Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkooL

Wesearch:

Poor people led research and pro-active media deconstructing the lies told about criminalized and mythologized communities.

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Ingrid De Leon

Nuestra Investigación:

Wesearch:

Poor people led research and pro-active media deconstructing the lies told about criminalized and mythologized communities.

Wesearch:

Poor people led research and pro-active media deconstructing the lies told about criminalized and mythologized communities.

Ingrid De Leon

I can look back on my early years in and out of shelters and public housing complexes and admit..... I am alive today, not because my parents reared me for society, but because they Raised Me.

I remember the days when my mother would tuck me in at night with a sad look on her face, almost to a point of crying. I never did ask what was wrong because I had an idea, but knew that if I went further I felt I would’ve broken her. To this day I still don’t know what makes her sad. I only know one truth to her that I fear on the daily, the idea of losing her child.

“With tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco – OH MY GOD” – Anonymous

Within my childhood home, four of my family members smoked and chewed
tobacco. I have a feeling they would have expressed similar struggles attempting to
quit using tobacco. As the oldest of six siblings and cousins residing in my twelve-

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