The landless people's movement is located in Brazil the idea of the project is to grow their own food instead of killing off their people and also to get the farmers back their land so they can have collective living and live in harmony.

The living condition in Brazil's landless people's movement are similar to standing rock’s but there's no snow there is dirt, and stove oven, tipis, and tents that are much like tiny houses so that they can live in they depending on the tent determines how many people will live there.

This can relate to Homefulness because just like the movement homefulness goal is to grow their own food so they won't have to eat GMO food and get killed off.

This also relates to self-determination by the government of MST has gender equality and a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.in which all these things can relate to Marcus Garvey he was a black man who lived in Jamaica and came to America and started to make well for himself and wanted this all over the world.

Since it's creation in the early 1980's the MST has pressured the government to give land titles to approximately 150,000 families.

Today the movement supports the struggle of over 57,000 families who have occupied uncultivated land in 23 states.

In my opinion, the movement is interesting and much like hopefulness I think it's creative and innovating that they have enough brains to actually realize the government wants to give us extra body parts by feeding us GMO.

The landless people's movement in Brazil in my opinion is a good thing, they are very good farmers and deserve respect.

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Bad News Bruce can be seen participating in the die-in just to the right and behind where the motorcyclist plowed through the protesters.

About three weeks ago on a rally against Donald Trump's cuts to health care, I almost got killed. Let me explain it in terms that even the rich can understand.

Let me explain about the main villain in this piece. For a man that is supposed to have graduated from college, and supposed to be a Master of Industry, Donald Trump is missing a few faculties upstairs. Out of the five points that is needed to be classified insane (you only need three out of these five points to be classified) Donald Trump has all five points. His knowledge of science is very limited and is the equivalent to a kid watching Sesame Street. As an example, cruise ships are booking tours on the North West Passage that is usually closed 12 months out of the year, big land masses like Greenland has defrosted three times last year -- and he’s denying that there is climate change. As a business man his companies went bankrupt 12 times. Including a casino. As the so called leader of the free world, he would have trouble leading a group of men into a Cathouse. He is using scapegoats like Undocumented Migrants; people of the Islamic Faith that live mainly in the Middle East. the poor and destitute; people of color and the disabled and the elderly. Just like the tyrannical leader of the 30’s and 40’s Adolph Hitler. One of these practices got this author the view from his street eye level of a motorcycle wheel.

Trumps idea of health care is something out of the Medieval Period. Something out of Circa 1125 AD to 1420 AD during the Feudal Periods. Where the masses of the poor weak treated by unskilled surgeons. This is the type of health care that Trump and the Republican leadership would put on the poor, disabled and the elderly. One hundred percent of the rest of the developed countries have universal health care. How comed we don’t?

This story begins with me, Bad News Bruce covering a rally against Trump and the Republican’s health plan. It was sponsored by California Alliance of Retired Americans’; San Francisco’s Labor Council; Senior and Disability Action, and a group of doctors and the California Nurses Union and a group of other concerned citizens. As a good reporter I did my homework. While using the Block Grant each person on Medi-Cal will only have $5,000.00 per person per year for medical expenses. A tax of 1% should be placed on any person or company making over $1,000,000.00 per year. That would replace all medical expenses for the country. That means that health insurance companies would not have to exist. That would make the insurance companies go away like using leeches in medicine.

In the rally, after chanting and singing and hearing from the usual windbags, we did the die-in as a reporter of POOR we support and report. This old fart laid down on the ground and held my tombstone up on the last row. After five minutes I heard a motorcycle behind me going the wrong way down a one way street. I thought this imbecile was just going to play chicken. Being a crazy Scotsman I thought, I’m not going to move either. As I was trying to get up off the ground, I turned my head-he missed my nose about a quarter of a inch. It was actually a few seconds. It felt like it was one hour. I could see each spoke of the wheel. It felt like a cheap horror movie in 3-D.

Next week we returned to the same location (7th and Mission Streets) This time the demonstrators and especially the police were blocking the streets. The demonstrators were twice the amount they were last week. This reporter wimped out and did not lie in the street. I supported them from the sidewalk.

Bad News Bruce singing off.  

Part 1 By Tiburcio
“Come on, let’s get out of here, we have to get out of here” those were the words of my mother, frantic after we told her what happened to Uncle Leroy. “That is so messed up”

She was reacting this way because after me and Leroy, still cracking up about what happened explained what she missed. We were in the Star Wars exhibit of the Marin County Fair, the most racist place we could be inside of California the weekend before Fourth Of You-Lie.

We (Uncle Leroy, My mother and I) had just experienced a special type of racism and ageism. The ignorant kind. As we walked in the Star Wars exhibit, three completely regular people just trying to enjoy ourselves at the county fair (we weren't even protesting or in revolutionary action!) and Leroy wants to take a picture with Greedo* and when he’s walking over to leave after the picture, the people who were about to take a picture with Greedo, then...

Part 2 by Tiny
“What kind of creature is that?” the elder white woman’s gray strings of hair flowed down her back and blended into her tie dye t-shirt and matching tie dye pants as she mumbled this loud enough to hear. Her words were directed toward my brother, Po Poet and Kip Hop founder Leroy Moore. It was 4th of U Lie in the stolen Miwok territory the colonizers call Marin County. We were at the County fair which is always loaded up with an excess of white folks, but this year something was very different. We were at the Star Wars exhibit and this hater racist statement was made by a woman who herself resembled part troll and part wookie and yet felt emboldened enough to express her hate openly.



From the minute we arrived we noticed an extra eery amerikkklan arrogance pervaded the warm sunny afternoon. First of all there was only one Lemonade stand, which I’m not sure how this played in but it irked me just the same, as in previous years there was a lemonade stand on every other corner of the fair.



Since my days of unlicensed micro-business vending t-shirts on the street with my mama, we went to this fair because we got in for free, and were always able to sit with the animals, which relaxed my trauma filled concrete jungle stuck mama even though she barely was able to tolerate the great white way of the fair. But in the end the animal calmness always made everything ok so we went anyways.



As we walked in this year the veneer of racist hate was palpable. We walked to the tent that in previous years held all the POC entertainment under one little roof, was now filled with mediocre “folk” singers doing Beatles covers. The entire day’s offering of POC music was reduced to one mariachi band tucked between literally doznes of variations on folk music. By this time me and Leroy and Tiburcio were getting officially concerned. but we pushed on determined to get our Turkey leg, corn on the cob and see farm animals, which is the only reason we came.



Then we saw it. The protest we didn’t know we needed to hold. Proudly standing at the first row of vendor booths was a huge red , white and blue amerikkklan flag slathered with the words Trump/Pence . Yes it was a Trump /Pence booth. and there were literally dozens of people swarming around it. When we saw it, we both looked away. Nooooooooo we cried in unison.



“Do you want some yogurt?” Our next encounter which was actually more typical than strange for Leroy and me with my mama, who are and were always being “mistaken” for unhoused  people, (whatever racist and classist, ableist and ageist indicators tell people that about us?)  was another woman who began to shower us with free clover yogurt and carefully napkin wrapped spoons, repeatedly mumbling sorry to Leroy. Sorry for 525 years of stolen land and stolen bodies, for white supremacy? for her soft complicitness in the criminalization of black, brown and poor, disabled bodies, sorry for wealth-hoarding, sorry for her enabling of anti-poor laws, sorry????



“Moooooooo, “ we finally made it to the fair tent and had some quality time with the goats and cows and llamas and mules, which made everything a little less crazier seeming and was the only reason we went there cause we could get free animal advice and ideas for our tiny, poor people farm at Homefulness. Then onto the Star Wars exhibit. When we walked in we were bombarded by the soft confused strains of renaissance music aka the only time white people had culture or something… and then we finally found the much reduced Star Wars exhibit with the usual Star Wars characters- a couple of guys of in “storm-trooper” suits, a couple of guys playing Darth Vadar, a guy who was supposed to be a wookie and the requisite “bar Scene”. At the sight of the Bar Scene, Leroy said, take a picture of me there. Me and tibu and Leroy ambled over to ostensibly “take a picture” it was there that we encountered the wookie-troll doll family.



“Get Out”……
“Ive been called a lot of things in my 49 years as a disabled Black man, but that took it to a new level,” Leroy recanted as we figured out the closest exit to this terrifying place.

Before we left i had to get some coffee, so we stopped at the outdoor cafe area, thinking what else could possibly happen? well never fear, Trump fans were here.Out of the corner of our eyes while we were sitting quietly sipping our coffee in a corner, a wave of stop -motion blue nylon floats by. Yes it happened, a white man with a blue and white Trump Pence flag tied to his shoulders like a child playing batman, floated by looking at us with a weird threatening look. Or maybe he didn’t look at us. Me and Leroy looked at each other and screamed under our breath that is, GEEEEEET OUUUUTTT….

Part 3 by Leroy

This is the only way that I will celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act if the court in Kayla Moore case rule that Berkeley police valiated Kayla ADA rights.

Stay tune for the upcoming court date for Kayla Moore's ADA trail.

[Image description: The graphic shows a drawing of Kayla Moore, a large black trans woman. She has shoulder-length brown hair, and she is smiling and flashing a peace sign. Her shirt is purple and black with a blue heart, and the words “Justice for Kayla” appear in orange on her shoulder and neckline. Above her face are the words, “We remember Kayla Moore” in a purple and teal banner. Below the banner, the text reads, “4-17-71 to 2-13-13. Poet, singer, sister, daughter, genius, friend, black trans woman with a mental health diagnosis killed by Berkeley Police in her own home. They tried to blame her death on ‘obesity’!!! Shame on BPD!” Drawing copyright Nomy Lamm.] Leroy Moore and Al Osorio next to the poster of Kayla

Suicides inside of Lane Murray by Seven

On June 15, 2017, BayView wrote an article about why there are so many suicides inside of Lane Murray, a women's prison. The reason why so many women are committing suicide inside the prison is because they all have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from being confined for a great amount of time. In the article it says that, “Prolonged confinement at Lane Murray Unit, along with the abuse from the hands of the correctional officers, weakens many women's mental and emotional state”.

The prison is located in a small town of Gatesville, a prominent area for the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). Ad- Seg (Administrative Segregation) is supposed to be security but they are punishments for the prisoners. Ad-Seg (Administrative Segregation) is being utilized for launching dirty money from the state, which means that taxpayers are literally paying for their abuse without knowing what in the world is really going on.  

In my opinion, I think that the KKK(Ku Klux Klan) is playing a big part in what's going on in this prison because when people are being incarcerated are people of color, KKK(Ku Klux Klan) is known for killing a lot of colored people because of the color of their skin. I also think that the Ad-Seds (Administrative Segregation) is only doing all these dirty things because they want to get more and more money off of abusing women.

The way CPS handles children by Zosia

The way CPS handles children without a guardian, or reported children being abused is quite secretive. CPS doesn’t really articulate how they handle situations called out to them. Most of the time, they just state they “took the child away” or “gave a better home” to the child. They now have forms that you fill out, looking like this; http://ag.ca.gov/childabuse/pdf/ss_8572.pdf.

It’s quite scary, as if it is a contract or military fill-out form. Would you be surprised if they barged in and just took away your child like ICE? The truth is that it’s not a safe way that they take children away from their guardians. A question is; when do they even know when to take the children away, and is it okay with the child being taken away? Do they just do it on impulse? With more force than needed? Yes, they do.

In one particular case in 2013, they took away a family’s baby who had a heart condition. They said, “I’m going to grab your baby, and don’t resist and don’t fight me, okay?” as the family was at home after coming from the hospital. This is only one of the many cases that happen every day, though.

As CPS has happened in my family before, I have some relations to these instances. My stance on CPS is that it is not okay. I don’t think the government should send some security guard like, brawny steroid men to your house if your child is acting up. It just doesn’t make sense to me, as your child is your child, not the warden’s barging into your house, not the government's.

SF BayView Article here

Hunter's Point by Kimo

The war on Yemeni people is a horrifying and disgusting thing. But, what we have to remember is that even though the Saudi government are the ones shooting the missiles, this war was started by the United States. This war is fully backed and funded by the Trump Administration. The reason for the last couple of wars that have been going on in the Middle East is because of the oil content there. The United States Government will stop at nothing to get that oil. They have started wars to start our cars.

When our teams did this research we were trying to find out some of the ways that we youth in Oakland are connected to youth in Yemen.

First, this is what’s going on there: many of all casualties of the people of Yemen are children; 2.8 million people have lost their homes; and 1.8 million people – mostly children – are starving.

One of the main things we found is that the US backs this war. While Obama wanted to block the weapons trade in Saudi Arabia, Trump wants to unblock the trade. 110 billion dollars was given to the Saudis by Trump to kill people in Yemen.

The Saudi people may be the ones who are shooting the missiles but they are funded by America and the United Kingdom. The UK has donated up to 8.5 billion dollars in weapons to the Saudi people to make sure they are killing the Yemenis. 2 billion dollars are for aircraft bombers alone.

We also found out in our Research that the US and UK are acting above the law when they support the Saudi War in Yemen.

 “A child is not your child,” said Mr. Alsuhja of Alsuhja Market located in Deep East Oakland across the street from Homefulness/POOR Magazine. He told us this as he was explaining the concept of CPS to us and how it is different in Yemen. We went to his market to ask him about his experience and life in Yemen. We decided to interview him to get a first-person voice on Yemen and outlook on the life there.

In America, if you hit your child you will get them taken away because it is illegal. It’s the so-called law. But if you hit your kid in Yemen it is okay. Honestly, I think that it should be illegal anyway because kids can become scared of their parents and not think they are loved, but I also think that it should be legal because children need to be disciplined.
 
I lost my own 17-year-old brother from gun violence in the streets of Oakland. We hope the violence stops in Yemen

In closing, Yemen is an oppressed country right now. It’s wrong that they are being targeted for their resources, and we respect them because they are standing strong in the face of constant Bombing attacks.

We Youth Skolaz at Deecolonize Academy respect your resistance to the Empires.

My name is Jewel Stroman. Last summer I went from being homeless with my family to obtaining a 2 story brick house in 60 days and becoming a Community Activist. I started a movement advocating not only for my family, but for all families placed at Motel 6 by DC Dept of Human Services & Virginia Williams Family Resource Center. Families sat in filthy living conditions, rodent-infested motel rooms forgotten about by city officials for over 8 months. I joined forces with ABC 7News and We Act Radio and Mayor Bowser and got these families into housing. My fight for adequate housing and proper services for DC families is ongoing.

My family is housed under the Community Partnerships FSRP Rapid Re-Housing Program. This past summer I single-handedly started a movement advocating not only for my family (who had been placed by the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center into a Motel 6), but for every other family at Motel 6. Many of these families had been in Motel placement for over 8 months !!! With no access to case managers (as promised by Virginia Williams and DHS), stuck in a run-down Motel with an infestation of  Rats, Mice and Roaches, and no access to kitchens or refrigerators.

I caught the attention of ABC 7 News and joined forces with Investigative Reporter Scott Taylor to bring attention to this problem. ABC 7 News aired 3 different news stories on the families in Motel 6 in August, September and December. I also did a Radio Interview with Monique Brown from We Act Radio and was in talks with Renee Nash, producer at WHUR 96.3 FM Radio . I started a petition and went on the front lines advocating for my families. Due to my actions, all of the families were finally moved into housing in March. Most recently, my actions caught the attention of DC Mayor Bowser, whom I had a meeting with in March to address my concerns about how DC treats and houses homeless families.

We are currently assigned to Edgewood Brookland Collaborative. In April I contacted Katrina Coates (irector @ Edgewood) in regards to my water being cut off. The Agency agreed to pay the balance of $683 due to restore service. I was contacted by staff there who asked for a recent bill, which I provided via email, and was told the bill would be paid. To date the bill has not been paid despite a Promissory Note written by Edgewood. The water is now back off.

I have 4 children in my home, one of which is a 10 month old, and I am also pregnant. Upon contacting Edgewood Brookland I was told that per the Director's’ wishes Edgewood would only pay the $683 they initially agreed to pay. I reminded them of the late fees, which they agreed to pay. I submitted a copy of the ledger and my Water bill from May, which included the rollover balance of the $683. However, I am being told that Edgewood will not pay the May or June bill. May's bill was $224. Once your total bill goes over a certain amount your utilities are disconnected. Since Edgewood Brookland failed to pay the $683 plus the reconnection fee from April the majority of the money I now owe is from that . Had that portion been paid I would only owe a balance of about $300 and my services would not have been disconnected. The Services were disconnected due to the high amount now owed. I could have set up a payment plan for the $300 from May and June but the bill exceeds the amount the water company would be willing to apply a payment plan to, and once services have been disconnected you are no longer eligible for a payment plan. They want the money to be paid in full to restore services.

I don't understand how an agency who claims to be for families can leave a mother and her children without water and refuse to pay the balance due to restore services.

We walk back and forth in a jail-cel everyday -its called your doorways
tent cities
Bus benches
and Metal chairs in the emergency room
waiting to be seen…excerpt from the PoorHouse to the JailHouse by tiny

“Prison abolition is different than penal abolition- we don’t just want to get rid of the structures- we want to get rid of the whole system that functions to destroy people, said Ashanti Alston, Black Panther and penal abolitionist.

POOR Magazine had the blessing of listening to Ashanti and so many more freedom fighters at the 17th International Conference on Penal Abolition held in New Bedford, Mass, aka stolen Wampanoag territory home to some of the first undocumented immigrants (pilgrims) and the ancestors of many stolen bodies. from enslaved peoples to Northern European medicine women. Suffice it to say the cries from the ancestors can be heard here. Loudly. And I laid down prayers everyday.

The conference, bumpered with the healing work of Black-led healing circle, Harriet’s Apothecary and the prayer of 1st Nations Wampanoag elder, was filled to the brim with theory seminars such as Exorcising White Supremacy Abolitionist Horizons and Failed Encounters with Solidarity alongside voices from the other side of the plantation walls being read by poets and community organizers form across Turtle Island with liberation voices like Ashanti’s calling for deep inclusion from plantation prison scholars in our movements.

At POOR Magazine we call the work to make sure our incarcerated, unhoused and criminalized voices are not only included but leading movements we are impacted by poverty scholarship and this theme began at the opening plenary with Janetta Johnson who called for incarcerated peoples to be included as life coaches and leaders in this penal abolishment movement

“We need to support Trans and non-trans incarcerated peoples inside and outside with all the support we can give them. They have deep lived knowledge, they could act as life coaches for people on the outside,” said Black Trans justice revolutionary Janetta Johnson in the opening plenary with Monica James and Woods Ervin speaking together in a beautiful circle.

Ashanti continued, “This is why its so important to include people inside in the building of a movement - to help us stay focused on this side.Today there is so much potential to take this movement to another level. My challenge is for you to take on the work of the freedom of people who have been inside for 30, 40 or 50 years,” he concluded.

“We need to help Anna Belen Montez, a Puerta Rican political prisoner,” Jose Soler, a union organizer from Boston who brought up Anna Belen as a call to action for the audience. PNN spoke to him later and he explained that Anna needs our support to get the same kind of attention as Oscar Lopez Rivera and like him now has Jan Sassier as a lawyer to fight her case.

As well, the conference highlighted the struggle of Trans peoples of color across Mama Earth. From Argentina to the United Snakkkes, Trans peoples of color in and outside the plantation walls are harassed, criminalized and killed. Many of the letters from folks inside that were read throughout the conference articulated this abuse and the need for more support. 

Unhoused Peoples as political prisoners in the jailhouse outside the razor wire plantation
“11,794 citations were issued to unhoused folks for the sole act of being unhoused in 2014 alone,” Black Panther, POOR Magazine reporter, poverty scholar and organizer with Coalition on Homelessness Bilal Ali who with revolutionary organizer Dayton Andrews, spoke to the ICOPA audience, “ They spend more money criminalizing us than housing us,” he concluded. Bilal went on to list the endless white supremacist, anti-poor people-laws put in place since the colonizers stole this land.

As Bilal and Dayton laid out the facts of the constant criminalization of us poor folks from the powerful Punishing the Poorest report by the Coalition on Homelessness I reflected on my ideas (that i presented in my workshop) that us unhoused peoples are political prisoners outside the razor wire plantation walls. As the daughter of a disabled, unhoused single, Afro-Boricua mama raised and tortured in foster homes and orphanages, trying to survive in the amerikkklan hamster wheel, trying to overcome, heal, live until she couldn’t handle one more little murder of the soul, us ending up years on the street unhoused and criminalized for the sole act of not having access to a roof, eventually landing me in jail for three months for the sole act of being unhoused. Personal is political she would say. Our political is personal. Our Imprisonment is political. Houselessness isn’t a crime. Being so tortured in your heart and soul that you can barely function, that you can barely stop from screaming, that you can’t work, pay rent, hold down plantation jobs, or sell your body, your soul or your mind, isn’t a crime, it’s the result of the violence and sickness of life in this post-colonized babylon. On either side of the razor wire fences.

“The underground cels were the same size and functioned the same as the current Secured Housing Units, one of the powerful organizers of ICOPA, Viviane Saleh - Hanna showed us imagery of a frightening place called Patience, Ghana where enslaved peoples were incarcerated, while she spoke at one of the workshops laying out the deep architectural and actual connections to the  multi-billion- dollar industry of chattel slavery and the current multi-billion dollar industry of plantation prisons. 

The Closing
After these power-FULL four days of penal abolition and resistance in this Wampanoag territory that was home to Frederick Douglass’ home and one of the sites of the underground railroad a closing speech was spoken by beautiful, fabulous sis-STAR Monica James who articulated some of the tensions felt by poverty, incarceration youth scholars who along with a few poverty scholar adults like myself and Leroy were at the conference speaking our truths. This was a testimony to the work of the penal abolition movement away from only an academic exercise into a truly impacted people-led movement, that Monica's words were felt and our stories were uplifted and exactly why the voices of us poverty scholars must not only be included but lead the work to destroy the institutions built to incarcerate and profit off us that is about us, and usually without us.

We walk back and forth in a jailhouse everyday -its called your doorways
tent cities
Bus benches
Metal chairs in the emergency room
waiting to be seen…
 
its main street outside the razor wire plantation in a cel called houselessness and poverty
Teetering on a colonized definition of safety
from scofflaws to stop and risk laws
we can barely survive one day without the violence of hate and poLice brutality

me daughter of a houseless, single mama -
sleeping on street corners, cars and not really public parks in this stolen indigenous territory
its enough to drive anyone completely craz-eee
it took my mama -
unable to unhinge from that deep well of trauma

So whats the answer -
you don’t want to see me
You would like to walk down the street cloaked in your amerikkklan lie that doesn’t include me

Yes we are political prisoners -
outside the razor wire plantations
us po folks are NEVER free
not free from our mind demons
the abuse we can’t get out our mind no matter the quantity of psycho-pharma-cology

I hold my mama in this space
rolling over her torture
daily
“My life is political
my prison is personal,” she would always say

My struggle/ our struggle is poetry
and i can’t escape these walls inside my mind
I can’t ever be free
No Matter what
i can’t ever be free

PNN-KEXU: ICOPA 17 Harriets Apothecary

PNN-KEXU: ICOPA 17 Black Panther Revolutionaries

PNN-KEXU: ICOPA 17 Black Trans Justice

PNN-KEXU: Wampanoag Herstory

PNN-KEXU: ICOPA 17 Black trans prison abolitionist leader's speak

PNN-KEXU: ICOPA 17 Wampanoag elder Opens

PNN-KEXU -the reading of incarcerated skolaz

PNN-KEXU-Free Anna Belen Montez #ICOPA17

Youth Poverty Scholars Investigative Team #100 - Sahara, Seven, Zosia & Sasha Findings

In Deecolonize Academy/POOR Magazine summer camp, we researched food from a local liquor store in our black and brown community. We broke into two investigative youth groups and we looked at, the healthy and unhealthy benefits in the food.

The food that my group researched was Tampico, Lunchables, Onions, and Black beans. Tampico and Lunchables were the unhealthy food group and the onion and beans were the healthy food group. By far the most unhealthy of the unhealthy food group was the Tampico, researched by youth poverty Scholars.

We found that Tampico contains  Potassium Citrate: A potassium salt of citric acid with the molecular formula K₃C₆H₅O₇. It is a white, hygroscopic crystalline powder. It is odorless with a saline taste. It contains 38.28% potassium by mass.

Antimony: Is a toxic and poisonous metal that can cause irritation of the eyes, skin, and lungs. In a longer time, it causes lung diseases, heart problems, diarrhea, severe vomiting and stomach ulcers. The list goes on and honestly, there is more high fructose corn syrup in it than actual juice.

Lunchables are high in sodium. We know from personal experience seeing kids all around me eating Lunchables every day. The American Heart Association recommends that the average kid mg 1500 mg of sodium a day, but many kids who eat Lunchables in jest 260000 mg in one sitting. We didn't know this until we researched it, but once sodium enters your bloodstream. it draws water from outside of your blood vessels into it which gives you higher blood pressure. that is not healthy especially for little kids.

We also found that Parade’s dry black beans are about $1.50 for 16oz, they contain total carbs 31 dietary fiber 8g protein 11g. Black beans are prized for their high protein and fiber content. Black beans may help strengthen bones and Black beans contain quercetin and saponins which can protect the heart.

Team #101 (Tibu, Kimo, Amir and Ziair) Findings

Food Worse than Calibers

We are reporting for 96.1 KEXU Youth Poverty Skolaz Radio and we are going to present a list of healthy and unhealthy foods. We found all of these foods at the grocery store across the street. That grocery store contains mostly unhealthy foods and our job was to find healthy and unhealthy foods in that store and compare them to each other. Here is our list of foods.

Healthy Foods

Berkeley Farms Whole Milk

Krinkle Cut Kettle potato chips

Unhealthy Foods

Oatmeal Cream Pie

Bone-In Chicken Wings

Mrs. Freshley's Chocolate Mini-Donuts

Food is an important thing in our society but most of the time it is poisoning us as we eat. Especially in the poorest neighborhoods we are surrounded by liquor stores and grocery stores filled with nothing but unhealthy foods

The daily intake of sodium that an average person should have a day is 2.3 grams. If you don’t want to get high cholesterol which means having to control your blood pressure constantly you have to intake less than 200 grams a day.

The thing is these chicken wings have 720 milligrams of sodium. Now imagine having about three of these chicken wing meals a day. This is something that many of us struggle with. We live off of food stamps and WIC.

We can’t afford to go to whole foods and get a pre-cooked chicken for $14.99 We have to get these microwaveable chicken wings for 3.00 at the nearest grocery. After eating these meals and meals even worse every day nonstop our body has no break from the abuse that it’s being put under and your blood gets really hot and your blood pressure starts to rise. If you don’t catch it in time you eventually die.

This is the reality that most of us live with except it’s even worse because they don’t know. Almost everyone in these neighborhoods living under these conditions has no idea that they are killing themselves. But see, that is the plan.

The government takes their former enemy’s so powerful once, and put them in these confined neighborhoods and give them only this to eat and only give them this amount of money to spend it and when they can’t they become houseless. This is what is also happening in the Indian Reservations.

Food is important it is one of the things that make us human and the say what you eat is what you are if you’re living a diet full processed food, sugar in almost everything you eat I'm sorry to say this you're on the road to diabetes, Heart Problems, Cancer unfortunately if you’re a resident of an area of poverty you might not be able to access the better foods that markets like rainbow or Trader Joe’s  provide natural and healthy food’s.

 In 2006, a comprehensive review of a large number of TFA related studies indicated a strong association between consumption of TFA and CHD, concluding “On a per-calorie basis, trans fats appear to increase the risk of CHD more than any other micronutrient.11 A more conclusive evidence came from the Nurses’ Health Study in which CHD risk roughly doubled for each 2% increase in trans fat calories consumed instead of carbohydrate calories.

Today in this pandemic of obesity, Diabetes, and cancer. All these are connected, to what you might ask. Let me explain that the food you eat today is garbage filled Genetic Modified organisms, Preservations, Chemicals and a whole lot of stuff you can't even Pronounce.

But why is the question I would ask the corporations why would we pay for GMO foods if they’re just gonna damage us? It's to control the population and milking us out of our money and getting conscious to get used to putting garbage in our body.

But, I have found some alternatives that are less toxic. Knowing how to cook is essential to making your own food one recipe is beans tortillas cheese are good for a little pick me up it's also cheap. Gardening also a really good way to know what you're eating while maintaining your own and it's so much healthier because it doesn't have any chemicals preservatives.

Back in the late 90's I and Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia​ had the honor to present our work in San Bruno jail.  In July of 2017 I had another opportunity to present  my work, this time, Krip-Hop Nation under Poetry For the People's teacher Amalia Alvarez​. The men responded great to the videos, songs and talk all about Black disabled issues from Hip-Hop to police brutality but the spark was the song by Keith Jones​ and I entitled SSI Dollarz.  We ended the class by writing what they thought of the presentation and a cypher.  Click on the link to read the writings of the men responding to the song, SSI DOLLARZ.  I want to thank them for sharing their words and the teacher, Amalia Alvarez for inviting me. Read & Learn: