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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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The 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...
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‘Untold, UnSold: Black, Brown, Red, Broke & Disabled Voices in Black History...
by Leroy Moore and Tiny Gray-Garcia In February, Poor Press will be releasing eight powerful and beautiful books, including “Black Disabled Ancestors” by Leroy Moore, “Unwritten Law” by Dee Allen,...
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Abolish 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,...
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POOR ‘tours’ the Tenderloin demanding housing and reparations for 500...
by Poor News Network UPDATE Join us on Monday, Nov. 16, at McAllister and Hyde at 3 p.m. as we launch a Stolen Land-Hoarded Resources tour through the Tenderloin district of San Francisco and propose...
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Stealing 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...
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From 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...
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From 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...
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‘Maybe you shouldn’t be building this project’
For over 10 years, organizers at POOR Magazine, a poor, houseless, Black, Brown and Indigenous people-led grassroots organization deep in the heart of East Oakland, have been building Homefulness, a...
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College in Covid: A nightmare of access for Poor, Black, Brown, Indigenous...
Deecolonize Academy Graduating Class of 2021! From left: Ziair, Tiburcio, Akil Amir and Kimo. – Photo: Tiny Gray-Garcia by Tiny Gray-Garcia @povertyskola, daughter of Dee, Mama of Tiburcio “Beep, beep...
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Loving school: Eunice Atim of Uganda needs our support to advance to...
Note from Leroy Moore: Poor Magazine taught me that journalism is relationships, starting with “I,” going to “we,” and they go deeper than a story. It’s been almost five years since I met Ronald...
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Bay View turns 40! Part 2
Editorial by Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff Now, as the San Francisco Bay View newspaper’s 40th birthday year comes to a close, is the time to bring up to date the historical sketch of our...
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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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Penal abolition and the razor wire plantations
Poverty skolaz report and reflect on the International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 17) by Tiny, Lisa Gray-Garcia We walk back and forth in a jail cell every day It’s called your doorways Tent...
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We can’t stop now! Help single father in Uganda educate his disabled daughters
by Ronald Goliwango and Leroy Moore Alex Ekolu encourages his daughter, Eunice Atim, in Uganda. She wants to be educated so as to be an advocate for disabled people – and she needs your help. This is...
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‘Went Down to the Rich (White) Man’s House’: Poor and unhoused people march...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia and Leroy Moore, Po Poets and Poverty Skolaz, Poor News Network Well, I went down to the rich man’s house/ to take back what he stole from me/ take back my dignity/ take...
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The organized poor: Poor People’s March on Washington and HUD in honor of Dr....
Part 2 by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network “We are surrounded by Black cops,” said Leroy Moore, with POOR Magazine and Krip Hop Nation, about the 15 Black cops who surrounded us houseless...
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Uganda Krip-Hop Nation journalist Ronnie Ronnie beaten, tortured by police,...
by Leroy Moore, Krip Hop Nation On Friday, Aug. 10, Ronald Muwanga, commonly called Ronnie Ronnie, a member of Krip Hop Nation Worldwide and founder of the Krip Hop chapter in Uganda, was arrested,...
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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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Kevin Hart’s new movie ‘Night School’ can help us create Real School
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio The new Kevin Hart movie, “Night School,” was about so many things, but like a good artist, as my poverty skola-teacher Mama Dee used to...
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