POOR Magazine
A Modern Day Slave Plantation: Nancy A. Heitzig Talks About Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola
Angola 3 News
Wednesday, February 17, 2010;
Nancy A. Heitzeg, Ph.D is a Professor of Sociology and Program Co-Director, Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity at St Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Angola 3 News: Please tell us about your recent visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola this past month.
Happy Birthday Uncle Al
Tony Robles/PNN
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
February 16th is Uncle Al's Birthday. Uncle Al was a person who made things happen. But he did it in such a way, in such subtle ways, that before you knew it, what needed to be done was done, what needed to be said was said and what was needed most was provided for.
Politics?
Tony Robles/PNN Monday, February 15, 2010 Could never understand it. It seemed a society of in-secrets. I’ve never been good when it comes to in-secrets. I’m always the last one to know things much of the time. I would listen to people talk politics at the workplace. They were always so sure of their arguments and analysis. In penny loafers they kicked around words and opinions in a verbal game of hacky sack (showing socks of argyle).
The Indigenous Women's Struggle to Fight for Land
"One does not sell the land people walk on..."---Crazy Horse, Sept. 23, 1875
Arte Politica/Political Art:
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(SWP) Sitting While Poor: The people resist criminalization of poor peoples with Sit-Lie Laws
Ruyata Akio McGlothlin & tiny/PNN
Monday, March 1, 2010;
The War on the poor is in full effect
but now the soldiers are social workers,
po'lice and politicians
creating deadly legislations
and contracts...tiny 2006
"Harvey Milk fought the first sit/lie laws in the 1960's, " Tommi Avicolli-Mecca spoke to the crowd that gathered in front of City Hall on Monday to resist the newest institutional hate of houseless people to hit California, the Sit -lie ordinance.
Use of Native Youth in Hate Crime: Longhouse Media Response to the Use of March Point Image
Longhouse Media
Monday, March 8, 2010;
Mama said Knock YOU Out: A Mixed-Race Indigenous (Pacific Islander) woman chasing the lie of the "American" Dream
sadya maalam
Friday, March 12, 2010;
You know growing up I always wanted a white mom
White mothers knew how to drive cars
They would pick you up from school & have chocolate chip cookies waiting for you when you got home
They were calm, collected, and didn’t yell
They spoke slowly yet surely
They didn’t hit you
Shit, everybody knew white American parents didn’t beat your ass and I was sick of getting my ass beat.
They would help you with your homework
Talk to you about puberty
They would tell your friends to call her by her first name
Felicita Pedroza - Poverty Scholar and Boriqua Poet: A Poem
Felicita Pedroza
Saturday, March 13, 2010
LET ME
I want to blast the resonance of your voice to dance on your lips
I want to jump on your breast and glide down to your hips
Let me unwind on your cheeks and leap over your pores
Let me dwell deep within your heart’s core
I want to bathe in the flush of your cheeks
I want to be your valor when you feel weak
Let me roll around on your tongue
Let me breathe my passion into your lungs
I want to climb up your spine
I want to leave traces of kisses behind
Let me taste your neck and collarbone
