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POOR MagazinePOOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.
All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally. POOR Magazine, the publication arts and education project, was started in 1996 by an indigenous, landless mother and daughter who struggled with extreme poverty, incarceration and criminalization in the US. POOR Magazine, the organization, is a poor people led/indigenous people led non-profit, grassroots, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, arts, education and solutions from youth, adults and elders in poverty across Pachamama. Homefulness is a poor people-led solution to Homelessness, created, built and manifested by indigenous, displaced, and houseless mamaz, uncles and elders. POOR Magazine makes u holla for the true skola Houseless, Landless, We are many tribes- walking the earth Cultivando y sembrando semillas de resistencia es lo que hacemos en Prensa Pobre trabajando de sol a sol con sudor, angustia, y amor.. y Empuñamos el arma mas fuerte que es el amor a nuestra gente... (Cultivating seeds of resistance is what we do at POOR Magazine.... with sweat, love, and tears...And we pick the biggest weapon which is the love for our Gente....) We a poor people led revolution claiming back our turf like the Shackdwellers union South Africa Landless peoples movement in Brazil Mumia's MOVE africa and Pam Africa as well The Zapatistas in Chiapas The United Houma Nation Resisting Eradication! We all had our own own land, Our own roof Til the po'lice/the government gangstaz Corrupted the truth Journalism coming back to the streets Where it all began No more running for degrees scholarship defined by the man Like Christopher Columbus- Leland Stanford and all eugeni-cists Some weren't fooled By the Philanthro-pimps and Institutional SkoolZ Last Poets, Po'Poets, and PeopleSkool POOR Magazine makes u holla for the true skola Change wont come from a savior, a pimp or an institution Change will only come from our own poor peoples led revolution ........Po'Poets/Poetas POBRE's of POOR Magazine 2010 http://poormagazine.org/ |