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. |
(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,
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.
TALK TO THE HAND: SPORTS (MUSIC, ETC) IN AMERIKKKA
1. Madness, Metaphors, and Mud In Yer Eyes, Oh My!
The Tough House
“I want the community in general to wear their rights (laminated “Know Your Rights” cards) on their chest. I want mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, nephews, nieces, and children. I don’t want anyone left out!”