Homefulness#5, 4, 3 & 2 Can't Happen without U
Updated: 3 hours ago
Dear Loving ComeUnity and Family,
I can’t get warm
no matter how tight i clutch my hoodie to my ice-cold body
Sometimes I am so cold I burn myself.
As the daggers of winter cold approaches my years of homelessness on the street scream into my bones.
I have a dry jacket and a roof and yet i still can’t get warm..tiny.
From Grants Pass to Palestine, from Newsom’s Disappearing (Clearing) Orders and the genocide across Mama Earth to the Orange Colonial Monster, all of our radical self-determined movements are the answer to this violent sickness. With deep gratitude in our hearts for all of you radical redistributors, ComeUnity Reparators and love warriors, 22 houseless youth, babies, adults and disabled elders are permanently housed in rent-free, forever healing housing at Homefulness; Deecolonize Academy is a thriving school for low/no-income/houseless indigenous children; a Poor Peoples’ liberation radio station broadcasts weekly; the Sliding Scale Cafe shares free organic food, fruits, veggies, diapers and love with over 800 families every week; and Poor Magazine provides so many more street-based, poverty scholarship-informed programs rooted in radical interdependence and revolutionary love.
Right now, we are asking for help to bring 14 homes to Homefulness #2 at 7600 BlackArthur in deep east Huchiun. Thanks to you all badass reparators and donors, we were able to get the first two homes for Homefulness #2 with working water and sewage. All we need is the off-grid solar system to have houseless families move in. We also need help purchasing the remaining 12 recycled container homes, better known as ADU’s (the first one pictured above).
We are also actively working with houseless poverty skolaz and housed allies in the Pacific Northwest, Tovaangar (LA) and Yelamu (San Francisco) to bring/mamafest more of the medicine of Homefulness. To do that, we have launched a new effort with guidance from our first Nations Ohlone/Lisjan relatives called The Homeful Tax. Please help us put this out as far and wide as possible, and please help us with your love-stained dollars so we can finish Homefuness #2, and launch #3PNW , #4Yelamu(SF) & #5Tovaangar(LA) lifting up, liberating and unSelling more of occupied Turtle Island.
To redistribute to the Homeful Tax, visit linktr.ee/homefultax. To learn more about the practicable solution of Homefulness, radical redistribution and ComeUnity reparations, consider registering for the upcoming Decolonization/DegentriFUKation seminar of PeopleSkool. Your love-stained dollars fund Homefulness 1 and will mamafest Homefulness 2’s solar energy system, Homefulness 3 in the Pacific Northwest, Homefulness 4 in occupied Yelamu (San Francisco), Homefulness 5 in occupied Tovaangar (LA), and sustain hundreds of houseless families with rent, food, utility bills and basic support.
Ometeotl, Ase, Semign Cacona Guari, A’hooooooo
Tiny and the POOR Magazine, Homefulness & DeeColonize Academy Family
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year, and we see that echoing in poor people’s resistance movements all across Mama Earth. In the midst of the year’s many traumas, we have continued fighting to dismantle the lies of krapitalism and wealth-hoarding from the bottom up and responding to the needs of poverty skolaz from Turtle Island to Palestine. Here are just a few of the huge amount of love-work we did in 2024:
We moved our 22nd resident into HOMEFULNESS #1
DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 11th year with 11 enrolled students and 3 of our graduates becoming teachers
13th year of SLIDING SCALE CAFÉ, a radical redistribution (mutual aid) of healthy food groceries, diapers & media, support for deep East Oakland every Thursday
Continued in-person People Skool for East Oakland poverty skolaz with Theatre of the Poor and Po Peoples Radio workshop series
The Po Poets and Poverty Skola authors of Poor Press (www.poorpress.net) released their books, poems and anthologies in February 2024. One new book to come in 2025!
Listen to PNNKEXU 96.1FM every Tuesday & Thursday for multi- generational radio programming: We r All Connected, The Peoples Botánica, Dr. Sweets Critique, & In the Spirit of Nat Turner.
We had two annual People Skool Decolonization/DegentriFUKation Seminars on Zoom. Next People Skool Seminar is January 25th & 26th, 2025, info at www.poormagazine.org/education.
Fighting against the war on our houseless bodies after the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision Led a national press conference to Decline to Accept Grants Pass and to charge Gavin Newsom with War (On the Poor) Crimes. Launched “Sweeping us to Nowhere” WeSearch (aka research) investigation into sweeps after Grants Pass, with RooflessRadio reports across Yelamu (SF), Tovaangar (LA), Huchiun (Oakland), so-called Sacramento. Launched “Black Land Theft & Black Homelessness in Black History Month” youth and elder poverty skola WeSearch Report. |
Mamafesting Homefulness #4 in Tovaangar (LA) to permanently house our relatives Began a movement/family collaboration with our fellow Houseless relatives at Aetna Street Solidarity to help them Liberate Mama Earth and build their own forever homes. This October, we had the first HERstoric Elephant Meeting with 22 houseless poverty skolaz in so-called LA to fully mamafest Homefulness #4 with the help of ancestors and an amazing solidarity family. |
Crushing Wheelchairs movie is in production - coming in 2025 After selling out 3 productions of the original theater show, Crushing Wheelchairs, with an all Houseless cast – honoring ancestors of homelessness, poLice terror and sweeps – the Crushing Wheelchairs narrative film is in editing and will be released in 2025. View the “Behind The Scenes: CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS” on Youtube and stay connected to learn more! |
Homefulness #2 in Deep East Huichin (Oakland) construction underway The construction of Homefulness #2, a fully off-grid project and a collaboration between Poor Magazine and Wood Street Commons, has commenced. We acquired the first two fully equipped container homes for Homefulness 2 – water and sewer system and two Pachamama garden boxes launched with DeeColonize Academy students. Still working on raising money for off-grid solar power for this powerful liberation project. |
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