POOR's Mission
POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.
All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.
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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The Responses To Krip-Hop's Track SSI Dollarz By Men In San Bruno Jail
Back in the late 90's I and Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia had the honor to present our work in San Bruno jail. In July of 2017 I had another opportunity to present my work, this time, Krip-Hop Nation under Poetry For the People's teacher Amalia Alvarez. The men responded great to the videos, songs and talk all about Black disabled issues from Hip-Hop to police brutality but the spark was the song by Keith Jones and I entitled SSI Dollarz. We ended the class by writing what they thought of the presentation and a cypher.
Po' Food Kills more Poor People than Guns
Youth Poverty Scholars Investigative Team #100 - Sahara, Seven, Zosia & Sasha Findings
In Deecolonize Academy/POOR Magazine summer camp, we researched food from a local liquor store in our black and brown community. We broke into two investigative youth groups and we looked at, the healthy and unhealthy benefits in the food.
The Razor Wire Plantations & Penal Abolition -Report back and Reflections from a Poverty Skola on ICOPA 17
We walk back and forth in a jail-cel everyday -its called your doorways
tent cities
Bus benches
and Metal chairs in the emergency room
waiting to be seen…excerpt from the PoorHouse to the JailHouse by tiny
“Prison abolition is different than penal abolition- we don’t just want to get rid of the structures- we want to get rid of the whole system that functions to destroy people, said Ashanti Alston, Black Panther and penal abolitionist.
Unhoused families resist Poverty Pimping & Scamlords in DC
My name is Jewel Stroman. Last summer I went from being homeless with my family to obtaining a 2 story brick house in 60 days and becoming a Community Activist. I started a movement advocating not only for my family, but for all families placed at Motel 6 by DC Dept of Human Services & Virginia Williams Family Resource Center.
From East Oakland to North Yemen- A Youth Poverty Skolaz Investigation
The war on Yemeni people is a horrifying and disgusting thing. But, what we have to remember is that even though the Saudi government are the ones shooting the missiles, this war was started by the United States. This war is fully backed and funded by the Trump Administration. The reason for the last couple of wars that have been going on in the Middle East is because of the oil content there. The United States Government will stop at nothing to get that oil. They have started wars to start our cars.
Reflections on SF BayView Newspaper
Suicides inside of Lane Murray by Seven
July is ADA Month However When It Comes to Police ADA Means?
From Trump Tower to the Tenderloin - The Hoarding Cluttering of the 1%
“Mr A, Mr A, this is your case-mangler, we are here for your daily,weekly hourly room inspection ,” Covered in face mask, latex gloves and waving a mock pesticide spray bottle, I, playing a character i created called The Case-mangler in POOR Magazine’s 2017 production of Theatre of the POOR yelled through the “door” on the stage at poverty , disability, elder Skola Bruce.
Movmiento Sin Teirra: Oppressed Peoples Herstory Final
The landless people's movement is located in Brazil the idea of the project is to grow their own food instead of killing off their people and also to get the farmers back their land so they can have collective living and live in harmony.
