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HOUSING FIRST: IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME ISN'T JUST A SLOGAN

09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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POOR correspondent
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HOUSING FIRST: IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME ISN'T JUST A SLOGAN


PNNscholar1 - Posted on 07 September 2010

 




By Bruce Allison and Thornton Kimes

San Francisco has a “Housing First” policy. The (very extended) Patel


family, which owns the vast majority of SRO hotel (Single Room


Occupancy: a.k.a. Poor People Housing) properties in the city, is


spitting in our faces by leaving SRO’s vacant for years. There is one


in the Mission (22nd and Mission, above the Ritmo music store, with 40


units), and one in SOMA—the already earthquake code-improved 100-200


unit four-story Chronicle Hotel (across the street from the


newspaper!) and the retail space under it.

Housing in the city translates into money spent in the city, including


jobs for people staffing SRO hotels; of course, getting the empty


Patel spaces clean and useable as living spaces would also generate


those oh-so-wonderful short-term (a.k.a. temporary) jobs the “job


creators” love to talk about (contractor stuff, construction…) too.

The SRO in the Mission only needs $500,000 (current costs) to be


returned to service. The electrical wiring is up to code. Sinks and


bathrooms would need to be installed. The SOMA space, abandoned for 20


years, used to have a blood plasma donation center on the ground


floor. Bruce and Thornton remember it well. A lot more money would


need to be sunk into it to make it liveable.

City services, funded by local, state, and federal taxes, would not be


strained by an effort made to maximize housing for poor people, the


tax base would be improved by it. This modest proposal would take


approximately 200 people off the streets. More would be better.

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Ronnie Ronnie of Uganda, Africa This is For U

09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Leroy
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Krip-Hop Nation, DADA Festival and The British Council in Uganda have really pulled out everything to get Ronnie Ronnie of Uganda here at DADA Fest  but time was not on our side.  Ronnie Ronnie was faced with bureaucracy in the beginning but DADA Festival and The Director at the British Council in Uganda tried to cut through this red tape but time was not on our side.    Ronnie Ronnie is a key member of Krip-Hop Nation and MWD and wrote/sang the theme song for DADA Fest this year.  We will miss him so I wrote this song that MWD will perform here at DADA Festival plus we will play Ronnie Ronnie’s songs and speeches.  I wrote the song below not only for Ronnie Ronnie but also for all people who are poor and disabled who face institutional roadblocks when it comes to travel.  We, Krip-Hop Nation recognized individuals in institutions who are trying to cut down these roadblocks…

 

Krip-Hop Passport    

 

Chorus

Hey embassy in Uganda

Who need ya?

Trying to take down our brotha

 

Wait its not all Black & White

People stepped up and fight

DADA & British Council Director in Uganda

Stripped off the red tap wrapped so tight

 

Krip-Hop Passport

Welcome to our world

No more asking for stamp of approval

Now we rule

 

Verse 1

Freeing our people

Its simple

We will travel with Krip-Hop passport

 

Accessible airports

Roomy airplanes

No pat downs

 

Chorus

Hey embassy in Uganda

Who need ya?

Trying to take down our brotha

 

Wait its not all Black & White

People stepped up and fight

DADA & British Council Director in Uganda

Stripped off the red tap wrapped so tight

 

Krip-Hop Passport

Welcome to our world

No more asking for stamp of approval

Now we rule

 

Verse 2

We will travel

In packs going here and there

On water & in the air

 

Krip-Hop music you will hear

On airwaves & in accessible concert halls

Calling one calling all

 

Bridge

Ronnie Ronnie

Will be free to spread his wings

From Africa to America

 

Sing his songs

All daylong

Come one come all

 

Big time musicians

Keep your charity

Can’t u see clearly?

 

Don’t need your pity

Share your power & money

Free our people from red tape bureaucracy

 

Chorus  

 

Hey embassy in Uganda

Who need ya?

Trying to take down our brotha

Wait its not all Black & White

People stepped up and fight

DADA & British Council Director in Uganda

Stripped off the red tap wrapped so tight

 

Welcome to Krip-Hop world

No more asking for stamp of approval

Now we rule

 

Verse 3

Krip-Hop passport

Delivering justice

Not only for us

 

Thank you British Council & DADA

For trying to get

Mcees With Disabilities togetha

 

Cause Nothing About Us Without Us

How funny

Travel is no problem in wealthy countries

 

Not funny

African disabled man

Was denied has things changed in our time

 

Chorus

Hey embassy in Uganda

Who need ya?

Trying to take down our brotha

 

Wait its not all Black & White

People stepped up and fight

DADA & British Council Director in Uganda

Stripped off the red tap wrapped so tight

 

 

Krip-Hop Passport

Welcome to our world

No more asking for stamp of approval

Now we rule

 

Outro

Krip-Hop music

Dancing through boarders

To unite our disabled brothers & sisters

 

Ronnie Ronnie we will defend

This will never happen again

Thank you to all who stood up

Krip-Hop Nation will unite and fight to the end

 

Written By Leroy Moore

Sung & Spoken by Lady MJ, Binki Woi & Leroy Moore

For Ronnie Ronnie in Uganda, Africa

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Pacquaio: A Security Guard's Perspective

09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
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POOR correspondent
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Pacquiao: A Security Guard’s Perspective
By Revolutionary Worker Scholar
(Note: I am co-editor of POOR Magazine (www.poormagazine.org), an indigenous led, poor people led organization based in San Francisco that produces revolutionary media. Our writers re-port and sup-port people struggling with poverty globally and locally—people whose voices are silenced by corporate media. My day job is security guard. The following is an interview I conducted with a fellow guard, a Filipino elder (Manong). We spoke at our post amidst stacks of Filipino newspapers adorned with pictures of boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. My fellow security officer gives his impressions of Manny Pacquiao after his victory over Antonio Margarito).

Poor Magazine: What do you think of Manny Pacquiao?
Manong: What is there to think? He won…that is all.
Poor Magazine: Did you see the fight?
Manong: I want to but it is too expensive. It is…pay to do?
Poor Magazine: Pay per view
Manong: Yes…they were charging fifty-five dollars. TV is too confusing now. I do not have a digital TV, just my old one and I couldn’t figure out how to install that converter box so I just forget it.
Poor Magazine: That’s expensive
Manong: I could by a lot of chow mein with that
Poor Magazine: So, you don’t watch TV?
Manong: Not anymore. I just read thenewspapers.
Poor Magazine: I see you got all the Filipino newspapers. Looks like Manny Pacquaio is on the front page of all of them.
Manong: Yes…Pacquaio…he is the best.
Poor Magazine: Of all time?
Manong: I don’t know about all time. There were many great ones. I was in the Philippines in the time of Ali and Frazier. I was there.
Poor Magazine: The Thrilla in Manila?
Manong: Yes, I was there. I was an engineer back in the Philippines. I work on bridges. I was in the audience when Ali and Frazier fight. It was hot in the arena, like an oven. They fight hard. In the 13th round Ali hit Frazier and his mouthpiece fly out. It landed in my lap. I was sweating very hard. I lose 10 pounds and I wasn’t even fighting.
Poor Magazine: Really?
Manong: Yes, the mouthpiece is in a jar at home
Poor Magazine: So manong, do you rank Pacquaio as one of the greatest of all time?
Manong: Has to be. You cannot deny him
Poor Magazine: He has won 8 world titles in 8 different divisions. Nobody’s ever done that.
Manong: I come close to doing it
Poor Magazine: Close, how?
Manong: Back home when I was younger I have 8 kids. It was hard but I carry all of them…on my back, my shoulders, arms…all 8 at the same time. One of my kids even looked like Pacquaio. It was a hard life.
Poor Magazine: Can anyone beat Pacquaio?
Manong: Mayflower is the only one that can test him.
Poor Magazine: You mean Mayweather?
Manong: Mayflower, Mayweather…it’s all the same. He has the speed to give Pacquaio trouble. That would be a great fight. In my heart I would want Pacquaio but my brain says that Mayweather is very dangerous. He is a slick boxer who can punch too. We can only know when the bell rings.
Poor Magazine: What do you think of Pacquaio’s singing?
Manong: He is good. I saw him on that show at my friend’s house, the Kibble show.
Poor Magazine: You mean, Jimmy Kimmel?
Manong: Yes, Jimmy Kibble. His voice is ok. I think he does it to be around the pretty girls.
Poor Magazine: Manong, you still didn’t answer my question.
Manong: What question?
Poor Magazine: Is Pacquaio the best boxer of all time?
Manong: It is hard to say. Who is the best or the greatest changes every day, every month and every year. If you asked Ali who was the greatest, he would say Joe Louis. If you asked Joe Louis, he would say Sugar Ray Robinson.
Poor Magazine: Who do you say Manong?
Manong: I think Roberto Duran. If he fought Pacquaio it would be a true battle. It would be like Pacquaio fighting against himself. What I mean to say is that Pacquaio is the best right now…the best of his time. This is his time.
Poor Magazine: And in politics, wasn’t he elected to the Philippine House of Representatives?
Manong: I pray for him

(Our interview abruptly ended when our supervisor Riley J. Tipsy (not his real name) arrived)


© 2010 Revolutionary Worker Scholar

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The Wall Heater

09/24/2021 - 09:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
Original Author
PNNscholar1
Original Body

The Wall Heater

(For my father on Thanksgiving)

By Revolutionary Worker Scholar

 

i was in my bed

which was basically

a mattress that sat flat

on a hardwood floor

 

 

it was near a heater

that was mounted in

the wall covered in a layer

of dust

 

on the other side

of it was my father's

bed where he slept with

his wife

 

sometimes i could hear

them through the heater

in the middle of the night

 

one night as i was

dozing in the space between

sleep and the other part of

who i was i heard my

father cry out

 

I'm nothing!

 

then there was

mumbling followed

by silence

 

i fell asleep with

my belly empty yet filled

with my father's words

 

I'm nothing

 

I awoke and looked at

my 15 year old face in the

mirror and left for school

 

and i looked again

and i was 20, 25, 30,

35, 40...

 

and some nights

i woke in the middle

of the night and

cried

 

...

 

Dad, i never

forgot you or that

wall heater

 

you both kept

me warm

 

 

(C) 2010 Revolutionary Worker Scholar

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No Thanks to The Man!

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

No thanx to the man
on this day
a lie crafted by uncle sam

no thx to the myths of
supposed pilgrims gifts
no thx to the killin
caused by so many under the lie of thx giving

No - the thx i have
is the thx for the land,
for creator-
our ancestors,
our corazons
our love....

So i have a new list-
not defined by pilgrims myths
coming from our collective lips

the thx i have is for the spirit of uncle al, mama dee
tony's love, tiburcio's heart, marlon's mind, jewnbug's rhymes, bruce's words, muteado's eyes, thorntons' time, charles designs, joes climbs, corazon de ingrid, voce de teresa and all of our lives...

the beauty of of our unending work & struggle
as uncles. mamas, sons and bruddahs...

i give thx for the, care, silence, truth, pain, change, art , poetry, words, resistace and all with the deepest humility-

becuz without u all there would be no me...

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Ancestorship

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

THANK YOU, BLESS YOU, and LOVE to YOU ALL!!!

You saved our community from those Who would slay our community with impunity

Above us, you all love us. Down below you, we all love you!

In the land of displacement, the e victors are no longer victors

In the lens of racism, you made evil see itself

On a desk of a caseworker holding a pen you scripted lifetime benefits........to every single mom.......her child........anyone poor

Voices to Voiceless Villages. Punishment to every pillage of every village

Above us, you all love us. Down below you, we all love you!

Images of broken communities, slain bodies, cultural thefts, and environmental injustice. Inhumanity displaced with humanity

Above us, you all love us. Down below you, we all love you!

Out of your struggles came one death. For all of us to have, to successfully and collectively share the one life.

With these very words from us........ to you...........you to us: The Revolution began with I...................ended, and.................. continued with we!

 

Ancestorship, more practice needed from all towards perfection.

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Tafkal Talks about Hip-Hop From His Home in London

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

Tafkal first showed an interest in music when he was 16 years old and trying find a way to express his emotions. He has always been a big fan of genres such as UK hip-hop and Grime.

College was a place where there was always hip-hop playing . Tafkals Racial officers were talking to him about music and he did noticed that Tafkal`s real passion and love was for music, They suggested that he should put it into practice so he did and started writing his own music at tender age of 16. He was first heavily interested in commercial side but as he got older he progressed too more to underground real life hip-hop, only a very few have ever influenced him i.e. SkinnyMan (Mud Family),L.Man (N-Double-A),Lowkey,Mike Glc, Genesis Elijah & Jaja Soze (PDC),KRS ONE. Tafkal brings a new lease to the table, Paths the way for more Disabled people to follow in his footsteps. The UK has never had a huge hip hop seen so makes it that little bit hard get into but Tafkal has been doing it on and off for last 8 years and is finally getting supporters, Tafkal now is concentrating on his own solo project as well as having few up projects and working with MWD, Mcees With Disabilities, members.

Tafkal was born on September 6th 1985 in Banbury . Tafkal has a rare genetic disorder known as TAR syndrome (Thrombocytopenia with Absent radius). TAR syndrome effects the limbs (arms and legs), hips and blood. In the blood a lowered platelet count leads to brussing and potentially life threatening haemorrhaging.Tafkal had to grow up quickly at a young age. He had to mature quicker than his peer group due to ignorance and bullying he had to endure from peers and strangers. From a very young age Tafkal has been fighting a constant battle with himself and other people who couldn't accept he was different.Tafkal was a victim of bullying and people would spit at him on the streets. He was verbally abused by people who would say hateful things about how he was different and didnt physically appear like everyone else. This played hard on Tafkal because he couldn't understand why he was different and didnt want to accept it.

Tafkal now tours UK with his group talking to young people about his life and what they can achieve,Hes also now the Founder of an up and coming organization by the name of Express Freedom Empire Ltd & Rhymikal Records. I you want to listen to one Tafkals talks please send all information to the email address provided and someone will get back to you asap,Also please join the "Express Freedom Empire Ltd" Group aswell and support Tafakal`s new project.

Website:
www.Facebook.com/OfficialTafkal
www.Twitter.com/TafkalsLife
www.Reverbnation.com/Tafkal
www.MySpace.com/Tafkal

Peace n Blessings to my MWD Family and the Express Freedom Family

One Love,Jah Bless
Tafkal

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Krip-Hop Nation and Discrimination in Hip-Hop: Hip-Hop Eugenics

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

Discuss about Krip-Hop Nation and discrimination in Hip-Hop, Entirely Through My Experience.

Welcome back to my second edition.

Hip Hop-

The roots of hip hop were founded in African-American music and ultimately African music. A major proponent of the fusion of hip-hop was the Jamaican-born , who emigrated to the United States in 1967. Dub music had become popular in Jamaica due to the influence of American sailors and rhythm & blues.


Hip Hop was created to bring all kinds of talents, race, creed, sexuality, religious and disability however most of what hip hop stands for seems have been lost. Many rap battles can be entertaining and clever however i don't feel personally it is clever to be personal about ones appearances, with this in mind, it wouldn't  be right for a rapper to disrespect a disabled individual, you must remember that by doing so would be against the law, internationally.

Hip Hop was mostly built by the very people who have been persecuted, forced in to slavery for centuries who built this culture for people who had suffered the same.  Then we started to introduce a vast amount of middle class white boys into the beautiful culture which did of course come from SOUL and JAZZ and reggae, both are peaceful genres which promotes peace and love.

The middle class have infested the  culture with imperial antagonistic vulgar minds where by they replace intellect some what arrogant attitudes to the game.

This is where hip hop has changed.

I am  from a deep working class background from the north east of England, right back to the miners days, we know what struggle is, edition to that i am half Irish and my family came here when they was starving so to be in hip-hop is a blessed thing it's not something to make money out of, and its not something that i want to take advantage of.

Many people who have come in to the game, mostly white people after the eminem sager have ruined this game.  Smart comments, witty and pathetic attitudes where by they believe they are better than anyone.

The people who i have personally have witnessed discriminative attitudes the most,in my own  race, the Caucasians. A majority of middle classed who are helt bent with an  imperialist capitalist attitude who will go to any lengths to implode their propaganda and filth on every section of society including the most treasured of cultures, hip hop.

 There are some great white artists who have been around a long time who respect the black culture and respect their rights and love. Those who are arrogant and disrespect the very ethical makeup of hip-hop are not welcome here.

My mission is to bring theses cowards from the caves and stomp on their heads until they are screaming to run within the ground forever.

Money grabbing hoes are not needed in our society, i seen comments from some rappers who are not even up there charging people verse's and beats from $200 upwards.

They  argue that they do this as a job, they argue they have to do this as a job, they argue that its been going on for centuries to  be paid for music.

However, hip-hop, is not music. rap is and the very building foundations of rap its self has been going on since back in Africa, a place where people were around a fire, played drums made of wood and skin from a animal mostly goat.

Dancing around a fire and making quite fast toned voices is what rap is. Its a ritual, its a spiritual enlightenment its not a game its not to make money out of, however they are those who will debate otherwise, they will, they are imperialists.
 
Imperialism unfortunately has spread to our most beautiful race that earth has made, the African man.

Africans are made of love, they are love, however some of their traits have been spoiled by the white imperialist, some to name are for example Jay Z, P Diddy, Snoop Dog,  50 Cent, Young Buck,  and Craig David. When you sign a big contract you go into a corporate  rich class society and you seem to become like a imperialist man. Cars, homes and girls are what theses corporate bastards exploit while taking away what really matters. Love, family and community by selling out, the word means selling your soul and selling what your race means.

So, were dose disability discrimination come in to this? Well, imperialism like anywhere has destroyed our society and they have belittled, humiliated people with disabilities. Imperialism doesn't stop with money it goes further with eugenics and this is happening still today which was influenced by the Nazi's.

Picking your own child to make sure there are no deficiencies this is the same with arrogant and selfish people in hip hop, you don't fit the game you ain't apart of it we don't want people like you, you are, by a underlined metaphorical underbelly, helping to create the perfect hip- hop artist, the best gear, the best clothes the best girls the best cars the cool drugs can you not see that you are been raped?  You talk about conspiracies but your charging people thousands of pounds $$$ for a verse?

Your giving privileges to people you feel need to be privileged do you not see the Nazi's are still in power and you my friend have been taken in weather you talk about conspiracies or not, the game is, you are taken in.

so i am going to call this hip-hop eugenics, your apart of it if you want that lifestyle don't steep low.

So please remember this quote from a disabled man.  The man at the bottom is the man that seeks to break the ground and Krip-Hop is what this is all about, breaking the foundation and bringing back to love.

I have recently been interviewed by the BBC and  you can see my article here. My friend, tafka,l are going to hopefully get national exposure to spread awareness, please do show your support.


peace and blessings

interview :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tees/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9224000/9224197.stm


 

by Jp DoubletheTrouble (Autismandproud)

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