Landlessness/Houselessness
Homeless, Disabled, Elders, Families and Youth of color release Multiple Studies on the Dangerous Impact of Broken Windows Theory
Poor, Disabled, Elders, Families and Youth release an extensive multi-year "WeSearch" study on the failure, harm, abusive impact and danger of Broken Windows Theory andPolicing.
What: Press Conference and Release of WeSearch Findings and Authors of the Multi-Year Study
Haci hera la addicion/// Because this is how addiction is
Haci hera la addicion
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Tello
quiero platicar una historia de una esperiencia muy muy desagradable que vivi. Yo andaba en la adiccion y tambien de vagamundo o sea ingovernable y me encontraba en una calle de la ciudad conprando mas gasolina de avion,esa gasolina me hacia sentir bien, tenia que conserguirla como fuera,regalada,vendidad, o robada,pero yo tenia que consegirla.
Neo-Settlements: Gentrification is the New Occupation
The word “gentrification” has become very familiar to poor folks in recent times. Even in prisons "gentrification" has become popularized mostly because it is in large part prisoners' families who have been experiencing "gentrification” out in society.
the new mission
being in the mission is becoming
like a benetton ad or like living
in disneyland—no longer a place
of everyday people knowing the
the hardness of daily life and yet
creating joy and beauty
out of a myriad of struggles
instead of theater, poetry, dance, music and art
expressing the aliveness of many cultures
indoor miniature golf and outdoor bowling
are the new cultural wave and bars with
twelve dollar cocktails are ongoing frat parties
compassion or cocktails
walking down valencia, i see
a woman in a wheelchair
we share hellos and i give
her a buck as i wonder
what her story is—she was
just evicted from her home
or maybe her lover beats her
imagining her hunger and
pain i feel compassion for her
and know i’m the lucky one
because i have a dollar to spare
as i leave to walk on, two young
women well dressed and coifed
pass by—and they too must have
a story—maybe one of them has
The Truth Behind Library Gardens
As someone who once lived in substandard constructed Section-8 project-based housing in Berkeley, California for six years, I can assure you that all so-called ‘affordable housing’ built and/or refurbished with HUD (U.S. Government Housing for Urban Development) funding for low-income communities was built with many corners being cut in order to meet the limited financial budget of the HUD funding building subsidy.
10 in San Francisco in need of an A**Whipping
10 in SF in Need of an Asswhipping
by Tony Robles
PNN-TV:WeSearch-Berkeley Anti-Poor People Laws Tested
WeSearch Study-
Subject: Anti-Poor People Criminalization in Berkeley
Date: July 6, 2015
Location: Berkeley, California
WeSearchers: RYME Youth Skolaz: Heidy, 15 yrs old Ana, 15 yrs old, Tiburcio 11yrs old
Poverty Skolaz, Muteado Silencio, "Tiny" & Tony Robles
The Community Wins
The Community Wins By Tibu
The Ugly Laws in the 21st Century
Editors Note: Heidy is a student-mentee in the Revolutionary Youth Media Education(RYME) summer program at POOR Magazine
The Ugly Laws In The 21st Century
By: Heidy
From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with "unsightly or disgusting" disabilities to appear in public. Some of these laws were called unsightly beggar ordinances. Better known as * The Ugly Laws.
