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From houselessness to homefulness … in Oakland
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, POOR Magazine Youth skolaz in the Family Project at POOR Magazine’s Arts and Social Justice Camp build the scale model of Homefulness in 2009 when it was just a vision....
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Reflections on the victorious resistance at Sogorea Te
by Philip Standing Bear, Indigenous Peoples Media Correspondent Indigenous people from many parts of the world and their supporters came together for the closing ceremonies marking the victory over...
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Hurricane Survival
Dedicated to all poverty skolaz, warriors and organizers from Back East to Deep East, from Haiti to Hayward – prayers, love and survival from Hurricane Sandy to Hurricane Survival by Tiny aka Lisa...
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From skid row to your overpriced condo: Po’ folks resisting removal
by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Voices of Poverty Resist series, Los Angeles Her UGG boots rested delicately against her matching leggings while her $800 dog sniffed a man...
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Decriminalizing our lives – one family at a time
by Eddie, Jacqueline M, Teresa V, Maria X, Sarbella and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia Voices in Poverty Resist series, South LA “I have no job and need to care for my 10-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son....
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Murdered by police for being Black and poor
by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Voices in Poverty Resist series, California Black and Brown youth skolaz at POOR Magazine helped to paint the Day of the Dead/Dia de los...
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Sleeping on the street
by Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Voices in Poverty Resist series, Northern California This is the home of Janize El and her three children since they were evicted from their...
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Homefulness, a landless people’s solution to houselessness
by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia In 2012 POOR Magazine’s family of landless, indigenous peoples and revolutionary donors took back a small slice of Pachamama to begin the construction of the self-determined...
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The poor people’s plate: Poverty, race, GMOs and our food
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Daughter of Dee, Mama of Tiburcio “The poor people’s plate is rooted in capitalist hate for the three job working mamaz caught in the welfare state.” – from “The Poor...
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Sankofa one hundred percent
by Leontyne Smith, Poor News Network Last month’s Community Newsroom at POOR was in honor of Black History Month – even though we know at POOR Magazine that every month is Black history. One of our...
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Degentrification Zones, a poor people-led plan to take back this stolen and...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Cuz if we don’t de-gentrify, if we don’t decolonize – our hoods will die. If we don’t de-gentrify, if we don’t decolonize – our hoods will die. DGZ is fo U & me. It’s...
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A woman called Maya
by Mumia Abu Jamal Maya Angelou had to be the name of a poet. It is too perfect, too lyrical to fit any other personality. Born on April 4, 1928, as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, she...
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‘We are hiding out with no water’: Detroit privatizers deny poor people their...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network “We are hiding out in our own house with no water,” Shelah, a 15-year-old youth and poverty skola whispered on the phone to me. She went on to tell me...
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Revolutionary education for our youth: Homefulness runs a summer camp and...
by Coriander Mellios DEECOLONIZE Academy, on the land in Deep East Oakland known as Homefulness, is born! These are a few of the folks who came to the Open House Aug. 30. The other photos were taken at...
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A #FreeOakland movement: High school students march against police brutality
by Ana Lapota, Poor News Network The plaza at Fruitvale BART resonated with angry, hardcore and inspiring speeches by high school students on Dec. 15. – Photo: Poor News Network On Dec. 15 in Oakland,...
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‘L’s Up, Guns Down’: Mamas resist gun violence from Oakland to Frisco
by Queenandi X Sheba, Poor News Network Thirteen-year-old Lee Weathersby was the first homicide victim in the city of Oakland of 2014. He was shot and killed on his way home from visiting a friend’s...
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Shaking down the poor: The infiltration of a landless people’s movement
by Tony Robles Homefulness is a poor people-led, landless peoples’ and indigenous peoples’ revolution that has taken root in Oakland. Homefulness can also be called humbleness. It is a sweat-equity...
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Bessie and Devonte Taylor: Black, disabled, still houseless
by Tiny aka Lisa Garcia, Poor News Network “The family’s homelessness has nothing to do with the Housing Authority. We couldn’t help what the landlord did.” I listened as the supervisor at the Housing...
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Poor people need your help to survive corporate greed’s heat wave and fees
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, Poor News Network The heat rose from the asphalt beneath me like a snake with no head. It circled around my body and landed in my nose and mouth. I began to have choking...
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The Broken Windows Theory is broken
Poor houseless, disabled mamaz, daddys, elders and youth release findings on the racist, classist Broken Windows Theory by Tiny, Poor News Network “Welcome to the 2015 WeSearch Policy Group 2015...
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