2018

The subject of whether or not Black students and other children of color receive harsher punishments than their counterparts has been a conversation that’s been ignored for too long. The latest disciplinary action was against a 11 year old Black student of Christ The King Elementary in Terrytown, Louisiana. The roman catholic school sent the child home after she had “broken” a “No Braids” protocol that was allegedly implemented over the summer. After 2 years of attending the school without any issues over her hair, she was told that her hairstyle was “unacceptable” and was sent home in tears. The family of the girl did not agree with the school’s decision but nonetheless they (school) had the last say and the student’s mother is looking into placing her daughter in another location.

In Amerikkka’s learning institutions, the miseducation and the destruction of Black people’s culture has always been on the agenda, going back to restrictions such as not being able to speak one’s native tongue, what is worn, and now the hairstyles. Braids have correct names such as Suku (Shuku) and Didi meaning “basket” and are part of African cultures with many different styles defining a woman’s social and marital status. For example, Suku that start at the forehead going all the way to the nape of the neck may suggest that a woman is married. Single women have a different pattern. So let’s be clear that “braids” is just not a trend but but it says something meaningful and it is part of a people!

The emotional toll this “Administrative Discrimination” takes on Black children is swept under the rug while the child is either branded with being “bad” or having a “learning disability.”

Any teacher or staff that tells a child that something that is part of his or her culture is “unacceptable” might add that the student’s VERY existence is “unacceptable.”

The kid is basically punished for being who he/she really is, just like anywhere else when dealing with racism here in this kkkountry.

In doing POOR Magazine WeSearch, The Government Accountability Office can say stat-wise that Black students are far, far more likely to be punished unfairly and more severely, even students who attend schools in the more affluent areas, but there were no talks of action to change the problem.

Here in SF, frustrated Mamas such as myself and Mama Jewnbug have little support and we are ignored and our children persecuted.

“These big public schools are suppose to be practicing restorative justice and they are not. They have no real community building and no conflict resolution in practice. My son has been retaliated against twice and was suspended along with his friends. Other students didn’t get any consequences but I had to place my son in a school outside SF for his safety and to avoid having an expulsion on his record. The public schools are not de-escalating violence they only punish. Our Brown and Black children should be safe and yet they are targeted, labeled and criminalized.”

Mama Jewnbug has been dealing with the runaround and the unjust tactic of Black, Brown and other children of color being but against each other just like myself with the case of my kid being bullied when she attended Everett middle school and was punished more than the girls that bullied her. The young girls are of Latina descent and there was one teacher in particular who sided with the girls no matter what they said. We had several smoke blowing meetings and I along with another Mama had came up with solutions and Queena asked if she could either change classes or do her work in the office to avoid conflict and WE were refused these simple accommodations while the girls who are filming Queena in class, harassing her, labeling her the “angry black girl” and provoking her to fight or react out of anger and the same teacher blamed her. After witnessing the unjust ways this teacher was showing I kept Queena out of school because she did not feel safe and she felt as if the adults did not listen to her. Our children have the right to be treated with dignity and equality,  not like ⅗ of a human being. Also the “hidden” agenda of pitting all us people of color against each other is way overplayed and if the skkkool system refuse to eliminate these biased school protocols then it is about time the community come together to educate our own children ...-fairly.

Queennandi Xsheba PNN KEXU

Amerikkka the great. Amerikkka the beautiful. Amerikkka the colonized land of confusion that consists of wicked rulers who slaughtered the Natives and kidnapped the Africans. (just to name a few crimes against humanity) These are the same “great ones” that bombed other nations with impunity and enslaved US citizens to toil in a corporate, capitalist society where we are proud to be oppressors in the form of someone’s else’s boss.

The great Amerikkka that eats her young, lynches Black people, exploits the world and now when things can’t get any worse the wite house is conducting koon meetings with rappers that do not make any common sense whatsoever when communicating with a prez who always has the “little nigger” look on his face whenever he has to pacify his “black brethren”....

Kanye West sounded ridiculous and the mumbo-jumbo he spewed out of his mouth made it clear that he was short on his meds and needs to really take care of himself-pronto.  The prez

frolicking with Hollywood won’t exactly solve this Nation’s problems, HW is still the land of make-believe and some celebrity ranting will not house the houseless, feed the hungry, protect the defenseless, heal the sick for free nor will it save this land from judgement for the centuries of wrongness and injustice.

We have someone in the wite house who contradicts himself, tweets like a bird, he’s rude and obviously mean to cats when it comes to his hairstyle but he runs the US of A and literally he’s running it to the ground because his way of making Amerikkka “great again” is by repeating the history of this country’s bloody, wite supremacists agenda.

The history of genocide, land theft, racism and terrorism has left the US soil with a bitter taste from the poison of strange fruit that has been planted HERE by the forefathers of colonization.

The prez cannot even share an umbrella with his own wife so how is he to is to take the issues of global warming, poverty, and human rights violations seriously and consciously? Instead of bragging of victories over adult film stars who claimed he came up short, calling him “TINY” prez should have more class and integrity about himself- first of all and to have more important “victories” under his belt by doing his part to see that every family in this country is housed, fed, acknowledged and safe. We still have the hoarding of guns, money, land, education and hellthcare to address and the man who is supposed to lead and represent America never in his days has ever tweeted the likes of; “HOMELESSNESS? NOT IN AMERICA!!!!! HUNGRY FAMILIES??? NOT IN AMERICA!!! POLICE BRUTALITY??? NOT IN AMERICA!!!” If a prez is going to brag, boast about doing right by the world! It may be unnecessary and egotistical but doing “the right thing” is not going to happen anytime soon besides doing all of the above weren’t the deeds that made America great in the first place in the name of wite supremacy and if this isn’t the case the why did the highly propagated  movie D.W Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” (originally called “The Clansman”) suggest otherwise?

It is no accident that this (strange) fruit still grows flawlessly today but at the same time the vines are choking the souls out of the people and this land’s “leader” is not taking this earth crisis seriously for it is all about sport, play and arguing with porn stars to him and what is so “Great” about that?

Grieving mother ... today faced with my own cross to bear. I'm realizing more and more that the hell that God speaks of may be the very personal experience that one relives here on Earth. I had the opportunity to Bear Witness a 18 year old young man transition out of here by train. His life was taken. I didn't see it personally but the tragedy has hit the news in the hoods neighbors family and friends of Miss Christa Holloway. Her son Victor is a great ancestor now ...

I haven't known Christa long maybe all of under 2 years I met her through Tanika blue who brought me to Fadeelah Granny's house  And the 1st Person To Greet me Warmly Was Christa Warm and Sweet so Genuine and then i was Re- introduced to the Gang Some Knew me Some Knew of Me. However who would have thought we would share this extended inherited family experience parallel. Young mother like me she is in her first trimester the first 3 months of coping with her son's death ... and another piece I am inspired to speak on the element (words) ... do we in fact need to utilize words and the reason why I skip to that is because this mother will find herself arms up needing to be armed up and prepared for all of the words that will hit her yet. Pierce her like bullets. She like me and so many other mothers will then be forced to make a decision on how connected or disconnected one should be when it comes to words...  and lately words can be so cliche often used for evil vs. Good. And so my heart goes out 2 anyone who personally feels like they don't have to die to experience what hell actually feels like.

 

I believe it's not subject only to fire I believe he'll is any form of torture... I miss my son Torian Dajour Hughes. I Swear i do and so this brings me to the Cross i mentioned i was to Bear... Every day i pick it up to put it down to wake up to pic it up in the morning remembering his name the fact that he existed and he belongs to me BUT the pain is far too much to bear on this cross Which is My Mind & This 98 pound body Is 

Standing in Revolution- A Love-Uary for SisSTAR comrade, Laure McElroy who joined the ancestors BlackAugust 31st 2018

I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. Emiliano Zapata

Who dies on their feet?

the hardcorest revolutionary warriors you will ever meet...

Emiliano Zapata, Laure McElroy, Papa Bear and so many more who only and always tell the hard truth -

no matter who it scares.....

walking into stolen land spaceships-

tripping up colonizer liars

lifting up poverty skolaz everywhere

Living/ Manifesting -Always with calm hands

Having trouble going on without you sisSTAR laure

almost too hard to hold this loss- too hard to stand…

“You were right Tiny- Inter-dependence does work for us poor mamas.” My revolutionary poet, fellow welfareQUEEN at POOR Magazine and co-founder of Homefulness and KEXU radio- Laure McElroy and i spoke quietly on the phone in the kind of intimacy befitting deep sister comrades like we were and had been for many years of deep struggle and deep resistance.

We were both daughters of very traumatized single parent disabled houseless mamas, we are both single parents of Suns, both struggled with suicidality and depression from our lives and were both houseless and/or marginally housed on and off with our young children which led us to co-create MamaHouse2- a collective home for houseless single parent women and children in the rapidly gentriFUKING Mission District of San Francisco.

This is how we do it at POOR; using the " I ", the first person, we centerpiece our own knowledge. We choose to use who we are and what we’ve personally experienced as both the keystone narrative for any story we write, as well as the lens through which we interpret it. We believe that doing this is the best way to be honest about where one's point of view is coming from, and that the journalistic cult of the third person in this country is not objective at all, but rife with hidden, mostly privileged bias. We also insist that those who experience it must create the news, rather than any non-participant journo, however formally educated; those who live the stories both interpret the stories and claim the byline at POOR…Laure McElroy 2007

The first time Laure walked in my life, was in 1998 with her long-time friend, Ivy, another poverty skola, writer, and daughter who walked into POOR Magazine when we were all located on 9th street in San Francisco, in an old, beautifully musty union hall, doing our poor people-led journalism trainings. Laure began a story that would later become part of the MOTHERS issue of POOR Magazine. My mama Dee, a harsh critic of sloppy writing, believing that as poor folks , poverty skolaz it was our duty to tell our own stories, without translators and fetishizers, but tell them beautifully and see them as art, agency and resistance, proclaimed, “Laure is an amazing writer,” a statement my mama rarely said about people. She was excited to meet someone so eager to write, and live the radical values of voice and literary art that we all walked at POOR Magazine.

Capitalism killed Mamahouse

Fast forward to 2007, after the passing of my mama, my own serious crisis with homelessness and barely keeping POOR Magazine alive and currently houseless myself after facing scam lord -fueled insurance fires and forced displacement from MamaHouse 1. Laure had expressed interest in joining me to launch a 2nd iteration of the beautiful vision of interdependence, poor mama-led self-determination that is and was MamaHouse.

We played all kinds of raced and classed poverty skola games that anyone poor and of color and a single mama has to do just to secure housing in amerikkklan, especially gentrified San Francisco, which sort of went like this; Laure put on her best wite-voice(which Laure truly mastered) and called all kinds of realtors, owners, etc and then like a page out of Black-kkklansman (yes our stories at POOR Magazine are truly filmic, and awaiting the right revolutionary filmmaker) I put on a suit and used my witeface to play Laure going to see the apartments, cause in this situation even though i was working, which i was and she wasn’t Laure had a beautiful credit score and the stipend that would make the insanely inflated rent of $2,300 and redunkulous credit check process possible for all of us poor mamas and children. But i knew this well- this was the game me and mama played for years, I being a melanin challenged daughter of a poor single parent of color- this was the only way we got housing whenever we raised enough money to even rent an apartment throughout my childhood of homelessness.

It was an extremely terrifying time for me and Laure, so even as i write this i shudder with the fear of our impossible situation. My mama was sick with what took her to her spirit journey at a very young age, I had a 2 year old sun and no place to live with all of us. and was just constantly scared that we wouldn’t find a place and would end up on the street with our children and elders.

And then i walked into “Florida street” as we used to call it. The ancestors sang in that kitchen, the sky opened up and became large and sweet, birds seemed to circle around the yard in a love affair with the multiple fruit trees always in bloom- the Sun filled every room. It was beyond beautiful, it was truly magical.  I knew when i walked in that this was where we were meant to be. This hustle must work. By Any Means Necessary we must get this place.

Suffice it to say, we finessed another process with the picture ID required so Laure’s identity wasn’t completely revealed until the end and then, thanks to my special “scam-lord love dance” or “rent-starter” as my mama used to call it when i was 11 years old posing as a 25 year old adult, they were charmed, it was our place if we wanted it.

After we were told we got it- i had another severe anxiety attack cause it required $7,500 just to move in and Laure didn’t have that and i didn’t either so i needed to borrow a big chunk of money which i was truly afraid i wouldn’t be able to pay back. One day at my desk of my non-profit job in downtown financial district of SF, a beautiful large hawk landed on my 13th floor window sill  and began screaming (in a hawk way) at me until i listened. i know it was my mama- slapping me telling me to “Make a damn decision already—this is THE place- make this happen- - it is meant to be.”

“Omigod Tiny, this kitchen alone- its Everything.” Laure and i were equally nervous, but knew we had nowhere else to go. And felt we were being pushed into this luxurious, Home-& Garden magazine place with a kitchen big enough to house us and all of our extended family members.

We moved in. We brought our Suns, aunties, sisters, uncles, brothers and babies from our multi-generational, multi-cultural, multi-lingual POOR Magazine revolutionary family. We brought our love and our complete trauma-filled souls. We invited another single parent mama in struggle to live in the downstairs space, the beautiful prayer-bringer and danzante Sandra Sandoval. We held rehearsal meetings for the welfareQUEEN’s play we were all working on, so we could eventually co-create along with Mama Jewnbug, Vivian, Dharma, Queenandi and Tracey Jones Faulkner the beautiful stage play of the same name. We held workshops and art events and performances and prayers. We launched Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los Pobres Theatre Learning project. We co-wrote the Declaration of Interdependence and the Manifesto of Change and so much more.

And what Laure and I realized so clearly, so solidly, more than in any other moment of struggle before that one, was that we had to manifest the landless/poor/houseless people’s movement that became Homefulness, a homeless peoples solution to homelessness, which we did end up manifesting and co-creating in Deep East Huchuin, with the prayer and permission of our multi-rationed ancestors and permission from the 1st peoples of this territory. An extremely hard process that Laure has worked on since day one when we literally removed the asphalt from this powerful small slice of Mama Earth. Now working very hard to build the 4 multi-family townhouses on the land along with everything else we named MamaHouses.

“I will SURVIIIIVE……..” Laure’s beautiful melodic voice, always perfect pitched and clear, sang up her Mama’s spirit in a beautiful ceremony where we all sang Gloria Gaynor’s song, held at MamaHouse. Her mama transitioned while we lived there. It was tragic, as it always is for our traumatized mamas who were already poor, of color, and angry. POOR Magazine family was there in any way we could be to hold Laure and her mama and her Sun in what we call Revolutionary Social work, resisting the non-profiteers and the healthcare system. Laure, as usual, was on point calling out the Medi-Hell system that led to her mama’s early death. This becoming an integral part of our welfareQUEEN’s play.

in 2010, the deep gentrification hit that beautiful home and we were served with a $700 rent increase which was completely impossible considering we were struggling just to cover the rent as it was. And so in September of 2010 all of us poor mama were scattered to the wind, barely able to stay alive through this grief, much-less re-house ourselves. Most of us, like Laure and me, never really recovering from that loss of so much. And we were trying our hardest to build Homefulness as soon as we could to save us. the poor, isolated, mamaz.  

Laure - Xtascene, as curator from the Sex Worker Film Fest


Xtascene joined the Festival in 2009 as film curator. Xtascene is an SF Bay Area native; although currently rolling in the city of San Francisco, she misses Oakland and the East Bay desperately and is moving back as soon as she puts her chihuahua through college. Xtascene writes like she is giving birth - painfully, over the course of hours or sometimes days. Xtascene is an afropunk, a cis that doesn't believe in the gender binary, an ally looking for allies. Xtascene constantly burns with equal parts fear and wonder, and her narcissism is exceeded only by her compassion. Laure’s Bio written by her for the Sex Worker Film Fest

“It’s so funny Tiny, as usual, poverty skolaz like us are silenced in so many spaces, we have to bring in our poverty scholarship workshops,” Laure shrieked out over the phone to me with nervous glee, she so often spoke with. In this magical time at MamaHouse, Laure also began to work with the powerful Sex Worker Film Fest project, curating the festival and speaking her own Sex Worker Scholarship, Poverty Scholarship everywhere she could.

“She put her beautiful heart and deeply real perspective into her curation work of every festival,” said founder and Sex Worker/Artist Carol Leigh, also a very good friend of Laure’s.

“She was so brilliant, always thinking, reading critiquing,” said, Vern McElroy, Laure’s brother , who shares the same father but a different mother, and who lives and works in Berkeley.

“Our father was a Black muslim and revolutionary, Laure lived a lot of his revolutionary spirit in her work with POOR Magazine. She was so excited by all the powerful work you all do and she was so dedicated to it,” Vern concluded.

Elephant circle after elephant circle, family council after family council where we hold each other in a circle of accountability because we refuse to engage with the poLice or kkkorts, who are there to test, arrest and incarcerate every poor person they get, Laure’s calm love literally held us together. Facing people and systems always ready to tear us down for being the baaadass ghetto skolaz we are and were. Writing this today is so hard for me between tears and pain, I’m so unsure of how to to just go on without her love.

“We the people, the unhoused, the displaced, gentriFUKed and destroyed, are here with a proposal, with medicine to offer, the medicine of redistribution,” Laure speaking the manifesto of redistribution from the Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tours POOR Magazine launched in 2016 to help people with hoarded, inherited wealth and/or stolen indigenous land redistribute to folks who have none to create models like Homefulness.

“She lived for this work and would want us to keep it up, even stronger, even fiercer,” Krip Hop Nation founder, poverty/disability skola and my brother Leroy Moore said.

“I miss her so much,” fellow Po Poet, poverty/indigenous skola and Homefulness co- leader/co-founder Muteado Silencio called out in September’s Community Newsroom our monthly indigenous news-making circle that Laure ran countless times over the years, this one we did in Laure’s honor.   

HOMEFULNESS stands in direct opposition to the cancerous American profit ethic, the paradigm that sends individuals fleeing from each other in the public and private spheres, fearful that if one assumes the geas of caring for another, one’s security/retirement fund/college experience/life plan/ ”me time” might be lost or greatly reduced or altered in some frightening way beyond individual control. The donations of participants and allies buy the land for the project: owning the land HOMEFULNESS stands upon free and clear will insulate the community from the vicissitudes of rent and land speculation, but the heart of HOMEFULNESS is the idea of people banding together to create stability through shared sweat, assets, and commitment to being not only our brother’s keeper, but our brother’s daughter’s keeper, and our sister’s boyfriend’s mother’s keeper, and the keeper of the Paki grocery store owner down the block.

HOMEFULNESS is a vision of intention, rooted in the idea that taking responsibility for each other in love and mutual accountability is a radical act….Laure on Homefulness

Join us this Sunday, Sept 23rd at 1pm for a multi-nationed, tree-planting ceremony in Laure’s honor at Homefulness. We will be planting a tree in her honor in the Ancestor Forest at Homefulness- 8032 MacArthur Bl. Oakland, Ca 94605

Gregory Bush was arrested shortly after killing two African Descendent elders at a Kroger store in Jeffersontown, KY. The 51 year old was charged with 2 counts of murder and multiple counts of wanton endangerment and is being held on 5 million dollar bail.

Around 3 PM, Vickie Lee Jones, 67, a caretaker to an elder family member and retiree from the Veteran’s Hospital and Maurice E Stallard, 69, the father of Louisville’s Chief Equity Officer Kellie Watson was shot and killed in an unprovoked hate crime. Bush entered the store and fatally shot Stallard in front of his grandchild and upon exiting the store, he shot Ms. Jones. One armed bystander was said to have shot and wounded the suspect but according to Chief Rogers the claim of the armed bystander and the statement from a witness who was inside of Kroger could not be verified. The witness, Steve Zinninger, told a TV station that while inside the store his father was armed and had confronted Bush but that the gunman said to his father that “whites don’t kill whites” and then he left.

Not long before the Kroger shooting Gregory Bush was seen on video attempting to make a hateful entry into the first Baptist Church of Jeffersontown. It has been reported that Bush was trying to enter in hopes of ambushing the churchgoers.

“There were 70 people at our weekly meeting service just an hour before he came by. I’m just thankful that all of our doors and security was in place,” said a churchman by the name of Mr. Williams.

Bush, with an extensive criminal record including domestic violence, assault and racially motivated threats says that he struggles with mental illness and I must admit I agree with the kkkiller. Because to have hatred for someone’s skin color- not because a person was mean or cruel-  but because of their skin color is not only a mental illness but a cultural insecurity.

The brutal attack against Blacks has seen an everlasting uptick especially since ratolerant (A racist that tolerates those racist against) president Trump entered office. We have laws like stand your ground backing up racially motivated crimes disguised as self defense, and the fact that if someone is charged with offenses under these laws against Blacks the charges are often lessened or dismissed altogether. Community casualties behind such biased laws have included Markeis McGlockton, Stephon Clark, Travon Martin and Marissa Alexander who have been murdered or incarcerated because of rules not meant to protect people of color.

Take the April 19 case of Dorika Uwinmana, a Black child on her way to school that was assaulted and choked to near death by a white man “needing help” from her.  She would have been killed had it not been for the school bus pulling up intercepting the attempted murder, and the attack left the child with severe damage to her vital organs due to lack of oxygen, for which she had to have a heart transplant. The suspect, Terry Wayne King ll was arrested and charged with a mere “injury to a child causing serious bodily injury” and NOT “attempted murder, assault on a minor causing serious bodily injury, child endangerment and hate crime.” The police say they can find “no motive” for a hate crime but they deliberately overlooked the “uphold the rule of wite supremacy law” which has been a motive since wite supremacy was planted. The hate crime is fueled by resistance the “trump whites” showed against the migration of over 15,000 Congolese citizens to North Texas who are fleeing war and crimes against humanity.

Dorika’s father Twizere Buhinja had fled the Congolese war with his family and spent many years inside a Ugandan refugee camp before migrating to North Texas where the family has been for the past couple of years, still struggling to make ends meet. Families like Twizere’s have been the target of racism and resistance from the “make america great again” crowd but many of the crimes went unreported because one the lies amerikkka sells to our families migrating from other countriesthat it is better to be “free, poor and live “good” ” here than to be “persecuted and slaughtered” back in your “Cultureland.”

As far as Dorika’s family situation, the terrorizing ordeal forced the family to relocate out of fear but they were fortunate to have the support of the village (community) to come through with love and Dorika’s recovery is going along well.

My friend asked me the other day my feelings about all of this. I told her “I feel 1940’s nervous! You know, the fear our folks felt back then, like TrumpaKlan is going to bum-rush (raid) the community at any given time he takes a notion and that we will be totally defenseless!”

What a nightmare!!

Grieving Mother AudreyCandyCorn Sister Save A Soul … 2 Years 21 Days and the time is 1:03,3hours Hours to the EXACT MOMENT of My BELOVED … Now DESEASED ,My 1^st Born My TRUE LOVE,MY EVERYTHING , MY HEART BEAT... No Longer BEATS .This is A Heart ATTACK . My Son is DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Who Fucks Wit It ) Ebonicly speaking ( REVENGE ,REVENGE ) only time will tell … 2 Years 21 Days 3hours 365 days .x.times Infinity …. Theres A Pulse but noooo Heart beat … No Resume , No Job ,No Money to purchase food , No Vehicle to get around due to the police HARRASING me D/W/B driving while Black !!!!!!!!! May GOD Bless The Child Who's Got their OWN and Although I'm Not on Welfare , I'm Referred to As A Welfare Queen- Mentaly I;m FRAGILE … Spirtitualy I'm AWAKENED – Physically I'm DIEING … While trying to THRIVE …................................................................ And being Forced OUT..................................................With 2 Babies Totaly Dependent on She …............................................................ WELCOME GENTRIFICATION Hello OAKLAND …...Receiving My 14 day Notice Pay Or Quit ..... My HEART IS Pounding Good Buy AudreyCandyCorn – Dead Women Walking ...

….............................. Caged Bird Singing …....................................

Grieving Mother Mourning Trapped in the Peralta Village Ghetto Subsidized housing / Projects …. Red Line …. I am Scared For MY CHILDRENS lives AS Well As Mine Amir is 14 Ziair is 9 and Torian WAS age 17 … Rest In Promise My Brown Angel Baby Boy... I am Greatful for this Poverty Skolar Revelutionary Blog . This Is My 1^st ONE … I'm Hoping This Will Be A Positive Healing Tool For Myself and any one whom may STUMBLE upon My Article Of A Grieveing Mourning Mother In Need Of Much Healing Medicine How Ever It May Appear And So as I attempt to be Gentle With Myself. I do Often WONDER will I ever Get My HEART beat back,Will I Ever feel my Pulse Again ….I dont Know … In The Mean While There's No Where To GOOOO …. Is There Any Where Safe For Me And MY Children To Thrive , Not Having To Fight To Stay Alive as for now I Write ….. To Document our Foot PRINTS

#T.A.Z. Foundation

#Soar Torian Soar

# Ishy-Me Stranger Danger Anti-Bullying Campaign …....

audreycandycorn 2/15/18

Unarmed 22 year old father of two Stephon Clark was shot and killed on March 18th by Sacramento police for allegedly breaking car windows and fleeing the scene. Police were looking for a vandalism suspect that led to felony murder when Stephon was accused of being armed before the cops fired about 20 rounds into Mr. Clark- enough shots to overkill.

color:black">The reason for his murder was that the cops felt “Threatened” by the supposedly armed man but with the cliche reasons aside the black man has always been a threat no matter which path of life he walks. The jive story the police were trying to sell the Clark family wasn’t buying so the family did the right thing by hiring Dr. Bennet Omalu to conduct an independent autopsy and the findings were that Stephon Clark was shot 8 times, many bullets striking him in the back. With no medical attention for several minutes he was left to bleed out, left to die.

The first thing unlawful enforcement puts out into the world about the hunted person of color is how “bad” a individual was. The  “Innocent until proven guilty” theory has been crushed like roadkill and the “fearful, fleeing” so-called armed suspect is dead before due process. Why is it and how is it in Amerikkka a white murderer of 17 people did not so much as get tased but again, someone of color whom in some cases did not even harm a fly always fall under a hail of hateful bullets? The deceased victim’s name is criminalized record or not and the one with the badge is not held accountable for portraying the judge, jury and executioner.

Stephon’s brother, Stevante Clark made his voice of resistance loud and clear as he boldfully overran the Sacramento city council’s meeting along with many other protesters and began to call on his brother’s name as he took a well-positioned seat on top of the dais. The room began to also call on Stephon as Stevante spoke his peace on the police chief’s accountability of his brother’s death. The fed- up voices then took to the streets in a series of shutdowns and protests in a stand against black lives being stolen with impunity and there are more to come from all over.

The voice of one Sacramento nurse did cause her to lose her job after making the comment that Stephon Clark “deserved to be shot for being stupid” She was reportedly to have been well compensated via a gofundme account and raised over the amount expected (25,000) but what else is new that people in today’s society are paid big bucks to spew hate? Freedom of speech is one thing granted, however when we live in a country where people of color, majority of them unarmed are being murdered on a regular basis for this nurse to make that comment displays the truth about the sickening genocidal agenda colonizers have against the darker people of the world.

Editor’s note: Po’lice calls have the potential to be harmful or fatal.

color:black">For more information on POOR Magazine’s “No Po’lice Calls-Ever!”

color:black">Trainings and workshops, please visit www.poormagazine.org

Get out her Bitch I know You're In there Let Me In …  ………………………………………………….

Damn I SHOULD I HELP MY NEIGHBOR .. WOULD SHE TURN ON ME ??? That's the sound of an abused women ……………………………………………………

Too Often One Can Hear the Ruckus and Abuse Through the Wall …………………………...

You Can See The Abuse Worn On HER Face When She Leaves Out of the House …

She Use to Stand Up Tall and Switch When She Smiled You Can See the Sharpness of her Check Bone  

And When She Passes by You Can Smell His Calone COMING through Her Pores … She's Loyal ……………………………………………………………………

But to Who Not TO Her-Self Thats For Sure and  to add insult to Injury … If You Asked Her If

she is MORE THAN ok ...SHE will Tell You She's QUITE ALRIGHT … In fact she's Just Fine … AS

She Smiles With A CONFLICTING CONFIDENCE ...She Is NOT FINE She Is HURTING IN silence  ……………………………………………………………………

No ONE Knows Yet Every One KNOWS ……………………………………………………….

Who Will Take A Stand ? … And For What Are we taking A Stand For …?.. I Mean Fuck How

Do we Reach Her HELL How Do WE REACH HIM ...Clearly THEY WANT TO BE TOGETHER

And JUST BE LEFT ALONE …

After All Its NOT A Problem Untill She SEES IT TO BE A PROBLEM or HE SEES IT TO BE A PROBLEM ………………………………………………….Right ??? …………………………………..

Is It THE Village Problem …….???  I say YES ...

Is It THE Village Fault ………..???? I Say YES ...

Do We Call THE Police  ????

Do We Hold A HEALING Elephant CIRCLE ???

Or Do We (NOT ME) Get RID Of HIM ???  A Vigilante ???

We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and the MURDER of Black people - The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

The recent police murders of Stephon Clark, a 22 year-old shot and killed on the evening of March 18 by two officers of the Sacramento Police Department in Sacramento, and Saheed Vassell, 34, murdered by Brooklyn police in New York on April 7, again reminds us that Black Lives have never mattered to state-sanctioned organizations popularly known as police departments.

The mass responses to the murders of the two young black men will initiate a familiar and repeated mass ritual that we have become accustomed to. I refer to this ritual, that characterizes the actions/activities in response to state-sanctioned executions of black and brown lives, as the Sisyphus Syndrome.  In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who pissed off the gods and was punished for his chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this action forever. The Sisyphus Syndrome, or ritual, commences after settler-kkkops execute an unarmed black or brown member of our community, setting in motion a series of reactions that involve a rising up of the people in righteous indignation, followed by demonstrations, protest, press conferences, and town hall meetings, that are nothing more than venting sessions.  Social media activism and hash tags are created, meaningless reforms are discussed, such as Body Cameras and Tasers, and “community leaders” are trotted out with the purpose of chilling out and derailing the people’s legitimate anger and disgust, at the behest of their white supremacist benefactors.

Contributing to this ritual are local elected officials making promises of transparency and accountability, while ambulance chasing attorneys rush in offering their services not seeking real justice but instead financial settlements in which blood money is paid out to relatives of the victims at taxpayers’ expense.  The joke is on us; after all, it is the people who are paying the Blue Klux Klan to execute us through these lawsuits. Afterwards, life catches up with us, and our indignation, anger and frustrations subside until our actions are reduced to “a moment.” The same chants...same signs…sore feet…hoarse throats, while we await the next atrocity committed by these killer kkkops.

If we are to break out of this pattern, it is imperative that we understand the relationships that exist between state violence at the hands of the police and oppressed black and brown communities.  First and foremost, is the recognition that amerikkka, the home of the thief and land of the slave, is a settler colonial state and the police act as colonial settler-kkkops, serving as an occupying army that maintains this colonial relationship in black and brown oppressed communities.  Settler-state sponsored reforms and any other pacifiers will not alter this existing colonial relationship and its deadly consequences visited upon people of color. This is the Root (core) Issue at stake. Understanding the true role and nature of policing in racist kkkapitalist amerikkka can aid us in articulating the correct path we must undertake in order to protect our communities against the rabid swine that terrorize and murder us with impunity.

Until we end the colonial relationship between the larger White society in general and the Black and Brown community, in particular, economic and social injustice will persist.  Until we end the occupation of Black and Brown communities by a hostile police force, hyperactive arrest rates, police brutality, and the killings of Black people will continue.

“What you don’t control will be used as a weapon against you” Imam Jamil al-min (formerly known as H. Rap Brown).

Oppressed peoples and their communities can and will only be secure in this country when they are organized to defend themselves against the aggressions of the government and the forces of white supremacy and capitalist exploitation.

An example of a pro-active and organized approach against state-sanctioned police terrorism is the call for Black and Brown’s community control of the police, through efforts led by those mostly impacted by police terrorism in our communities.  Community control would involve the establishment of a People's Commission for Human Rights that is elected, not appointed. It will have an elected “special prosecutor” and hired staff, independent of mayors, police departments, city attorney offices, and board of supervisors. The People’s Commission for Human Rights will have the power to examine complaints of police terror and impose penalties that include suspension and firing of officers, as well as the power to review and change police department policies and procedures, with control over the police budget, along with full subpoena power and access to shooting sites.  This Commission will not operate as a rubber stamp board as the many so-called police commissions and review boards act presently.

A People’s Commission for Human Rights and community control cannot eliminate all police terror in our hoods, any more than it can resolve the underlying conditions of poverty, racism, crumbling health and education, drug addiction, homelessness and joblessness.  But it will make it a lot harder for the police to get away with acts of violence and other forms of terrorism. Community control of the police is a first step to gain community control over our lives.

Dis-empower, Dis-band, Dis-arm the Police

Black and Brown Community Control of the Police.

Organize To Win!!!

Mehqueena had been coming home all week frustrated and all her confidence in school system gone.. She had been harassed in class by two girls whom had been filming her and posting up rude comments about her. When Queena tried to tell staff at the school what was going on, she was made to feel as if she was the instigator and that the possibility of her being bullied by these particular girls was farfetched. She was made to feel like if these girls did not like her it was because of something she had done.

At her wits’ end, Queena became angry and declared that she will defend herself if no teacher nor staff will do an intervention.  Meeting after meeting, the staff at Everett Middle School’s attempt to deal with the situation failed miserably. The alleged bullies were being praised more than disciplined and one staff “took sides” with them enabling them with more power, one girl because of her “beauty and popularity”.

It was impossible for Queena to concentrate at school, and she even asked if she could be moved away from the same classroom as these girls but to no avail. She even asked could she do all her assignments in the office, but as hard as the 12 year old tried to remove herself from this issue, Everett staff did not accommodate Queena at all. Instead Everett staff insisted that Queena was the problem and she was treated like an angry, black criminal that did not have the same rights at the school as the other children. Meaning throughout the whole time Queena was punished for reacting to her bullies’ actions. There is no way that a beautiful popular latino girl could bully a 12 year old black girl. Really? So what does a bully look like?

“The adults at Everett were bias towards me, they made me feel like a nigger.” Queena shared with POOR Magazine.

Queena’s anger caught the attention of the staff but not as a child who was fed up with being bullied but more like the angry black child who fits the description of being the bully herself.

“When I got upset and said that I will fight my bullies back because no one would do anything, I was punished by suspension. I had to fight back for my safety. They called my mother every day because of something that they “heard” from the other girls that did not like me. I didn’t have to be at school and I was being put into some mess that did not have anything to do with me. I do not like that school. They tried to break my spirit by being unfair but my mother supports me” Queena said in a coy tone.

She fortunately no longer goes to Everett Middle school after being pushed out. Queena was so fed up with Everett staff letting her down that she stopped going to school altogether for a brief time.

“I saw this coming a mile away, that Everett allowed for Queena to catch hell at their school then they failed her. Queena wanted to be at school and she was upset that she was not able to do her finals at school. Instead she was labeled a drop out troublemaker and sent to 44 Gough street and all the while the alleged bullies continued to go to Everett uninterrupted and allowed to bully on another girl, Queena’s cousin Daione.  So I removed Daione from that school, too.”

After going down to 555 Franklin street several times to file a complaint and to get a safety transfer for my daughter. Not only did the alleged bullies call some high school girls up to Everett to fight Queena, but the ultimate slap in the face was when I complained about the school being bias because the accused bullies were latino , the man behind the desk, that shares similar culture with the girls hurriedly dismissed the “bias” saying “no, no, no we are NOT going to go with the bias. Just the high school girls coming to the school for your daughter.”

He wants us to act like the bias experience never happened. I don’t think so. We are going to tackle this whole issue that puts children of color against each other in the first place, right along with the intentional miseducation.  As a POOR Magazine advocate I don’t know how to feel when I am related to everyone. It is hurtful when you are hated for no reason. Then this has to be explained to children such as Queena, who hurts just as much because she didn’t understand how the staff would smile and act like they care but their actions, no matter how cleverly hidden showed otherwise. What does a bully look like?

Queena is a former student of DeeColonize academy and is educated in political science. She has written stories on racism, gentrification and poverty and she is a popular dancer. Queena is feisty and will call out any wrongdoing and owns up to her mistakes. She was taught not to bully and to speak up when something is wrong. Queena said that how she was treated at Everett Middle school was wrong and she felt left behind.

Queena is right.

SF 49ers Linebacker Reuben Foster’s February arrest for domestic violence, weapons possession and criminal threats has hit a nerve as the number of abusive athletes with “untouchable” attitudes have risen atrociously over the past several years. Money, privilege, and arrogance mixed in with a few individuals who cannot control their emotions when dealing with everyday relationships can lead to these of incidents of violence in the home. Domestic Violence does not care about money or class but in a lot of cases you have these “big jumbo” men with money tend to get more slaps on the behind for brutalizing these much smaller females whom they cannot relate to in the first place.

Ray Rice gained super-noreity when he knocked his then fiancee (now wife) Janay Palmer unconscious in an elevator March 2014 in a domestic violence case that had pots boiling over because of the leniency people felt he had received. (suspended but later reinstated) Since early 2012 until September 2017 around 33 NFL players have been arrested on a variety of charges but out of the alleged 33, 15 were arrested for violence against women. Jonathan Dwyer was charged with domestic violence against wife, along with athletes, Ray McDonald, (domestic violence against girlfriend), Chad Johnson (head butted wife over a box of condoms he had allegedly bought) and Jovan Belcher who shot his girlfriend multiple times, killing her before killing himself. The list is sadly much longer.

Today’s sports industry is majority wealthy white male dominated when it comes down to team ownership while the players have a make-up of mostly men of color. With fame for some comes the lie that there’s an “untouchable” card that comes along with a huge bank account and all the perks that “massa” did not allow for the “player” to have access to. To be just like massa is a subconscious thinking pattern that has contributed to some of the athletes’ problems in the first place- the “big, brute” slave that wants to massa. The subliminal message is in plain sight.

The women who have to walk in the painful footprints of being a survivor of domestic violence have a lot on their plates, too. Being in a relationship with a celebrity who gives her everything she desires except for her black eyes and bloody noses is not what she signed up for but the lifestyle intoxication, trying to keep up with the “joneses” and the fear of poverty will lead to a costly compromise. In my early years as a compromising survivor I also felt at one point that I did not want to “give up” the money, the honey, the cars or the nice apartment but when I looked in the mirror and saw the temporary disfigurement of my face and felt the pain, I had a inner warning come over me that I will not be around to enjoy all these material “perks”. I got out the volatile relationship without any money or material stuff, but I understood that my life and children were priceless.

Whether the man is an athlete or janitor, domestic violence is domestic violence. How can we, as hurt people stop hurting people in the first place. There is a lack of healing in the process of people’s lives while the world expects a traumatized person to just “get over it and move on”

That is way easier said than done to the one that’s missing a compassion chip or for the one that favors sports over lives. The struggle continues.

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The arrests of 2 Black men at a Philly Starbucks last week has advocates and supportersalike taking to the coffee magnet to express unrest in the latest of racial profiling in the good O’l US of snAkkkes. The pair were arrested after the manager ( the frightened Ofay) called po’lice on the two, saying that they were trespassing for using the restroom without placing an order. As earlier reported the two men were there to meet with another man who haven’t arrived yet when the biased incident took place, to discuss business when the manager of the coffee chain called 911 on the men and had them arrested. The manager told the men to leave “3 times” and they refused. Those who had an opinion argued that maybe the two Black men’s attitude wasn’t correct but that theory was struck down when witnesses said that the pair had no hostility at all. The “attitude” of the oppressed man and woman of color here in this country has always been used as a tool to “kill if felt threatened” by the wicked rulers of this land. Can anyone be able to dictate to a person how to react or feel that is being treated with such contempt? I don’t think so!

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson issued a pacifier of apology to the two and have planned to meet with the men to apologize face to faces. Mr. Johnson also said that Starbucks’ staff would have to participate in unconscious bias training, which sounds to me like you can literally kill a person of color and get away with it. (without being woke)

Subconscious fear is more dangerous than unconscious bias because it has cost black people and other people of color their lives for centuries and I have never heard of a klan rally where everybody was sleep (unconscious)

There is no fix to this problem but a start towards the “soulution” is for the slave so-called massa to denounce the superior lie he/she holds dear and the so-called slave to denounce the inferior lie that he/she holds, people of color discontinuing support to establishments in question and that we respect and take better care of Mother Nature.

This hatred for Black people in amerikkka didn’t just spring up into action when Prez Obama took office in 2009, one soon forgets that there were “white only” signs not only in coffee shops, but clothing stores, swimming pools and restaurants so where is the progress just because you

no longer see any signs?

For Philly to be known for its “Brotherly Love” and revolutionary heroes and sheroes like Octavius Valentine Catto and POOR Magazine’s own Mama Dee, Starbucks do not want to leave a permanent coffee stain in the Philly struggle so it will be wise for Mr. Johnson to do all of the damage control that he can but why be sorry if a person’s true feelings are ill towards people of color?

According to my WeSearch files,  a vast majority of people from different cultures are not reminded from a profiling perspective that a purchase at a business MUST be made before using its facilities. The “purchase before potty” propaganda came into fruition more in lower income neighborhoods where there were problems of drug use and the presence of houseless folks that merchants voiced was hurting businesses. So does gentrifuhkation and bike lanes.

After WeSearch I personally found that I am “required” to make a purchase of some kind more in high-end places as to some lower end places. If I’m wearing my hoodie in some cases, I didn’t even get a suggestion to use the alley.

I’m only the best accommodated when I sport the pregnancy prop that’s when there is hardly any discrimination at all. Overall, I try my best to wait until I go home for It is difficult for me to dine at some places with this kind of bathroom protocol because I am the patron who washes my hands before touching or consuming food. If I’m meeting other folks, I DO NOT place an order before everyone’s arrival other than water and breadsticks because it is polite and my personal preference is that we all feast together. This issue the two brothas had with the Starbucks employee was not about being polite, it’s about the constant racism and profiling we as Blacks face in Amerikkka every day since day one. It is about people who feel they are forced to “tolerate” our presence so that’s another layer of hate brewing. If a business owner do not care for people of color why fight to patron such a owner? I am PRO late, great Malcolm X when he expressed that he would not want to patron the man who hates him or eat any of the food that is prepared by this racist individual so why are we protesting to eat/drink in a racist’s establishment? If this was about morality or equality we would not be having this conversation.

The murder of Stephon Clark by police invoked the warrior spirit within his brother Stevante and the young brother hit the streets with his thunder like voice of oppressed rage. He took his fight all the way  to the council denouncing police terror and the death of his brother.

Stevante Clark made news again but this time not as the unyielding protester but as the defendant making his way to the courtroom with a smile, cheerfully cooperative. His appearance in court stems from a call his roomates made last month to police reporting that Stevante was acting irrational and was allegedly armed with machete and hammer ending with the destruction of the apartment he shared with others.

He was released on O.R after two felonies were reduced to misdemeanors with the condition that he stay away from any people he have threatened. He was also told not to abuse the 911 system and to only call for emergencies only.

There were concerns raised about Stevante’s mental health since the death of his brother Stephon and during the proceedings it was suggested that Mr. Clark seek mental health services although it is not confirmed whether or not he followed through. Stevante Clark’s next hearing is on May 9th.

When my younger brother Marcus was killed I cannot say that I was a normal, functioning person especially when dealing with all the horrors involved with all what happened to him. I also can’t say that his black life mattered, mine neither in the city of San Francisco and he is one of the many dark clouds that hangs over this nation as another “one less”

It is said that when people are scared they do tend to act irrationally, but what about the reaction to racial hatred and the death of the loved one who may never get any “justice”

How is Stevante Clark supposed to feel? Set aside the whispers of his alleged bipolar disorder and schizophrenia- a person’s diagnosis does not excuse all of the disorders of the world in which a person has to live in on black eggshells.

Diagnosis, stereotypes, stygmas and racism have always played a hand in the reasons why a poor person has lost his or her life in this country, instead of helping in the healing progress of a whole nation, it is the cowboy way to just brand em’ and shoot em’ without any consequenses.

That way of thinking is also a mental illness.

On Saturday, the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf warned the community of possible ICE operations in the Bay Area. That following Sunday, the federal agency detained people across Northern California and including the Bay Area. Her warning to the immigrant community brought large contervesery throughout the government, including some accusing her of obstruction of justice and treason. What Schaaf did was so deranged in the eyes of the government, even Donald Trump spoke upon her act. “What the mayor of Oakland did the other day was a disgrace," Trump said Thursday (Wootson, 2018).

My name is Alma Rodriguez, a young Latina resident of Oakland, CA who has seen her community evolved greatly over the past couple of years. As a daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico, I respect Mayor Schaaf’s actions of speaking our and warning the entire immigrant community. She put herself at risk by warning the immigrant community about ICE raids knowing she would receive backlash from many. She and her family have received numerous threats because of the warning and she still stands by her actions like a true, strong bay area woman.

However, why hasn't Schaaf come out and spoken about other issues that have been affecting our community before like po’lice brutality, poverty and homelessness. It's Interesting how she is willing to face consequences for speaking out on immigrant rights, but not other issues that mainly affects the lives of black folks in Oakland. A mayor's job is to connect with her community, to communicate any issue that could possibly harm all the residents and keep peace throughout the city, and she is not doing that entirely. Unlike other politicians who grew up with tons of resources around them, Schaaf understands what we poor people of color go through. She has personally seen the oppression and issues that happen in Oakland and have developed in her own neighborhood, but isn't willing to speak upon them. Yes, immigration an important issue in our community, but so is gentrification which is causing poor people of color to become homeless. My own uncle is being kicked out of his home because the rent is too high and he isn't capable of paying it. Hard working people like my uncle deserve better, but change won't be made sadly until people with power like Schaaf speaks on it and brings awareness to the issue.

The Trump Administration also argued that Sanctuary cities are dangerous for Americans because it protects and houses criminal immigrants and that they will sue the Golden State for shielding the undocumented from federal agents. At a conference she held on February 25th she stated, “I am sharing this information publicly not to panic our residents but to protect them. My priority is for the well-being and safety of all residents -- particularly our most vulnerable” (Hamedy, 2018). She warned her citizens about a possible treat that was planning to strike a large portion of the California population and that is not illegal. "Regardless of what happens, I felt it was my duty to share the information I had, particularly because I was sharing information that was legal and was not obstructing justice," Schaaf said. (Hernandez, 2018). With all that said, Schaafs attitude continues unchanged. Hopefully, young leaders like myself speakin out on community issues will change Schaaf’s attitude and make her speak and put importance on other problems in Oakland like gentrification and homelessness.

“If I was black I’d be picking cotton, but I’m white so I’m picking U 4 prom”

Read the poster board of 18 year old Noah Crowley who attends Riverview high school in Sarasota County in Florida who was asking a young lady to go to the prom with him. After receiving a lot of “no-no” votes, he quickly apologized to anyone he “might of offended” followed by his family issuing another statement of apology denouncing his “promposal” and also stating that he would not be allowed to attend his prom, graduation or other school activities.

Sarasota county school district began its investigation and is claiming to be working with other sources to find a disciplinary route that is within school policy.

I ask why is there something to “investigate” and “figure out” when it comes to white supremacy and the people who expresses it?  Why by all means must it be upheld in the name of this nation’s forefathers, for the history to be inked in school books and for prez Trump to use as a platform to making Amerikkka “great again”

White supremacy is obviously not a crime but a duty if you look at the early century propaganda like GW Griffin’s “A Birth of a Nation”, a time when the stolen Africans were branded beasts, wenches, brutes, hottentots and niggers like we are today, some of us just have bigger paychecks. The KKK were the heroes in the movie thus being the real life heroes that continues to defend White Pride. This is why ALL children must be taught their true histories/herstories of what their ancestors created or colonized, also know that we have the right to steward the land within our own nation for survival and the “master race” concept is derooted.

This media of hatred has become the history of this country and if it is in the textbooks that Africans are less than human and should be treated no more than property what is to be expected of the white kid who has been lied to about his own story? How has he/she learned empathy and compassion when his OWN history suggests that black people are nothing but niggers who should be either scrubbing white toilets, picking cotton or hanging from trees? The times may have changed but it is difficult to change the mind, heart and spirit of a people who have always considered themselves the “master race” and has obtained power over our world with this belief.

Some years back politricksters wanted to hold some insulting vote on whether or not there should be an apology issued for the slavery and the genocide of the African people and that slap in the face was the tip of the iceberg for one of the worst destruction of a Nation to never be taken seriously and for the the suffering and extermination of the Africans and other people of color to go unpunished and without reparations.

That is why kids like Noah Crowley see nothing wrong with the Black struggle and death for it to be so loosely mocked and we must take seriously our own stories AND destinies because we cannot demand the world to “identify” us if we know nothing of our “identities” and to educate those who think the Black Holocaust is and was a joke.

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Daughters and suns crying, hardworking fathers and mothers lurched from their children’s arms, families stolen, babies traumatized . Oranges dying on the trees, grapes shriveling up, un-picked, un-gathered and uncared. All of these acts of violence against mama earth and her earth peoples happening because the hard workers, the migrante indigenous labor that the multi-billion dollar farm industry relies on to pick , care and distribute its products are being deported across the hate-filled colonizer borders. Borders created, enabled and enacted by the forefathers of the farm industry families themselves. To this violent paradox i propose an emergency form of Ag-Reparations and Farm Sanctuaries. 

No matter how you say it reparations is Everything. its mere consonants make most middle class wite people shudder, extreme wealth-hoarders silent, and politricksters of all stripes shut down. And yet it, i will repeat, is everything. In the case of the use, theft and profit that fuels a stolen capitalist system launched by what i affectionately call the “Stealing Fathers” there are direct through lines between enslaved bodies, indentured bodies, indigenous bodies and poor bodies to the wealth-hoarding, land and resources stealing and accumulation of the very rich and even the middle class in amerikkklan.

In our 21st century reality there are different kinds of reparations and radical redistribution that must be enacted. These are acts of conscious reparations and revolutionary redistribution- in other words what must be enacted is an actual “sharing economy” rather than the fake uber-lyft-google-face-crak sharing of basically nothing)

These acts of radical redistribution and real sharing are what I have deemed Community Reparations. it is rooted in the concept of inter-dependence and the recognition that we are all connected as humans and all need each other to be ok, and unlike the fake and inhumane notion of Independence that the Stealing Father gangsters called the declaration of Independence and other associated documents, Interdependence states that i am connected to you because you and i are both human, because i see you, you and i have a responsibility to each other and i can no longer practice what i call “ the Violent Act of Looking Away,” This form of inter-dependence, radical redistribution and Community reparations is what we teach people with different forms of race, class and formal education privilege in POOR Magazine;s PeopleSkool. It is what funded and helped to implement the poor and indigenous people-led movement called Homefulness.

These acts of radical redistribution look like POOR Magazine’s Solidarity Family and the Zapatistas (EZLN) Comite Apoyo (Support Committee) both of whom alternately use their multiple “paper” privileges (academic papers/letters/ so-called “citizen papers” or documents”, deeds of trust claiming they own land and credit) to support, lift-up, launch and leverage with us folks who have none or maybe only one torn piece of that paper.

Homefulness was not launched with bloodstained dollars alone, any one of our Solidarity family will tell you that its developing horizontal magic of poverty skolaz working along-side folks with race, class and/or formal education privilege came from peoples whose families know someone who knows someone from years of wite privilege and unseen academic privileges and connections speaking up for us in the permit departments, helping unconnected poor people without a pot to piss in , get credit so we could get new or decently working vehicles, helping us meet people in the annals of settler colonizer real estate snake halls and meeting other folks with hoarded and/or stolen wealth so we could teach them about reparations and redistribution.

As a matter of fact, most of this work is rooted in deep relationship building, which only comes if one person truly shares gifts they were blessed with due to 525 years of white supremacy and insitutional and community power and paper privilege.

In this moment with literally thousands of indigenous peoples crossing the kolonizers borders due to poverty, violence, genocide and war, being threatened with removal, more violence, incarceration and family separation, I am putting out a formal call for the multiple paper privileged among us to practice this form of reparations.

For the conscious people who engage in the farming industry, who work really hard to create an organic, GMO-free product, who try to conserve water, use safe or non-toxic fertilizer, who are trying to, as their marketing campaigns state, stand up for Mama Earth and her earth peoples could create a farm based coalition to stand up for migrant workers who pick their products and without whom there is no working , thriving farm system.

It is for this reason i call out to the farm peoples, the agri-business owners, and lobbyists and even to the community gardeners to create a different coalition to stand up to the Trumpkkklown with your multiple paper privileges and say hell no to the poltricksters and the Po-L- ICE To create multiple Sanctuary Farms across CalifAztlan, deeming your private property (which is privileged more than anything else in amerikkklan aka stolen Turtle Island, thanks to the Stealing Fathers documents, and say no Po-=L-ICE you can’t come on this land and steal, abuse, displace and remove humans ( aka deportation)

There is a similar case i make for the TechReparationsFund, which I put out to conscious members of the Tech industry, last month in our powerFUL Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tour thru SillyCon Valley to realize the direct impact of your industry on the lives and homes of working class, poor communities of color in the Bay Area like 100 year old black Elder Iris Canada, killed by the abuse of unlawful eviction,  so pay into a fund that supports the building of equity for working class poor, black and brown Bay Area residents so they can stay here.

In the end none of these acts of reparations, and actual sharing can happen without the moves of privileged people, but my argument is that in these times the moves of conscious peoples with privilege aka different forms of Community reparations such as the Bank of Community Reparations,  and the recent move by Planting Justice to reparate their Ohlone/Lisjen Land to Ohlone /Lisjen peoples of this land (Oakland) are what must happen now - meanwhile us unhoused, Po, criminalized and indigenous folks at Homefulness who are actively wrking to liberate this small part of Mama Earth from the Real Estate Snakkke industry while also publicly naming Homefulness as Sanctuary land, and Sogorea Te Land Trust, the 1st Native Women owned land trust can create our own self-DeterminATION movements of land, resources liberation and decolonization across stolen Mama Earth.

For more information on this proposal or for help launching either the TechReparationsFund or the AgReparations/ Farm Sanctuaries email poormag@gmail.com. For mroe information about the next session of PeopleSkool go to www.racepovertymediajustice.org

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