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    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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    Marc
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    This page is created just to create the tags.  Each other story needs to be edited to reflect these tags...

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  • SOLUTIONS/SOLUCIONES

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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    mutsuko
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    THE MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE:

    Manufesto Change

    The Manifesto For Change is a truly "green" model for housing, art, micro-business, spirituality, interdependence, self-accountability, care-giving and community that incorporates the teaching of our elders, ancestors and spiritual leaders in harmony with Mother Earth that ultimately can be launched in any city in the U.S. with a Revolutionary Giving Ally.

    The Manifesto for Change was created in a 16 year process by a multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-generational, group of landless, indigenous elders, children, families and folks engaged in a life-long struggle with poverty, racism, incarceration, welfare systems,white supremacy, mis-education, landlessness, ableism, Non-Profit-Profiteering and violence.

    The Manifesto for Change was introduced at the Revolutionary Change Session on June 19, 2009 as a template for global and local revolutionary change.

    Homefulness Project

    The HOMEFULNESS Project

    HOMEFULNESS- A Real Solution to Houselessness

    Revolutionary Giving

    Community Reparations & Revolutionary Giving

    Moving Off the Lie of The Budget Cut into Community Reparations

    Dclaration of Interdependence

    The Declaration of Interdependence

    A living breathing Community declaration of the people

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  • Electronic Harassment

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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    PNNscholar1
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    ELECTRONIC HARASSMENT

    Marlon Crump/PNN
    Sunday, March 29, 2009;

    "I'm scared, I don't know what else to do, or who to talk to!"

    "Why me, what have I done? What do these people want from ME?!"

    "Can somebody do something about this?!"

    "All of this because I submitted a piece of paper, in telling the truth of what's been going on?!"

    "When will it stop? My body is in so much unexplainable pain........ALL BECAUSE I SPOKE OUT!"

    Before 2008 ended, I wrote a story called "Digital Apartheid" which presented a detailed summary of the impact that the D.T.V (Digital Television) transition would have on people particularly in poverty, seniors, and people with disabilities now that U.S Congress were forcing everyone to watch their television sets by the means of digital broadcast after purchasing a digital converter box. (Which is similar to a cable television box.)

    I started off the story, stating that "Technology has arrived to a new age: The Age of D.T.V. I also stated in "Digital Apartheid" that "the digital divide and conquest is literally just around the corner."

    Unfortunately, I have to start this particular story off by stating that technology has arrived to another age in an era of terror, through the voices of its victims: The Age of Technology Terror!

    And this has apparently been happening for quite sometime, by person or persons, unknown.

    The above outcries and pleas are from victims who've experienced multiple harassments/stalkers and unexplained physical technological trauma as a result. Shockingly, these problems are seemingly invisible to doctors, law enforcement officials and members of the public.

    These victim's voices are seldom taken seriously due to the ignorance, disbelieving, scrutiny, and even ridicule resulting from such acts actually taking place, leading many governmental authorities and their counterparts to conclude that such mysterious acts are "absurd" or "preposterous."

    (Much to the delight of those responsible, as denial, ignorance, and disinterest are their greatest covert cover from exposure.)

    Through my own extensive research, credited to an anonymous source who wishes to raise universal awareness about this terrifying, untold issue in media by sharing her own ongoing experience, I've discovered that this technological terror is not a myth, a lie, a fairy tale, or a script from a modern day science fiction movie. It is very real............

    And it is called Electronic Harassment via Organized Stalking!

    Imagine the terrifying thought of your own body organs burning, the breaches of unseen rays to your human nervous system disrupted for no explained reason(s), leading to dirahea, chronic fatigue, and other mysterious life-threatening symptoms as a result for either speaking out against a certain injustice, making someone very angry, or just simply being yourself.

    Even worse, just imagine experiencing such bizarre incidents, yet no one is willing to believe you and they immediately conclude that you're crazy. This falls alongside of the "Why are they targeting me?" and "Why no one will listen to me?" question............ bearing little or no answer.

    Just think of people purposely playing their television or stereo a little too loud, constant phone calls just to annoy someone they despise, disrupting a person's human nervous system, preventing them from functioning properly. An old trick to attack someone in the jungle is drumbeating: an old fashioned tactic used to confuse and intimidate the enemy, to throw them off their concentration.

    A woman by the name of Eleanor White, a retired engineer, presented a thirty-six page, six chapter booklet which provided a thorough, indepth, detailed and eloquent overview of the extremely bizarre occurences regarding victims of "electronic harassment" and "organized stalking" as well as her own conclusive investigations and findings.

    Her booklet is called "Organized Stalking: A Target's View."

    (Eleanor White, herself, has experienced bizarre incidents of these sophisticated occurrences, motivating her to investigate these covert tactics by her unknown attackers.)

    "In 1980, I was living and working in Toronto, Ontario Canada, in my late 30s. I was contentedly single, and thought I had no enemies," said Miss White.

    Or so she thought, unaware that she was targeted and stalked.

    "Things started to just go wrong. My clothing seams started to give out very quickly, sometimes on nearly new items, and I tend to have less clothes but purchase high quality items for durability. Pockets in winter coats. Crotches and armpits. Often the crotches would develop a pattern of many small holes that looked like someone had been pushing a pencil through the cloth. Each time I picked up the clothing, the holes would get larger then merge into two large holes either side of the crotch center or seam. I wrote it off as 'poor quality goods these days.'"

    She then began to encounter men unknown to her who glared at her with hostile intentions, and unfriendly neighbors who played extremely loud radio noises, and slammed their doors. "Oh well, must have a screw loose," Eleanor said to herself. Unknown men buzzed her apartment for long periods of time, and very loud, but Eleanor refused to allow them into her apartment.

    These incidents kept on for two years until a recession hit in her town in 1982. To keep herself distracted from this weird situation, Eleanor took a fifteen month government-sponsored training program for computer programming and related skills. Needless to say, these incidents even followed her there.

    Whenever she would use a computer lab, her computer never seemed to work properly, while her 30 fellow classmates didn't have the same problem.

    Some of the computers were tied to a mainframe. At the end of each programming session, they all needed to print their work on a network printer to take home for "desk checking." Unlike her classmates, Eleanor's print jobs kept getting moved to the rear of the printing queue, meaning she had to wait from a half to a full hour longer than her classmates to leave.

    It was crystal clear to Eleanor White that someone was hacking into her print jobs.

    From 1980 and even after the year 2003 when she retired from her job as an engineer, the "organized stalkers" refused to show her any mercy, and continued. In 1996, Eleanor came in contact with other victims of "electronic harassment" and "organized stalking."

    Such covert operations and tactics are strikingly similar to the ones performed by secret law enforcement operations, primarily ones directed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I) and its infamous counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO, which was highly known for its harassments, illegal operations, and terroristic tactics against many civil rights activists, particularly the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in the 1960s.

    Eleanor White further defines "organized stalking" as "surveillance and harassment of a designated target by stalkers who are members of groups, which are networked throughout the industrialized nations of the world." There are three primary elements to this term:

    .Harassment by a large number of people, and not by a single obsessed stalker, nor by helpers recruited by that single stalker.

    .Group members are given targets' names and/or have the target identified for them. They do not usually know the target beforehand.

    .These groups are tightly networked, within state or province, and internationally.

    "Once a group of stalkers starts 'working over' a target, deniability increases dramatically," Miss White explains. She further categorizes the tools that allow organized stalking to remain effective towards its targets, by means of electronic harassment:

    .Electronic assault

    .Directed energy weapons ("DEWs")

    .Non-lethal weapons

    .Mind control (the through-wall electronics can affect the mind)

    .Voice to skull (U.S. Army designation "V2K")

    According to Miss White, "the majority of targets are not high profile people, or people with very sensitive knowledge of government secrets or corporate misdeeds."She also categorizes the physical trauma endured by targeted victims, as a result of these actions, by means of "through wall electronic attacks."

    .Bee sting sensations, particularly on the feet, particularly while trying to sleep.

    .Arms and/or legs jerking wildly when trying to sleep.

    .Extremely powerful, unquenchable, itching, no rash, no explanation from doctors.

    .Sudden extremely fast and heavy heartbeat, when fully relaxed.

    .Suddenly extreme high body heat, fully relaxed, not after exercise.

    .Vibration of body parts and/or bed.

    (Miss White's detailed explanations, statistics, and stories of targeted victims of these frightening incidents involving "organized stalking" and "electronic harassment" can be further viewed online at www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Eleanor%20White)

    Shannon Herbert, a San Francisco resident, artist, and writer, who posted her story online is another victim of "organized stalking" and "electronic harassment." In her story, Miss Herbert says the stalking and harassment involves members of the San Francisco Police Department and even the San Francisco Fire Department. This stalking and harassment has been ongoing for eleven months.

    She's reported that she has even been kidnapped, tortured, and falsely admitted at the San Francisco General Hospital for "psychiatric treatment." Her phone calls have been tapped, rerouted, and intercepted. Her mail has been tampered with, her friends and family have been threatend.

    "I also have strong reason to believe there is a foreign object of some sort implanted in my body, causing me a great deal of pain. Fear of this constant assault, that primarily stems from my cranium, causes permanent and irreversible damage that consumes me. (I think some tools that have been implanted are similar to what is known as a clicker used in zoo animals for behavior shaping and submission.) I don't know exactly what instrument may have been used on me but the link below lends one possibility":

    http://www.illuminati-news.com/micro-implants.htm

    "I believe works written by me in my home and on my pcs have been made public and plagiarized, and that the primary reason for the covert harassment is to intimate and extort me. It is also my belief that many across this country are aware of my exploitation and the hate crimes that have be committed against me, Shannon Herbert of San Francisco, yet nothing has been done nor even acknowledged. For the last 9 months, I have been moving from one friend's house to another, after realizing my own house was no longer safe to live in."

    Shannon Herbert has desperatedly sought out help. She's made complaints to the Office of Citizens Complaints, the Management Control Division of the S.F.P.D, other city agencies, and even to the F.B.I to hear her cries for help. To no avail, no action seemed to have been taken.

    "I am not delusional nor am I a liar. I have been to the FBI (twice), Police Dept., I.A. (Internal Affairs) and the Office of Citizens Complaints, where I made a tape recorded statement. Almost every single hour of every day I feel an electric current in my skull, ranging from vibrations to jolts that jerk me out of sleep.

    At times this torture is more than I can bear. I constantly wear a pot on my head when alone and when I'm with friends (who can't possibly understand) but it doesn't help."

    Miss Herbert is appealing to anyone with the necessary resources to help her recover from this extremely difficult time.

    "My main purpose for writing is for closure and justice. I hope to obtain an attorney who is familiar with such cases and can refer me to a specialist where I can receive care for I fear the medical institutions in San Francisco. The stalkers never had a problem finding me so hopefully the good guys won't either."

    The latest victim (who wishes to remain anonymous for the absolute fear of her safety) has been physically and psychologically tortured, as a result of the similar mysterious occurrences of Shannon Herbert and Eleanor White.

    The trauma, terror, and torment due to the covert "electronic harassment" and "organized stalking as she's experienced and tells it:

    "I sent a Notice of Complaint to the Attorney General. (I do not know who the president of our board is, I have never met her). The day after we both received the letter, a bleach blonde women with bangs, walked as close as she could to me on 19th Street, while I was talking with a friend, and she glared at me as hard as she could. I have never seen this person, and I do not know who she is. The next day, coincidentally, something happened again. There was a very strange incident that took place where I live.

    My husband saw two men, both with mustaches, one with gray hair (I recently saw him with dark hair), the other with shaggy brown hair, (I have recently seen him with a shaved head) driving around the area. About 8:45 A.M. I went into the lobby, and the guy with the shaggy brown hair was in the lobby, overweight, kneeling down on the floor by the sliding door, fiddling with the combination lock for quite some time.

    As I walked by him, he stared at me intently, and a strange feeling came over me, as if I was being watched and stalked. I have never had this feeling before. I forgot something in my home, so I went back to retrieve something, and when I came back he was still fiddling with the lock, never to open or close the door or the lock, and was whistling the entire time.

    If he was trying to look like a janitor, it was strange, because our contracted janitors visit our building on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

    Around 3:00 p.m, I came back home through the front door, and another man with a mustache, with gray hair, blue shirt, khaki pants, about 5" 10" ish was carrying a brief case, but it looked as if he never carried one in his life. He came into the building right after me, and than started walking in front of me, walking ever so slowly, whistling.

    As I entered into my unit, I watched him enter the other door, staircase, to go upstairs. What is so odd about this is that if someone new is entering the building to go upstairs, you would enter the building from the FRONT as he did, and then go to the upstairs THROUGH THE STAIR CASE IN THE FRONT of the building, you would not go through the front door, to goTHROUGH THE BACK SIDEWALK AREA, to go to the upstairs units."

    She further states that, "This incident coincidentally happened after a letter (Notice of Complaint was sent to the Attorney General, and I and the president received the letter." The purpose of her complaint was to inform him of unusual activities taking place with the property management.

    In the aftermath of this bizarre situation, she awoke one night to investigate why a red light ray was aimed at her window. She peeped out her window to discover a mysterious man outside her house was the source. In the days, weeks, and months thats followed, her body has experienced intense pain, nausea, organs burning, and diarrhea.

    Despite every hospital she's gone to, no doctor could provide a medical explanation to what was going on with her body.

    This is something that she has never experienced her entire life, and it has taken a significant emotional toll on her life. She totally believes that this stalking is related to her letter submission to the Attorney General.

    After making countless police reports, doctor visits, and efforts to raise public awareness, she conducted her own investigations to find out why these strange things were happening to her. What she found was that she was not alone. There were other victims, a support group, and even a pending legal action against covert stalking harassment, by holding the U.S Government for its failure to address this rarely-discussed issue, and lack of accountability.

    Unfortunately, her stalkers know that information is power, and are somehow aware of her efforts to expose their "covert operations." Recently, they boldly broke into the trunk of her car in a highly observed area of witnesses, and stole important documents she had obtained that explained what was happening to her.

    As a witness, I can personally testify to this theft, because I was with her having coffee when this crime took place.

    The biggest fears of all three women is that very few or no one believes their story, and labeled them crazy, delusional, or both, although they have keen awareness of these events in their lives. Most people are not interested because it does not affect them. Then, there are also the many that refuse to get involve for the absolute fear of retaliation by the culprits.

    In the end, it must be the many that exposes this semi-hidden, tactically covert evil by consistent exposure with their own voice. People's voices can be silenced from the lack of ears, but it doesn't mean they have to shut up, especially when their lives on the line. Most people know about Satan's greatest trick to the world. Those responsible for these actions feel that it is "the perfect crime."

    However, it is not a "perfect crime" if they're caught......................or at least exposed.

    Below are the following weblinks that give references and more information regarding "organized stalking" and "electronic harassment":

    www.freedomfchs.com/attorneylettertoleahy.pdf
    www.raven1.net.
    www.multistalkervictims.org/ewhite.htm
    www.mindcontrolforums.com/victm-hm.htm www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Eleanor%20White www.freedomfchs.com/attorneylettertoleahy.pdf
    http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svus.pdf

    "Every move you make, every breath you take, I'll be watching you!"

    Lyrics from the 1983 hit single "Every Breath You Take" by the rock music band, "The Police."

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  • Manifesto For Change

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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    onion
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    The Manifesto For Change is a truly "green" model for housing, art, micro-business, spirituality, interdependence, self-accountability, care-giving and community....

    Thursday, June 25, 2009;

    The Manifesto For Change is a truly "green" model for housing, art, micro-business, spirituality, interdependence, self-accountability, care-giving and community that incorporates the teaching of our elders, ancestors and spiritual leaders in harmony with Mother Earth that ultimately can be launched in any city in the U.S. with a Revolutionary Giving Ally.

    The Manifesto for Change was created in a 16 year process by a multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-generational, group of landless, indigenous elders, children, families and folks engaged in a life-long struggle with poverty, racism, incarceration, welfare systems,white supremacy, mis-education, landlessness, ableism, Non-Profit-Profiteering and violence

    The Manifesto for Change was introduced at the Revolutionary Change Session on June 19, 2009 as a template for global and local revolutionary change.

    1. The Declaration of Inter-dependence

    To act on indigenous values of accountability and care-giving with the goal of moving indigenous folks, poor communities of color permanently out of the Prison Industrial Complex which includes po'lice dependence,abuse and destruction.

    Excerpt from the Opening Statement of the Declaration of Inter-Dependence launched on July 4th, 2008

    .....We, la gente, the people, the workers, the poor folks, poverty scholars, gente indigena, indigenous people, mamaz, daddys, abuelitos, abuelitas, elders, children y ninos, hereby declare the following articles to be true and original...

    2. R.E.C.L.A.I.M.M.
    Reclaiming Community & Land Access (through) Investment in Micro-Business (on) Mother (Earth) -A Community Thrival Strategy, Ad Campaign and Micro-business Strategy

    Through the RECLAIMM project, POOR Magazine is promoting a new form of indigenous, sustainable "green" equity and resource re-distribution that will enable us to reclaim and build equity, support and promote micro-business, micro-economics and land ownership in our native urban communities.

    3. The HOMEFULLNESS Project
    Permanent housing units for landless* families and individuals, following a model of co-housing, which includes a home for all of the following components;

    A site for the F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Family Access to Multi-cultural Intergenerational Learning with our Youth) school, a revolutionary on-site child care and school for children and families in poverty, which incorporates a social justice and arts multi-cultural and multi-lingual curriculum for families and children 2 to 102 yrs.

    A site for POOR Magazine, The Race, Poverty, and Media Justice Institute, Community Newsroom and all of POOR's indigenous community arts programming.

    A site for Uncle Al & Mama Dee's Cafe; a multi-generational community arts and social justice eating and performance space.

    Tierra Madre/Mother Earth: Following indigenous values of localizing food growth to cut down on greenhouse gases and poisoning of our communities, this will be a site for a 'sustainable urban farm' to teach children and adults in poverty how to grow their own organic and healthy food to eat and to economically sustain their families, so that they can permanently get out of poverty. Also will provide indigenous model of project based learning for FAMILY School providing space for elders to teach indigenous forms of math and science through earth and agriculture.

    II. The Building:

    A Mixed Use/C3-zoned, multiple units or Loft space with adjoining land or small yard that has space for all of the listed above.

    III. Funding:

    Equity "Capital" Campaign budget: (2.5 million)

    Fundraising will occur through an "equity campaign," launched by POOR Magazine, which is an act of resistance to the hierarchal and unjust distribution of wealth and resources locally and globally. POOR Magazine is formally calling the fundraising effort for HOMEFULLNESS, an 'equity campaign,' instead of a 'capital campaign,' conducted through equity sharing, not tied to financial resources. We will be creating permanent and lasting solutions to houselessness for families in poverty, who have been displaced, evicted, gentrified and destabilized out of their indigenous lands and communities.

    *After years of struggling to be heard and housed and working to organize, de-silence and power the scholarship of poor folks of color and urban indigenous peoples,I, tiny, one of the co-author's of the Manifesto, daughter of a disabled single mother of color/indigenous Boricua, African descent, in a life-long struggle for land and equity, hereby refuse to use the codified, meaningless label of "the homeless people" and will instead from hereon, identify our peoples position as landless peoples.

    Photos by Pnn staff
    The Altar for our Ancestors at Uncle Al and Mama Dee's Social Justice and Arts Cafe at POOR Magazine's Revolutionary Change Session 2009
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  • Dancing Your Story: A Sins Invalid Movement Workshop with Antoine Hunter

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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    Leroy
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    Dancing Your Story: A Sins Invalid Movement Workshop with Antoine Hunter

    What does your body want to communicate? Let your disabled body dance its story.
    What movement says you feel alive, what movement tells us you’re gonna cry? Explore new things and old, open up to the spirit and soul of dance. This class is for all levels and abilities. If you are shy, this is the class for you. If you are a professional, this class is for you. If you think you can’t dance, this class is for you. Come explore and learn and move and let the movement move you – there will be you in every dance, and in dance there will be everything. 

     

     

    Dancing Your Story:
    A Sins Invalid Movement Workshop with Antoine Hunter
    Sunday, October 24, 3-6 pm
    Mission Cultural Center
    2868 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
    (between 24th & 25th)
    Cost: Free
    Registration required

    What does your body want to communicate? Let your disabled body dance its story.
    What movement says you feel alive, what movement tells us you’re gonna cry? Explore new things and old, open up to the spirit and soul of dance. This class is for all levels and abilities. If you are shy, this is the class for you. If you are a professional, this class is for you. If you think you can’t dance, this class is for you. Come explore and learn and move and let the movement move you – there will be you in every dance, and in dance there will be everything.

    Antoine Hunter is an Oakland-based dancer/choreographer, who started his career as a jazz dancer in High School, and expanded his repertoire to include ballet, jazz, tap, African, country-western, latin, and hip hop. Antoine teaches students at numerous schools and performing arts centers, including Ross Dance Company, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, ODC Dance Center, Youth in Arts, and more. He is a proud member of both the African-American and Deaf/HOH communities.

    Our workshops are open to anyone who is interested in exploring the intersection of sexuality and disability, regardless of prior experience in movement or performance. If space becomes limited, we are prioritizing participants who identify as having a disability. The space is wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from using scented products, although we cannot guarantee a scent-free space.

    To register, email your name, phone number and access needs to info [at] sinsinvalid.org.

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  • Magazine Test Post

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    onion
    Original Body

    Leroy Moore
    Tuesday, March 27, 2001;


    Happy birthday to Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization Happy
    birthday to you
    I want you to close your eyes
    Sit back and let your mind fly
    Through four years of fighting to survive
    Once upon a time
    In the year of 1995
    Leroy traveled from the US to the UK
    After 24 years being on the outside
    He found what he called home in a foreign land
    Black disabled brothers and sisters organizing and speaking their minds
    Oh yeah I could understand
    Their rage, beauty and talents
    Set a fire from the inside
    A year flew by
    Traveled back and forth
    US to the UK UK to the US
    I was a changed man
    Could not go back working for the man
    Everybody was shocked
    "What happen to Leroy in London!"
    Like James Baldwin
    I've been to the mountaintop
    Started to lecture on race and disability
    My two communities did not know what to do with me
    "He is too radical and way too angry!"

    1996, London still flipping in my mind
    Pockets full of lent
    Had to put London aside

    1997, worked on my final solution
    To be independent from racist and disabilist organizations
    Breaking the silence through poetry and personal stories
    One is a lonely number
    I remember the organizing of my brothers and sisters across the sea
    That‚s when the seed was planted and DAMO was placed on paper
    1998 DAMO‚s first meeting
    Me and the wall
    My dream was shattered and I was about to fall
    Then people started to call
    Mixed emotions
    Fear of the unknown
    1999 DAMO growing like a grapevine
    Breaking ground in Oaktown
    Media wanted to know what was going down
    Jumping from place to place
    Shared an office downtown
    Trying to be all around the Bay
    Poetry, Talk show, organizing and family events
    People started to burn out
    No money, no support and no office
    The year 2000 came back to San Francisco
    Many founding members were gone
    But the struggle to survive keeps going on
    The rebirth of DAMO
    New faces, new fiscal sponsor and a grant
    Now it's time to spread our wings and fly
    Laying down the foundation

    For future generations
    But we still live in a capitalist nation so we need your donations
    Now open your eyes
    Leave the four years behind
    And lets party tonight
    Cause tomorrow we will all be back on the front lines

    BY Leroy F. Moore Jr.
    Founder and Executive Director of DAMO

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  • HOMEFULNESS - a poor people-led solution to Homelessness

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    onion
    Original Body

    A Poor & Indigenous People-led Solution to Houselessness

    A sweat equity, permanent co-housing, education, arts, micro-business and social change project for landless/houseless and formerly houseless families and individuals.

    PROJECT PLAN

    I. 4-10 Family Housing Units, Multi-generational school/Media Center, Community Garden/Farm and Sliding Scale Cafe

    Detailed Description:

    4-10 Permanent housing units for houseless and formerly houseless families following an indigenous model of co-housing which includes the following

    • A site for Deecolonize Academy/ F.A.M.I.L.Y.(Family Access to Multi-cultural Intergenerational Learning with our Youth) which is a revolutionary on-site child care and school for houseless children and families which incorporates a social justice and arts , multi-cultural and multi-lingual curriculum for families and children 2-102
    • A site for POOR Magazine, PeopleSKool, The Race, Poverty, and Media Justice Institute, Community Newsroom and all of POOR’s indigenous community arts programming
    • A site for Uncle Al & Mama Dee’s Sliding Scale Cafe; a multi-generational community arts and social justice eating and performance space
    II. The Space: 8032-8034 MacArthur (BlackArthur) Blvd, (Huchuin Ohlone Land) East Oakland
    An R4 zoned ( Mixed Use) lot in East Oakland.
    III. Funding
    Equity "Capital" Campaign budget: 2.5 million -
    ($200, 000 already raised -Lot Purchased - Paid in Full-Phase 1 completed:Includes  Existing Building renovated now housing 3 unhoused Families and elders and Deecolonize Academy - a school for children in poverty launched, Permits from the CIty of Oakland acquired and Phase 2 was launched July 2016- Phase 2 in progress)

    All remaining fundraising will occur through an Equity campaign launched by POOR Magazine.
     
    As an act of resistance to the hierarchal and unjust distribution of wealth and resources locally and globally, POOR Magazine is formerly calling the fundraising effort for HOMEFULNESS, an Equity Campaign, instead of a Capital Campaign, as through equity sharing, not tied to financial resources, we will be creating permanent and lasting solutions to houselessness for families in poverty who have been displaced, evicted, gentrified and destabilized out of their indigenous lands and communities.

    For more information on how to become involved with this project, please email deeandtiny@poormagazine.org.

    To donate to the Homefulness Project, click here for online donations or send checks to:

    POOR Magazine

    8032 Macarthur Bl

    Oakland, Ca 94605

    A Poem for Homefulness

    [view:homefulne

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  • Summer of Trauma: Tent City, Alaska

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    Lola Bean
    Original Body

     

     When Jerry Garcia sings the verse:

     

    Busted down on Bourbon Street

    Set up like a bowling pin, knocked down

    What a long a strange trip this been

     

    It always reminds me of the long 3 months of trials and tribulations I went through to make enough money to break free from tent city in Valdez, Alaska. 

     

     

    I still regret the day I left my apartment in Anchorage and ran off like a blind rabbit to Valdez. Finding the right cannery to work at in Alaska for the salmon season can be a summer of trauma, especially if you don’t research the type of meals and housing available at the cannery in the town which you want to work. I had to find out the hard way.

     

    I was living in Virginia Beach and my telemarketing job was about to end. I was looking through an Alaskan magazine when I saw the photo of a 200 pounds halibut, I made up my mind to drive to Alaska and get a job working in the Alaska seafood industry.

     

    Back in the summer of 1994, I was invited to go Valdez, Alaska to work at a salmon cannery by a fellow fisherman who I thought was on top of his game. I was told that I could make a lot of money and the cannery needed workers right away. Like the super hero, Flash, I packed up my bags quick, and we dashed off in the truck to Valdez.

     

    When we arrived at the raw- salmon- smelling personnel office at the cannery in Valdez, everything was smooth as jazz until the college kid behind the counter started trading words with me.

     

    The bunkhouse is full, sure look like you guys gonna have to camp out in ten city for the summer with the other 300 workers.

     

    I could feel myself get light-headed, then I yelled “Where the tents, I don’t have a tent!”

     

    We ordered some more tents, but I guess they are a little late, you know this being Alaska.

     

    Then he let out his goofy laugh: Huh, Huh, Huh!

     

    According to jobmonkey.com, “A tent city is an inexpensive alternative to a motel room or an apartment for seasonal workers…The tent cities are large campsites often own by the town they are located.”

     

     

     I had no choice, so I setup a homemade tent composed of tarps, sticks and stones. The words of warning “Get creative or die,” kept flashing in my worried mind. Especially when I also found out that the cannery did not have a mess hall and did not feed the cannery workers in tent city, who processed tons and tons of fresh salmon for the cannery 7 days a week. I felt tricked, cheated, deceived, and degraded. Failure and loathing flooded my heart like the Valdez oil spill flooded the Prince William Sound.   

     

    For the first 2 weeks, I survived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and prayed that I did not run out of food before payday. After working like a madman for 18 hours a day, I was tormented at night by aching muscles, blood-sucking mosquitoes, loud, loud music, screaming party animals, fighting and most of all, the fear of being mauled by hungry bears.

     

    I paid a heavy psychological toll for camping out in tent city. I was zombie-like after being deprived of adequate sleep. I hallucinated while I was working in the cannery. I was in the jaws of danger. I saw workers get their fingers chopped off by grinding blades of fish gutting machinery. I saw workers faint and hit their heads on cement floors in the cannery, because they were over-worked and under-fed. Dangerous predators invaded tents at night in tent city while cannery workers was asleep. After 3 months of this long nightmare, I knew what time it was. I packed up and went home.

     

    Whenever I hear the song Truckin’ by the Grateful Dead, it still bring back bad

    memories of the tent city trauma in Valdez, Alaska. The cannery blasted that song over,

    and over again through ear-splitting giant speakers for hours.

     

    Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;

    Other times I can barely see.

    Lately it occurres to me What a long, strange trip it's been.
     

    From experience, I can say the town saves money, and the cannery makes money while the workers barely survive the “Summer of Trauma” forced upon them.

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  • Sins Invalid of The Bay Area Turns 5: Anual Show Oct 8-10 2010

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    Leroy
    Original Body

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    August 11, 2010
    Media Alert and invitation to cover:
    SINS INVALID: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
    Disability, art, sex and politics
    share the spotlight at Theater Artaud
    October 8, 9, & 10, 2010
    SINS INVALID: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility,

    San Francisco’s unique performance art and disability justice project returns for its fifth annual show, this year at Theatre Artaud. One reviewer has described the acclaimed and highly anticipated event as simultaneously “heart-stopping, jaw-dropping, funny, loud, beautiful, sad and smoking-hot...”.

    SINS INVALID director and co-founder Patricia Berne describes the project’s goal as seeking to re-identify what is seen as the problem of disability. “It’s not the disability that’s the problem,” Berne states,” but the social resistance to accepting it.” SINS INVALID’s performances redefine the “problem” by exploring disability and chronic illness in the context of race, sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s a powerful mix, and SINS INVALID goes even further by offering a radical solution: celebrate all bodies as beautiful and valuable. This results in an edgy, honest, intimate, deeply felt and unabashedly sexy program. Audience members routinely say the performances completely changed their view of sex and disability.

    Patty Berne, co-founder Leroy F. Moore, Jr., a group of local artists and two guest artists from outside the Bay Area will mount this year’s show, Knotting Stories over Time and Geography using theatre, dance, music, spoken word, film, video and poetry. “It’s not a cabaret, but an arc that connects the stories into a whole narrative of who we are,” says Berne.

    Solidifying its national reputation as artists for social justice, SINS INVALID has been invited to perform at Britain’s DaDa Fest this fall, and performed this past July in Raleigh, North Carolina at the National Youth Leadership Network. Year-round in San Francisco SINS INVALID offers performance and educational workshops, community dialogues, and an Artists in Residence program for artists with disabilities who are also from Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Indeterminate gender communities and/or communities of color.

    2010 artists include: Aurora Levins Morales, Nomy Lamm, Antoine-DeVinci Hunter, Maria R. Palacios, seeley quest, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Leah Lakshmi, Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alex Cafarelli, Amal Kouttab, Adrienne Krug, Tina D’Elia, Ellery Russian, Juba Kalamka, Pamela Greenberg, Todd Herman and Patty Berne.
    For more information and to set up interviews, please contact Belinda Taylor at (510) 845-4177.

    Sins promo 2010

    WHO: SINS INVALID: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

    WHAT: Knotting Stories over Time and Geography, an exploration of sex, sexual

    orientation and disability using theatre, dance, music, spoken word, film, video

    and poetry*

    WHEN: October 8,9,10 2010

    TIME: Friday and Saturday @ 8:00PM, Sunday @ 7:00pm

    WHERE: Theater Artaud (499 Alabama St., SF)

    Wheelchair accessible, Oct. 9th show is Audio Described and ASL interpreted

    TICKETS: $15-$25 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)

    BOX OFFICE: brownpapertickets.com or at the door

    PUBLIC INFORMATION: (510) 689-7198 or sinsinvalid.org

    *PLEASE NOTE: This show contains explicit content.

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  • The Declaration of Interdependence

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    mutsuko
    Original Body
    Declaration of Interdependence

    A living breathing Community declaration of the people

    To act on indigenous values of accountability and care-giving with the goal of moving indigenous folks, poor communities of color permanently out of the Prison Industrial Complex which includes po'lice dependence,abuse and destruction.

    Excerpt from the Opening Statement of the Declaration of Inter-Dependence launched on July 4th, 2008 at POOR Magazine's Inter-Dependence Day: 

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  • TESTING all 3

    09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Original Author
    Marc
    Original Body

     lalalalallaa

     

    all three immigrant, migrante, IPMP

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