POOR Magazine

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.

(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:

Haiku for the Environment

Thornton Kimes/An Alleged Po'Poet/

warm up the car! we
have to massage concrete for
a nano-second

Play On Reality Pains Psychie

Whew! Really difficult getting to this new site but now that I have... READ UP!

"SIT/LIE", "CIVIL SIDEWALKS", WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, THIS LAW STINKS

Bruce Allison and Thornton Kimes/PNN

July 20, 2010

You might be my color but you aren't my kind

Tony Robles/PNN
Saturday, September 5, 2009;

My Uncle Anthony has this expression that goes, “You might be my color but you ain’t my kind”. He is a street minister who says he’s workin’ for the lord. “The pay might be low but the benefits are out of this world” he says.

You might be my color but…

Writing is Fighting! Escribir es Pelear!!

The HerStory of HOTEL VOICES
La Estoria de VOCES DE LOS HOTELES

Tony Robles/Mission SRO Collaborative
Tuesday, May 23, 2006;

Workforce Apartheid

Tony Robles/PNN
Wednesday, February 13, 2008;

Who gets access to decent jobs and how are folks intentionally excluded from opportunity ? I am constantly asking myself these questions as I work in my capacity as employment counselor for a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. The organization prides itself on uplifting people from homelessness and ending joblessness. I have been working since the age of 16.