POOR Magazine
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Revolutionary Journalism, poetry, & prose on issues of poverty, racism, disability, in/migration, border fascism, incarceration, welfare (de)form, profiling, indigenous resistance, art, media, and more by the folks who experience these struggles first-hand. |
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(POOR Magazine -The print edition- Is currently out of print due to lack of funding. Some copies of Volume #4: MOTHERS still available by mail order. Contact deeandtiny@poormagazine.org) Blogs and Journalizm by Poverty Skolaz locally and globally linked below: |
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Fourth of July in City Terrace
At Herbert Circle the view reaches from Eastside to San Pedro, from the Chicano Alps to shores of the North Pacific.
People hurry here from carne asada and weenie grills to huddle in the middle of the street.
To seize from the holiday a way of seeing themselves in their own light.
In anticipation for darkness to come rushing, for the show to begin,
I was early to stand among the crowd.
Following the first explosion from an artillery shell others take flight.
In an instant, night is set on fire.
We Still Need Justice For Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin THEY SURVIVED
We Still Need Justice For Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin THEY SURVIVED
Bryson Chaplin
Andre Thompson
Justice for Steven Taylor
Photo- Steven Taylor. Source Lee Merritt
Defund police, Fund humanity
“We pay your salaries and you have your assault rifles ready to shoot us unarmed protesters!?!? Stop paying them, people!” A poverty skolar shouted from the crowd where about 100 people had gathered in front of the Tenderloin police station in SF to speak up against police terror, murder and blantant brutality that is swiftly plauging many states in the nation once again.
Happy Heavenly Birthday, Yvonne McDonald: Talauna Reed, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Rest in Power,
Black Loved One
Yvonne McDonald
Sunrise
June 23, 1962 to
Sunset
August 7, 2018
Support Black/Brown Youth in Poverty Reporting on PoLice Terror/Gun Violence
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Abolish the Other PoLice: Mandated Reporters
“Noooooooo don’t take my baaaabeeee….”
No Turning Back: The Burning Soul of the Nation
The soul of the nation is burning. The streets are on fire, minds are on fire, hearts are on fire. For every broken glass there are shattered lives, broken identities, severed connections to ourselves and to others. The nation is aflame. The camera is pointed at us. There is no hiding. Things are not going to be the same. John Wayne is not coming on his galloping horse to swoop us up before the credits roll. There will be no rerun.
