarding until u can’t think or talk But paper knives scream louder than the mamaz Becuz they Believe mama Earth and her mamaz are merely a speck to b plucked off fo profit ‘ So u can kill all of us everyday- From Haiti, to Palestine to the occupied Bay This scream Poem Is to let you know we r with u Mamas and SUns and daughters Grandmomos and great grandmomas Auntys and fathers - Us houseless. indigenous , in struggle mamaz - We r standing close - trembling with each rocket and boms that destroys our homes We see thru the lies Our eyes are open Wide You see we too have brought and lost Life FRom so many forms of settler terror And no matter how many times They deconstruct our truths Desecrate our homes, towns and hoods Our hearts can’t be broken in half Like that - We Mamas are standing with u mamas from Gaza- past colonial borders and imperial governememnt orders We r with u crawling, sitting, standing, screaming, crying, shouting Your chant in our mouths - Palestine will be free from the river to the sea Mama Earth and all of us Mamas will be free

Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign POOR PEOPLE’S ARMY | Press Release For immediate release, Contact: Cheri Honkala, 215-869-4753 poorpeoplesarmymarch@gmail.com Poorpeoplesarmy.org Kensington Group Plans March on 2024 Republican and Democratic National Conventions In our quest for a transformed, inclusive, and peaceful USA, a resounding call to march has emerged. We march against the forces that oppress us, aiming to forge a united front from coast to coast. The Democratic and Republican parties serve corporate interests, and thus we will march at the 2024 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. The organization is holding a press conference to outline the details of the march and share how other organizations and individuals can get involved in our mission and contribute to the national fight for economic human rights. WHAT: Press Conference about 2024 Poor People’s Army March WHERE: Virtual Meeting on Zoom | bit.ly/poorpeoplesarmyzoom WHEN: Wednesday, October 25th, at 2pm EST WHO/VISUALS: Cheri Honkala, National Coordinator, Poor People’s Army (PPA) Pastor Keith Collins, Church of the Overcomer, DelCo, PA Shamako Noble, PPA Bay Area, CA A representative from Young Lords, Chicago IL A representative from Brown Berets, Chicago IL Barbara Maniotis, PPA Milwaukee, WI Kwame Shakur, Second Rainbow Coalition, Indianapolis, IN Tara Colon, PPA Haines City, FL Hy Thurman, North Alabama School for Organizers, Huntsville, AL Rosa Richards, PPA Athol, MA La Campañade de Derechos Humanos y Económicas de los Pobres de los Estados Unidos EJÉRCITO DE LA GENTE POBRE | Comunicado de prensa Para su liberación inmediata Contacto: Cheri Honkala, 215-869-4753 Poorpeoplesarmymarch@gmail.com Poorpeoplesarmy.org El Grupo Kensington planea marchar en las Convenciones Nacionales Republicanas y Demócratas de 2024 En nuestra búsqueda de un EE. UU. transformado, inclusivo y pacífico, ha surgido un rotundo llamado a la marcha. Marchamos contra las fuerzas que nos oprimen, con el objetivo de forjar un frente unido de costa a costa. Los partidos demócrata y republicano sirven a los intereses corporativos y, por lo tanto, marcharemos en las Convenciones Nacionales Republicana y Demócrata de 2024. La organización está celebrando una conferencia de prensa para esbozar los detalles de la marcha y compartir cómo otras organizaciones e individuos pueden involucrarse en nuestra misión y contribuir a la lucha nacional por los derechos humanos y económicos. QUÉ: Conferencia de prensa sobre la Marcha del Ejército Popular de los Pobres de 2024 DÓNDE: Reunión virtual en Zoom | bit.ly/poorpeoplesarmyzoom CUÁNDO: Miércoles 25 de octubre, a las 2 p. m. EST EST QUIÉN/VISUALES: ● Cheri Honkala, Coordinadora Nacional del Ejército Popular Pobre (PPA) ● Pastor Keith Collins, Church of the Overcomer, DelCo, PA ● Shamako Noble, Área de la Bahía PPA, CA ● Un representante de Young Lords, Chicago IL ● Un representante de Brown Berets, Chicago IL ● Barbara Maniotis, PPA Milwaukee, WI ● Kwame Shakur, Second Rainbow Coalition, Indianápolis, IN ● Tara Colon, PPA Haines City, FL ● Hy Thurman, Escuela para Organizadores del Norte de Alabama, Huntsville, AL ● Rosa Richards, PPA Athol, MA

For Immediate Release: Contact: tiny gray-garcia or Muteado Silencio- (510-) 435-7500 /poormag@gmail.com Homefulness is HEALing.. Houseless Leaders Propose an innovative Rent-Free Housing/ Healing Model for one of San Francisco's Vacant Office Buildings. What: Rally for Homefulness Healing Proposal for SF When: 10:30am Tuesday, November 7th Where: San Francisco City Hall steps "We have our own solutions, please listen to them," said Aunti Frances Moore, formerly houseless co-founder of Homefulness- a homeless peoples solution to homelessness that was dreamed, visioned, worked on and manifested by low and no-income families , youth and elders of the Bay Area and now houses 15 formerly houseless families and elders in Oakland. On November 7th Houseless and formerly houseless San Franciscans, along with advocates and allies will present a proposal to the City of San Francisco to transform one of the thousands of vacant office buildings in Downtown SF to a Homefulness Project, an arts, education and healing model to house and heal houseless residents of SF. This project would be modeled after the innovative, homeless peoples -led and visioned model currently housing 15 formerly houseless youth, adults & elders in Oakland. "Thousands of buildings stand vacant while thousands of us houseless San Franciscan residents continue to be swept like we are trash, face ongoing harassment, incarceration or death. This is an opportunity of hope and life for San Francisco." said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseless/incarcerated Poet, co-founder of POOR Magazine, visionary of Homefulness and author of Criminal of Poverty Growing up Homeless in America and many more. Houseless and formerly houseless residents and poverty skolaz of San Francisco from the Coalition on Homelessness, POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, Western Regional Advocacy Project and other communities will offer their poverty scholarship on homelessness and the importance of Homefulness as a real solutio, in addition to advocates and allies.. “To meaningfully address our city’s homelessness crisis, we need to listen to people with lived experience, the advocates who have successfully piloted people-first models across the Bay Area,” said San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston. “That’s why I’m proud to stand with Homefulness activists and to support efforts to bring this program to San Francisco.” Press conference and rally co-sponsored by The Coalition on Homelessness, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Anti-PoLice Terror Project, The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) Krip Hop Nation, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Race and Equity in All Planning coalition in SF (REP-SF). and more to come

By Yousef M.A. reporting out of Istanbul, Turkey October 26, 2023 Family homes destroyed by Israeli airstrike. The support that Poor Magazine provided was graciously received on October 15, 2023, from which the family of Mr. Hatem Al-Rai received a portion. Mr. Al-Rai’s family live in the Gaza Strip in the city of Deir Al-Balah and consists of ten members who live in a dilapidated house comprised of two rooms. The house was recently destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after a neighboring house was targeted resulting in the martyrdom of the mother Noura, and her two children, while the rest of the family members were injured. The family is now in desperate need of special care, especially since all of them are children, ranging in age from eight months to 15 years, and the father is unemployed due to a disability in his leg. They urgently need support to cover the costs of treatment, care, and housing. This is the suffering of just one family out of hundreds of families in Gaza. Hanan, 6 years old, martyred in an Israeli Airstrike. Abdul Aziz, 5 years old, martyred in an Israeli airstrike.

WEEK OF ACTION NOW TO TUESDAY NOV 7 Email Oakland City Council Submit public comment for Nov 7 meeting Direct action at City Hall 11/7, 3 pm DEMANDS Introduce resolution against genocide of Palestine Call a special meeting to pass it immediately The City of Richmond became the first in the nation to pass a resolution affirming solidarity with Palestine against genocide on 10/24. Oakland must do the same immediately. Richmond’s City Council resolution was introduced by their Mayor and Vice Mayor. Oakland’s mayor Sheng Thao, and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan have been silent. We must contact our councilmembers, urge them to introduce a similar resolution, and pass it as quickly as possible. We are calling upon Oakland City Council to convene a special meeting to pass a resolution against the genocide of the Palestinian people. Download social media graphics and use email templates: bit.ly/oak4gaza

Interview with Desun Oka Momii Palapaz Poor News Network “To this day, the Japanese state continues to deny the existence of sexual slavery of comfort women during the 1930s and 1940s,” said Desun Oka of Eclipse Rising. Japan has not admitted nor acknowledged fully the kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of women from Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines and China. Women and girls were snatched up, enduring rape and assault. Little girls who hadn’t yet reached their teens were among those used for physical and sexual violence by Imperial army soldiers. Japan has refused to address this issue for decades. “This denialism is common throughout much of Japanese society as well,” said Desun, “save for a few civil society organizations and activists. So we will be visiting them on the Nikkei Decolonization tour (NDT).” On instagram, the NDT pilot tour of 2019 has posts of visits to the comfort women and activists. Desun, and other members from Eclipse Rising, traveled to Osaka and Okinawa to meet comfort women and their caretakers. “The first woman, Pae Pong-Gi, that caretakers assisted, publicly came out” to tell her story. She was “living in a shack, completely homeless and mentally ill, no one knew where she came from. She was secretive about her history, until Okinawa was reverted back to Japanese control.” During a 1970 tally of the racial population in Okinawa by Japanese officials, Pae Pong-Gi slowly told her story. This was the first documentation of comfort women and sexual enslavement. Hundreds of thousands of women like Chen Lien Hua, were subjected to unimaginable sexual assault. May 12, 2019, Japanese Consulate, SF “These organizations are educating people in Japan about the system which is linked to the resurgence of right wing politics, which is then connected to militarism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism all across Japan. We are visiting to understand the history as well as understand how the denial is connected to the violence Japanese society perpetuates on others”. As a 69 year old Japanese American woman, and a descendant of a Japanese supremacy, I feel much responsibility to share what I will learn about the inhuman practices by the Japanese government. Just as US imperialism erases their bloodthirsty past, so has the government of my ancestral land, Japan. I asked Desun about the status of being born non Japanese. He said, “Being born in Japan doesn’t guarantee citizenship. You have to have a Japanese mother or father. This locks you out of voting rights and in some places, public office.” You’re “not a citizen, but under special alien resident status, like green card holders here.” With no Japanese parent, you are “stateless” and some people “naturalize to South Korean citizenship.” Doing harm toward non Japanese citizens, I hear, is alarmingly common in Japan. Gangs of young people similar to the racist “proud boys” in the U.S. and Japanese supremacist groups regularly taunt and assault those who are of Korean, Chinese and other nationalities residing there. AND all levels of the government do little if anything about it. There are no ANTI DISCRIMINATION LAWS IN JAPAN. In 1910, Japan invaded and colonized Korea. The imperial army of Japan brutally controlled the Korean population. Over 100,000 Japanese moved to Korea and proceeded to settle in neighborhoods of Korean citizens. Korean citizens were forced to migrate, live in Japan and work in factories supplying the war machine. The U.S., Europe, Russia and Japan were locked into battling for land, slaves and natural resources. In 1923, a huge earthquake, measuring 7.9, brought chaos and contributed to organized vigilantes and army units of Imperial Japan attacking and killing Koreans in Tokyo and surrounding areas. A minimum of 10,000 Koreans as well as Chinese perished. This became known as the Kanto Massacre. “To this day”, said Desun, “the Japanese State which has played a big role in initiating this massacre, has not fully acknowledged the scope of the massacre or proper redress. Fast forward to 2023, a lot of scholars and academics with survivors (descendants) of families organized a symposium to talk about this, research it and find ways to commemorate it.” March 1st, 1948: Some of the 80,000 Korean people gathering in to commemorate Korea’s Declaration of Independence from Japan The Kanto Massacre “shows how much violence affected the community. It erased communities and erased collective memories. 1923 provided an opportunity for the emergence of a fascist State in the 1930s. When the massacre first struck, the newspaper[s] reported that socialists and Koreans would riot and kill Japanese. The army, military and proState link[ed] Koreans with socialists, giving them the opportunity to suppress the growing working class and socialist movement. The massacre gave the State the ability to tap down on and drive a wedge between Japanese and Koreans.” “One of the key aspects of a fascist movement," continued Desun, “is to make a cleavage between ordinary people. Divert attention away from the struggle they are experiencing or the Japan ruling class.” Sandra, from Japan Posts reported in July 2023 that the 100 Anniversary Kanto Massacre Ceremony Executive Committee requested Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to acknowledge the massacre with a message of condolence. Although she had sent a note of condolence in her first year as Governor, Koike has refused for the 7th year in a row to make any statement or condolences on the 100th anniversary. Ceremony executive committee member, Yasuhiko Miyagawa, told reporters, “It’s completely regrettable. The governor is turning a blind eye to the historical fact of the massacre of Koreans. [Her] attitude can be seen as denying the historical fact” (Mayuko Watanabe).

Momii Palapaz Poor News Network “This is the place that saved lives and developed leadership and helped the community,” Guillermina Castellanos said. “I was going through domestic violence and I came here. This is the place where I developed my leadership to want to help immigrants and respect immigrant rights. This is the place of refuge. This place belongs to the immigrant community.” Guillermina Castellanos, Mike Casey, Roberto Hernandez, Luis from the AFL-CIO and many labor community members grew up in San Francisco and the Mission. A book could be written and easily filled with the many stories of the building, originally named the SF Labor Temple. Since 1914, 2926 16th Street, between Capp and South Van Ness, has been the center of resources for workers, labor unions, immigrants, artists, theater, housing, women, and children’s services. The Redstone building is now in the hands of a wealth hoarding developer. Gone are the murals that tell the history of labor and women’s rights. Erased with a mediocre egg color of paint, the 2nd and 3rd floor’s walls are now completely blank. An artist’s rendition of the Chinese Ladies Garment Workers Union Local 341, 1938, is now a blank wall. Another poor and landless people’s base is gone and so is a rooted community center. The ancestors of San Francisco’s working poor, labor unions, immigrants activists and artists, filled these hallways–three floors and two theaters. The walls were stories of discrimination, striking for equality and the right to protest. One wall covers the Emporium Capwell Black employees’ boycott in 1968. It ended up in the US Court of Appeals in 1972. Two men handed out leaflets urging customers to boycott the department store. “BOYCOTT IS ON” said the piece of paper. With a powerful report, the notice said, “For years at the Emporium, Black, Brown, Yellow and Red people have worked at the lowest jobs, at the lowest levels. The Emporium is a 20th century slave plantation. We welcome the support of our brothers and sisters from the churches, unions, sororities, fraternities, social clubs, Afro American Institute, WACO, the Black Panther Party and the Poor People’s Institute.” The building housed labor unions that were part of the 1917 United Railroads Streetcar Strike and the maritime strike. This strike led to the memorable 1934 SF General Strike. When the Bindery Women Workers, Local 125 (mural on the entryway) merged with the men’s union of bookbinders, they significantly lost the power of equal voting rights, pay and worker rights. Unfortunately I had never entered the doors of the Redstone Building during its heydays of the 1970’s-1990’s. Last year, when POOR MAGAZINE held theater workshops and produced a play called “Crushing Wheelchairs,” I walked into a treasure of art everywhere I looked. Posters and murals throughout the three floors of activity. Never a thought that it would vanish. Here are a few I managed to save on camera.

We houseless/landless,criminalized, swept, incarcerated/No-income/Black/Brown/Indigenous & Disabled, landless youth, adults and elders at Homefulness / POOR Magazine and Deecolonize Academy are together with ALL victims of Wars ON the POOR. From Occupied Palestine to Puerto Rico from Kashmir to West Papua from South Africa to Haiti to Hawai’i.. From Tongva to Huchuin… We are together with indigenous Palestinian people who have been incarcerated on their own homelands since the Occupation of Israel. We also stand with ALL victims of wars all over Mama Earth caused by colonial terror, greed, extraction and settler colonial occupation, even the settlers themselves, as many of us, on this part of stolen and Occupied Turtle Island are from those CONfusing and terrifying gray areas. We are against all wars and hope and pray for peace but know, sadly, that peace is rarely had if there is more of Mama Earth or her resources to steal. We pray as well for the four-leggeds, winged ones, plant and tree relatives who also are destroyed, killed, and traumatized by these colonial wars. Leaving us all with less shade, less clean air, water, and life to breathe, drink, eat and survive another day. And finally we pray for Mama Earth and Mama Ocean who us houseless and poor people live closest too and are impacted first and worst by, who without whom there would be no us…. Ometeotl, Ase, Semign Cacona Guari, A’hooooooo POOR Magazine/Homefulness/Deecolonize Academy Family شعوب محتلة، بلا مأوى، بلا أرض من هوتشوين إلى هايتي إلى فلسطين نحن بلا مأوى / بلا أرض، مجرمين، مكتسحين، مسجونين / بلا دخل / أسود / بني / السكان الأصليين والمعاقين، شباب لا يملكون أرضًا، بالغين وشيوخ في Homeness / POOR Magazine وDeecolonize Academy مع جميع ضحايا الحروب على الفقراء. من فلسطين المحتلة إلى بورتوريكو، ومن كشمير إلى بابوا الغربية، ومن جنوب أفريقيا إلى هايتي إلى هاواي.. ومن تونغفا إلى هوتشوين... نحن نقف مع السكان الفلسطينيين الأصليين الذين تم سجنهم في أوطانهم منذ احتلال إسرائيل. كما أننا نقف مع جميع ضحايا الحروب في جميع أنحاء ماما إيرث الناجمة عن الإرهاب الاستعماري والجشع والاستخراج والاحتلال الاستعماري الاستيطاني، حتى المستوطنين أنفسهم، كما أن الكثير منا، في هذا الجزء من جزيرة السلحفاة المسروقة والمحتلة، من أولئك المربكين والمرعبين المناطق الرمادية. نحن ضد كل الحروب ونأمل ونصلي من أجل السلام ولكننا نعلم، للأسف، أن السلام نادرًا ما يتحقق إذا كان هناك المزيد من ماما إيرث أو مواردها التي يمكن سرقتها. ونصلي أيضًا من أجل ذوي الأرجل الأربعة، والأجنحة، وأقارب النباتات والأشجار الذين دمرتهم هذه الحروب الكولوهية وقُتلوا وصدموا أيضًا. مما يتركنا جميعًا بظل أقل وهواء نظيف وماء وحياة أقل للتنفس ونشرب وتناول الطعام والبقاء على قيد الحياة ليوم آخر. وأخيرًا نصلي من أجل ماما الأرض وماما أوشن الذين نعيش نحن المشردين والفقراء في أقرب مكان أيضًا ونتأثر أولاً والأسوأ، الذين بدونهم لن نكون موجودين…. أوميتيوتل، آسي، سيميجن كاكونا جواري، أهووو مجلة POOR/Homeness/عائلة أكاديمية إنهاء الاستعمار Nosotros sin hogar/sin tierra, criminalizados, barridos, encarcelados/sin ingresos/negros/marrones/indígenas y discapacitados, jóvenes, adultos y ancianos sin tierra en Homefulness/POOR Magazine y Deecolonize Academy estamos junto con TODAS LAS víctimas de guerras CONTRA los POBRES. De la Palestina ocupada a Puerto Rico, de Cachemira a Papúa Occidental, de Sudáfrica a Haití y Hawái. De Tongva a Huchuin... Estamos junto con los pueblos indígenas palestinos que han sido encarcelados en sus propios países desde la ocupación de Israel. También apoyamos a TODAS las víctimas de guerras en toda la Tierra Mama causadas por el terror colonial, la codicia, la extracción y la ocupación colonial de los colonos, incluso los propios colonos, como muchos de nosotros, en esta parte de la Isla Tortuga robada y ocupada somos de esas confusas y aterradoras áreas grises. Estamos en contra de todas las guerras y esperamos y oramos por la paz, pero sabemos, tristemente, que la paz rara vez se tiene si hay más de Mama Tierra o sus recursos que robar. Oramos también por los parientes de cuatro patas, alados, plantas y árboles que también son destruidos, asesinados y traumatizados por estas guerras coloniales. Dejándonos a todos con menos sombra, menos aire limpio, agua y vida para respirar, beber, comer y sobrevivir otro día. Y por último oramos por Mama Tierra y Mama Océano quienes nosotros sin hogar y los pobres también vivimos más cerca y son impactados primero y peor por, quienes sin quienes no habría nosotros…. Ometeotl, Ase, Semign Cacona Guari, A’hooooooo POOR Magazine/Homefulness/Academia Deecoloniza Familia