2018

“I can’t move that fast,” Johnny X was ducking to avoid the 50 mile an hour rushing water coming his way from a Department of Public Works (DPW)  truck  at the corner of 90th and International boulevards…”DPW started power-washing the streets, our belongings and us when the construction workers began tearing this street to build the rail-line, now we have nowhere to stand, sit or be…”

Johnny, who was one of POOR Magazine’s reporters and WeSearchers (Poverty, Unhoused Skolaz telling our own stories, in our own words), had begun reporting out this situation in November of 2017. According to his WeSearch a rail-line which we later found out was called the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) was causing the unhoused residents of East Oakland to be power-washed, cited and even arrested if they didn’t move from their long-time corners on International boulevard.

“Who does this BRT transit benefit? Those with the connections, those with the protection and those with the complexion.. thats who…” called out poverty skola and POOR Magazine family Bilal Ali at the Transportation Gentrification press conference in Oakland on Tuesday, Jan 16th organized by youth and family poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine, all who have ourselves struggled with gentrification, homelessness and displacement at Oakland City hall. After our speak-out at Oscar Grant Plaza we all marched over to AC transit headquarters where we delivered our WeSearch to AC transit authorities and made a demand for Community Reparations to house the people facing removal threats due to the BRT.

So what's wrong with improving the broken transportation system ?

We all need better, faster, cheaper buses and transportation systems, right? Of course we do, but sadly, the multi-million dollar, benevolent-sounding transportation projects like the BRT system are never built for us . Actually what these 21st century systems are being built for are the people who would like to never see us, encounter or deal with poor and unhoused people and would actually like us to disappear. And the housing devil-opers and real estate snakkkes work closely with the poltricksters and transportation devil-opers like BRT as a covert tactic to remove, displace and criminalize poor and unhoused people in poor people neighborhoods like East Oakland, so they can attract more new hipster, white ( and even POC) Oakland residents. Whats sadder is how easy it is to trick people by using the "T" (T for transportation) word, once you say it, even progressives and conscious folks stay quiet and shut up.

“In other words, with all the money AC transit squandered and stole, which has never been returned to the people they could help poor and unhoused folks buy land so we can build our own self-determined poor people-led projects like Homefulness and help people stay in Oakland while you try to kick out Oakland.” I said at the press conference when we made a demand for community reparations to AC Transit.

“All the migrante Raza in our barrio are scared, our families are already facing removal threats, eviction and then those of who are not are expecting it - this kind of construction for the BRT usually always means one thing- rents get raised higher than what we can afford or we just get evicted because of illegal evictions for profit,” Adriana, one of POOR Magazine’s reporteras reported this violence to us about the BRT.” she concluded

“The biggest scandal to hit East Oakland is this BRT…its all bad, its cutting a huge swath into East Oakland, causing working class families and Black and Brown businesses to be forced out, and its connected to the Coliseum City and most of the non-profits are being bought off, I’m so scared for our communities, I’m hoping you can get this story out,” In September of 2017, POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE got this news tip from a long-time community member.

Because POOR Magazine is in fact Po’ we were unable to launch a full WeSearch investigation, but as soon as we could we began to speak with fellow unhoused, working class and poor skolaz who lived, worked, sat and stood in the International bl corridor to gather the street based truths.

After we did extensive WeSearch, our youth skola reporters, also unhoused and formerly unhoused Oakland residents at Deecolonize Academy/POOR Magazine who have learned in their journalism department about how to file Freedom of Information Act Requests, filed 14 requests with the County of Alameda and the City of Oakland in 14 different departments.

“There were so many scams related to BRT,” said elder community scholar, and activist with Manna from Heaven, Omowale Foweles, at the Transportation Gentrification press conference. “it began with the Van Hoole buses - where AC transit board members were flown to Europe to “check on the buses,” and ended up spending thousands of public dollars on private expense accounts or the scandal of Rick Fernandez and the buying of a house they couldnt sell, its been a mess, and all of the monies AC transit squandered were public, from the benches to the steering wheels.. 

“The BRT is part of Bay Area Plan 2040 - the huge gentrification plan which has openly stated will result in the reduction of Black residents from Oakland,” said POOR Magazine family Jeremy Miller, “so yea, you guys uncovered the belly of the beast,” concluded Jeremy

The first version of the story that the youth wrote for their school newspaper Deecolonewz was published in the SF Bay View and received all kinds of hater comments, which proved to me that we were touching a nerve and at the end of the day POOR Magazine is here to speak for us eviction and displacement victims who no-one speaks for, who are always forgotten and who are always talked about but never talked with..so get in line haters….

Stay tuned for more WeSearch on the BRT by youth and family poverty skolaz- to give a newz tip to POOR Magazine - come to Community Newsroom at the sacred liberated land us po folks call Homefulness on the 1st Tuesday of the Month at 6:30pm- 8032 BlackArthur Bl. Oakland- or email us at poormag@gmail.com.

Thousands of students from schools across the nation walked out of class today in protest for more strict gun regulations. From the Bay Area to Florida, the students’ voices were loud and clear that gun violence in schools must stop and the laws must be reformed. The children walked out for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 innocent people who was shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school last month by Nikolas Cruz. There were marches, student speakers and supporters alike who came out to express anger, sorrow and hope for change. The tragedy at MSD high follows past mass shootings like Columbine high, Sandy Hook and Oikos University and so the question is how many of our children will have to be sacrificed before at least one politician take a stand and the stroke of a pen to declare ENOUGH!!!?

I wish we could go back to revolvers and greenbacks, maybe there wouldn’t be this much death and debt. I have nothing to say against the citizen who has the right to defend his/her family and livelihood, however the easy access that is made to those who have no business with any form of a gun needs to be addressed… and like YEARS ago!

Young and older people alike with mental health crisis’ they are dealing with need treatment, not riffles. The word is that the prosecution in Cruz’s case is seeking the death penalty for the 17 lives he just snatched off the face of the earth. Another version of the cycle of the hate that hate produced and if he is to be put to death how will that deter murderous rage and mental illness..? The non-reality version of the world is the only reality some children and young adults have, then add less, broken or no parental guidance and all the horrors of life man inflicts upon his own wrapping us up in the tentacles of capitalism all there is are the “Shoot em up” video games and the insanity of television programming.

All the messages of morality, sanity, love and looking out for the helpless has been lost and all those kids who took to the streets showed remarkable courage by taking the stand to be the change the world needs and the future must be protected.

Questions that should be in the conversation regarding our future is what’s a person just being a “bad” person? What is a person with “mental illness”? What is a person who’s “easily influenced”? and what is the person who’s  just “pissed off”? What is the “diagnosis” and why does everything has to have a “diagnosis” today?

This system is not working for the people at all and it will continue to fail so long as we have a “system”..  A Classist, Racist, and Selective society who brags of great weaponry and wealth but Miss Amerikkka’s children can’t even learn properly and safely at school. There was even talk of some disciplinary action towards the students, like the walkouts being marked as unexcused absences just punishing the kids for what they believed in instead of the schools interacting with the students and broadening their minds to ensure that the movement blossoms.

The desperate need for gun control goes around in full circle because those that are supposed to uphold the law can’t even control their guns so where’s the examples to be set? We are living in a military country with schools that unsafe and folks that are unstable and a tweet-king-krazed president so as we say to the brave, young warriors coming up in this gun oppression: The Struggle Continues.

QUEENNANDI PNN

Image: Students from Oakland Technical High School stand up against gun violence on March 14, 2018, one month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, killed 17. (Samantha Shanahan/KQED)

“Be Love. So much things to say right now….. Got surrounded by the police for being Black in a white neighbourhood. Smh. I’m sad and irritated to see that fear is still the first place police officers go in their pursuit to serve and protect. To the point that protocol supersedes their ability to have discernment. Many have suffered and died in moments like these. That’s a crazy reality check. Give thanks for life and the ability to stand our ground. We are stronger together. Use your voice collectively”- @iamdonisha

Donisha Prendergast, Granddaughter of Reggae Great Bob Marley, artist Komi Oluwa Olafimihan and film maker Kelly Fyffe-Marshall were all detained by Rialto police after a racially motivated police call came in from a neighbor who falsely accused the women of burglarizing the Airbnb rental they were checking out of. After attending the Kaya Fest in San Bernadino the 3 women, accompanied by a white female photographer were packing up their belongings and taking the property out to their car when a white neighbor called Rialto police saying that they were “suspicious” and “stealing stuff” from the home they rented. The other reason was supposedly the women did not smile or wave to neighbor who made the call.

This allegation was enough to send several police cars and a helicopter out to the scene. When Donisha showed proof that she and the others were guests checking out of the place the police still were not satisfied until she got ahold of the owner of the house over the phone.

After being held “lawfully captive” for several minutes they were set free to go but the scars from “nigger branding” will not be forgotten.

Ms. Prendergast and her friends are taking legal action against this matter for there are some crimes committed against the women like racial profiling, being falsely accused in a manner that could jeopardize the reputation or cause serious injury or death- it’s just a hate crime police call altogether. The person who made the call should be held accountable for this action because bottom line someone could have not only lost their freedom, but lost their lives for no reason other than being Black.

Airbnb’s senior advisor Laura Murphy sent out a letter to the Mayor of Rialto as well to the police department condemning the biased treatment of the women and the way the situation was handled.

I have always condemned the history/ourstory/continuedstory of the (false) Superior/Inferior Boss/Boy Yassuh/Nawsuh gotta kiss butt -or be lynched relationship between Black folks and Wite folks to begin with. This is TRUTH that you could not look a wite person in the eyes when you HAD to answer to him. You could not look at him-ESPECIALLY at his woman or you would  face a middle of the night death sentence from the KKK. IF you REFUSED to lower yourself to please “ol massa” you got lynched. IF you did not give up your wife/daughter to him for wicked pleasure you got lynched! IF you read books you got lynched! IF you didn’t laugh in a barrel and “massa” thought you were laughing at him, you got lynched. IF you were BLACK and was accused of ANY crime against wite power, innocent or not, you get lynched! It is 2018 and we are not kissing any butt in order to save our lives or freedom. “Suspicious” is the word for “Black” and if that wasn’t the case then why wasn’t the wite photographer mentioned? Why didn’t the call say “4 suspicious women” but just 3? Because every since Black People been brought here, against our will might I add to Amerikkka we have been “suspicious” that’s why!

‘It’s getting really wet, now’ I thought, wincing with every footstep from a screw in my ankle. ‘Soon, it’ll be coming down too hard to move this library.’ My shoulders aching from moving shelves, books, and boxes from Uncle Al’s and Mama Dee’s Living (Really) Public Library. I know however that Mama Dee sits there, watching me from the corner in her altar, occasionally giving me thoughts to keep moving forward. The spirit I feel in there is heavy. We had to get that done that day or the radio station wouldn’t get up in time.

Homefulness is a dream from a homeless, indigenous mama and daughter, Mama Dee and Tiny. It is realized through indigenous values, traditions and circles. It is a landless, indigenous peoples vision of a brighter future where money isn’t the motive behind it all. In order for you to understand what I see in Homefulness, I need to take you back a few centuries, where our people lived FOR each other. The Elder circles and councils always counted in the thoughts and feelings of the youth. The women would take care of the children and elderly and sickly. The braves would hunt for and defend his peoples, and the children? Well all they had to do was respect the voices of their elders and learn from their mistakes. The washicu or pale faces thought we were savage. However that's how we saw them. They walked over each other, leaving the elderly and sickly behind. They scold their children over simple mistakes without letting them learn their own ways. They only defended their village if the temptation of money was involved. The washicu was rude, talking loudly and without critical thought to whom it may affect. If you weren’t educated or couldn’t read, you were considered worthless. However the main thing that made us see the pale faces as savage, was their destruction of Mother Earth. The washicu dug up many tons of her veins to find gold and other precious metals, destroying any and everything in their paths. In their greed, the washicu never realized their destruction was leaving scars upon her beautiful face. Irreparable damage over the centuries have left her in shambles. Now we wonder why our resources are running low, we wonder why our water is poisoned, and wonder why our natural disasters are getting worse.

Homefulness works through all of that by honoring my peoples traditions and values. It truly is living in the ways of my people. We hold circles to decide what steps are needed for the future of Homefulness and its’ people. We honor the peoples who were here first through ceremony and respects. We take care of the ones who care and have love for us. We take care of our elderly and sickly and teach our youth to learn from their mistakes without scorn. Homefulness is really being built through what we call sweat equity, but my peoples called it responsibility. You had the responsibility to take care of your people. You had the responsibility to feed your peoples. You had the responsibility to defend your peoples. You had the responsibility to lead your peoples. You had the responsibility to provide every single aspect of life to your peoples. You had the responsibility to live for your people. Homefulness is all of that and more. Homefulness is the dream realized thru a landless homeless indigenous dream from seven generations passed. Homefulness is love and pain and sorrow manifested in a real state of being. In all actuality  

The Spirit of Homefulness is strong in everyone who works here, because it keeps them working for their folks, holding that responsibility in their hearts. Holding that love, pain and sorrow in the aching shoulders while we keep working to build this dream that is the Spirit of Homefulness.

Editors Note: Currently we are trying to raise the money to finish the 4 MamaHouse Townhouses and the building for the SLiding Scale Cafe- if you are able to support us please do at www.poormagazine.org/rev_donor

“Who cares about who you are screwing, its the other things that you are doing!

We the oppressed do not care about the prez and his son’s sleazy affairs!”

The President and his son, Don Jr. has been getting heat lately for their alleged affairs outside of wedlock. Donald Trump, Sr. and his “affair” (with booty star) Stormy Daniels and his son’s alleged “affair” with Aubrey O’day got the media buzzing and the tweeters tweakers tweeting.

If Amerikkka crowned the Kardashians the “First Family” of reality TV then why should Amerikkka care about these “Don-Dons” running around chasing tail? “Morality” wasn’t a requirement to becoming president of the United States, and if it was Ole Don probably would not be the leader of the land of confusion.

There are many, many problems that the country has on its plate and no one should be blinded by who’s doing who and be more concerned with the nut that’s been screwing us all and doing this country into ruin?

With alleged fishy dealings with Russia, not being able to keep a stable cabinet, attempting to rally up billions of dollars for a border/oppressor wall, drilling into Mama Earth, irritating the Chinese with billions of dollars in goods blockage and the continuing agenda of oppressing US has me NOT thinking about what the “Don-Dons” are doing with their combined age of around 111 years old in man parts!

With no gun control, safe, proper education -especially when it comes down to accomodating people of color and ongoing assassination cuts to services for the poor again WHO CARES about who you are playing “old roads, rocky lanes” with in the bedroom? No one should except those involved and those flings that stand to gain a profit from the deeds.

Just plain nuts, Man!

With a special thanks going out to Bush and Don, one of the qualifications of being a leader should be that each candidate have a psychological exam, a morality, test, a non- morality test, a who is? Mother Nature test, a finance test (to see if you can budget $$) and about 15 other test because when you have a country in your hands that is a task to be taken seriously and elements to be respected.

The Prez also has kept the “tweetie birds” over people’s heads with his anti-immigration bias that he has, even against citizens whose grandmothers were born on this blood-stained soil. Such hypocrisy and again confusion from a man whose parents migrated to this country and (along with) two out of his three wives! It is like a beast who just crushed his genetic memory bank completely and vows to give hell to anyone who dare migrates here in search of  “The Selective Amerikkkan Dream”

That is why POOR magazine’s “DeColonizers Guide To A Humble Revolution” was born because we cannot allow for unstable, racist horny men to run and ruin our daily livelihoods. Self-determination and Inter-dependence is of the essence if the people are to survive mentally, spiritually and physically because the imperfect people that are in imperfect power are upping the ante on killing, oppressing, colonizing and incarcerating the people like never before, because this way of running the lands (world) has always been part of so-called “Massa’s plan”

A Black Panther Party Liberation School classrooom

For many people, especially Black people, the month of February signifies the annual celebration of Black History Month/African-American Heritage Month.  February is designated as a time to recognize African American achievements and contributions to America. One notable consequence is the hero worship of a handful of prominent figures.  What’s more, this celebration of Black achievement particularly tends to be sanitized, and this selective representation is often at the expense of erasing a rich legacy of individuals, groups, and movements just as important in the legacy of Black struggle.

Every year since 1929, the month of February has been observed as Black History Month by scholars, students, churches, and the corporate world.  Many people feel that it is important that we honor those who faced with almost insurmountable challenges and barriers to “overcome.” Many believe that Black History should be celebrated year-round, not just one month of the year and the shortest month of the year at that, as it’s no different from American history. After all, Black History is amerikkklan his-story, in which, without Black people there would no American history.

Negro History Week (1926), the precursor to Black History Month, was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week.”  Woodson was bothered by the fact that many textbooks and other historical reviews minimized or ignored the contributions of black figures.  When Carter G Woodson proposed Negro History Week, he explained, "If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."  Woodson earmarked the second week in February to raise awareness of our stories.  Woodson chose that week because it specifically covered the birthdays of Frederick Douglass (February 14) and Abraham Lincoln (February 12).

There is no shortage of ways to celebrate Black History Month. Teachers give lessons to students about important African American historical figures such as Harriet Tubman and the Tuskegee Airmen.  Bookstores highlight the works of black poets and writers. Meanwhile, galleries display the work of black artists.  Museums feature exhibitions with African-American themes, and theaters present plays with an African American subject matter.  At the same time Black History Month is being celebrated with all its pageantry, it fails to acknowledge the historic ongoing struggles for  Black people’s self-determination and liberation.  Is this because Black History Month has been successfully co-opted by corporate America and the petty black bourgeois?  KKKapitalism co-opts the post-holiday sales slump that usually follows New Year’s Day, when retailers honor holidays in hopes of boosting revenue while adjusting their products and services to commemorate Black History Month.  Target , Verizon, Google, Netflix, along with alcoholic beverage companies, display Great African Kings such as Budweiser's advertisement.  Ironically, many of these corporations have derived their great wealth from that “peculiar institution” known as slavery.  This involvement by these corporations has had the effect of rendering Black History Month a token gesture.

“We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society - Point 5 of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Platform.”

Black history is amerikkklan history.  A history of kidnapping, a history of genocidal practices, a history of suffering, murder, brutality, marginalization, containment, control, and the exploitation and oppression of Black people in amerikkkca.  Black History Month has never been about black folks understanding their oppressive conditions in this kkkountry.  Black History Month has become the month of the “good negro,”  totally erasing the history and contributions of Black freedom fighters such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Robert Williams, Ella Baker, Queen Mother Moore and others who waged militant opposition against the U.S. empire. Black History Month has become a white washing of the historical relationship between people of Afrikan descent and white supremacist America.

“Often black history is not recorded, it’s forgotten about, this keeps us from knowing what direction to go in the future” – Huey P. Newton.

Black History is white domination of Black people and white people being entitled to rape, murder, exploitation and oppression of Black people as a divine right.

Black History is the denial of  Black people’s right to self-determination.

Black History is the criminalization of being black.

Black History is Black Lives have never mattered.

Black History is whites being able to escape into their whiteness, while making impossible for blacks to escape into their blackness.

Black History Month is about the Commercialization and Commodification of OurStory

REAL BLACK HISTORY MATTERS!!!

Greiving Mother March 16 2018

AudreyCandyCorn aka Sistah Save A Soul

Today i rode the Bart and im not sure how i feel about it. Honestly i mean i shoudn't even be riding this public transportation …

I'm TRIGGERED TOO Many People Have Lost their LIVES Simply Commuting to Designated PLACES of Importance ………………………………………………………………………………………………..

1st Oscar Grant  And Now Shaleem Tindle …… Not  to Mention My Own Grief After All My Son Torian Dajour Hughes TOO LOST HIS LIFE 2 Blocks up the way-way from This Bart that i Will be Traveling On today ………………………………………………………………………………….

Mixed emotions and it dosen't Matter These Day If you Are a Law Abiding Squeaky Clean Citizen ………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Every One OF Us Are Under Attack ……………………………………………………………..

By These Negative EVIL Low Vibrations LURKING to Conqure and KILL  ………………….

Im just Sick to My STOMACH ………………………………………………………………………

Ooo nooo ANXIETY is Creeping upon me …………………………………………………………

My Chest Is Tight ……………………………………………………………………………………….

My Throat CLOSING UP …………………………………………………………………………….

My TEAR Ducts Are Filling UP Quickly ……. My Vision Is Blurry ………………… MY Temperature Is Rising  ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

My Hands Are Clammy and Shaking ……..  I Can FEEL My Equilibrium Is Off ………………..

Why is this happening to Me these feelings are Overwhelming And Health Hazardous  ……… Detrimental to My Health …. My LIFE ……………………………………………………………… I Feel like I'm in a WAR Zone Over Seas in the Army Or Military and i'm the Target …. I'm the Enemy …. I’m to be Ambushed ………………………………………………………………………...

Take Me Out …. Your Hate for me is so great …………. And I’VE GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING

I've birthed you a nation  …………………………………………………….. You're destroying the medicine Provided by my Ancestors ………… and to think i would be Driving to my Destinations IF ONLY THE POLICE HADN'T ILLEGALLY DRAG AND PULL GUNS ON ME AND MY 2 YOUTH Scholars Ages 9 and 14 all of us nearly Died March 3rd 2016 Leaving from school … and So i salute Me today for Pushing through and making it here today to write in my healing Grieving Mother BLOG …………………………. also it's National Strong Women's Day

2 year later anniversary of me being a Strong Women ……………………R.I.P. my son 10-20-98 - 12/20/15

2 year Of Overcoming gun Violence being Harrased and beat up by Police ……………….

Again i'm not on Probation  or Parole Never used Drugs Don't drink Alcohol never been in Back of PADDYWAGON ,WHY is it sooooooooo Hard to Live Life And BE LEFT ALONE all i do is Spread LOVE and so i've Stopped Driving Started Walking But I Began To LOOSE TRACK OF TIME ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….and began to be very late all the time …………………………………………………………………………

I Began to Barter and do odd jobs for Money to utilize public transpertation ………………………………………….

I'm fucked both ways the car is setting up Right now with Cob Webs On it   TOO Scared to be pulled over utilizing My Children AS TARGET PRACTICE for Consintration Camp Candidates

This is a form of being Held Hostage …………………..i should be able to come and go as i please using public Transportation i feel like i'm a HOSTAGE

And Been Kid Napped Cant Use Bart Safely must Stay CONFINED to MY HOUSE ……… Evil Vibration…….. Are Lurking Where is A Grieving Mother Safe i Just want My Son Back and the closest thing to him is getting to this blog to write to him me and then you

1.    Repeal the criminal ordinances that ban life-sustaining activities for people experiencing homelessness.

-          Repeal the criminal ordinances that discriminatorily target people experiencing homelessness. These criminal ordinances are purportedly implemented to improve the quality of life for citizens.  However, these ordinances actually function to remove visibly poor people from public spaces. Consequently, the purpose of these laws has been criticized as being one of exclusion and marginalization. These criminalizing ordinances are bad policy and must be repealed because they serve no legitimate purpose and instead only exacerbate the cycle and problems of homelessness.  Society has already rejected laws that discriminatorily target many of these same marginalized groups.  

2.    Increase “LOSP” Affordable Housing Subsidies Low-Income Operating Subsidy Program subsidies - (LOSPs) have been used in non-profit housing for a number of years to allow extremely low-income people to move into buildings with affordable rents. These subsidies are typically attached to newly constructed units. Currently, 199 such future units are allocated to all homeless people. We are calling for an additional 375 units to be allocated specifically to homeless families. ($6,484,594)

3.    Changes in Shelter Access Needed to Eliminate Barriers

-          Shelter reservations are to be no less than seven days at all city funded shelters.* 2. Shelter reservations are to be arranged by any of the following; a resource center, service provider or the shelter itself.* 3. All night emergency access to empty beds should be available. 4. The city must fund a central city 24-hour emergency drop-in center for homeless people in the next fiscal year. * (Funding is set to end June, 2007, and the current program will soon shut down) 5. Bus tokens should be given to each homeless person automatically when reservation for shelter bed is made. 6. Fix CHANGES bed reservation system to rectify data discrepancies and ensure an accurate empty bed inventory.* 7. Fully train staff on the CHANGES bed reservation system. Training should be frequent, regular and include performance testing.*

4.    End the Constant Policing and Continual Displacement  

-          Prohibit the enforcement of laws that allow SFPD to remove a homeless person from their area when they are not obstructing pathways or breaking any other laws. This would greatly reduce the 192 hours of officer time dedicated to 911 calls about homeless people in public space every day (see conclusion for details). It would also allow officers to avoid issuing citations to those sitting, sleeping, and camping simply because they have nowhere else to go.

5.    Aggressively Re-Invest In San Francisco’s Mental Health Services

-          Supportive and affirming treatment for those homeless people struggling with acute mental health issues is necessary for recovery. San Francisco has drastically cut the funding for mental health services. Increase and expand capacity of outpatient and mental health treatment which will have a dramatic effects in decreasing the number of homeless people in SF County Jails for mental health and homelessness-related issues.

6.    End Police Profiling

-          2014–2015 court documentation of racist and homophobic text messages as well as video documentation of police abusing a homeless person on a MUNI bus, are just two recent examples of what homeless people may face in their daily lives.138 Officers should be disciplined including termination, when they demonstrate patterns of discriminatory profiling

A Greiving Mother ; 3-22-18

AudreyCandyCorn

aka Sister Save A Soul

I Was Yelling and Cursing .

I was Trying to Make A Point …….

The Message was Important, it is Important and Vital Information ….

You Stare at me with a Glare…….. (yelling) HEY LISTEN ………..

YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

OOOOH NOW i got CHO attention …….

Got DAMN IT listen UP …….

I was yelling and cursing ,,, i was trying to make my point ….these lessons are important ...this message was intense

I ONLY WANT WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU …….

I Began to cry … DON'T cry moma ….. He SHOT 2 LOVE  BULLETS STRAIGHT to MY HEART

Unconditional Love …..

I now Stare at HIM With a Glare….

Lay Down momma….. NOW Its My Turn to listen ….. He Grabs his FAVORITE Cover…. He THEN covers me up…

I'm FORCED to Comply the roles have SWITCHED…… He's in Total Control and the POWER Has SHIFTED ………, sudenly My MOUTH is Tamed ……

The Cursing STOPs The VIBRATION is LEVELEING …. CONFUSED….I WAS ….I AM …. But in a GOOD WAY ………

Anticipation …..

Whats NEXT ….going WITH THE FLOW…. I'M Silenced IN HIS LOVE ...a tear trickles Down my face ……

I close My EYES

"Don't turn left, because that area is full of "bums" and it doesn’t reflect on the real "San Francisco“, the cab driver clicked his teeth together as he rattled on about which sights to see in his beautiful San Francisco (which ironically, due to a gentrification inspired eviction, he no longer lived in)

 "Wow, I guess you are talking bout me, I’m one of those “bums” you speak of, I was homeless with my mama and then later with my Sun for over 10 years of my life,” I shot over the seat in his direction.  Cab driver sputtered a sorry under his breath and we all kept driving in silence.

For my entire life I have heard people talk about me as the "other". From "You people"  to "Why don't you just get a job,?" or slip into third person while talking to the supposedly housed me about me, “Try to avoid  those bums over there," and my all time favorite, “What are we going to do.. or how can we clean up/get rid of /eradicate/end… the homeless problem,"  said by politrickster and housed resident alike.

The last group of hater-ations has always irked me in a special kind of way because it objectifies our homeless and formerly houseless, broken and to-up lives and bodies into things, equates our mere existence with dirt and trash, and groups all of us different aged, gendered, colored and spirited humans into one gigantic class or thing, like a lot of flat tires or a pile of dirty towels. 

As I have written about so many times before, this is for many racist, classist and violent reasons, not the least of which is that most US residents have all collectively bought into the concept that the lack of humans and things in a landscape means cleanliness, when in fact that is just a corporate aesthetic that we all now collectively buy into. And the mere vision of us, in (not really) public spaces with all of our now exposed belongings, is automatically equated with criminality.

In most cities across stolen, occupied Turtle Island (aka Amerikkklan) newer, meaner and more violent anti-poor people laws, actions and moves are implemented  everyday to criminalized incarcerate, hate and violate unhoused peoples for the acts of dwelling, sitting, standing, parking and sleeping. From violent architecture, such as spiked window sills and metal bars installed on park benches, light fixtures that spray water with chemicals in it to the most recent sick move by San Francisco to “arrest” service resistant San Franciscans. This last one has a terrifying twist to it, rooted in the original 19th century settler colonizer pauper laws/ugly laws, where the “service provider” works in tandem with the plantation prison system to incarcerate people who “refuse” service, i.e., humans who for many different reasons, always stemming from trauma, mental and/or physical divergent personalities or poLice terror, don’t trust or want to receive forced services. 

In the era of the Ugly Laws (powerful book of the same name by Susan Schweik) of the 19th century, settlement house workers who were the early social workers or anti-social workers as I call them, would “offer” services to houseless and poor people and if they didn’t accept the services they would tell the police who would arrest, incarcerate, or seize unhoused disabled people and offer them (read “force”) them into living as in-patients in the settlement houses where the settlement houses would receive government funding to provide “services” to the inmates.

There are all kinds of folks living houselessly for all kinds of reasons. From the severe PTSD associated with survival from 21st century colonization, white supremacy/racism, ablism, sexism, etc. to the struggle of the working poor, very poor families, children and elders to even pay rent, which was my mama and mine’s struggle, we just couldn’t make enough money in our very small, poor people vending business to afford rent, to the very specific struggle of eviction of elders and disabled peoples from their long-time homes and then the inability to get “back inside”, which demands an endless amount of money, credit, resources, strength, etc. 

These reasons are varied and nuanced, because unhoused people, are in fact, people, with multiple issues, struggles, beauty, talents, love and trauma. Peoples whose existence isn’t “solved” by creating more laws, launching more academic over-funded “studies”, launching more non-profit organizations, writing more stories, media, photo essays about us without us, citing, arresting, profiling, incarcerating us or building more corporate devil-oper (not really) affordable housing on more stolen indigenous land.  

“No Matter how many times you arrest, research or study me, it doesn’t get me a home,” tiny…2017

Its because of this ongoing and increasing hate, othering, criminalizing and politricking that I and other poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine work so hard every day to manifest a homeless peoples solution to homelessness aka Homefulness. Which is extremely hard precisely because we are folks coming out of struggle  and hold all this collective pain, herstory, colonization and trauma in our hearts and are still trying to so hard to heal each other.

This hate and increased pimping/politricking is also why myself and other unhoused and formerly unhoused poverty skolaz are working on the Homeless 4 Mayor Campaign in San Francisco 2018

To Put The Economic And Political Leadership On Notice That Those Experience Poverty And Homelessness Due To Neglect And Social And Economic Apartheid Policies Perpetuated By City Hall And The Elite Class Of San Francisco, Our Voices Will Not Be Left Out Of The Mayoral Contest. We Will Not Just Demand A Presence, We Will Be A Presence, We Will Be A Competitor, We Will Claim Our Human Right To Self-Determination And Occupy Political Space In San Francisco  … excerpt from the draft description of The Homeless4MayorCampaign

Like any “mayoral” campaign we have a campaign platform and proposed solutions to all the problems we as humans face in 21st century stolen Turtle Island, Unlike other mayoral campaigns, our candidate is not a popularity contest or based on someone who has raised insane amounts of hoarded blood-stained dollars. In fact, its not about one person “running” at all, it’s a collective candidacy, where a collective of unhoused, formerly unhoused Black, Brown, poor white and indigenous people who have the shared experience of the trauma of houselessness, poverty and criminalization in this stolen land are “running” together to make sure our lives and bodies are no longer pimped for more philanthro-pimped, politricked, non-profiteered agendas, leaving us not only the same but worse off than we were before each new mayor takes office. 

Our campaign outreach, headquarters and leadership is rooted in our unhoused communities, encampments,  across the Bay Area. Our platform is crafted from our struggle, resistance and our own self-determined poor people-led solutions and something we call WeSearch at POOR Magazine. 

We aren’t asking for campaign contributions or trying to raise millions of wasted, hoarded wealth to promote a corporate agenda, or prop up a sexy personality. What we do have are actual solutions not rooted in our destruction, criminalization and silencing. Our tag-line is one we Po’ folks at POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE have been saying for years which we collectively voted in, No More About Us Without Us… 

Please join us by writing in Homeless 4 Mayor on the June Mayoral ballot We are in an emergency and we have no more time for lies, laws or politricks. 

For more information hit us up on Facebook at Homeless4Mayor Campaign or email poormag@gmail.com. 

(Listen to tiny's extended Podcast on the same story by clicking here)

“They used to make me fight with the dogs for food…” My mama eyes would drop into that shaded place, where stories always led to other violent stories of her abuse in a string of tortuous foster homes that she spent her entire childhood in. Stories like the middle class white couple who were abusing their adopted children of color for years with barely even anyone noticing until they drove them selves and three of their children off a cliff last week

My mixed race, Afro-Boricua, Irish orphaned and tortured mama never wept, just like she never hugged or touched or kissed. She did yell though and scream and curse and punch and kick and throw. Thats all she knew , thats all that had been done to her in all those foster homes and eventually the orphanage for “poor girls” she was placed in. I don’t tell this small slice of my poor mamas painful story to reminisce. Actually even writing it brings me back to the helpless silence i felt when i would hear her string of violent stories, unable to, as i wanted, take away all that hurt from her body and soul.  I tell them to illustrate the impossibility of the system that criminalizes , destroys and separates families based on class, race and ancient eugenicist based policies.

The foster /adoption/CPS , Juvenile Dependency court system in the US is rooted 525 years of missionary lies, colonial theft of land, spirit, traditions and mothers and finally the post-colonial concept of eugenics (pure race science the Nazi’s learned from the US). This country and other so-called developing countries have been stealing, pillaging and removing children for profit and lies for a long time under the guise of the sentence and its many variants, “Its in the best interest of the child,”

Sadly i don’t know the back story of the six children who were adopted by these two women and are now dead and disappeared. What i do know is some agency or series of agencies decided that these two middle class ( possibly upper middle class) white women with no relation to the childrens culture, community or spirit were seen as “better” than their homes of origin.

The decisions to remove children from their homes, parents of origin happen in many different ways which are ALL rooted in class privilege. If the birth parent or parents are seen as “unstable” which is code for many things, all class related, i.e, homelessness or not having stable housing, not gainfully employed, not educated, or more subtle like acting ghetto, angry, or frustrated in front of the anti-social work industry, you risk losing your child if the system is in your life.

The sick, sad, classist paradox is these multiple systems will grant foster parents and group homes up to $4,500 to raise your child ( and often times much higher is the child is disabled or Severely Emotionally Disturbed) and yet you, the parent, is given nothing but grief if you admit your poverty and struggle to the system.

And again this notion of best interests of the child comes from a missionary, colonizer long-held belief that mere access to wealth deems you a better parent than someone poor. It is why they have long been forcing sterilzation on poor and indigenous women who have children, conflating with race as well when it comes to the evil or colonial beliefs about white supremacy and class supremacy

My mama’s mama was encouraged by multiple so-called social service agencies and the state to give up parental rights to her daughter. She was never offered support for raising her own child , Rather, then like now, their was a financial incentive to take children from their homes and parents of origin and her poor catholic, guilt -stricken, domestic violence victimized and confused teen parent self was criminalized and shamed for being undeserving with titles like "Out of wedlock" and bastard child in referring to my mama, her daughter, not to mention the shame of having a mixed race baby Today CPS recieves 12,500 to remove children from their parents. Something my Mama Dee and me and other poor parents WeSearched in 1999 and published in the Courtwatch project of POOR Magazine.

But the real place that white supremacy plays in, is the way that these white women with class privilege were even granted the ability to adopt these children without being subjected to a psychiatric evaluation like us poor folks are systematiclly given when our children are taken away from us and when these women were obviously abusing these children of color.

Similar to one of my mamas most evil foster parents who was a rich white woman who systematically raped and physically and mentally abused my mama for over 5 years of her childhood ( from 4-9 years old) and was never caught for it, these women seemed to go un-phased and un-watched when they perpetrated abuse on their adopted children and only had to pick everything up and move into more and more isolation where no-one seemed to even look in on them. Allowing these wealthy white people to go un-checked in their violence and insanity, because they weren’t reliant on the state for support.

That said, i do not have an answer as their are many mamas, who like my mama used to say, don’t have the mama gene, so lets not rush to the only answer being all children should stay with birth parents, but what i do say is we could cut at least %50 of these racist/classist adoptions and CPS removals if we were changing the way this system supports poor parents to raise their own children. This is some of the WeSearch all of us welfareQUEEN's at POOR Magazine have been doing for years and their are many powerful Black and poor parent led movements across amerikkklan who have been proposing and fighting these abusive systems for years

In San Francisco in the 90’s they used to have a model/demonstration program for poor black families that actually “fostered” the whole family with a foster grandparent, encouraging and enlisting the strength of African and indigenous deep structures of kinship to support the whole family into healing rather than further the cult of separation that runs thru the CPS and Foster care systems all across amerikkklan. Something my mama uncovered in the landmark POOR Magazine Volume 4 MOTHERS issue in her interview with Black dcholar Wade Nobles.

"She tried to kill me multiple times, Im not sure how i got out of there alive, once she found out having me didn't fit with her image of the perfect mother and child and no-one ever seemed to care," my mama's voice trailed off in one of her re-telling sessions with me and then she just stopped talking about it at all leading her to become more and more trauma-filled and depressed for the rest of her life . I hope that this horrible story, like all the other horrible stories that rarely if ever get told could lead to a different path of care for parents in poverty.

What did it mean when non-disabled slaves were set free?

Slavery ended in the US after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, however, disabled slaves were kept on plantations because slavery was connected to the ability to work.  Jim Downs, among other scholars, wrote an essay entitled, The Continuation of Slavery: The Experience of Disabled Slaves during Emancipation which lays out that disabled slaves were seen as non-workers, could not work therefore were kept on plantations to be "taking care of" but continue to work for their “masters”.

Did this separation of freedom of non-disabled compare to disabled set a standard or practice on how to treat disabled African Americans within and out of the Black community? How does this continued oppression of disabled African Americans show itself from the civil rights movement to the cultural art movements?

On February 6, 2017 the National Black Disability Coalition published my article on the 13th Amendment, the exclusion of people with developmental disabilities and its impact on today’s Black scholars when writing about Jim Crow, prisons, and the film industry to name a few topics.  I found that the 13th Amendment didn't apply and to me as a Black man with a developmental disability, as I read the below statement on http://disabilityjustice.org/ that came from the article entitled: The Right to Self-Determination: Freedom from Involuntary Servitude (Employment).

     “Involuntary servitude,” or “peonage,” occurs when a person is forced to work against his or her will, with little or no control over working conditions. This work might be paid or unpaid.  The Thirteenth Amendment, (link is external) prohibiting slavery and outlawing involuntary servitude, was passed in 1865 shortly before the end of the Civil War. Unfortunately, this protection was not extended to people with developmental disabilities until nearly a century after the passage of the 13th Amendment."

Ref: http://disabilityjustice.org/right-to-self-determination-freedom-from-involuntary-servitude/ (link is external)

I return to the original question: What does it mean when non-disabled slaves were set free, disabled slaves were kept on plantations after the ending of slavery after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865. 

As we all know the forefathers who wrote the original constitution wasn’t thinking about Africans as equals and it showed in their writings so that is not surprising but what is surprising and produced a separation between African Americans with and without disabilities is how the mainstream perspective (mainly White) toward people with disabilities.  And how this early perspective on disabled people especially Black disabled people set the future experiences of Black disabled people in America.  This history has not only separated Black disabled people from their Black community as they moved from slavery, to Jim Crow, to Black Reconstruction, to the Blues era, to Black arts movement, to the Black civil rights movement, to police brutality, and to Hip-Hop but I argue this separation also created a subsection of the Black life experience in America that has only recently been uncovered and written about.

Although Black disabled people experience some of the same treatment of Black non-disabled people in many ways like lynching Emmitt Till (who had a speech impairment/stuttering) and Jessie Washington (who had a devolpmental disability) but in other ways their disability disappeared in history as we tell these stories. It was writtene that Emmitt Till’s mother taugh her son to whistle to deal with his stuttering and in Patricia Bernstein’s book, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University) taught me that Jesse Washington had a devolmental disability what was called back then mental retardation.  

Also, Black disabled people were separated from non-disabled Blacks like the segregated schools in the Jim Crow South. How many Black disabled people lived and worked in freak shows and circus separating them from family and the Black community.?  In this history of separation came ways of surviving however, many times that meant exploiting or using their disability to make money or learning an art like singing, playing an instrument or even making things by hand and displaying their art, music and even body for public for donations.

I’m not arguing that this separation was a good thing and helped produced art and music but connecting how Black disabled people had to live and the deeper question for today is; are Black disabled and non-disabled people still separated? Does the commonality in experiencing almost the same oppression from police brutality to the school to prison pipeline impact us?  My answer is yes and no.  Yes, Black disabled people experience almost the same racist injustices as our fellow Black non-disabled brothers and sisters however, because of our disability the injustices are compounded.

We share these experiences bad and good in isolation or with other Black disabled people but not inside the Black community as a whole.

Although we have seen great strides in the disability rights movement and in the disability culture movement, yet there is still a lack of Black disabled programs within the Black community.  Even today Black parents must leave their community to receive services.  This continues the separation from the larger Black community resulting in the lack of knowledge and the involvement in the disability movements from rights to policies to arts and culture to creation of non-profits organizations to disability studies.  At the end of the day it leaves nondisabled Black folks always playing catchup and not enjoying empowering ways of viewing disability.  We are you and you are us, let’s do Black History together.

Leroy F. Moore Jr.

Founding member of National Black Disability Coalition

Pic:  Painting Concept by Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Painter/Artist: Alillia Johnson
Year: 2017
Title: Blues/Activist Elders Looking Out Of Windows!

Painting Concept: As Blues/activist elders look out of nursing home's windows, they see history repeats it's self with Hip-Hop children. These elders have witness the whiteness of the Blues looking out these windows all they can do is shake their heads knowing that many of them have been locked up by the Hip-Hop generation who have no time for their elders. So Blues/activist elders bang on these windows but because these nursing homes like everything else have become private no one can visit or can hear their warnings.

All they can do is sit at the windows watching their Hip-Hop children walk in pit wholes like they did back in the day from small print on contracts, institutionalizing street culture and loosing control and trading the art and culture for promises as another generation work until they too will be in nursing homes looking out windows seeing history repeats itself.

Both characters in the painting were real people, the man with a shotgun in his lap is suppose to be the late Rev. Cecil Ivory in June of 1960 who was a wheelchair user and director of the NAACP in Rock Hill, South Carolina and led a counter sit-in at McCrory lunch counter. He told the cops that he wasn't breaking the law because he was sitting in his wheelchair not a chair at the counter. Ivory went home and waited for the KKK with a riffle-gun in his lap.

Second person in the painting is suppose to be the late Johnnie Ma. Dunson, a Blues singer and a drummer of the 1960's-2010 in Chicago who played on Maxwell Street and advocated for housing for Blues elders on Maxwell Street back in the late 80's-the early 2000's. She was evicted from her home. In the painting Ms. Dunson is looking out a nursing home's window with drum sticks in her lap.

Both are looking out of windows looking what is going on outside but can't communicate to the youth outside because they have been locked away by their own people. Mr. Ivory is at home after a counter sit-in knowing that the KKK is coming and Ms. Dunson is in a nursing home looking at a Hip-Hop cypher outside her window.

Un Poema Para Luis-A Poem for Luis
(Español debajo)

The Streets have so many colors
the colors have so many memories
memories of streets you are no longer on-
but wish you could be

The color of people who are no longer there
who we wish we could see
because they were removed by people  who were scared
of what they could not contain, incarcerate or bear

19th & shotwell are two of those streets
who meet inside of so much grief
the colors of loss of sounds and hands you no longer see

it was at this corner among peoples like me-those of us struggling with homelessness and poverty
where state sanctioned guns
triggered by fear were called in to take away life
by laws and lies that were dangerously unclear

Red the color of Mayan earth - a Mayan heart- of a father, husband, worker, Sun, remnants that lived under hard-working fingernails of a peaceful man named luis lost to poLice murdering Guns

Blue the color of the sky when the guns took you away into a spirit where you Iive today

White like the huipiles of your wife, daughter and mama - white like the fear of the people who call the police on us because they believe that we need to be saved.

Green like the paper dollars needed to stay inside -and then, sometimes we are a little more safe

Grices comò un sidewalk quando usted recycled, lived, dreamed, played, walked -  and waited for the pain to stop
waited to go home to another place across these killer colonizer borders painted in the sand

These streets hold so many colors like small unseen paint brushes moving in the wind- they hold sounds too - like one that never leaves-no matter how many times they scrub us out- rub us out- take us down-pretend we were never here-

and there is one special sound-  the one that is you-  i see u luis - you are here and always will be

These streets and their colors so far from your origin, ache for u everyday- ache and break and listen for your return someday

Español debajo

Las calles tienen tantos colores
los colores tienen tantos recuerdos
Recuerdos de calles en las que ya no estás
pero desearían que estuvieras

El color de las personas que ya no están allí
a quien desearíamos poder ver
porque fueron eliminados por las personas que tenían miedo
de lo que no pudieron contener, encarcelar o soportar

19th y Shotwell son dos de esas calles
que se encuentran dentro con tanto dolor
los colores de la pérdida de sonidos y manos que ya no ves

en esta esquina entre gente como yo, los que luchamos contra la pobreza
donde el estado sancionó las armas de fuego
desencadenado por el miedo fueron llamados para quitar vida
por leyes y mentiras peligrosamente confusas

Rojo, el color de la tierra maya, un corazón maya, de un padre, esposo, trabajador, sol, restos que vivieron bajo las uñas trabajadoras de un hombre pacífico llamado luis perdido por el asesinato de pistolas policiales

Azul el color del cielo cuando las armas te llevaron y transformaron en el espíritu en el que vives hoy

Blancos como los huipiles de tu esposa, hija y madre, blancos como el miedo de la gente que llama a la policía porque creen que debemos ser rescatados

Verde, como los dólares en papel necesarios para permanecer encerrados, y así, a veces sentirnos un poco más seguros

Grices comò la acera cuando reciclabas, vivias, soñabas, jugabas, caminabas - y esperabas que el dolor se detuviera esperando para ir a casa, a otro lugar a través de estas fronteras colonizadoras y asesinas pintadas en la arena

Estas calles tienen tantos colores como pequeños pinceles invisibles que se mueven con el viento, que retienen sonidos, como uno que nunca se va, sin importar cuántas veces nos limpien, nos froten, nos bajen, fingiendo como si nunca estuvimos aquí -
 
y hay un sonido especial, el que eres tú, te veo luis, estás aquí y siempre estarás

Estas calles y sus colores tan alejados de su origen, duelen por ti todos los días, duelen y rompen y escuchan tu regreso algún día

tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia is a Po poet, formerly unhoused poverty skola, teacher single mama of Tiburcio & daughter of Dee- she can be reached on Twitter @PovertySkola

Tiburcio is her Sun and a youth poverty skola revolutionary with Deecolonize Academy

(All PNN-TV Video coverage of the meeting with O'Malley is linked to the bottam of this article)

“We are looking at all aspects of the incident, the actual firearm involved in the incident, where it came from, other witnesses who the police are looking for and what was in the officer’s mind when he was approaching the scene.” said Alameda District Attorney Nancy O’Malley about the January 3rd shooting by West Oakland BART poLice officer Joseph Mateu of African Sun, father, Brother and Uncle Sahleem Tindle.

It was at this point in O’Malley’s statement to the family and attorney John Burris that this poverty skola reporter’s mind had a little trouble staying focused, “ What was in the officers mind????, how about poLice culture rooted in a 525 years of genocidal history of white supremacy that shoots to kill young Black, Brown Poor, disabled and indigenous daughters and suns first and asks questions later.

O’Malley continued, “We are using our resources to send the video to a couple of crime labs outslde of Oakland who specialize in forensics, rather than my eyes or your eyes just looking at it-…”

“What do you mean by Forensic video?”,Attorney John Burris cut in.

“A forensic person would be able to break down the video frame by frame and really look at what happened at the location of the incident…”O’Malley continued.

As she spoke my mind wandered again to the body cam video of the incident. How much forensics do you need to know that Mateu was on a trajectory of death as he was running toward Sahleem. There was no chance for Sahleem to do anything much less “show his hands” as Mateu kept mumble-demanding as he ran towards Sahleem. Mateu was clearly unable to think clearly much less discern when and how not to use the deadly weapon he had in his hands pointed forward for the entire time he was running to the scene. Mateu’s hysteria was overt. There is nothing more money, and more crime labs and more wasted resources or science could elaborate on. It was pre-meditated police culture which teaches shoot first , ask questions later.punto final.

“Have you looked at the initial statement by Joseph Mateu?. Fierce mama warrior, truth-teller and leader Yolanda Banks Reed addressed O’Malley, “The story and the narrative he told us before the video came out was not the same as what Mateu’s body camera revealed,” she concluded.

O’Malley responded by saying she had what Mateu told the police but other statements were privy to the Police Officers Association (dropping Cat Brooks’ fierce warrior from ATPT’s name to prove that this was somehow understood by everyone?)  and all the other witnesses who saw the incident and that she didn’t want to give the impression that any decision was made.

“I’m glad to hear that no decision other than the decision to charge (Mateu) with the murder of my sun Sahleem Tindle,” Yolanda responded, going on to say that she didn’t want this to drag on and on as she is grieving. “There are so many African-American males that are being murdered by police and their loophole is this was fear, that the African-American male is a threat,someone has to be held accountable for these murders and that time is now.”

“I talked to you about the Mosaic law, you can work on reform all you want, but this is a lawless state, where everyone will turn on each other, as the DA in office you hold the power to convict this man and give a judgement that is fair. I am here for my Sun and will do everything in my power to make sure justice is done. what we are surprised about is how can be Mateu be up for promotion after murdering my Sun We have been talking to BART commission. They didn’t even know how this officer (Mateu) was promoted, how could this murderer be promoted?” Yolanda said.

“And we know you are running for election, and since you have been in office no police officer has been held accountable for their actions. I am certainly doing an investigation as well, Yolanda concluded.

This reporter/poverty skola added, "The community is watching you, Ms O'Malley, this is your chance to act consciously, to do something different, to act for justice not more InJustice."

After the Meeting with the DA O’Malley

“It was an important meeting to have, and now we look forward to the next meeting,” said John Burris outside the DA’s office as the people and media gathered.  The meeting lasted for approximately 30 minutes and was oddly surreal. O’Malley making great pains to seem as though she was understanding and yet really giving no commitment.

“They have a system in place already set up to deal with this, it is just tragic that we keep having to go though this over and over again,” Fierce mama and warrior Yolanda summed up the tragic yet horrific aspects of the meeting after Attorney Burris. “As a mother we don’t even have the time to grieve, “she concluded.

After the family and Mr Burris spoke to the media, we begin to circle around the sterile halls of that injustice kkkort. the beautiful family of the Hebrew Cultural Community which Yolanda and Sahleem are members led us in a series of powerFULL chants and songs for justice.

When this all happened this reporter and the whole POOR Magazine family were in shock, we knew Sahleem and Yolanda very well because of previous racial brofiling Driving While Black in this stolen land. And the Hebrew Cultural Community of powerful youth has been extended family to POOR Magazine since 2010. Many of Saleem’s beautiful cousins and family coming through to POOR’s Family Project Revolutionary Summer Camp. Another beautiful family member and fierce mama warrior Sala Haquiyah Chandler has also been a powerful POOR Magazine extended family member and we were all there when her beautiful sun lost his life to unclear circumstances.

Their powerful indigenous village of the Hebrew Cultural Community, like POOR Magazine, has been and will always be a powerFULL resistance to the colonizer lies of separation, the cult of “independence” and what i call “the Separation Nation” and other lies of this plantation prescribed nation that are imposed on our young peoples minds everyday in America. It is no small coincidence to me that Sahleem, like Oscar Grant before him and so many more were shot by these officers of the Stolen Land law and once again, as soon as this story broke, people tried to cast aspersions on Sahleem’s character instead of looking clearly at the culture of killer poLice who murder every Black, Brown and Indigenous Sun and daughter they can.

It is why POOR magazine, Krip Hop Nation refuse to even engage with the perpetrators who test, arrest and incarcerate us. It is why POOR Magazine , Idriss Stelley Foundation and Krip Hop Nation teach the How to Not Call the PoLice EVER workshops. It is why we practice this in our liberated villages of Homefulness- a landless peoples solution to homelessness. It is why myself and Leroy Moore refuse the lie of reform and “police training” as we know it is filled with more lies about fixing an already broken poLice system. And in the end like the beautiful Yolanda says, we will not give up fighting the time has come

The people will win justice. Sahleem will win justice. None of us will give up.

PoorNewsNetwork Coverage of the Meeting with Alameda DA O'Malley:

Statements after the mtg by John Burris and the Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsD3p21ap8k&t=21s

Mtg with O'Malley Part #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNBBFKq75Ns

Mtg With O'Malley Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViaUXBGe3z4&t=446s
Mtg With O'Malley Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9F4ceRHJ8k&t=11s

Mtg With O'Malley Part 4-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YdUyoKnT3w

(Pls Subscribe to PoorNewsNetwork on Youtube by clikcing here and help us Poor folks keep creating un-bought, unfiltered, Truth Media )

Movie Review: Black Panther

Action- This movie did not let me down with all the kick-azz scenes that kept me squealing with excitement and wanting more. The star-filled cast was amazing and perfected and the storyline tapped into my genetic memory bank.

The only thing that this movie differs from the other superhero movies is that I was able to relate to The Black Panther and his cause that included “myself” for once surviving til the end of the movie and that we can live happily ever unified.

“Do you remember the time” by Michael Jackson played constantly in my head as the ‘Black Love” scenes played throughout the movie, something that is becoming almost extinct in Hollywood and today’s “pop culture”. Television programming and the kardashian propaganda

Does not encourage Black Love. Rather it teaches us to love everyone else but ourselves and that the Black man is nothing but a rich, rappin, ball slappin brute who salivates over caucasian women and that Black women are nothing more than “thots” whose destiny is nothing more than flopping on the floor like a fish on the “Maury” show because she doesn’t know who’s the father of her children.

Enough of colonizing people painting negative pictures of us Africans who are still in America’s bondage. We are always depicted as the whores, rapists, pimps, druggies, abusive parents and prisoners of hollywood and the best Black movie in the world would still be only worthy of a wite oscar nod. (Look at the Color Purple!)

The Black Woman

The General would have taken the head off the fool who dare thought to categorize her as a modern day t.h.o.t. She was the amazon warrior possessed with Grace Jones -like beauty and strength who was loyal to the King and the Wakanda nation. And she hated wigs!

The rightful image of the Black Woman was displayed beautifully and not in a weak, submissive watered down way. Such in a way that her beloved brotha bowed down to her, not because of vanity, but because he knew her worth as his true Queen and The Black Man loved The Black Woman in this movie and that their cultural preservation was worth fighting and dying for.

The Cousin

Yes, I teased the so-called bad guy in the movie calling him “Nick Cannon’s cousin”, but let’s take a moment to try to understand his pain of not knowing who he truly was. Bloodshed cut him off from his umbilical cord of knowledge so he grew up bitter, hateful and unremorseful towards his blood whom had left him in Oakland. Not having knowledge of self by theft of the people and their rich herstory carries the same side effects as he suffered while all he wanted to be a part of something beautiful and important which he did have a right to. The only thing is that he allowed for his bitterness to destroy the sacred part of himself and his history before his fall to the Black Panther.

The Black Panther

The strong and just King who is capable of ruling a Black Nation without ego or oppressing his citizens was profound and very powerful. He represented a flawless robust African man with a love for his people and country. The Matriarch, elders and the ancestors were well acknowledged and connected to the whole functioning of the African civilization as one unified front.            

Also I know what it looks like to have all of our heroes and sheroes wrapped up all in one! His Panther suit!

But this is a Marvel Comics movie and in the quote of King Shaka Zulu- “Nothing will be as it was, ever again”

Until we awaken.

Lakeith Smith was just 15 years old when the alleged crimes of theft, murder and the break-ins of two residences in Millbrook, Alabama had taken place with four other young men back in February 2015. After being tried as an adult along with The Alabama Accomplice Law being applied, he now has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after a 25 year plea deal was supposedly rejected.

Judge Sibley Reynolds gave Smith a total of 3 sentences 30 years for murder, 15 years for burglary and 10 year apiece for theft while 3 of the defendants Jhavarshe Jackson, LaAnthony Washington and Jadarien Hardy have taken plea bargains and are awaiting sentencing.

A’Donte Washington was killed when he allegedly pointed a 38 caliber gun at an officer who responded by firing at least four shots into Washington, killing him.

The officer involved in the shooting was cleared of any wrongdoing but under the Alabama accomplice law, the four surviving young men were charged with A’Donte’s death because under this particular law, a person is legally responsible for the behavior of another person who commits a crime and one is an accomplice.

Lakeith Smith alone was sentenced to 65 years with the possibility of parole after 25 years and sources say that he was seen smiling while being led out of the courtroom. The question is that was Smith smiling out of pride or to mask the fear of being done in by a system that has his kind being herded in like cattle 50 times more than any other being?

A teen at 15 years old does not even have the capacity to be responsible for his own behavior and actions let alone someone else’s. The protest is not about enabling any criminal activity in any shape or form, however the laws of the land should be fair to every citizen and proper due process is accessible rather rich or POOR instead we live in society that is infamous for creating more racist laws for colored flaws.

Miseducation, oppression, mental health, broken families and overworked families are all part of a genocidal cycle that has poor people of color filling up graveyards and institutions on a wholesale level.

To be tried as an adult not only is society saying that a child is capable of making decisions but that the child is an adult all in one. So would child endangerment play a part when it comes to other underage accomplices? With laws that are able to hold a child accountable for crimes but acquit the adult who actually did the actions shows us the ass backwards world that we live in.

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