Youth Justice

Mamaz Yolanda Banks and Sala Haquekyah Chandler speak in POOR Magazine's Community Newsroom about the Po'Lice Abuse of Ms. Banks son by Po'Lice in Daly City

I am the 000.25- the smallest number you can think of in your mind, I didn't even make it to the 99 ....I am the mamaz, daddys and babies living in their cars, criminalized day laborers living in SRO's shelters, jails cells and houses made of card-board....excerpt from I am the 000.25 by tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia

“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-

24 Abril, 2012

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I don’t wanna go to school, I hate it! Everyday it’s the same thing. I have to endure being bullied, like when I was in the third grade I ran to the restroom crying because I had had enough. I stayed in there because I didn’t have to worry about the bullying in there, the name calling, pulling my ponytails or saying ugly things about me, that was my safe haven. As I sat there I felt nobody liked me or loved me.

Born N Raised in Frisco - a writing and art project of the Uncle Al Robles Living Library @ POOR Magazine & PeopleSkool/Escuela de la gente Graduation Crawl & Party

For Trayvon, Ramarley, Oscar and Kenneth Harding and all of their mamaz

Trayvon is my son

and my brother and my uncle

and my coz-zin

and that aint no riddle