Poor, disabled, criminalized poverty skolaz create a book about their lives,...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia “The notion of poverty scholarship was born in the calles, prisons, street corners, community centers, welfare offices, shelters, kitchen tables, assembly lines,...
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Welcome to the Bank of Community Reparations, where blood-stained dollars become love-stained dollars. People with race, class and/or formal education privilege collaborate with very low and no-income...
View ArticleDear Mr. Benioff, no matter how many times you ‘study’ me it doesn’t get me a...
Tiny’s sun Tibu and a friend from Deecolonize Academy build benches at Homefulness. While billionaire Marc Benioff is understandably proud of having built the tallest building in San Francisco,...
View ArticleSwept to death
Where Do We Go Berkeley is an alliance of unhoused and housed advocates who are standing up to Caltrans to stop the sweeps. – Photo: Yesica Prado, PNN From San Francisco to San Bernardino, unhoused,...
View ArticleMoms4Housing stand and resist for thousands of us houseless mamaz – Join them...
Dominique Walker, co-founder of Moms4Housing, and other brave moms and allies hold a press conference at the door of MomsHouse, 2928 Magnolia St., West Oakland. by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia, Mama of...
View ArticlePoetry, prayers, protest against gentrification and displacement planned for...
by Rev. Harry Williams The plight of the unhoused in the San Francisco Bay Area has reached catastrophic proportions in recent years. Homeless shelters are filled to capacity. Children sleep in the...
View ArticleMoms 4 Housing: Un-Wedgewooding the world must be led by Mama Power
Moms 4 Housing, who moved into 2928 Magnolia St. in West Oakland in November with their small children when it was vacant – before real estate investment company Wedgewood Inc. took possession of it...
View ArticleThe struggle to build housing when you are homeless
In front of Oakland City Hall, Muteado Silencio and Charles Pitts of POOR roll out the architectural plans for Homefulness. POOR is calling on the City Council to exempt poor and homeless people from...
View ArticleFascism, racism and homelessness kill with or without a virus
Please radically redistribute your hoarded sanitation, cleaning and healing supplies to POOR Magazine and Homefulness, at 8032 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, on or before Tuesday, March 24. The following...
View ArticleAbolish the other police: mandated reporters
Cover art for Tiny’s new book “‘When Mama and Me Lived Outside” – Art: Ace Robles by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia “Noooooooo, don’t take my baaaabeeee ….” I dream those words in daymares and nightmares,...
View ArticleEncampment bans on stolen land
No more People Cages! – Photo: Peter Menchini How did homeless get un-linked from homes and other settler colonial lies by Tiny Garcia How did home get detached from home-less? How did homeless-ness...
View ArticleStealing our last acre and one remaining mule: Black, Brown and no income San...
On Tuesday, April 20, POOR Magazine held a “Stealing Our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule” speak out on City Hall steps, launching a tenants union to organize people in public housing – from folks in...
View ArticleFrom E-RADication to Reparations
POOR Magazine’s Nandi speaks out for human rights over corporate profiteers trying to privatize life! – Photo: Tiburcio Garcia The people resist the lies called RAD and No Hope VI by Tiburcio Garcia...
View ArticleFrom poverty tows to Palestine: The violence of settler colonial evictions...
Poverty tows are parking violations, which are unethical detriments to houseless folks who rely on the shelter of their vehicles. Between this and the lack of adequate housing options, means of...
View ArticleSupport Not Sweeps! Free Homefulness!
On June 22, 2021, POOR Magazine held a Free Homefulness rally at Oakland City Hall – the same city that is holding up Homefulness’ effort to build for and house the houseless of this stolen Ohlone...
View ArticleChild Separation Services and the Family InJustice Court
Buffalo, a Black Panther and part of the POOR Magazine extended family, helps run the Self Help Hunger Program in North Oakland and is an advocate for families against the corrupt CPS system. Aunti...
View ArticleFrom Salt Lake to San Francisco, from Ute to Huichin: Sweeping, killing and...
In July, POOR Magazine toured unhoused communities and wealth hoarding areas in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colo., to spread the medicine of homefulness. We placed this POOR Magazine sign at the...
View ArticleBurned alive for sleeping outside
Tiny speaks at the West Berkeley Shellmound. by Tiny – poverty skola, daughter of Dee Luis Temaj was burned alive for living outside … Set fire jus tryna sleep Cuz like all of us – he was tired...
View ArticleHomefulness the world
“Homefulness, a poor and houseless peoples-led solution to homelessness, is here in this occupied Lummi and Nooksack land to share the template of a poor people solutions to poverty, scarcity,...
View ArticleA State of Emergency … for people sleeping outside
Aunti Frances Moore is serious about transforming LandBack from a proposal to reality. POOR has the audacity to call for the rich, with more land than they’ll ever need, to give some back to the...
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