POOR Magazine

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.

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.

(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:

RAD & Gentrifukation in San Francisco

by Jack Minel

2009 was the year my mom and I were no longer homeless in San Francisco, due to the tenacity of my mother, Linda Montoya, and pure luck. My mom spent her efforts to file applications when I was homeless with her in a shelter, known as the Hamilton. She filed a section 8 paper, which allowed certain low-income families — when certified by local house ambassadors — to be allowed to rent a private property.