POOR Magazine
We Hate 98
Hundreds of tenants, advocates and community members rally against the pro-landlord Proposition 98 which will be on the June ballot
Tony Robles/PNN
Tuesday, May 27, 2008;
"Save our city, save our state, vote no on 98!"
Tribute to my Father: Stories from our elders
Tony Robles/Special to PNN
Wednesday, December 19, 2007;
"When I die, bury me facedown so that anybody that comes to visit me can kiss my ass."
--James Robles
To Tow or not to Tow
Tony Robles/PNN
Friday, July 24, 2009;
Don't lose your music: worker scholar whose power comes from within
Tony Robles
Friday, November 14, 2008;
Time Warp
He wears a white
T shirt with a
Gold chain dangling
From his neck
Calls everybody
Homey, even the
White guys
Carries a mini
Boom box
Radio
He’s 44 years old
And has never
Held a job
He had a bad
Car accident that
Left him disabled
He now works in a
Warehouse heat sealing
Cellophane packages
Thinking Locally and Globally: A powerful organizing movement of folks in Arkansas
Tony Robles/National Poverty Racism and Resistance Report (NPRRR)
Thursday, October 2, 2008;
The Son of a Filipino Immigrant
Julius Domantay is released from prison on a pardon and within minutes is seized
Tony Robles/PNN
Tuesday, August 19, 2008;
An ancestral voice draws me closer. Thick syllables weave through the air like brown leaves steeped with the wisdom of winter rain; proudly displaying its beauty like a butterfly coming into bloom--wings beyond reach.
GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Mayor Bloomberg Found Guilty by A People's Court
Tony Robles/PNN
Tuesday, July 1, 2008;
The Laughter of Black Men
Tony Robles/PNN
Saturday, September 5, 2009;
It’s one of the most beautiful sounds, maybe the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard. You go through life working jobs and navigating through the nonsense and the real and sometimes the lines separating them are so blurred that you can’t tell one from the other. A great writer once said, “Men have ways of showing their petty biases and prejudices”. One doesn’t have to be a great writer to draw that conclusion.
The Bum on the 9th Floor
Tony Robles/PNN
Friday, July 24, 2009;
“Rights don’t protect themselves…it’s up to people to protect them”
--San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi
So Very Hard To Go: A Native San Franciscan Remembers Joe Jung's Restaurant
Tony Robles/PNN
Friday, November 14, 2008;
Ain't nothin' I can
say, nothin' I can do,
I feel so bad, yeah,
I feel so blue.
I got to make it right
for everyone concerned
Even if it's me, if it
means it's me what's
gettin' burned.
"So Very Hard to go"
Tower of Power
