POOR Magazine Vol.4 the Mothers Issue
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by PNN POOR Magazine will be celebrating the publication of "POOR Magazine Volume IV: The Mothers Issue". In honor of the occasion POOR will be hosting a release party/benefit on Friday December 15, at 7:00 pm. The event will feature spoken word performances by all the contributors. Dinner will be served with homeade soup and bread . $0-10.00 sliding scale. Celebrate and support POOR Magazine’s ongoing resistance to poverty, race and class oppression through literary, visual and performance art. Celebrate Volume IV, The Mother’s issue with a poem, a drawing and/or a photograph of your mother. This issue of POOR was an act of media and multi-media resistance for all the very low income and homeless adults and youth writers and artists at POOR as they not only wrote and created all the work for the magazine, but the mothers and "sons" from POOR’s welfare to work job training program did the design and layout for this beautiful, intentionally glossy magazine about issues of poverty and the political state of motherhood. This will also be the debut of the new super-shero-Superbabymama- a poly-lingual multi-racial mama who fights economic justice everywhere, contributors also include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Delores Huerta, Evri Kwong, Diego Rivera and many more. Where: 255 9th St. between Folsom and Howard When: Friday December 15, at 7:00pm Contact: POOR @ 415-863-6306 |