Ok,I'm back from Atlanta. Though its humid hot it was cool too! Too bad The First U.S. Forum gave POOR Magazine Broken,Faux,quicky,made up access.
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by Joseph Bolden What Atlanta Meant To Me. If it was years,months, or weeks in planing for Atlanta’s first U.S. Social Forum it was a matter of a month or a few weeks for POOR Magazine gathering its pool of multi cultural-talented folk to Fem/Man-up for this first ever state crossing trip! Though our van band of plucky people began late because of two seats that are re-installed again we set out in a cottony,white cloud-sky blue Saturday afternoon. A stop in Hunter’s Point for two or more stacks of the San Francisco Bayview Newspaper to distribute when we get to Atlanta. It get increasingly hotter,Paris and Public Enemy is blaring in the background and me being apolitical had to listen by proxy. He tells truth raw and real and I need to hear it a lot more so as not to feel entitled,complacent, or safe. Black Folk are still targets of opportunity for jail,homicide,suicide,or cop assisted suicide. Luckily an old style am/fm walkman tape player becalms me even as parallel political,arguments on lifestyle and past personal painful episodes enter in discussions which I cautiously avoid by sleeping or listening to my old, newly,acquired $3 walkman. Flying through states Texas,Arizona,Navajo lands, and Alabama,which like many a southern bell is full and lush with greenery there is a tragic tale of why so many trees close and high together but that’s for someone else’s story to tell. After a hotel stay where I and a few tired riders splash,swim to avoid the ever growing southern heat. After one more stop in a comfy Days Inn or was it? We are in Atlanta, Georgia. All during the trip I keep hydrated by having literal ice baths [that is using ice cubes of melting ice from a donated igloo portable icebox rubbing them over my head, shoulders,arms,face,and drinking cold to warm water not icy water which may wreck the delicate interior temperature of bodies automatic thermostat. First we met up with other contingent of Poor M who had either flown over by plane or by interstate bus lines. Quickly we register,get our media tags,U.S. Forum I.D. for names because without one you don’t enter the forum. Can anyone see a flaw already beginning to form? If as non profit organizations out to collaborate with other orgs, and/or people having difficult times facing and living houseless,jobless lives! I certainly wasn’t aware still tired not having a full nine hours sleep still groggy though awake wanting to unload my two burdens of back- pack and travel bag. What happened the next day? Lets say food and flesh had me equally conflicted. I’ll just call this "The Lost In Hooter’s Affair." |