Our Movement
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 Mama Earth.
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.
Main Schedule
PPE will be provided at all in-person events
Roofless Radio
Reporting and supporting with hot healthy meals, supplies, tents, jackets, and revolutionary media
3 times a week in encampments across the so-called Bay Area
Broadcasting local and global news of struggles with poverty, racism, disability, incarceration, (im)migration, and more
Every Tuesday (6–8 PM) and Thursday (4–6 PM) on 96.1 FM
Non-hierarchical circle for decisions about all of our broadcast, written, televised, photographed, and spoken news
First Thursday of every month at 1 PM
8032 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
Poverty skolaz learn to write, publish, and sell books through POOR Press
Once a year
Contact for more info
Free library of revolutionary and liberatory poetry, fiction, and more
Available year-round by appointment
Contact to schedule a visit
Poor People's Radio Workshop
Teaching poverty skolaz how to share our powerful stories on the radio
2–3 times per year
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Launched by Tiny (@povertySkola) on Mama Earth Day 2016. We will come to your part of settler stolen/occupied, Po'Lice predated Turtle Island (or anywhere on Mama Earth) to pray, vision, dream teach, and share Radical Redistribution, ComeUnity Reparations, and Homefulness with wealth-hoarders, inheritors of stolen Mama Earth, and/or protected/occupied wealth neighborhoods.
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Radical redistribution of fresh foods, healthy meals, supplies, and resources to our community, rain or shine
Thursdays at 12 pm
8032 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
Poverty Journalism Workshop
For poverty skolaz learning to write our own news
Tuesdays at 9:30 AM
Education designed for our Black and Brown youth poverty skolaz and leaders of the future
Monday – Friday, August – June
Hybrid online/in-person
Revolutionary education for both poverty skolaz and folks with race, class, and formal education privilege
Begins January and August every year, total of 5 day-long sessions over 2 months
Danza Azteca Practica (Aztec Dance Practice)
A form of prayer and ceremony offered through our feet and bodies in dance
Year-round
Contact to join
Houseless and formerly houseless youth and elder poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine will come to your encampment, university, church, or town and share the medicine (template) of Homefulness—a homeless, landless, self-determined movement/solution to homelessness
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HERstory
POOR Magazine the publication arts and education project was started in 1996 by an indigenous, landless mother and daughter who struggled with extreme poverty, incarceration and criminalization in the US. POOR Magazine, the organization, is a poor people led/indigenous people led non-profit, grassroots, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, arts, education and solutions from youth, adults and elders in poverty across Pachamama.
POOR Magazine makes u holla
for the true skola
Houseless,
Landless,
We are many tribes- walking the earth
Cultivando y sembrando semillas de resistencia es lo que hacemos en Prensa Pobre trabajando de sol a sol con sudor, angustia, y amor.. y Empuñamos el arma mas fuerte que es el amor a nuestra gente...
(Cultivating seeds of resistance is what we do at POOR Magazine.... with sweat, love, and tears...And we pick the biggest weapon which is the love for our Gente....)
We a poor people led revolution
claiming back our turf
like the Shackdwellers union South Africa
Landless peoples movement in Brazil
Mumia's MOVE africa and
Pam Africa as well
The Zapatistas in Chiapas
The United Houma Nation
Resisting Eradication!
We all had our own own land,
Our own roof
Til the po'lice/the government gangstaz
Corrupted the truth
Journalism coming back to the streets
Where it all began
No more running for degrees
scholarship defined by the man
Like Christopher Columbus-
Leland Stanford
and all eugeni-cists
Some weren't fooled
By the Philanthro-pimps
and Institutional SkoolZ
Last Poets,
Po'Poets,
and PeopleSkool
(chorus)
POOR Magazine makes u holla
for the true skola
Change wont come from a savior, a pimp or an institution
Change will only come
from our own poor peoples led revolution
........Po'Poets/Poetas POBRE's of POOR Magazine 2010