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From 5M to The End (of SoMa): How does a corporation wipe out an entire...
by Tiny, Poor News Network The light from their eyes was missing; in its place was the color of fear. Lined up, hard-working backs huddled up against the cold white marble walls of City Hall in San...
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I’m the same as you – I just don’t have a roof
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Side by side / chair frames and baby toys, / jackets, toothbrushes coffee cans and pillows / wrapped up in paper made of memories … “These businesses around...
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Fighting the system: The Alex Nieto trial lost in the courts, won in the...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network A mama’s son riddled with 59 bullets from a colonizer’s gun / 59 bullets fired by slave-catchers and gentrifier glances. “The story the cops had was just...
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Displacement on BlackArthur, East Oakland, one business, one family, one...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Master Frohm of Frohm’s Martial Arts Academy, a beloved teacher and role model for his students, who says martial arts saved his life, is being pushed out of his 16-year...
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From fires to foreclosures: BlackArthur (MacArthur Blvd) displacement crisis
A youth-led report is released at the emergency press conference by Cassandra Guzman, Mario Vega, Ty’Ray Taylor, Kimo Umu, Amir Hughes, Zair Cornish, Tiburcio Garcia, Tiny, Muteado and Queenandi X...
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Poor people help ‘rich’ people redistribute stolen inherited and hoarded...
by Vivi T, POOR Magazine The “Stolen Land and Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization and Community Reparations Tour for Mama Earth and its Earth Peoples” was launched last spring by POOR...
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Capitalism killed everything, even our courage: Lessons from the first ‘How...
by Poor News Network “Due to the multitude of lies and stereotypes that permeate our capitalist society about poor people and people of color, we all have collectively bought into the idea that we need...
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Trump was already here – but so is interdependence, change and...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Graduates of Deecolonize Academy, the school at Homefulness, took a break from their commencement last May 26 for an emergency press conference on displacement to protect,...
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We are all connected, from Standing Rock to Oakland
Delegation of unhoused, formerly unhoused, landless youth and elders from Huchuin (Oakland) bring prayer, media and love to water protectors at Standing Rock by Tiny, Aunti Frances Moore, Aselah...
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Poor people on Park Avenue?
Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor people lead Tour of Stolen Land and Hoarded Wealth in Eastern Turtle Island by Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia “We are stopping you because some of the residents feel like they...
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Deecolonize Academy students report on self-determination movements around...
Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa by Bella Chapman, Deecolonize Academy UN-Habitat, the UN’s human settlements program, states that the number of people living in slum conditions is now estimated...
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Poverty skolaz take Doctors Without Borders tour, ‘become’ displaced persons...
by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia The rubber sides of the boat were like arms – thick, round, hard. “These are the boats refugees have to travel in. Men sit on the side, the women, children and elders in the...
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Transportation gentrification: How Bus Rapid Transit is displacing East Oakland
by youth scholars at Deecolonize Academy and POOR Magazine Poverty scholars from POOR and Deecolonize Academy visit the Oakland Mayor’s Office to ask for information on Bus Rapid Transit and its effect...
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Evicting the Black Panthers’ vision: The fight for Aunti Frances and the...
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, POOR Magazine Aunti Frances rests on her front steps. – Photo: Sam Levin, The Guardian “This is the Black Panthers’ vision, and it’s being evicted,” said Aunti Frances Moore,...
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I am the ‘homeless problem’: The case for the Homeless4Mayor Campaign in San...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia “Don’t turn left, because that area is full of ‘bums’ and doesn’t reflect the real San Francisco,” the cab driver clicked his teeth together as he rattled on about which...
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From deportations to reparations: An emergency call for Ag-Reparations and...
by Tiny, Daughter of Dee, Mama of Tiburcio Daughters and sons crying, hardworking fathers and mothers wrenched from their children’s arms, families stolen, babies traumatized. Oranges dying on the...
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From CPS to ICE, the Separation Nation didn’t begin with these incarcerated...
by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia, Poor Magazine Protesters in the North Bronx decry family separation. – Photo: Julius Constantine Motal The violent Separation Nation didn’t begin with this generation with...
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Cooking in your car: The rise of the unhoused middle class
by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray Garcia Salt, grease and fried meat filled the air with just a hint of burnt sugar thrown in. My mind wandered to breakfasts past sizzling in a greasy diner. This time, however, I...
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Standing in revolution: Laure McElroy joined the ancestors BlackAugust 31, 2018
by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. – Emiliano Zapata Who dies on their feet? the hardcorest revolutionary warrior you will ever meet – that’s who Como...
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‘Poverty Scholarship’: Poor people create their own theory, textbook and...
by Poor News Network Poor, homeless and disabled scholars are releasing a book sharing their truly innovative solutions to homelessness and poverty and launch a national theatre production on poverty,...
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