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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Wealth-Hoarders Listen/Learn & Collaborate with Poor/Unhoused/Indigenous People to Launch a Reparations Bank
People with Race, Class and/or Formal education privileges collaborate with unhoused /indigenous/bordered poor people to launch a "fund" of reparations at 11am
The Catalyst
Over the past few years I believe I have come 2 grips with a few decisions. By far I am not a willing participant in being the catalyst, but I am realizing that sometimes being the catalyst is exactly what your position is to be. I am floored with the idea that one person could be chosen to be the catalyst of many different situations. Imagine being born only to be put in situations that are uncomfortable and traumatizing in order for mankind to function.
Left behind in Tech Privelege land
I really hate not being computer savvy. Often I feel like I'm left behind. The world is supposed to be at my fingertips. This is my generation, we are the techies of today. Unfortunately I don't have that privilege. Somehow I got left behind.
Open Letter to the President
Dear President Donald Trump.
Did you know that you will go down in history as a Mad President?
Scamlord Story- Sharena Diamond Thomas
My name is Sharena Diamond Thomas, and I'm informing everybody of what's going on in my neck of the woods, East Oakland. I'm dealing with a slum lord.
From Eviction to Homelessness
The Silent yet deadly elder & child abuse of Eviction and cause of homelessness
The Sacred Mauna Kea Needs Your Help
Take Action for Mauna A Wākea!!! Please let them know they need to Divest from Desecration!!!!
Joint statement against the incarceration "detention" and raids on Indigenous Refugees from Central and Southern Turtle Island and all of Mama Earth
Hit Me Bruh! Thoughts on the Last Black Man in San Francisco
Hit me with something real. Hit me with what I am. Hit me with my pent up rage. Hit me with everything that’s been taken from you, me, us—our city. Last black man, first black man, and all black men in between; hit me in the solar nexus, the crossroads, the migration, the displacement, the toxicity—I want it all, I want it all back. Last Black Man in San Francisco, a pause in the sound of the heartbeat of two young black men, a pause that expands and captures the history of a people—the black community of San Francisco—in all its l
