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:

Plain Cone

Plain Cone

By Tony Robles

Grandpa had this way

Of whistling and when I heard

It I thought of caramel corn

And ice cream

Grandpa was black, from

New Orleans and his wife

Was San Francisco Irish

But to me they were Grandpa

And Grandma

To landlords they were

Not the kind of people

You rented to

They had a child, my mother,

CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE CHA-CHA-CHA 2010-11: Stage 3 Child Care Cuts, Fights, The Future

Don’t Let Eviction Kill More Elders

The North Beach Eviction of low-income elders must be stopped

If I Were A Bell: A Tribute to Teena Marie

Lady T
By Tony Robles

I’m for the real…and for you I’m true blue
--Lover Girl by Teena Marie

Ted Williams

Ted Williams

GEORGE (GASCONE) AND THE SIX FORTY-SEVENS: ILLEGAL LODGING IN SAN FRANCISCO

Will George Gascone, the new District Attorney of San Francisco, increase the number of arrests for 647E (the Illegal Lodging statute)? This law goes back to Gold-Rush times, originally intended to stop people from claim-jumping someone elses gold mine.