POOR Magazine
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Revolutionary Journalism, poetry, & prose on issues of poverty, racism, disability, in/migration, border fascism, incarceration, welfare (de)form, profiling, indigenous resistance, art, media, and more by the folks who experience these struggles first-hand. |
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(POOR Magazine -The print edition- Is currently out of print due to lack of funding. Some copies of Volume #4: MOTHERS still available by mail order. Contact deeandtiny@poormagazine.org) Blogs and Journalizm by Poverty Skolaz locally and globally linked below: |
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Oakland Implements Apartheid for Houseless Residents: Encampment Management Policy is Approved
Oakland Implements Apartheid for Unhoused Residents
Amerikkklan Dream BLues...The Violence of I Got Mines..
Listen to the PoemCast on Spreaker by Clicking Here
Incarcerated Fire Fights
In the year 2020, we have been experiencing the terror of these recent forest fires. The United states has so many firefighters engaging the heat but they now have become stretched thin.
Demand of Mayors In San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Fresno, Berkeley, and other California cities in fire-zones to Open Vacant Hotel Rooms so Houseless People Can Breathe...
Out in the Cold By a Place Called Home
With the deadly COVID 19 disease running out of control in the United States and no viable cure in sight, millions of Americans are faced with an uncertain future as poverty steadily rises at an exodus rate. Due to pay cuts or income loss a
The Privilege of Breathing in Poverty
(Listen to the podcast of this piece piece by clicking here)
Naked Black/Brown Disabled Men Shot By Police has a long history (Here is my short list. Please add to it if you know any cases.)
They came for us in the morning: What prison officials don’t want you to know about the raid on 200+ incarcerated Black people at Soledad
Emmett Till, the Scottsboro Boys, the Central Park 5, and the list goes on. The ramifications of being falsely accused of a crime in America can be, and often has been, deadly for Black people.
Mask Rage
We are all too familiar with the term “Road Rage,” an expression used to sugarcoat the inability for drivers to share the road in a safe manner and with common sense without injuring or killing one another. “Road Rage” is a stupid excuse for people with too much “entitlement” issues and not enough accountability being held for people behaving badly.
