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By Jen Carlisle, formerly houseless poverty scholar Why is nothing ever simple? Say what you mean Mean what you say Because whether you do or not, Behaviors and actions Will always portray Your truth anyway... Why is nothing ever easy? Solve this riddle Read between those lines Because whether you do or not, You're expected to, No matter how backwards it makes you feel... I hate living in Opposite World, Where communication is preached But goes unpracticed, Where honesty is demanded And subsequently reprimanded, Where fingers are pointed While ownership is diminished, Where no good deed Ever goes unpunished... Why is everyone so afraid? Dehumanizing and Name-calling To avoid and shun Having to look at any shadows, Labeling those who do As mentally ill or damaged, All the while struggling To make sure nobody cracks The superficial facade Covering their own "shameful" And flawed human-ness... Go ahead... Keep pretending you're perfect... Keep judging those who admit they aren't... Keep hating anyone who is different from you... Keep doubling those standards. Why is nothing as it seems? Over-complicate And replicate, Encourage violence and Shame love, Teach obedience and conformity While disowning original And critical thought, And discourage all creativity... But never forget to say That the opposite is what you really want, Otherwise there might not be Enough dissonance to keep control. Why would I strive to fit into A mentally ill society Just to be labeled "normal," When all the while In my heart I would carry The burden of knowing That the opposite is true? Selling your soul Happens in fragments... With each passing day In this upside down world, Another piece of my authenticity Is chipped away. Some of you know exactly what I mean. Most will just shrug and let it happen, saying, "It is what it is," in apathetic acceptance As another piece breaks away.

From https://www.sfiaf.org/2025_poor_magazine Date(s) & Time(s) : Saturday May 10 Duration : 120 mins Venue: Monkey Brains Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110 Ticket Information Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28 For the best deals, see multiple shows with a discount Festival Pass. Artist Information Facilitators: Tiny Gray-Garcia, Junebug Kealoha Production Details Houseless/Poor Mamas Build Homes with Poems/Po' Poets Project of POOR Magazine Po' Poets of POOR Magazine (poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance) presents writing from street, shelter and community-based theatre/poetry workshops with poor and houseless mamas. Followed by a trailer screening of "Crushing Wheelchairs" (co-directed by Adrian Diamond and Muteado Silencio, cinematography by Green Diamond Projects) featuring poems from their poetry/theatre collection. Both the movie and poetry collection are focused on "Mamafesting" (Tiny gray-garcia) healing-housing called Homefulness (a homeless peoples' solution to homelessness currently housing 22 families in Oakland) in SF. Through cultural art, vision, prayer and poetry with 1st Nations spiritual guidance, Homefulness is coming to Yelamu (SF). Po' Poets of POOR Magazine (poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance) presents writing from street, shelter and community-based theatre/poetry workshops with poor and houseless mamas. They will also show the trailer to new movie, "Crushing Wheelchairs" (co-directed by Adrian Diamond and Muteado Silencio, cinematography by Green Diamond Projects). Po Poets PRoject History or POOR MAgazine history Following street based, community and shelter workshops with poor and houseless mamas we will feature the trailer of the movie we created based on the lives of houseless San Franciscans and readings from the collection of poems focused on Mamafesting healing housing called Homefulness in SF. Artist Biographies: Tiny Gray-Garcia Following street based, community and shelter workshops with fellow poor and houseless survivors of the War ON the poor Mama Dee Garcia and Tiny, while houseless themselves on the streets of San Francisco and Oakland, along with other houseless poets and writers , created a publication called POOR Magazine- an intentionally glossy, art filled, magazine to hold their words, their palabra and their solutions. This innovative project grew into a poor and houseless/indigenous/disabled peoples movement of the same name and eventually expanded to include projects like the Po Poets Project, Street Newsroom, POOR Press, The Sliding Scale Cafe, FAMILY Project, Poor Peoples Radio/PNNKEXU, and PeopleSkool to name a few. Since 2011 they have implemented the dream of rent-free forever housing known as Homefulness and co-produced tiny's screenplay into the powerful play and movie Crushing WHeelchairs which is told thru poetry and HerStories and is based on the lives of houseless San Franciscan and Oakland residents. Junebug Kealoha Junebug was born and raised in San Francisco. She is the winner of the Mary Tallmountain Poetry award in the late 90’s and was published in the Poetic Voices of America and has had several publications since. She identifies as a “PO POET” aka “Welfare queen” aka “Gangsta Homemaker”. Junebug experienced chronic homelessness, hotel and shelter living as a child and young adult. She fell in love with Poetry at 9 years old as way to process her experiences and Junebug is a Mama in struggle who uses her poetry to advocate for social justice. Junebug is a certified Community Health Worker who wears many hats to serve the community. She is a member of the SF ECE Coalition as Chief of Outreach Parent Leader with Parent Voices SF. In addition, she is one of the co-founders of Decolonize Academy, is in the Theater of the POOR’s play and movie, “Crushing Wheelchairs” and is a HOMEFULNESS 4 advocate of POOR magazine. Junebug co-founded and co-facilitates a Peer Led Harm Reduction Support Group at SF Community Health Center. Junebug works on City Hope’s committee and started an Open Mic she co MCs in the Tenderloin to build a safe space for creative expression. Junebug is in the Social Justice Academy Fellowship at GLIDE and is a Community Navigator with END HEPC. Junebug believes in the power of art to tell our stories, our truth. Aunti Frances Moore Aunti Frances Moore is a Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader from North Oakland/South Berkeley. She grew up in North Berkeley and has dedicated most of her time and care to her community. Aunti Frances used music for healing purposes while going through transition at a young age. She was honored to work alongside with courageous geniuses of the revolutions as a member of the Black Panthers. She continues on with the legacy of the Black Panther party using food as an organizing tool to fight against gentrification and displacement. In her work, she has touched the lives of many community members, housed and houseless, through her Self-help Hunger Program. She has helped transform Driver Plaza from a tiny patch of grass and cement to a fruiting edible garden and community hub. She is vital to the life of the neighborhood and is a memory-keeper and storyteller who preserves our history even as the city faces so many rapid changes. Frances is a brilliant actor and writer and has starred in Teatro de los Pobres productions since 2016. She is a founding member of Homefulness and the co-author of How to Not Call the PoLice ever and the Making of Aunti Volume 1 & 11 on poorpress.net .

(Street writing workshop at Huchiun Sanctuary (Greyhound Bus Station 2024) RoofLESS radio Street Writing Workshops are offered by fellow houseless/formerly houseless povertyskolaz at POOR Magazine in schools, jail cels, shelter beds and wherever us poor peoples are.. Watch the RoofLESS radio video reports on PoorNewsNetwork Jane Rae Despain I’m gonna be 61 here very soon.  So I’ve been Housed June 17, 2024, WOOPEY FUCKENDO IVE BEEN Homeless since 2015.  On Wood St. Being in Oakland “the town” I was Born in, From falling into a storm drain to being assaulted having staples in my scalp and stitches behind my left ear Behind Target in front of the TRucking company down to 26th and Wood St. to under I-80 In the Back of Wood St. Been Burned up and experienced lots of emotional pain, embarrassed, Treated like I’m some disease my situation being Homeless, has effected me a great deal from psychological Problems Physical Problems to affecting my spiritual Balance Housing is Just a word like Homeless Being with out that title to a House.  I worked with a independent contractor doing events i the greater bay area Last year I said Being Housed would only better my and my dogs well being  The different People given housing from Wood St. Been given mone RVs trailers community cabins In an effort to keeping people off the streets Ive Been doing the Best of my ability, Being here with most important thing thats ost important in my life is getting surgery for Wendzi.  From a simple neutor job turned into nightmare to where I had to report the veterinarian to the medical vet Board.  I took from 2020 to January 22, 2024 for his vet to ?.  tried hard for her malpractice Now I’m not able to do anything Because these providers of shitty housing has turned me backward and worsened my life again —--------------- I have had to be homeless for the past 15 years and this has been the worst crisis I’ve gone thru due to not having very little family support and not having there support and encouragement so my wife and I have been living in our vehicle until we came to SF where it was taken from us which we now live on the street.  My wife and I have been living in our car for the past ten years or so and we have been calling our home and every place we have been we are consistently messed with for sleeping in our home until we came to SF and the took our house away and now we are once again on the streets dealing with the problems of being homeless. (By Anonymous) —----------- Well my family pushed me and my girlfriend  ? out and bak to ? …..their wasn’t  enough cash to survive - me and girlfriend split up.  ..after…lives for the future.. James Losing my entire Family in under a year —--------- As a whole group or society or as a specific individual experience we have had to deal with.  I believe is the dissipation of the High archel type and the ? of the echelon Echelon based levels of the individualization of said participate Beigh, cold fourteen years, disillusioned, dying, indifferent and still out, I’m not crying not, Abut still feeling alone.  The incision is a cut. In words greater than I. ? said If the ? Is like the poet the scar, ? on countless bodies in which the fashioning of …we >>>>poor out our soul, those are ….later in life I think now if we are like the poet (by Anonymous) —------------- Eight years aog, before I actually embarked on the craziest scariest, most enlightening and profoundly beautiful journey of my life, I had been in the process of trying to find the conclusion of the most stressful and exhausting phase of my, at that point 3 decades on this earth…an epicly long 8 year bout with depression that had me so entrenched in daily agony that in a series of maladjusted attempts at coping: had crank myself suicidal worked my self,body and soul to a state of constant exhaustion and worry that manifested itself in countless teary eyed trips into work.?  My disappointment with how I was in the process of hawking? Off what i saw at the time as the ost potential … time of my life so far.  I had reached a point in my work where neither my pay or sense of purpose was great enough to justify for their …to advance my dying dream of being a chef.  I had burnt through multiple relationship trying to squeeze even the smallest drop of satisfaction to replace the crushing disenchantment with having pushed away or having been pushed away by the majority of my family.  I had some really good friends.  People I know I could still call to this day if the chips were down so to speak.  But when I finally decided-I would not live to see another birthday. If i continued the path I was on.  It was shortly after Jess had shown me footage of her at a protest in Asheville that me realize I could live some  of my deepest dreams someone who would be by my side as I searched and hopefully found the purpose I so deeply desired from life.  When she agreed and we left everything behind when I finally know how it felt to be ??  because I had everything I needed, yet nothing that I can't get and of today, and replaced tomorrow carefree because we knew we had one another and there was nothing that either of us would allow to jeopardize that Because of these lessons…that carefree strata that plucked me out of al the bullshit in my hed and dropped me into the now.  I had finally found gratitude. And that was more than anything, what I had lacked all along. by Anonymous —------ Veronica T (1) Housing trying to get my life together so I can Be with my kids and to hear their voice and it very hard for me —------------------- Brokin Cloud (Homefulness/POOR Magazine ) My worst instant of being in occupied America or the land of Huchin was when my mother inter the spirit world I was left with know living support everyone around me had became a human in the decietval state of my existence.  I can't trust anyone if the two legger.  The sprit world became the more real world to my … Know one could arise in my congisness unless you came to me from the spirit world.  iST NO second chance. NO more lies, might have and their way into my way of life. But in reality I, after this tragedy made my life more full - TRUE Direct, the past is mMORE complete than EVER AND AS life goes on the consequence of making a mistake is less possible because of the ONE way of being deceived is not possible. —---------- Kiyo Mills My Worst Financial Struggle  12/18/24 In 2020 I started getting sick from a medical condition called an abscess which is a tooth infection that causes poison to seep from one’s teeth.  When it first started getting me sick I thought it was the pills that I was addicted to.  But it wasn’t until I quit cold turkey for a year and a …change that I realized it wasn’t the pill because I kept on getting sick.  For the past few years I could not hold down a job because I would throw up on my way to work, at work and on my way home from work.  I wasn’t able to hold down any food or liquids.  For the past …. Years I’ve been trying to get the proper health care & dental care so that I can return back to working a job & being financially able to take care of my daughter. —-------------------- Nicholas Lindo 2. 4 years in prison in Texas 3.  mY father was in prison in for 12 years 4.  My father got released from prison, and then the cartel killed hi 5.  My father died Christmas day 6.  Then i got hooked on herion at the age of 22 7.  I lost my son at the age of 22 8.  The i ended up homeles for the next 4 years —----------------- Elijah Yelden 2.  I was wrongfully accused of Domestic Violence 3.  Where I was stip of my rights and children & wife where I lost everything and never could get a job with a felony on my record after my prison sentence  I came home to a empty place its been that way since.  10. Everyone having equal housing —---------- Chase Arevalo I thought i was all bad, but 5 years later its some of the best experiences I’ve ever had.  I’ve been homeless now for ½ decade, wasn’t sure what to expect, and as my hope for a normal life began to fade, a new family emerged who didn’t reject although I’d still like to get off the street, if I have to sell my sou I’d rather beat feet.  Y family out here are realer than those behind 4 walls who fear. —---------------- Jesse Curazo It was in the fall of 2014 my life changed forever up til then I had a …….I was a case worker for WA state. With a 2000 month mortgage and struggling to keep 6 children ……I have a settlement ThankU to Tiny garcia, Muteado Silencio and Israel Munoz for co-facilitating - Thanks to Momii Palapaz for typing ! POOR Magazine is a poor people-led movement of media, art, education and solutions by and for poor peoples everywhere

By Amber Lynn Whitson Recently, a group of very inspiring Berkeley youths held a rally and march in Downtown Berkeley, declaring their solidarity with Where Do We Go and the unhoused population. The following is my speech from that rally: My name is Amber. I am human. I was born in Santa Monica, CA. I did not move to California from some other state. I graduated high school at 15. I am not uneducated. When I was 16, I left Santa Monica with some friends, headed for Seattle. We made a pit stop here in Berkeley. I was once an adventurous teenager, as many of us are at some point. People here warned me about the Berkeley Vortex sucking me in. I laughed. I used to get bullied in school where I grew up. Here in Berkeley people were so open-minded and accepting of my enthusiastic and quirky nature. I've now been living here in the Berkeley and Albany area for 27 years. I am home, here. For nearly all of that time, I have been living on the streets, in one way or another. I am a survivor. (I have slept directly on the sidewalk, in abandoned buildings, parks, tents, cars, hotel rooms, doorways and carports of kind-hearted neighbors, in the courtyards of compassionate churches, under a bridge on UC campus...) I am resourceful. And, for about the past 10 years, I've been living in an RV. I don't just live in one, I also keep everyone else's running. Today, I stand before you not as a statistic or a stereotype, but as a human being—a person with a story, with dreams, and with dignity. I have been an activist and an advocate for many years. But, even those who fight for the fair treatment of others, sometimes need others to fight for them. When I was younger, I still had hopes of living in traditional housing (house, apartment, etc.) someday. At the time, that felt like what I was supposed to be aspiring towards. But as the years passed and I became more aware of the harsher realites of life, I began to see the world differently. I met friends who had lived indoors their whole lives who developed a health problem and could not afford their medical bills and rent and subsequently lost their housing. I saw the extreme inequalities in our society, and I experienced firsthand the struggles of living unhoused—struggles that are often made harder by judgment, misunderstanding, and even harassment and bullying at the hands of the police. All it takes is one "homeless ticket" for sleeping in public in Berkeley... The courthouse is in Oakland!... And, when you miss your court date because you can't get someone to watch your dog or your camp... Now you have a warrant for your arrest. Good luck getting out of the system while you are still homeless. Over time, I realized that for me, living in my RV is how I can live within my means and also maintain my independence and my dignity. The cost of living in this country is absolutely obscene. I own my RV, outright. I would happily pay for a space to park it off the street. But, there are no such places in Berkeley. And, if there were, they would almost certainly be out of my price range. So, I park on the street. But here’s the thing: living on the streets doesn’t make me less human. It doesn’t make any of us less human. Yet, too often, people who have never lived on the streets see us as something other—something to be feared, ostracized, marginalized and sometimes outright hated. People often fear what they don’t understand or can’t relate to. Stereotypes, and media portrayals along with societal biases and societal stigma dehumanize unhoused people, reinforcing stereotypes and dehumanizing unhoused people turning their struggles into something alien instead of relatable and distancing those wiho have never lived on the streets from seeing shared humanity. There is something called the leaf-blower effect. It's defined as "when you blow your problems onto someone else's sidewalk". And that is all that sweeps accomplish. That’s why what you’re doing here today is so important. This movement is about bridging a divide. It’s about seeing each other as people, not as problems. It’s about listening, understanding, and finding common ground. It's about holding the city that we ALL live in accountable to ALL OF US. Unhoused people don't pay property taxes. But, our government squeezes us for every last cent that they can, just like they do everyone else. And it’s about recognizing that everyone, no matter where they live, deserves respect, compassion, and dignity. Forced displacement is wrong, whether it be driving people from their homeland or running people out of the city that they call home because their economic status makes them undesirable in the eyes of the government. To the students here today: you are doing something extraordinary. You are choosing to see the humanity in people who are often looked upon as though we were a rat infestation or broken windows. Just another nuisance for citizens to complain about and for the City to abate in response. YOU are choosing to challenge stereotypes and build connections. And you are showing the world that change starts with small acts of kindness and courage. I want to thank you for seeing us—for seeing me—as a person. And I want to encourage you to keep going. Keep talking to people who live differently than you. Keep asking questions. Keep standing up for what’s right. Because when you treat people who live on the streets as human beings, you’re not just helping us—you’re helping to create a better, kinder, and more just society for everyone. And thank you for reminding us all that no matter where we live, we are all human, and we all deserve to be seen.

Mourning houseless babies in Detroit, Cornelius Taylor in Atlanta and anyone in Fremont  By tiny aka povertyskola, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio  Bones seem to crumble Under mountains of wet wool    Hands Chapped, hard  Nothing makes you warm  Not even mamas arms  We looked at each other  Slits of eyes - tryin to lift up the eyelid ice   The vinyl seats slippery sharp  You ache from the inside Mountains of fabric and plastic lock u up Everything is old and wet… excerpt from homelesscold   I remember the first time i was homeless cold. I was in the back seat of one of me and mamas hoopties, we had just been evicted and had nowhere to go. The battery died  and slowly the air crept into ice. I felt this same terrifying cold when i heard the story of the two babies who died last week in Detroit from hypothermia while sleeping in a parking lot with their family.  Homeless cold isn’t i need a jacket or a scarf cold but more like freezing your blood as it travels thru your veins cold. Cold that seeps into your brain from your hands. Indescribable cold. Terrifying cold. I'm not sure how i made it out alive from that night. But I did and it was only the first of many nights. After that, it became normalized. Sometimes we had to sleep in doorways filled with layers of old pee. Sometimes huddling up in a bus shelter. Eventually that homeless cold became the trigger for a serious trauma response that i have to this day anytime the temperature drops.  "Every time I called they said they don't have a bed, they don't have family beds," said Tateona Williams, single mama of her 2 and 9 year old precious babies who died last Sunday of Hypothermia while sleeping in their van in a Detroit parking lot. Tateona was talking about her desperate pleas for help from Detroit's homeless solutions agency and even her children’s father who both told her they couldn't help.  These babies lives were stolen by the baked in disinterest, disdain and hate for our lives if we are poor/houseless as well as this sick krapitaLOST system that only ensures we have a home if we have enough money for the lie of rent, it doesn't matter if we are babies or elders.  We are already reduced to trash in society’s eyes.  When this grief hit i was already deeply grieving the story of Cornelius Taylor run over while sleeping in his tent in Atlanta in January, in one of these violent sweeps that CONtinue to rage across occupied Turtle Island, made worse since the Grants Pass Vs Johnson ruling that claimed we as houseless humans are officially not protected under the 14th amendment of the CONsitution, effectively saying we no longer are even seen as humans and therefore our lives, our cold, our heat, our sleep, our hunger, doesn't matter.  (Image of Tent City 3, Seattle) Which of course is why the settler town known as “Fremont” aka more occupied Ohlone land has just passed yet another anti-poor people LIEgislation making it illegal to “camp” which is just code for “be houseless” in their town and added an extra hate measure making it illegal for people to support houseless people with life-giving/life-saving food, supplies or medicine like sleeping bags, blankets, narcan, hygiene kits and hot meals. In other words, starving or freezing us to death if we make the deadly mistake of being houseless in Fremont. “They conduct sweeps in the snow, rain, sleet or hail, if a sweep is scheduled they proceed and don’t care if they leave us out in the elements with nothing,” said Marcus, one of the RoofLESS radio workshop participants on a recent UnTour we houseless folks at POOR Magazine made to the Pacific Northwest to help the fellow houseless warriors of so-called Olympia, Tacoma, Bellingham and Seattle build their own HomefulnessPNW  “Every day is a struggle when we live outside, many times we have almost poisoned ourselves by lighting a fire in our tent, just to stay warm,” said Kienard Ganes, a RoofLESSradio reporter and single father in so-called Tacoma who has been struggling with homelessness for 3 years in the freezing weather of that territory. He spoke while the snow flurries raced through the freezing air. This violent disinterest, hate and anti-poor people violence of sweeps, eviction, cold, heat, fires, r ain and snow exposure, lack of safe and warm beds, hate and poLice terror to us when we are outside is not new. Before Cornelius there was Shannon Marie Bigley, run over by a CAlTrans vehicle in Fresno. Luis Temaj burned alive for sleeping outside. Green Eyes, Mike Flo and Jessca “Queen” Mendez in Tovaangar (LA) Papa Bear, Tyrell Wilson, Steven Taylor, Mario Gonzales, Luis Gongora, killed by anti-poor people poLice Terror in the Bay Area.  This hate, like we see now in Encampment bans, sweeps and anti-helping LIEgislations both societal and personal, system wide and implicit in so many people and politricksters who “vote against us outside”  must be fought, must be organized against like so many movements are doing now, but it is also why us poor and houseless mamas and children and families and elders at POOR Magazine, Wood Street Commons, Aetna Street Solidarity, Reclaiming Our Homes, Share/Wheel and Homeless in Fresno work so hard to lift up our own self-determined solutions like Homefulness , Nickelsville, Wood Street Community and Tent City 3 &4 in Seattle.  We know that as evictions rise and more and more of us end up like Tateona’s and my family, we will lose more relatives to this hate and we cannot wait for people who have never experienced the violence of homelessness to save us. Support the GoFundMe of mama SisStar Tateona at this link so she can get housing for her and her other babies.  Support the building of Homefulness in Oakland, San Francisco, LA and the Pacific Northwest by donating to www.poormagazine.org/donate (make a note on your donation if you have a preference of which region’s Homefulness you want the resources to go to).

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February 4, 2025 To the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, and Chair of Department of Medicine: In the 15 months between October 2023 and January 2025, Israel murdered over 60,000 Palestinians  in its genocidal campaign on Gaza. The small, U.S.-backed nation-state is inarguably attempting to ethnically cleanse Palestinians—even the International Criminal Court has warrants out for the arrests  of Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant, because the evidence is crystal clear. Those in power in Israel wish and intend to “ wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth. ” Why, then, has UCSF been targeting the staff and professors speaking out against this behemothic atrocity, rather than prioritize the emotional and physical safety of students who may be impacted by the genocide and any other forms of settler and white supremacist violence? Dr. Rupa Marya is correct to question how medical and educational institutions should respond to the prospect of training doctors who were formerly engaged in the Israeli Defense Forces (or, since we prefer to tell it like it is, the Israeli Offensive Forces). Even before the siege began in Oct. 2023, the IOF was the police and military arm by which Israel maintained its apartheid system, and its soldiers used force and violence to uphold an apartheid state. All soldiers are trained to kill, brutalize, and steal, and for soldiers following the orders of officials who publicly claim “There are no innocents [in Gaza],” it is only logical to assume former IOF soldiers have been brainwashed to feel good, or at least justified, about committing cruel atrocities. PBS , BBC , and CNN  have all reported on the videos and photos Israeli soldiers have gloatingly posted of themselves humiliating and terrorizing Palestinian families, vandalizing and ransacking homes and buildings, and destroying food and supplies.  It is almost inane to have to explain Dr. Marya’s logic. Should we not scrutinize prospective students who have participated in a genocidal military? Militaries everywhere train their soldiers to kill, to maim, to destroy—objectives that are fundamentally incompatible with the ethic of care that the field of medicine is supposed to uphold. The Israeli military goes beyond in its violence, because Israel is not just waging war, it is committing genocide. And it is a commonly known fact that Israeli citizens are required to serve in the IOF. What is truly “ intellectually bankrupt ” is to insinuate that speaking the truth about the IOF’s role in genocide is a tired, anti-Semitic, racist trope. Yes, it is true that Jewish people face discrimination and prejudice in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, but in the context of Israel and Palestine, one side is clearly attempting to “wipe [the other] off the face of the Earth” and has billions of dollars in weapons to do it. Israel, not Palestine, is the one controlling land, water, and movement. Israel is the one violating international law by funding settlements in Palestinian territories. Israel is the one limiting how much water  Palestinians can consume. It is morally reprehensible to use Jewish peoples’ history of struggle to obfuscate a present-day genocide and censor those who care to speak against it. We can see right through your veneer of concern for oppressed peoples. As a poor people led / Indigenous people led organization, our family at POOR Magazine knows all too well about the white supremacy, anti-Blackness , ableism, and settler coloniality baked into the foundation of U.S. medicine. When poverty scholars try to seek care, medical institutions respond with dismissiveness and criminalization . They allow us to suffer, and even to die. It is professors, doctors, and nurses like Dr. Marya, who are helping to revolutionize the field of medicine from the inside, by demanding that medical professionals examine and contend with the power structures that shape your field. We hope that you can open your eyes to the truth and make the decision to support your assets, not censor them.  In addition, firing Dr Marya will only foment more distrust and terror for your medical institution from disabled, houseless and communities of color who are already afraid of institutional medicine prone to dumping our disabled and houseless bodies, rarely listening and healing us.    Signed, POOR Magazine ComeUnity

Por/By It Wasn't Me Una de las cosas que el presidente nunca ha tomado en cuenta es todas las personas que han estado trabajando y nunca han reclamado taxes. Todo el dinero que los EE.UU recoleta de miles y miles y miles de personas que no reclaman. Todos los años que la gente inmigrante dice al tonto presidente en “¿d ó nde está ese dinero?” o “¿Por qué este dinero no aparece en los salarios de la economía estadounidense?” y “¿ese dinero está en las bolsas de quien?” Todos estos factores son importantes porque no habla nada de las personas que han dejado millones de dólares que el presidente usa para deportar a los mismos personas que trabajaron para ellos por años. Después de todo, los Estados Unidos está formado de desertores de todo el mundo. Aun la mamá del presidente era inmigrante. Así es como el dinero cambia a las personas. Él cree que tener poder se les puede dar por el rabo. Así está posando el USA. Que ejemplo perfecto que ahorita la economía de los estados unidos está en las manos de los latinos de todos lados. One of the things the president has never considered is all the immigrants who have been working and have never claimed their tax returns. All the money that the USA collects from thousands and thousands and thousands of people who do not claim their return. Every year the immigrant population asks this stupid president, “where is that money?” or “why doesn’t this money appear in the wages of the US economy?” and “In whose pockets is all that money?” It’s important to ask these questions because the president doesn’t talk about the people who by not claiming their tax returns have given millions of dollars that he then uses to deport the very same people who worked for the US for years. After all, the United States was formed from deserters from all over the world. Even the mother of the president was an immigrant. It shows how much money changes people. He believes that having power means he can screw immigrants over. This is how he is setting up the USA. What a perfect example in the way that the US economy is held together by the hands of latinos from all over the world.

By Lisa Wheeler Photo: SisStar Dana with boyfriend Joseph I am so sad to know that my new friend Dana passed! I will miss her determination and her lovely smile and her firm intention of getting off the cruel streets of San Francisco. She and I froze that night due to misinformation. The authorities need to be clearly informed as to what is required to enter a city shelter, be it navigational, 311, normal (whatever normal city shelters are - that's an oxymoron), or emergency winter shelters. Either way, there are processes. My heart is truly broken that Dana, a truly gentle, smart as a whip, comedic, caring soul is no longer with us. Sadly, many of our homeless friends and family pass from living in such dire and chronic circumstances. I send out love and hugs to her biological family as well as her friends and family here. She touched my heart and we enjoyed an amazing adventure that night - one I will not ever forget. The entire time she worried about her boyfriend and told me they were friends to a couple since young. Awww, he was a tremendous priority in her life and she told me she called him Husband and would like to marry him one day. I listened to the dreams of a beautiful woman all night long as we smiled and laughed together. I love you, Dana. Always. Love, Lisa W

Por Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez/ By Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez Xitontekiza (Danza) Coneccion a la Madre Tierra con los pies descalzos Expresión a través del amor, la pérdida y la sanación Los años que llevo en mi tradición he expresado mi rezo con los pies descalzos, ahora expreso mi rezo con huaraches después de un proceso de reemplazo de rodillas. Ver que casi todas las culturas alrededor del mundo tienen esa práctica de orar, danzar, caminar, etc con los pies descalzos, es impactante para gente que no entiende el porqué. Coneccion con TONANTZIN (Madre Tierra) Cuando empecé a ejercer mi tradición Mexica por medio de la danza mis maestros me explicaron el por qué se danza descalzo y ¡es simple!  Todo nuestro cuerpo tiene los elementos que tiene la tierra y al estar uno en rezo y descalzo se produce una armonía con nuestra Madre Sagrada, es por eso que todas las expresiones de rezo (danza) son dedicadas a los elementos que nos dan la vida Tierra, Agua, Fuego, Viento, Sol, luna, a los animales que vuelan Aguila, Colibrí, Cóndor, etc, tambien al Venado, Mono, Conejo, etc. Culturas de todo el mundo me motivan a mantener y seguir aprendiendo más mis tradiciones y otras culturas. Es importante seguir manteniendo de generación a generación como lo han hecho nuestros abuelos por miles de años, ya que vivimos en un momento que nuestras tradiciones se están  perdiendo por medio de la forma que vivimos hoy, bosques destruyendo, cambio climático, comida procesada y mucha jungla de asfalto! Vamos a retomar esa práctica de estar en armonía con TONANTZIN (MADRE TIERRA) Xitontekiza (Danza) Connecting to Mother Earth with Bare Feet  Expression Through Love, Loss, and Healing Over the years that I have been practicing my tradition, I have prayed with bare feet, now after a knee replacement, I pray with huaraches. Seeing that almost all cultures around the world have this practice of praying, dancing, walking, etc. with bare feet, it is shocking for people who do not understand why. Connection with TONANTZIN (Mother Earth)  When I began to exercise my Mexican tradition through dance, my teachers explained to me why we dance barefoot and it is simple! Our whole body has the elements that the earth has and being in prayer and barefoot produces a harmony with our Sacred Mother, that is why all expressions of prayer (dance) are dedicated to the elements that give us life Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, sun, moon, to the animals that fly Eagle, Hummingbird, Condor, etc, also to the Deer, Monkey, Rabbit, etc. Cultures from all over the world motivate me to maintain and continue to learn more about my traditions and other cultures. It is important to continue from generation to generation as our grandparents have done for thousands of years, as we live in a time that our traditions are being lost through the way we live today, destroying forests, climate change, processed food and lots of asphalt jungle! We are going to return to the practice of being in harmony with TONANTZIN (MOTHER EARTH)

Por Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez/ By Alvaro Kepokamaztli Tellez XITONTEKIZA (DANZA) En las Marchas y Protestas Por Que? La migración ha sido parte de la vida de nuestros antepasados por generaciones, las fronteras son inventadas por los verdaderos ilegales, siempre ha sido un modo de supervivencia migrar de un lado a otro. Lo que estamos viviendo ahora no es nuevo. Siempre hemos estado bajo el ataque de este sistema capitalista y racista, es un miedo y terror como están tratando a toda nuestra raza no solo de México sino de todo el mundo, solo tratamos de tener una vida mejor y trabajar, pero lo que estamos viendo es separación de familias, encarcelamiento, racismo, odio. Es por eso que seguimos expresando nuestras tradiciones en ceremonias, eventos, marchas, etc. Hay que recordarles a todos los ilegales que cruzaron todo un océano que estas tierras desde Alaska hasta Chile son tierras sagradas son tierras nativas de nuestros antepasados. La Tierra no le pertenece a nadie, nosotros pertenecemos a la tierra!! NINGÚN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL EN TIERRA ROBADA XITONTEKIZA (DANZA) In the Marches and Protests Why?  Migration has been part of our ancestors’ lives for generations, borders are invented by the real illegals, migrating from one place to another has always been a form of survival. What we are living now is not new. We have always been under attack from this capitalist and racist system, it is a fear and terror the way they are treating our entire race, not only from Mexico but from all over the world, we just try to have a better life and work, but what we are seeing is separation of families, imprisonment, racism, hatred. That is why we continue to express our traditions in ceremonies, events, marches, etc. We must remind all the illegals who crossed an entire ocean that these lands from Alaska to Chile are sacred lands and are native to our ancestors. The Earth does not belong to anyone, we belong to the earth!!  NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND

Por Teo/ By Teo Es una historia que muchas personas hemos esperado, al emigrar a otro país. Por lo regular viajamos en auto o caminan de pasajero. También, últimamente barcos, el tren, caminando, o pidiendo ayuda para transportarse. En los últimos 10 años hemos llegado muchos más inmigrantes a este país, los EE.UU. Algunas veces nos encontramos con otras costumbres de vivir. Unos dicen que hay mucho racismo y otros no entienden el idioma para comunicarse. Algunos otros los encontramos con problemas de todo tipo- muchas veces se da una cuenta que no estamos preparados para encontrar buenos trabajos por no haber recibido educación suficiente en las escuelas de nuestra países. Para preparar por nuestro tiempo, miramos otras inmigrantes por las necesidades. “Vin” dice el sueño Americano porque supuestamente este país ofrece oportunidades a las personas que son responsables con su trabajo, con su persona, y también cuando son buenos ciudadanos. Constantemente venimos muchas más personas de diferentes países. Por ejemplo México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Panamá, Chile, y muchos más países. De todas partes del mundo vienen inmigrantes incluyendome. Yo soy inmigrante también. También las políticas nos hacen sufrir. Por tantos inmigrantes, llegamos a tratar de vivir y explorar el sueño americano. En este tiempo, cada vez más es más difícil por las injusticias de los políticos. Algunos políticos racistas nos acusan de invadir su país. Muchos nos acusan de ser criminales por venir a este país. Cuando son las elecciones para buscar el próximo presidente, nos usan de excusas para proteger sus ideales y nos criminalizan a todos. Pero no es correcto generalizar así.  He aprendido que no importa quien sea, tu o yo, en estas regiones del capitalismo incluyendo todos pros y contras, todos tenemos derechos de vivir una vida feliz y útil. It’s a story that many people have longed for, to migrate to another country.  Usually we travel by car or walk. Lately we travel by boat, by train, or by asking for a ride. In the last 10 years many more immigrants have come to the USA. Sometimes we find ourselves in other cultures and ways of life. Some of us face a lot of racism. Others don't understand English and can’t communicate with people. We encounter problems of all kinds. Many times, a story is told that we’re not qualified to find good jobs because we have not received a good education in the schools of our home countries. In order to prepare for our journey, we watch other immigrants closely for the necessities. “Come” says the American Dream-- because supposedly this country offers opportunities to people who are responsible workers, responsible people, and good citizens. So many people are constantly coming from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, and many more. Immigrants come from all over the world, including me. I am an immigrant too. Policies also make us suffer. For so many immigrants, we come with hope for the American dream. But it’s increasingly difficult to achieve because of the injustices of politicians. Some racist politicians accuse us of invading their country. Many say we’re criminals for coming to this country. When the presidential elections come around, they use us as excuses to protect their ideals and criminalize us all. But it can’t be right to generalize like that. I have learned that no matter who you are, for all the pros and cons in these capitalist states, we all have the right to live a happy and productive life.