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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Invasion of the Tent Snatchers II- Sf Mayor Steals 405 Tents as an unwritten "Homeless Policy"
Invasion of the Tent Snatchers II
2019 WeSearch Report from Poverty Skola/WeSearchers from the Occupied Ohlone/Lisjan Village of Yelamu (San Francisco) Presents: Ongoing Tent and Belonging Theft in San Francisco under Mayor London Breed
WeSearch def: Poor and indigenous peoples-led research. Launched by POOR Magazine poverty skolaz)
SF WeSearch Release Summary
Audrey Candy Corn GRIEVING BREATHING MOTHER
Grieving Breathing Mother Blog January 2019
WELL WELL WELL HOW THE TABLES WILL TEARN I HAVE THE GOLDEN KEY TODAY I CELEBRATE ………
Broadcasting Live With Patrick Lafayette From Jamaica To New York!
LEROY F. MOORE JR: First, tell us about growing up in Jamaica.
Police Brutality With A Deaf Character In the Movie, The System By Iroc Daniels
LEROY F MOORE JR.: So, Mr. Daniels, tell us about this movie called The System, and when did it come out?
IROC DANIELS: Well, this came out in the last, well, it actually went to select theaters September 5th to select theaters. But now it’s on Amazon. It just came out on Amazon like a couple weeks ago.
LEROY F MOORE JR.: OK. And I’ve been reading about it, and tell us about the storyline.
My Khmerikan Family: How deportation affected my life
I met Solo some 27 years ago in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district when we were youngsters in the “wilderness children” phase. Even though it was love at first sight for me I hid my emotions about how I truly felt for him and tried to hook him up with my cousin.
Black Woman, White Face
“I mean her butt, it’s so BIG! Uh, Gross! Look! She’s just so BLACK!”
Sustenance
Hunger
drove me to
seek sustenance
at Safeway. Desperately I searched
for food without fillers not born in a lab
for food without pesticide tainting its skin
for food without chemical colors mixed in
for food not injected, infected or foul
for food not obtained through abuse of the wild
When suddenly from deep inside my soul
a deafening tone rose and took control
my body shook as i scremaed and yelled
that the food in the store was not fit to sell
Rebuilding the House: Shawna Hawk, Media Island, and an Opportunity for Redistribution of Hoarded Wealth, Power, and Resources
Shawna Hawk is a Black Power movement builder, a Mother, a Healer and a catalyst for social change.
