Housing/Gentrification
Unhoused families resist Poverty Pimping & Scamlords in DC
My name is Jewel Stroman. Last summer I went from being homeless with my family to obtaining a 2 story brick house in 60 days and becoming a Community Activist. I started a movement advocating not only for my family, but for all families placed at Motel 6 by DC Dept of Human Services & Virginia Williams Family Resource Center.
Reflections on SF BayView Newspaper
Suicides inside of Lane Murray by Seven
From Trump Tower to the Tenderloin - The Hoarding Cluttering of the 1%
“Mr A, Mr A, this is your case-mangler, we are here for your daily,weekly hourly room inspection ,” Covered in face mask, latex gloves and waving a mock pesticide spray bottle, I, playing a character i created called The Case-mangler in POOR Magazine’s 2017 production of Theatre of the POOR yelled through the “door” on the stage at poverty , disability, elder Skola Bruce.
Movmiento Sin Teirra: Oppressed Peoples Herstory Final
The landless people's movement is located in Brazil the idea of the project is to grow their own food instead of killing off their people and also to get the farmers back their land so they can have collective living and live in harmony.
MOVE Africa: Oppressed Peoples Herstory Final
Just to start off, Philadelphia is one of the most racist states in the U.S now. Imagine how racist it was in the middle of the Civil Rights movement.
Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa: Oppressed People Herstory Final
UN-Habitat, The UN’s human settlements program, states that the number of people living in slum conditions is now estimated at 863 million, which was only a couple hundred million less in the 1990’s.
Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Decolonization, Redistribution & Community Reparations Tour Thru Miwok Territory(Marin County)
Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Decolonization-Redistribution & Community Reparations Tour Through Miwok Territory (Marin County)
Homeless to Yale
Homeless to Yale
And Then Back Again.
On purpose.
By Choice.
Because it Makes More Sense.
Read one woman’s story of why we all should be paying attention to Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and POOR Magazine.
Valerie Klokow
May 12, 2017
I used to think that the worst thing
ROOFLess Radio Tent Encampment WeSearch Findings Oakland- (Poor People-led Research)
RoofLESS Radio WeSearch (Poor People-led Research) Study Findings of Unhoused Encampments in Oakland (Huchuin)
Summary Overview: Us unhoused folks have become unhoused due to a variety of causes, including race and class based profiling and criminalization of poor folks of color, extreme rise in evictions, foreclosures and land grabs of our neighborhoods and the trauma of poverty, capitalism and racism, causing us to hurt, lose, or disconnect from our own selves, families and communities. (See below for details)
Poor People on Park Avenue???? Black, Brown, Indigenous and Poor People Lead Tour of Stolen Land and Hoarded Wealth in Eastern Turtle Island
“We are stopping you because some of the residents feel like they were targeted because you didn’t go to their doors, so they called the police,” The Connecticut poLice officers flanked our rental van at a stoplight in the wealth-hoarding neighborhood known as West Hartford, Ct, filled with acre-long lawns and plantation-like mansions and more stolen land than the wealth-hoarders even knew what to do with .
