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Giving it All Up Education PODS

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul 

 

 

Giving it All Up Education PODS 

Do you know About that System or What it Is Even??? 

I just Learned of Such a Thing. Interesting. I wondered Who Came up with this And I also Wonder Who will Benefit? 

Is this An All Size Fit All Educational Setting??? Check up on it Yall I heard it's For The Ones  that Are Silver Spoon Fed, The Rich And Wealthy,  Privileged Ones. 

I Don't  want to come out and tell you this is Something you must Go Deep Diving For The Answers... 

My Interest has Been Piqued.

What i do know is that Nothing is New under the sun… During Corona The Times is Changing, The Way We Know life to be... This Very Pandemic is Taken over our Educational System, We're Making Progress, It's now been 8 months Since the Beginning of this Mess... and Well We're passing up the Middle and Nearing the End of the Year...

4 Months to go and December Will be here... 

And Well It's  Affecting Us All Globally in Every Area Of Our Lives ...

This Disease Takes Us All Down No one Exempt Even With the World being on Lock Down Supposedly.... America is Damn Near Doomed And It's  Due to Lack of Knowledge & Education Of this Covid 19 Coronavirus... I think Introducing Pods May Be A Solution to the Education Aspect of our Children...

We Have Sheltered in place Partially, and Students are Being Punished All OVER the World ... How do we overcome this Huge Problem In Our Educational community... Who is most Affected academically... Is it the Poor? Is it the Brown, the Black And Broken??? 

Some people say This Pod System Will be A Safe Way to Keep from Spreading the Virus.  Truth be Told No One knows yet How to Stop the Spread Of This Virus.

Pods Sound Strange But it Just Might Be the Answer For Some but it's  surely NOT the End All be ALL ...

I think We All Should just do what works as individual Households And i think it should  be something that Is Provided As Option Not As An Mandatory Procedure due to Coronavirus...

I Don't  know what the Future holds but i do know it's going to take a few tries to get any System to Work in this New World Order... Do You Suggest PODS For Your Children's  Education??? Google it.

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RAD & Gentrifukation in San Francisco

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by Jack Minel

 

2009 was the year my mom and I were no longer homeless in San Francisco, due to the tenacity of my mother, Linda Montoya, and pure luck. My mom spent her efforts to file applications when I was homeless with her in a shelter, known as the Hamilton. She filed a section 8 paper, which allowed certain low-income families — when certified by local house ambassadors — to be allowed to rent a private property.

My mom and I were certainly gifted by fate. We were able to shelter before the new ongoing wave of gentrification that flooded the city in a matter of years. Since it was 2009, there were many people moving out of their low-income housing units as well as coming in to renovate. Our only form of income at the time was the Social Security check she would get, which I assume was nearly 900$, and our rent was 200$ a month from the beginning, plus electricity, etc.

Fast Forward 12 years later, and now I live on 25 Northridge Road, located on the southern eastern end of San Francisco. The hills are steep, and they make bones brittle faster than you mush styrofoam packaging. My mom and I are familiar with the terrain which we live upon. The hills are steep and my mother is growing older in age, getting into her 50’s now. Even I have a hard time getting up the stairs during grocery runs to the store.

Even though these things are tough, to stand aside and let the threat of gentrification continue is something I can't do. I have gone through most of the phases of the RAD reconstruction of my neighborhood of Hunter’s Point, and with some quick fact checking, I also see there are many other chapters of buying low-income housing for the purpose of conversions.

The conversion of the houses around me are nice, but I can't help but get the feeling this is just the calm before the storm. San Francisco is going through a change, from the grassroots culture it’s known for, turning and transforming into a city of technology as well as a high influx of foreign residency, known as the “techies.”

Many friends and families have been drowned out with gentrification and swept from their homes. And I fear that time is coming for my mom and I. Though gaining confidence in a new found perspective, it’s time to speak up and fight against the terror of  gentrification.

But if we can come together we just might have the momentum to sway the odds in the people's favor.  

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Malcolm X Monologue

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by Jack Minel

 

For me to even begin to tell you what I think about what is happening to the youth today is... they have given up. But they, like me and so many others, have been duped by the criminal justice system. We did not ask to be poor, for our ancestors to be segregated and put through cotton fields, and 200 years later, have adults and children be set up to do the same thing. And the kids who are usually being arrested are teenagers who are lost or don't know any other way. But as a person who served 10 years in the pen, wasting away in the white man’s pigsty, I broke free from their bondage and fought against the oppressors. 

 

I agree with Malcolm X when it comes to the right for self governance and respect to all. To treat one another with respect, but have the right to speak up when it’s necessary to do so. His story is jaded like another, but I believe what people love and admire about Malcolm is he makes an effort to fuel his ambitions to beat the odds that were set against him. 

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A New Day

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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By: AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul

 

A new day

I didn't think that I would ever

Get the opportunity to see this day come ...

well actually a part of me could see it

wished for it and longed for the opportunity

if the stars were aligned .

 

I pushed it deep down

damn near buried it up underneath my Pulse

I found ways to stay busy

subconsciously there was something that I was missing,

And Very Much Deserving 

 

A new day,

A new day indeed it is 

I saw this day coming on the flip side

eagerly anticipating operating in my honor righteously

so unbeknownst to me I am to be the receiver

the seeds I have sewn have been watered

the shade has played its part significantly

all the while the soil Appeared Tainted

 

Not so said the Lord burning up the (her) garden

leaving only Ash,

she is a new creature

old things passed away

with new Mercies new pleasures new love new sacrifice new seeds new water

and miles of shade for brand new Harvesters

For the land is good the mind is whole the body is pure

this makes room for the gift intended

to keep on giving keep on nurturing keep on feeding keep on reaching keep on teaching

Born to Die just to live again ,I see ,I see 

 

It's A new day a new season new timing

For New Horizons A New Homefulness 

A New Existence,A New Home  A New Life A New Being ...

I was Awaiting I Am Anxious

i can Feel the New New New All Over Me

It's in the Atmosphere, Bitter Sweet 

Leaving Behind An OLD LiFE i Once New

 

It's a New Day 

Now She Is Open ...

Willing to Be Rescued,

Up On the SHELF 

I am Reminded That I... I ...I ... I ...I am The Beauty of The Bay

And In the Words of Torian Dajour Hughes 

I come So that your Left May Roll to Shift  to The Right ... 

At My Feet They Shall Lay 

Sabotage I Will Not ...

In stead I Will Fall Forward,

I wont Take Any Steps Back as My Breath Leaves My Body

I will Inhale All that is Intended for the Partaken Of myself ...

I choose  me

I chose to Live and NOT Simply Exist

I Have Chosen to Be with out For Far tooo Long

I Choose To Differ To Abundance Of the Spirit

A Great Sacrifice Honorable To the Core Being 

Abundantly, I Humbly Chase Not The Money Fortune or Fame 

YET It Insists I Be A Star Shining Like only An Diamond Can ...

I Can Not Run Or Hide Anymore 

 

Filthy Lugia Blood-Stained dollars We Wore

Our Relationship Is Ending and I have a New Found Respect for You 

In the Past I Have Feared You And Avoided you

Mocked You And Made Way With Out You ...

All Along God Put You there For My Usage

To build, Climb and Be Happy

Removed  Some People's and Added Some Folks To My Journey

who Was Scripted in My Life Line Tapestry ...

 

Balancers

Money, Food ,Love , 

Destiny Will Provide the Outline

The Outcome is Self Love And True Understanding of What Holds Us

You or Me

Back From Moving Forward  in certain parts of our lives ... 

Repetition Can Be the tool to Blame thus Sabotaging  your Journey

Another would be Religion

and Last but not least The Voices Inwardly  and Outwardly...

oh Yeah They Exist

The key is to Find Ways to Move Forward in your New Decision

The power to Make Decisions Puts Us At An Advantage but can Backfire

One Key Factor is Visualization...

Seeing it for Yourself In your minds Eye 

 

As for Me I Been Warring On the inside

I have Had a protective Bubble For 18 years and, well... 

Now That the Time Has Come

To Be Freed of these Kurses And Shackling of the Mind's Movement

Manifestations Of Greater GOODS

Set Up and Aside for Me And Mine on Earth. 

 

Thank you Father God For My ....

B4-MeTeam ...

She Is Awakened and Ready To live Life and All that it has To Live

For 38 Been Great 39 And Hello 40 ...

I'm  Ready Hungry and Tired

I say Yes to the Dress ...

It fits Like A Glove

Unique and Set Apart Aside just for Me ...

2020 is My Year

Roll the Wheel

 

A New Day 

Everything i Need is Already inside of me

It's  in My DNA

All We have to do Is Be Present

As God Gifts Us the Light To See the Road map

You are The Blue Print ...

Thank you Yet Again Father GOD

I live to Be a True living Witness and Testament 

testifying  On Your GOODNESS

With this People's Led Movement of Matters of the Heart 

This is Why it's  All Connected

EachOneReachOneTeachOne 

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Chronicles of A Grieving yet Breathing Mother, 9/3/20

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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By: AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul

Today, much like many other days, started as an ordinary day, only to find another family member has passed away. Today is September 3rd. My sister passed last week, actually, but today my mind and thoughts are with my friend, dear sister.

It seems like this has really been hitting her family. She's been taking the information left and right. Young and old, sick and healthy members of her family have passed away. I have began to wonder why are we leaving Earth so rapidly. It's already the 9th month in the year and, well, Coronavirus seems to be here to stay, at least a few more of the months going into the new year of 2021.

In the year 2018 I received mother of the year award. In the year 2019 Amir and ziair received Oakland's finest award. Now that it's 2020. Well, let's just say we will wait to see the end result of the year.

We do have wonderful projects. We have planted the seeds, watered and thrown some shade. Everybody is beginning to act like everything is normal again. As soon as the numbers went down with the Covid-19 virus, they went back up like a yo-yo.

Some people don't believe the virus is a real situation, and others are petrified, allowing it to dictate their every movement. it's a Bittersweet situation. Nobody really knows what to do. Wash your hands. Cover your mouth. Shield your face. Watch your step. Don't look at anybody too hard or you might catch it. That's the feeling.

This new reality is causing everyone to re-evaluate how they move, think, feel and respond. It brings me to the very thought of Kobe Bryant and Chadwick Boseman, two black powerful men suddenly unexpectedly in this year of 20/20 Clear Vision and New Beginnings Paving their mark on the world forever. I remember my personal documentary being relevant around the same time as these black men leveled up. I too leveled the signs of the times. I have arrived. The notion of ridding of money I've been talked about, but it's becoming a reality.

The chips have been put into the animals and the people, and there's something going on in the atmosphere. Some people say count the stars, look to the Sun and Moon. Astrology is our next best friend to help us shift through these uncertain times. Religion, Salvation, Spirituality, Stones, Rocks, Crystals, Herbs, Sage, Centering and Meditation. These are the remedies, antidotes and cure for all that we face. However, the teacher will show up when the student is ready for the lesson.

This isn't the first pandemic and it won't be the last. This isn't the first situation in government where the state has put citizens In Harm's Way. It's in the books. It's said in history. It's Center woven into our tapestry. All we have to do is be willing to receive and present for the answers. They will come. They are already here. All that you need is already inside of you. You just have to believe and then receive.

I am AudreyCandyCorn a Greiving Yet breathing mother, and these are my Chronicles. 

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Supermoon

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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By: AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul

Today I learned about Supermoon, it's in September.

September 17th is the actual day in 2020

This is the third Supermoon to be experienced, this information is new to me.
I never knew of such a thing.
I learned that manifestation takes place during these times in the atmosphere.
I never really pay attention to things like that (that's probably why I have been unbalanced!) Some people are really in tune with these types of knowledge. 
 
Science has a lot to do with how we have been feeling. They say the super moon is just as important as the moon itself ...
I'm learning that constellation science is tricky... 
How the laws of the universe supersede science... or do they?
They go hand-in-hand.
The laws of the land and science are almost the same thing (but don't quote me on that)
I am a believer in manifestation, I am a believer in science, I am a believer of the universal laws of attraction.
 
I know One thang... 
I believe in God, The Great I Am that I am ... 
As for now I will allow my intuition to guide me.
I believe all of the numbers and stars add up to a full Human Experience.
We humans are at the top of the food chain, we are our own saviors as well as the enemy. Mother Earth is Raging!
This is fire season and covid-19 has been the same for 9 months.
Corona has a hold over the whole world right now.
 
And so all one can do is navigate from the inner being, our inner Compass, to be the road map, allowing our vessels to be the tools that the energy shifts through, messaging directions and last but not least...
Salvation
This is how it's all connected
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My Thought, My Truth

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul 

 

I want to start off with a thank you. I want to thank the all-powerful, the Almighty, the all knowing God, head of my life, my provider, my protector, my beginning and end, the Creator.... My Messiah, yes, you are all that I need, although there are times when I function outside of what I know to be true... Never Once Abandoning Me, Always Being True And Committed... To Me. And Not Just Some of me but all of me. The Good, Bad And Ugly... All sides. You Hold On And Pedal, Stoop Not Stool... Uplifting My Every Action, Pushes Me Forward and Guides My Path, Lighting My Darkest Hour, inverted as a Halo Hovering Over Me... I Am Protected, Chosen And Set Aside, to Be Set Apart, Infused With Chaos And Laughter, Joy And Fear, Interviewed Together, Creating History and HerStory... 

I found A Lump in my Breast on September 17th, 2020…

Super Moon...

The 3rd One... 

Shocking Right... 

I'm So Healthy

How did this Happen? What has Changed? Where did the Shift Come And Why Didn't I Notice It? 

It's Kinda Huge, and So Sudden... 

It was on A Fluke That it was Found On Me, or in Me... thank GOD For New Chapters...My first Health Scare at 38  

I Don't know how to Feel. I'm Kind of Numb. Part of Me Cares, Part of Me Don't. I know this too Will Be A part of my Great Heights Of Overcoming and Achievements...

My Saga Continues, Defeating And Conquering All That is Put in My Path. 

I Reign, Matter is My Territory, And I have All that I need inside of me To heal Myself...

On the 24th of Sept., 2020, I will Meet up with A Lady Who Will Take My Full Birth Name. We will Tag Team Spiritually. The Catch is I don't know Who she will be or Whom She Will be Surfacing From... She Will Be A Healer And I Will Recieve My Disappearing Of this Tissue or Swollen Glands Miracle... 

I Call on Healing, I call on GOD'S Grace, Mercy And Humor.

I love you, God. No Matter What, I've Given my Best WALK of Life, Striving to be the Change That I Want to See and Be For Myself. The Kindom of God and My Childrens, as well as Friends and Family.

I often Wonder What will I Be Recognized For. I've  Done So Much in So little Time. Often i Feel Like I'm  Running Out Of time, and My Best Kept Secret Soon Will be Exposed. It's A Gurl, with the Great News Of a Brand New Chance at Life, Building And Leveling up... 

My Body Is Changing. I'm Soon to be in my 40s. Bye Bye 30s and Hello 50s, Get Ready Mrs. 60s, Hello Lady 70s, Queen Ubiquitous Gonna Make it Smooth Sailings Right Up into the Awesome 80s, in which I was Born: 1981. I will Celebrate Life Happy, Healthy and Whole. In my Right Mind, Full Activity of My Limbs, Clothed in my Right Mind. Full of Love, Knowledgeable, Game, and Secure, Reaching My 90s. I will have Paved The Way For My Family and All my Loved Ones, Saving Lives. I Plan to Move into My 100s and Look Back Over My Life Satisfied, Prepared To Receive My Wings And Crown And the Sentence, “WELL DONE, MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT” 

Looking Back Over My Life, Prematurely, the Goal is to make it to live to be 105 or 111, with God's Permission. But as for Now, i will be getting Ready To prepare For My Very 1st “I Stand 2Vote West Oakland Clean Up”... Me and My Childrens Decided to Celebrate our birthday with Being the Change That Starts Within. The Cleaning Of the Inner Man, The Cleaning Of one’s House, The Cleansing Of one's Faith, The Cleanup Around the Outskirts of Our Homes. Realigning Relationships and Making Good On Your Wrongs. Making Littering, Not Voting and Turning the Other Check a Thing Of the PAST. The time is Now to Move. Catch A Second Wind. And what you Must... For we all Have our time and our Hour. And So I will Serve Tomorrow as A Bridge to Close the Distance Between The Community and The Lost Village. Hoping that City Council Would share Some Love, Light, and Action, And Show up to be counted. 

I hope Family and Friends, Community Leaders Show up and Engage. This is Very Important to me... If i Should Die tomorrow, Where Would My Children Go? Who would Step in On My Behalf To Fill My Shoes? This is Why it's all Connected...

Dare to Live. Dare to Love. Dare to Fight. Dare to Struggle. Dare to Give. Dare to Be Exposed. Dare to Be Elevated. 

AudreyCandyCorn, Grieving Yet Breathing Mother, Aka SistahSaveASoul... I end This The Same way i Started It. I want to thank you, Father God, for being the Great all-powerful all-knowing Fair God. I acknowledge you for being the Great I Am that I am. I praise you For Being God and I thank you, not for what you do for me, not for what you have done for me, not for what you are doing for me, not for what you will do for me. I praise you simply for being the GOD of all gods. I know that I am protected in your shadow. You are the start Of the beginning and the End Of the End. I want to Live, Be Heard and Seen. I Have A Voice. I am the living Experience, Shared Responsibility Of Matter And All that Science Can't Explain. I am Just that And Much More, Never to Be Understood until Now.

The Rebirth Of life. After Death, Energy Never Dies. I will Transfer and Transform In this Until Moving on Into the Afterlife, which is totally Spiritual. Released of This Meat Sack that I’m Temporarily in for the next 65 -70 Years... 

My Thought, My truth....

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Akkkademic Reparations* on Stolen Land

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by Maya Ram

 

*All the language in this article challenging linguistic domination is brought to you by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia & POOR Magazine...check out Poverty Scholarship at poorpress.net for more on linguistic domination

 

“We are at this place right now where we’re doing land acknowledgements, but do we get to go to these institutions? Not ONE Lisjan person has been educated at UC Berkeley,” said Corrina Gould at ‘Degentrifying Academia from Huichin (Berkeley) to Lenape (Philly): Taking Back Land, Culture, and Ancestors’ on April 28th. Corrina, spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone and co-founder of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, talked about how buildings at UC Berkeley hoard remains of 9,000 stolen indigenous ancestors. Akkkademic institutions have the power to tell false, colonized histories -- from UC Berkeley in the Bay Area to Temple University in Philly -- as they sit on indigenous burial sites and village sites.

POOR Magazine -- alongside comrades from Poor People’s Army, #FreeKashmir, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Krip Hop Nation, and many more Poverty Skolaz -- shared powerful knowledge, WeSearch, questions and a demand for UC Berkeley in the last few weeks. A call for the end to hoarded wealth, stolen ancestors, and gentrifukation.

“As we talk about landless people’s movements, it is vital that we open these conversations to Poverty Skolaz,” said Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine and Homefulness. “Of the homeless people in Oakland, around 50% are Black, 30% are white, over 80% are disabled and many are elders -- all because of this lie called ‘crapitalism’ and this lie called ‘wealth.’” We see how akkkademia fuels crapitalism and wealth hoarding in the current actions of UC Berkeley. In People’s Park & at 1921 Walnut St., UC Berkeley -- which already owns 40% of land in Berkeley -- is trying to evict disabled elders and displace houseless people (including students) to build dorms that will only house students who can pay. UC Berkeley chooses to line its own pockets at the expense of residents of People’s Park & 1921 Walnut, and their own student body. 

Stealing of indigenous land and displacing families and elders is reflected in struggles for liberation around the world. Huma Dar, a Kashmiri academic, activist & mama, notes that during a global pandemic, “Nomadic indigenous people and elders are being evicted from their homes in Kashmir.” As wealthy, Hindu, caste-privileged citizens purchase stolen Kashmiri land, we see a mirrored displacement of poor and indigenous peoples. And circling back to Turtle Island: “West of Temple University was 96% black in 2000, but after gentrification in 2010 was about 50% white and college-age residents were ⅔ of the population,” said Galen Tyler, an organizer in West Philly from Poor People’s Army.

At the Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tour at UC Berkeley on May 5th, youth skolaz from Deecolonize Academy taught us that almost every building on campus is named after a eugenicist. Akkkademic institutions may not have a problem with placing a racist colonizer’s name on a building, but people with akkkademic privilege -- like students, professors, lecturers and community members -- do. They used their collective power to partner with POOR Magazine for a Stolen Land Tour on their campus to learn about akkkademic reparations.

When I think about akkkademic reparations, I think about my mama. Growing up poor in India to parents who were farmers that migrated to the city, she was taught the colonial myth that akkkademia is what saves you, what gets you out of a bad place. I inherited this. If I knew one thing growing up, it was that I had to go to college in order to make it. My akkkademic access and class privilege brought me to college, all the way across the country, running from abuse and my family. In my pursuit of success, of making it on my own, of earning my own money and keeping myself afloat, I was never taught the true lie of these institutions. That they steal land and labor and people’s homes and the bones of indigenous ancestors in order to make “dreams come true.” The dream that was fed to me was never real...it was always an illusion. The illusion that hard work - instead of privilege - leads to success and money. That getting degrees makes me smarter or more worthy of some white dude’s respect. That respectability is above respect for land, elders and ancestors.

Shattering this lie and seeing akkkademia for what it truly is was my first step in akkkademic reparations and getting in right relationship with the land I’m on and the people whose land I'm on. POOR Magazine and PeopleSkool helped me get to a place where I could hold my family histories of power, privilege AND oppression with love and pain...knowing that the way forward is radically redistributing to follow the guidance of my poor ancestors.

It’s like Leroy Moore of Krip Hop Nation said: “Poor people have the answers, and we cannot go back (to before Covid). We have an extraordinary opportunity to radically change things moving forward.”

 

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Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources, Ancestors, Land and Culture Back Demand for UC Berkeley
From POOR Magazine, Homefulness, Deecolonize Academy, Indians Organizing for Change and Krip Hop Nation.

DEMAND:
We the Indigenous, unHoused, Displaced, Privatized, Enslaved, Bordered, poLiced, Disabled, and profited off of Peoples Present to UC Berkeley a Demand of Land back for Evicted and Unhoused People, PoLice Harassed and gentriFUKed out for the Borm Industrial Complex and the land hoarding and resource theft perpetrated by institutions like UC Berkeley and UC Hastings.

We also offer to begin a dialogue with Academia to redistribute, reparate, and begin a generational and ancestral healing process from the disease of wealth and/or resource hoarding, generational or inherited land-stealing, displacing, academic or cultural theft, and/or desecrating of indigenous bodies, houseless bodies, Disabled bodies, Black and Brown and incarcerated and silenced Peoples.

We Demand Land Back and reparations for the Genrations of Cultural theft and Cultural appropriation of disabled black and brown and indigenous bodies and that People’s Park and 1921 Walnut Street apartments remain intact, never displaced or threatened with removal again.

As well that houseless and indigenous people be supported with reparations and returned stolen resources and stolen “studied” knowledge so we can build our own solutions to our own problems informed by #PovertyScholarship like Homefulness and Deecolonize Academy.

A session of PeopleSkool at Poor Magazine is offered to the institution as part of this Healing -- informed by Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth.

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Landless/houseless, Indigenous Black, Brown and Disabled Youth & Family Poverty Skolaz Lead a Tour thru NorthWest Occupied Turtle Island

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Poor/houseless/indigenous youth, families, and elders share models of  landless peoples' self-determination, Po'Lice-free land liberation, revolutionary media, and art.

What: Poor/houseless/indigenous peoples "tour" so-called NorthWest Turtle Island with medicine/solutions of Homefulness, media, poetry, workshops, books, and "How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever"/"Poverty Scholarship" readings

When: June 4th-13th 

Where: Occupied Pomo, Yurok, Squaxin Island, Nisqually, Chehalis land aka  So-called Ft Bragg, Klamath River, Washington and more 

 

"When they take our land, our tents and our belongings, we have nowhere to go,... " 

-Israel M formerly houseless, indigenous co-builder of Homefulness, 

"As colonial cities and towns "open Back Up" we indigenous, houseless and poor folks know that means, increased sweeps of houseless bodies, increased evictions of poor families and elders, increased desecration of indigenous peoples lands and sacred sites increased poverty and poLice Terror of Black and Brown and working class people."  

-Tiny, formerly houseless co-founder of POOR Magazine

POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led art, culture, and liberation movement. Our multi-generational, multi-cultural houseless/indigneous people-led movement will be going on the road to connect the dots between our shared oppressions and struggles, share the urgent medicine of how to build self-determined land movements, take back land, and our own knowledge systems and cultures right here in occupied Turtle Island.

We will be going to so-called  Fort Bragg, aka Occupied Pomo Territory,  Occupied Yurok Territory  and finally occupied and stolen Squaxin territory. In all of these occupied lands we will be connecting the dots between eviction, colonization, desecration, poLice terror, Devil-oper Land grabs/speculation, gentriFUKation, Homelessness and Removal of Black, Brown, indigenous, disabled and poor people. 

As land liberators from all four corners of mama earth, we will be offering readings and workshops from our newest books How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever and Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth, as well as leading  Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tour through these colonized towns , colonial landmarks ( KlanMarks, as Tiny from POOR Magazine calls them),  wealth-hoarding neighborhoods, museums of Anthro-Wrongology, and Academia to share the urgent medicine of Radical Redistribution and ComeUnity Reparations. 

Finally, we will be meeting/sharing and teaching with poor and houseless peoples in encampments the POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork models of poor people--led media production  in each town and area, so they can launch their own media hubs like POOR Magazine's street-based media projects.

We are inviting all organizations to co-sponsor, host us for a book reading, performance, or workshop, or walk with us in the Stolen Land Tour. Below are links of Stolen Land Tours we have done before and information about our books and work.

 

Links to some of our Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources Tours

Stolen Land/Hoarded Resurces Tour thru Akkkadeia- May 2021 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489FkHJQWxs&t=91s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NFtYpE64s&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-N1FCWAdY&t=57s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0j6baUl1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHj4zzCmWk

 

Links to books:

How to Not Call Po'Lice Ever 

Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth

Po' People's Survival Guide thru COVID-19 and the Virus of Poverty 

 

Children's books:

When Mama and Me Lived Outside

The Hard Worker (Trabajador Fuerte)

Krip Hop Nation Graphic Novel 

Decolonewz - Newspaper led by youth in poverty for everyone ( available in paper form only) 

 

Workshops: 

See this link

 

Po' Peoples Radio Broadcasts:

See this link

 

More info on Homefulness:

See this link and www.poormagazine.org/homefulness 

 

Articles on this from the SF Bay View and POOR Magazine:

Stealing our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule

Selling our Homes to Private Investors

Public Housing Privatization

The Privatization

From Privatization to Reparations

Section 8 and Public Housing at Risk

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Life is Unpredictable

09/23/2021 - 13:50 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by AudreyCandyCorn aka SistahSaveASoul 

 

Life is unpredictable. I try to control what I can.

Some say I shouldn't, I should Just Go with the Flow And Be Accepting Of What Life Has In Store.

I'm Learning Life Is About How One Moves Through Every Encounter, Good and Bad... I Certainly have Had My Challenges and Am Currently having Some Difficulties With Maintaining My Emotions, Concerning All of Life's Recent Curveballs…  

For Instance, Since the Coronavirus has hit, It Seems Masks, Gloves, And Disinfectants is Our New Way of Living. 

“Gimme 6 Feet” Is the New Hashtag and World Order. The Law Has Been Implemented and All must Conform To it...

It Seems To me this Virus is Unpredictable and aims to Kill and Destroy...

Some Have Survived, Many Were Sentenced to Death by this Newest Pandemic...

We Must Carry On... The World is Still Very much in A Panic...

And The World Is Still Spinning, Although the Government is Doing Their Very Best to Dictate Everyone's Movement's... Meanwhile, Tension is Up. The Economy has taken a Bad Hit, Affecting us all... 

One Minute, The Restaurants Are Open. Then they Close them Down, due to the Spikes Of Coronavirus/Covid-19. It's Like We’re the Yo-yos, The State Is The String, And the Government is the Human Guiding the String and Yo-yo...

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