Mike Casey - A LoveUuary - a povertyskola’s comeUnity obituary -

By Aztlan Native/POOR Magazine/PNN

A 63 year old man Mike Casey was found dead last week in his small, camouflaged hut that he built near the entrance to the 880 freeway off Davis streets off ramp in San Leandro near Oakland 98th avenue exit. Everyone knew Mike in the area, he was a well known guy I had the honor of meeting and socializing with this past year. Mike enjoyed socializing and working with his friends on motorcycles and all bikes, but his passion was airplanes. He always bragged about being a pilot and telling stories about how he used to have girls in his planes and they loved it when he took them for a flight up north.

                            He was content with his homemade hut all by himself where he fell victim to poverty violence going 2 days before a friend went to check on him finding him extremely overweight from the gasses and toxins trapped in his body. A female friend, one of the 2 friends that found him in his hut said, "the smell was really bad and flies came swarming out once I opened the doors to his shack” another said “he was a good man”. Mike was an air force veteran and had been homeless for the past 5-10 years due to a falling out with his father and family over property up North. 

                             Mike was not healthy and refused to get medical attention because he felt like hospitals were killing more people then they were healing or curing. This is another sad reminder how homelessness kills and death is an ongoing occurrence here in the United snakes of Amerikkka. This is a form of Genocide that we are faced with among all the other epidemics and pandemics.No obituary was published on behalf of Mike Casey, this is a tactic of the oppressors to sweep our tragedies under the rug. 

Mike’s LoveUary will be honored at POOR Magazine’s Dia de los Muertos ceremony at Homefulness - this Thursday, Oct 31 at 2pm- 8032 MacArthur Bl Deep East Huchiun (Oakland)