Story Archives 2016

div dir="ltr" pThe Panama papers was when wealth hoarding scammers who look after themselves had been paying their taxes in Panama instead of America because in Panama taxes are less. Reporters have been researching this for a whole year while people had no idea what was going on and that#39;s probably why people in America and in other places have more money over the normal people./p pAt this time right now people in power are freaking out about the Panama papers because wouldn#39;t you be mad if people were making a lot of money and not helping the people out, and also consonantly taking the land around and making money off of you and you don#39;t get a cut? I would be mad also. Take Donald Trump. He probably has his taxes in Panama because he has been bankrupt I wonder how he still gets money./p pAs a local journalist who reports more around my area, I#39;m wondering if the people they reported on are trying to deny. And of course if I was the person being accused of not paying most of my taxes I would be in denial myself. But what I feel about this is the time and effort goes into these things to report on it is not the hardest thing to report on. Its the hardest thing to find what your trying to look for./p pnbsp;/p pemImage: the writer portraying Donald Trump, a hoarding scammer/em/p /div

pfont color="#000000"nbsp;/fontfont face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"Good Afternoon everyone. My name is Mario Vega from POOR nbsp;Magazine. Today I will present about all the political parties. People only hear about the Democratic sidenbsp;andnbsp;the Republican side. But what about the other parties, like the Green Partynbsp;andnbsp;the Peacenbsp;andnbsp;Freedom Party?/font/font/font/p pfont face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"spanTo begin, the Green Party was founded in 2001. This is another political party for people who fight fornbsp;andnbsp;vote for only Democratic candidates, who support nonviolence, social justice, LGBT rightsnbsp;andnbsp;Anti Racism. For example, a person the Green Party would vote for is Hillary Clintonnbsp;andBernie Sanders because both are in the Democratic Partynbsp;andnbsp;are eligible for what people in the Green Party want as a president. Rosa Clemente was the Vice Presidential running mate of Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia Mckinney In 2008. Rosa#39;s work has also been on focusing on national liberation struggles within the United States. She has been focused on specific groups like the Young Lords Partynbsp;andnbsp;the Black liberation party. Ralphnbsp;/span/fontfont color="#000000"Nader was another person that was in the Green Party. In a 2004 campaign, he ran on a platform consistent with the Green Party#39;s positions on major issues, such as opposition to the war in Iraq. Luis J. Rodriguez is an American Poet, his best work is ldquo;Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.rdquo;. In 2014, Rodriguez ran as the Green Party of California Candidate for Governor of California. He received 66.872 votes. Rodriguez has also founded or co-founded numerous organizations, including the Tiacute;a Chucha Press, which publishes the work of unknown writers, according to Wikipedia. This letrsquo;s writers who do not want to be identify because of their status be able to publish their stories anonymously./font/font/font/p pfont color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"The second political party is the Peacenbsp;andnbsp;Freedom Party. It was founded on June 23, 1967.nbsp;The Peacenbsp;andnbsp;Freedom Party is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminismnbsp;andnbsp;racial equality. They support the working classnbsp;andnbsp;they also represent them as well. People who are running to be the President in the Peacenbsp;andnbsp;Freedom Party for 2016 are Lynn Kahn, Gloria La Rivanbsp;andnbsp;Monica Moorehead./font/font/font/font/p pfont face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the second oldest existing political party. Its rival is the Republican Party. The Democratic Party helps the working classnbsp;andnbsp;also focuses on economic issues like global warmingnbsp;andnbsp;working people#39;s rights. A member of the Democratic Party is Bernie Sanders. He feels as if black people should stop been harassed by police officers, stop being killed without having a fair trial,nbsp;andnbsp;that police officers should get arrested for killing an innocent person./font/font/font/p pfont face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"The Republican Party was founded on March 20, 1854. The Northern Republicans had the idea to extend slavery. They felt like it was a good thing to do. A member of the Republican party is Donald Trump. hHe feels as if people who have migrated to the United States should go back to their countries because they are stealing American peoplersquo;s job. He also feels like some Mexican people are bringing crimenbsp;andnbsp;drugs,nbsp;andnbsp;they are rapists./font/font/font/p pfont face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"font color="#000000"In conclusion, people only know about the Democratic sidenbsp;andnbsp;the Republican side. But now that I have spoken about the other parties. that are the Green Partynbsp;andnbsp;the Peacenbsp;andnbsp;Freedom Party, people will now know about all the parties./font/font/font/p

pspanLeonard Peltier born on september 12, 1944 In North Dakota, U.S. He was part of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Not only was he part of the AIM, but he was a leader. Leonard was arrested in 1977. He was blamed for ldquo;murdering two FBI agentsrdquo;; witnesses say Leonard did not shoot them. But more than 60 members of the American Indian Movement were murdered. The reason why this conflict started was because of a 1975 argument about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In the court three teenaged native witnesses testified against Leonard. They all said that the FBI forced them to testified. But still not one of the witnesses identified Leonard as the shooter./span/p pfont color="#000000"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Since the day Leonard was arrested in 1977, he has spent already about 29 years in prison. Currently Leonard has been suffering from diabetes, high blood pressurenbsp;andnbsp;heart conditions. Leonard also has received several human rights awards for his good deeds behind bars, which include an annual gift drive for children of Pine Ridge, fundraisers for battered womenrsquo;s shelter,nbsp;andnbsp;donating his paintings to native american recovery programs./font/font/font/p pfont color="#000000"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"People who feel that Leonard Peltier should be free from jail should write stories about him that show him not being a bad man, but showing that he is a good mannbsp;andnbsp;was falsely accused. The stories should try to be posted on a news sourcenbsp;andnbsp;shared with people. Another thing is people can try to callnbsp;/font/font/fonta href="tel:%28202-456-1111" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"(202-456-1111/font/font/font/afont color="#000000"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3") or email (/font/font/fonta href="mailto:President@whitehouse.gov" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"President@whitehouse.gov/font/font/font/afont color="#000000"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3") the white house. People can also post pictures of Leonard saying ldquo;Free Leonardrdquo; on social medianbsp;andnbsp;try to make it viral so that the president will hear about it./font/font/font/p

p dir="ltr"spanMy name is span class="il"Cassandra/span, from Poor Magazine. Today Irsquo;m talking about borders. I do not believe in borders due to the fact that I come from migrant family members that immigrated from Nayarit, Mexico to the United States twenty five years ago. I will also be talking about the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People and itrsquo;s importance in the upcoming election. /span/p p dir="ltr"spanArticle 10 of the UN Declaration states that Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return./span/p p dir="ltr"spanPeople are constantly being deported from the U.S. especially with all the ICE raids happening in different states, including California and right here in my neighborhood./span/p p dir="ltr"spanPoliticians like Donald Trump and Marco Rubio believe that immigrants are the problem in the United States, and that making stricter immigration policies will help. Others like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton donrsquo;t believe that immigration is a huge issue in the United States./span/p p dir="ltr"spanAs a result, when politicians like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump speak about the issue of immigration, they go on and on about how they want to stop ldquo;illegal immigration.rdquo; But is it really illegal? If the United States government were to follow the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, would there be such a things as a borders?/span/p

p style="orphans: 1"font color="#222222"ldquo;font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"iWhat is the amerikkkan dream? families risking their life for the amerikkkkan dream, the same dream all of his hear about but few of us get to see ./i.rdquo; Muteado Silencio, Porsquo; Poet Land Liberator with POOR Magazine/Homefulness/font/font/font/p p style="orphans: 1"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"The concrete was quiet on Shotwell street.nbsp;Andnbsp;yet you heard it. A soft ping of a ball against a metal wall. A sidewalk, A curb; The ping sailed through the air on a ray of sun. The sun came from the South. From the land of Yucatac Maya people.The land of Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat. Killed by San Francisco Porsquo;LICE for nothing. Killed because he was unhousednbsp;andnbsp;Brownnbsp;andnbsp;therefore easy to harass, profilenbsp;andnbsp;eventually murder in the stolen Yelamu Ohlone land called San Francisco GentriFUKation City.nbsp;nbsp;/font/font/font/p p Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat was an Indigenous Mayan father, hard -worker, futbal (soccer) player, a loving friend to everyone who knew him. His story is tragically similar to the story of millions of other migrante, indigenous poverty skolaz who are forced to cross false borders to support their families back home struggling with the impact of indigenous landnbsp;andnbsp;resource theft by empires like the US, by evil contractsnbsp;andnbsp;treaties like NAFTAnbsp;andnbsp;CAFTA. Theyy come here only tonbsp;struggle with wage theft, racism, and profiling innbsp;urban cities like San Francisco, LAnbsp;andnbsp;New York, with very dangerous housing shortagesnbsp;andnbsp;poLIce terror./p p font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"bPoverty Across False Borders/b/font/font/fontbr / font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"The story of Luisnbsp;andnbsp;Amilcar Perez Lopez is the story of so many poverty and migrante/indigenous skolaz who come here just to work. Unclesnbsp;andnbsp;Mamaz like POOR Magazinersquo;s own Muteado Silencio, Teresa M, Angel, Ingrid DeLeon from Voces de immigrants en resistencianbsp;andnbsp;my own Sunsrsquo; Tio Tiburcio (who he was named after) a migrante, indigenous skola, a Yucatec Mayan man who worked for 30 years in 3 restaurants as a ldquo;lavaplaterordquo; (dishwasher) struggling with wage theft, racism,nbsp;andnbsp;seriously substandard housing just to survive.nbsp;/font/font/font/p p ldquo;I am only here to work, I sleep in a corner of a closet with six other people, I have to endure this to make enough money to support my family in Mexico, to eventually go home to the land of my people,rdquo; said Tio Tiburcio to my Mamanbsp;Dee, about his life, ldquo; I dream everyday for the day when i can leave this place.rdquo; he concluded to my mama who shook her head in agreement./p p Poverty is an industry for all of us on both sides of the empire borders. It is kept in place so that rich people can profit off our cheap labor, our struggles, our incarcerationnbsp;andnbsp;our desperation. The connections between all of us poor, working class, Black, Brownnbsp;andnbsp;indigenous people from all sides of the false borderss are becoming clearer as we struggle with dangerous gentrification, profilingnbsp;andnbsp;police predation, like the kind that caused the death of Alex Nieto, Amilcar Lopeznbsp;andnbsp;Luis. All of them Brown men, hard-workers,nbsp;andnbsp;trying to survive in a City that might want our labor, our poor bodies to make their lattes, secure their partiesnbsp;andnbsp;restaurants, was their dirty dishes, babysit their children but doesnrsquo;t want our bodies to actually live here.nbsp;/p p Luis was an unhoused San Franciscannbsp;andnbsp;a recycler. Although most people buy into the concept that independent recycling is a crime because they believe that corporations ldquo;ownrdquo; trash, we as fellow poor people understand that recycling is a job, one of the hardest jobs a person can have. He was also a loving man who brought lovenbsp;andnbsp;care to everyone he met. Like so many unseen, unheard, hard-working people, he was someone who my mama would say walked softly on Mama Earth. Luis had an apartment before the rent became too high. Houselessness killed Luis./p p font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"bPoverty of the Spirit in the US/b/font/font/fontbr / font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"On the other side of the false borders, we folks in struggle, having dealt with hundreds of years of white-supremacy, colonization, land, culture, languagenbsp;andnbsp;resource theft are holding on by a few threads. Morenbsp;andnbsp;more of us can no longer fight the insane battle to stay housed, to stay on the hamster wheel. Like my mixed race, already soul-destroyed, Afro-Taino mama, who become unable to keep on keeping on, which is why we became houseless for most of my life as a child./font/font/font/p p ldquo;I had an apartment, but like Luis, they raised the rentnbsp;andnbsp;i couldnrsquo;t afford the rent increase, thats the story of so many of us out here,rdquo; Reggie, a friend of Luis who lived, unhoused, down the block from Luisrsquo;s encampment, talked to us the day after Luis shooting. When we heard about the shooting we went to the encampment when Luis used to stay to support the poverty skolaz who witnessed the murder of their friend by Porsquo;Lice. We did a healing circlenbsp;andnbsp;talk-story with folksnbsp;andnbsp;met a couple who were close friends of Luis.nbsp;/p p On the Saturday after the shooting of Luis Gongora, writernbsp;andnbsp;community organizer with the justice for Alex Nieto Coalition Adriana Camerena, showed up at the encampment to find the police targeting the witnesses, kicking tentsnbsp;andnbsp;handing out citations to them specifically./p p ldquo;You better get your stuff off this street or we will have DPW pick it up,rdquo; When POOR Magazine arrived the next day, there were two SFPD officers who drove up to the tents of the witnesses-- a couple, one of whom is 8 months pregnant-- threatening them with the removal ( read: theft) of their belongingsnbsp;andnbsp;citations if they didnt leave. It was obviously targeted harassment because they left after harassing them, even though there were other unhoused San Franciscans literally right next to them./p p font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"bPoverty Scholarship - a lesson outside of institutional boxesnbsp;/b/font/font/fontbr / font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"After we met the witnesses we put a call out to the community to donate moneynbsp;andnbsp;ldquo;papersrdquo; ( i.e., ID). Even though many of us poverty skolaz are ldquo;bornrdquo; on this side of the stolen Turtle Island, due to racism, povertynbsp;andnbsp;criminalization many of us donrsquo;t have access to the capitalist tools of co-called ldquo;successrdquo; , i.e., addresses, credit scores, well-paying jobs, family with resourcesnbsp;andnbsp;stolen land. Thanks to POOR Magazine extended family Pearl Ubungen, artistnbsp;andnbsp;dancernbsp;andnbsp;Adriana we were able to get the witnesses a storage facilitynbsp;andnbsp;thanks to all of the generous folks who heeded the call POOR was able to rent them a motel room. The hardest part of this process was teaching on poverty scholarship. Something we teach on atnbsp;/font/font/fonta href="http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org/" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"PeopleSkoolnbsp;/font/font/font/afont color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"to housed folks who havenrsquo;t struggled is that just because folks are unhoused, outside, or in struggle, it doesnrsquo;t mean they are any less ldquo;deservingrdquo; of protection, lovenbsp;andnbsp;support when they have witnessed a serious crime like the murder of their best friend. We are still trying to raise enough to keep them in the motel until they can secure housing in one of the meanest cities in the world to poor people./font/font/font/p p Now the family herenbsp;andnbsp;the family in Mexico are working with Advocates like Adriananbsp;andnbsp;Laura Guzman as well as lawyers, indigenous groups like Association Mayabnbsp;andnbsp;the Mexican Consulate to bring a case against the San Francisco police department.nbsp;Andnbsp;all of us conscious peoples are working to fight this endless policenbsp;andnbsp;gentrification terror on our poor, Black, Brownnbsp;andnbsp;indigenous bodies.nbsp;/p p font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"bHunger Strikesnbsp;andnbsp;Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Toursnbsp;/b/font/font/fontbr / font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Last week brothersnbsp;andnbsp;sistarz in the struggle, Equiptonbsp;andnbsp;his beautiful mama Maria Cristina Gutierez, Selassie, Edwin Lindo,nbsp;andnbsp;many morenbsp; launched a hunger strike until Porsquo;Lice Chief Greg Suhrnbsp;andnbsp;Gentrification City Mayor Ed Lie stepped down. Come by the Mission Po#39;Lice station to lend your support./font/font/font/p p Andnbsp;then on Earth Day, a beautiful group of us 1st Nations, Black, Brownnbsp;andnbsp;Unhoused peoples from POOR Magazinenbsp;andnbsp;the Sogorea Te Land Trust launchednbsp;a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5516" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"a stolen land/hoarded resources tour, refusing the accept the status quo from the land-stealersnbsp;andnbsp;resource hoarders./font/font/font/afont color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"nbsp; I walked in honor of Luis Gongora, Mario Woods, Alex Nieto, Orsquo;Shaine Evans, Amilcar Perez Lopez, Papa Bear, Gerry X, Iris Canada, Ron Likkers, Elaine Turnernbsp;andnbsp;all victims of Porsquo;Lice terrornbsp;andnbsp;displacement who continue to hold on to these increasingly hatenbsp;andnbsp;raicsm-filled cities, BY Any Means Necessary. Next stop Huchiun Ohlone Land ( Oakland ) on May 20th./font/font/font/p p On Saturday night at the wake organized by the family, Inbsp; Prayed with the vessel that was Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat I-felt his beautiful , humble, loving spirit as it wafted thru the mortuary, down the amerikkklan streets up into the last rays of Sun in the direction of his Yucatec Maya ancestors- wrapping around everything inHuman un-Loving that is this stolen Yelamu-Ohlone land the colonizers call SF./p p style="orphans: 1" nbsp;/p p style="orphans: 1"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"To support the family of Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat go to thisnbsp;/font/font/fonta href="https://www.gofundme.com/justice4luis" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"GoFundMe page/font/font/font/a/p p style="orphans: 1"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"To support the witnesses motelnbsp;andnbsp;storage fund clicknbsp;/font/font/fonta href="https://www.gofundme.com/2rkb42qc" target="_blank"font color="#1155cc"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"here for the GoFUndMe page/font/font/font/a/p

div dir="ltr" div class="gmail_quote" div dir="ltr" div class="gmail_quote" div dir="ltr" div font size="6"spanStolen Land / Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization Community Reparations Tour Comes To LA with Black, Brown, Broke Disabled Hip-Hop/Spoken Word Show/span/font/div div nbsp;/div div div div class="gmail_quote" div dir="ltr" div class="gmail_quote" div dir="ltr" div strongWhat: National Stolen Land/Hoarded resources Tour Hits LA - (Occupied Tongva Lands)/strong/div div strongWhen: June 10 11 /strong/div div strong1st Tour Stop - Venice Beach 1pm -June 10th /strong/div div strong2nd Tour Stop: Beverly Hills 1pm June 11th /strong/div div strong(Po Pets, Krip Hop welfareQUEENS poetry/Hip Hop Gigs Listed below) /strong/div div br / bStolen Land Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization Community Reparations Tour.nbsp;/bbr / The Nation-wide tour of wealthy neighborhoods across the US which launched in San Francisco on Earth Day is co-led by Poverty Skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and fellow Race, Disability, Indigenous Skolaz from POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, Leroy Moore from Krip Hop Nation and folks from LA Community Action Network and on Day 1 of the LA tour will go tonbsp; Venice Beach area where hundreds of elders and families face Ellis act evictions and displacement,nbsp; and Pacific Palisades where others live in multi-million dollar designer homes and on Day 2 go into Beverly Hills to offer an innovative healing solution to the disease of wealth and resource hoardingspan. /span div br / spanWe Black, Brown, homeless, disabled and 1st Nations people are peacefully crossing the visible and invisible lines that separate us poor folks from the very rich to ask them to begin the healing, change-making, process of decolonizing, redistributing and reparating their stolen and/or hoarded, inherited wealth and/or land , Concluded Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia./spanbr / nbsp;/div div spanThe Stolen Land/ Hoarded Resources tour is loosely based on the Bhoodan Movement of India launched by Vinoba Bhave who walked through India asking wealthy land-owners to gift their land to landless peoples. With a similar vision, this small group of landless and indigenous peoples being hit the hardest by displacement and gentrification will be Intentionally crossing the invisible and visible lines between the land and resource hoarders aka the very rich and the victims of generations of white supremacy, theft, colonization, criminalization, racism, eugenics and silencing, aka the very poor. /spanbr / nbsp;/div div spanspanLos Angeles is where me and my mama became homeless when i was 11years old, after she became disabled. We were arrested and harassed multiple times for the sole act of sleeping in our car, concluded Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, who is the author of Criminal of Poverty , Growing Up Homeless in America, which chronicles the life of a homeless, disabled, mixed race mother and daughter struggling to survive in LA and their work to launch a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=enq=http://www.poormagazine.orgsource=gmailust=1463522470157000usg=AFQjCNHqLxeRYeopy3lJ4A_sYtI_s2FUJQ" href="http://www.poormagazine.org" target="_blank"POOR Magazine/a the organization and the landless peoples movement called a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=enq=http://www.poormagazine.org/homefulnesssource=gmailust=1463522470157000usg=AFQjCNHWtRnLE2Ru-DTJKRXUSvSfpc75lQ" href="http://www.poormagazine.org/homefulness" target="_blank"Homefulness/a-one of the models being highlighted as a powerful move of redistribution and reparations in this tour./span p One of the other ways we can talk about people giving reparations is to give to the Sogore Te land trust one of the only Native- women -run land trust, said Corrina Gould./p/spanbr / nbsp;/div div spanbBlack, Brown, Broke Disabled Hip Hop Spoken Word Tour/bbr / The Tour will be in LA on June 10-11/16 ending with a performance collaborating with Drip-Hop Nation member and LA based Hip-Hop artist, DJ Quad of 5th Battalion.nbsp; Saturday afternoon and night will be a Hip-Hop/Spoken Word performance with Po#39; Poets of POOR Magazine/welfareQUEENs ( Muteado SIlencio, Vivi T, Laure McElroy, Tiny Lisa Gray-Garcia, Queenandi XSheba, Aunti Frances) Leroy Moore DJ Quad of Krip-Hop Nation at BNB... Inner-City Arts#39; The Rosenthal Theater./span/div div nbsp;/div div spanTour Dates: Hip Hop Dates: TBA/span/div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div pFundraising a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=enq=https://www.youcaring.com/the-we-empowerment-center-krip-hop-cafe-intifada-563789?fb_action_ids%3D10207679299995470%26fb_action_types%3Dog.commentssource=gmailust=1463522470174000usg=AFQjCNE3-brnUmAGlrVc2ah_-CoUyx2smQ" href="https://www.youcaring.com/the-we-empowerment-center-krip-hop-cafe-intifada-563789?fb_action_ids=10207679299995470fb_action_types=og.comments" target="_blank"Link for the Tour on YouCaring /abr / a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1607154592842850/"Event Page on Facebook/a/p

pspanfont size="4"bfont size="6"Black, Brown, 1st Nations Poor Mothers Cry Out for Justice for Today#39;s Murder in the Bayview, the un-arming of the police and the Resignation of Mayor Lee /font/b/font/span/p pnbsp;/p div font size="4"bPress Advisory: /b/font/div div br / font size="4"font size="2"On the eve of the 2nd stop in the a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5524"National Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Reparations, Redstribution and Decolonization Tour (l/aaunched to stop the ongoing forced poverty and racial and economic inequity in the US) the San Francisco Police Department has murdered yet another un-armed, low-income person of color. The 27 year old African-American woman was allegedly pregnant and under extreme stress when the police shot her./font/fontfont size="4"font size="2"font size="4"font size="2"Despite a hunger strike and a nation-wide call for the firing of the San Francisco Chief of Police it took this murder to force his firing, which is why poor, houseless and mothers of color are publicly demanding the un-arming of this paid military force called the police and refuse to accept the murder of another child, mother or father./font/font p /p/font/fontspanspanI am saddened that the life blood of a young woman and her baby had to be the deciding factor to make this change. I pray for her family and all of us as we move forward in mourning to make a better way, said Corrina Gould, Ohlone warrior woman and co-founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust/span/span/div div div nbsp;/div div font size="2"We as low-income, 1st Nations and mothers of color call out for justice for another mamas child, another young person of color and another woman, killed by an armed and dangerous government agency, sanctiioned to kill. We demand the un-arming of these paid killers (police), reparations to the families that lost their children, sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers and the recalling of Mayor Ed Lee who allowed this to happen over and over again, said Lisa tiny Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine and Homefulness, a poor people-led solution to homelessness./font/div p spanspanIt#39;s unconscionable that someone#39;s life had to be lost I#39;m order for Chief Suhr to be fired. All and any law enforcement who use a #39;shoot first#39; ideology needs to be held fully accountable, said Vivian Thorp, low-income, formerly houseless xicana mama of three children, staff writer and poet at POOR Magazine and co-leader at Homefulness, a poor people-led solution to homelessness./span/spanbr / nbsp;/p/div div spanspanThe Police are the ancient and modern day slave-catchers, this is one of the many reasons we are demanding reparations for our people, our children and our elders in the stolen land tour across Amerikkka, aid Queenandi XSheba, mother, poet and writer with POOR Magazine./span/span/div div nbsp;/div div As mothers who birth, raise and care for our future, we refuse to accept the ongoing staus quo of killing , mourning and begging the people in power to make change happen, we demand the paid government agents and occupying armies known as police, hired to protect the wealth-hoarders and land-stealers, are hereby un-armed, so they can no longer continue to murder our children, concluded Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia/div pspanspanAll the mothers quoted here represent a small slice of thousands of mothers refusing to accept the murder of our children by police, These mothers are all available for comment and will be taking part in tomorrow#39;s Stolen Land Tour in Oakland, which starts at Trestle Glen and Lakeshore Avenues at 1pm/span/span/p

p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Youth Together has been supporting Oakland high schoolers with youth-led programs for 20 years. But this year, they were denied funding from the Oakland Fund for Children and Families, the city agency that has historically supported them. Youth Together could be in trouble, and they are asking for community support as they oppose the funding decision at the Oakland City Council meeting this Tuesday, May 24./font/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Youth Together is grassroots, we always have been. We are here for the youth, said Jose Alejandre, a Youth Together organizer at Castlemont High. On May 24th we are asking the community to stand with us./font/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Youth Together was founded by high schoolers in 1996 who wanted after school and extra-curricular education that spoke to their needs and cultures. Their vision has now been realized as One Land One People youth centers in three high schools. Youth Together also organizes in five high schools and conducts educational workshops around the Bay Area./font/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"The OFCY has stated that Youth Together does not fit into their funding guidelines, as ldquo; #39;youth organizing groups that empower Oakland youth to organize for social change and systemic transformation#39; was not an emphasis for the Career Awareness Academic Support for Older Youth funding strategy.rdquo;/font/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Support Youth Together and their fight to get their funding restored. Meet at 4pm outside Oakland City Hall on Tuesday, May 24./font/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Learn more about Youth Together:nbsp;a href="https://www.facebook.com/youthtogether/?fref=ts"https://www.facebook.com/youthtogether/?fref=ts/a/font/fontbr / a href="http://www.youthtogether.net/"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"http://www.youthtogether.net//span/a/p

pThe Poor Magazine Family Visual Artist Mutual Support Networks, and the Art of Resistance Movement Presents:/p pIn the Spirit of Proverbs 29:18/p pThe Visual Secret Powers of Grassroots Activism./p puOur Mission: /uFrom 1975-1989, in general. And from 1989-2016, particular. There were- and still are- thousands of still captive Blacks, Browns, whites, and other poor people of color, whom have been maliciously reduced to the mental bondage/and economic neo-slavery of Ralph Waldo Ellisonrsquo;s ldquo;The Invisible Manrdquo;. But thankfully, a chosen few of our captive men folks began to realize ldquo;If we are willing to make a good faith efforts to further self-develop our personal and collective skills as still captive artists, writers, and critical tinkers, we can begin to utilize the below working titlehellip;/p pldquo;If walls could talk???/p pVs./p pOur walls Can Talk!!!/p pAs a whole new framework of grassroots activism, that is greatly needed to better educate our activist communities on both sides of the genocidal prison walls. As such, we hereby invite the multi-million numbers of our most freedom loving men, women, youths, and other Indy Media activists to please visit the poor magazine family, either you can seek to contribute to our Grassroots Mutual Support Network of (a). new educational self-help training programs, (b). economic self-employment training programs, and (c) a self-regenerating system of economic self-empowerment goals on both sides of these prions walls./p pnbsp;/p pThe Poor Magazine Family/p pnbsp;/p pContact: Yafeu Iyapo-I/p pS/N L. Alexander, B-72288/p pCell: A2-118, Po Box 7500/p pCrescent City, CA 95532/p

pThe Poor Magazine Family Visual Artist Mutual Support Networks and the Art of Resistance Movement presents:/p pIn the Spirit of Proverbs 29:18/p pThe Visual Secret Powers of Grassroots Activism./p pOur Mission:/p pDuring the years of 1619 thru 1865; and again from 1865 thru 1965, a large number of Afrikan (Black),Brown, white, and other poor yet morally courageous women of color have repeatedly played key roles in helping to covertly and overtly educate, organize, raise funds, and train new youths and young adult leadership bodys- whom were morally committed to help achieve all areas of our racial, social, economic justice, and many other grassroots human rights movement goals./p pAs such, some of the current goals of (a.) the poor magazine familys brands of grassroots community outreach work/and economic self-help organizing strategies, and (b) the New Afrikan (Black) Collective Think Tanks, the Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement (ie the original PBHRM), the Priosners Human Rights Movemnet (ie the statewide bodies of still captive PHRM activists), and the Art of Resistance Movement (i.e. the ARMrsquo;S) Brands of both captive and non-captive activist movements, is to help rebuild 1,2,3 or more DIY or do-it-yourself models, to correctly teach and show a whole new generation of our Black, Brown, white, and other poor women, girls, and our Harriet Tubman style models of adopted self-help sister circles, to have a stable place to relearn why/and how ldquo;to get our mojorsquo;s backrdquo; as well as to play a more leading role in behalf of all of our collective economic, self-empowerment goals./p pIf we pause to critically analyze and compare both (a) the new collections of visual artwork by one of our still captive Black activists, named minister Baba Yafeu Iyapo-I, and (b) the below key verse of sacred scripture, Proverbs Chapter 29 at key verse 18: ldquo;hellip;Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is hehellip;rdquo;-Amen (True)- we wil find, that together we can ALL re-learn how to achieve far more by working unity- compared to what any grassroots group is often unable to achieve. When working all alone. As such, come and join the Poor Magazine Familyrsquo;s new campaign- to help rebuild a far more effective Indy multi-media movement in our own behalf ASAP./p pThe Poor Magazine Family/p pContact: Yafeu Iyapo-I/p pS/N L. Alexander, B-72288/p pCell: A2-118, Po Box 7500/p pCrescent City, CA 95532/p pnbsp;/p pThe above still captive prisoner is the original source of this seven part series of combined visual artwork, educational self-help fliers, plus a related flier of personal, collective, and grassroots problem solving strategies. For more info contact either Poor Magazine or Yafeu-Iyapo-I at the above address./p