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These budget cuts will kill our children
Join the rally Tuesday, Feb. 22, 12 noon, on the north steps of the Capitol in Sacramento to oppose California budget cuts to CalWORKS and MediCal that will have a deadly impact on children and...
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The Fourth Annual Poetry Battle of ALL the Sexes
by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Battlers Jewnbug and Dee Allen in the battle “cage” – Photo: PNN The Fourth Annual Poetry Battle of All the Sexes was hosted by your favorite revolutionary poets,...
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Poisonous fruit: Jeff Adachi on the right to housing without police harassment
Community forum for survivors of SRO home invasions by police Tuesday, April 19, 6 p.m., at POOR Magazine, 2940 16th St. #301, San Francisco by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Southern trees bear strange...
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Hunters Point is home!
Standing Up for Ours Tours will launch in August – watch for updates by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network/Prensa Pobre Jamal Modica (right) with his friend and partner, Ashari – Photo:...
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Killed for riding while poor
A young man was shot for not having a transfer by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Speakers at Monday’s press conference on the police murder of 19-year-old Kenneth Harding called for the community to stand...
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Meeting Johnny Otis
by Carlos Zialcita Johnny Otis and Carlos Zialcita I first met Johnny Otis in the mid 1990s when he was still doing a live broadcast of his weekly radio show on KPFA-FM at his cabaret-café in...
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Decolonizing/occupying the plantation known as San Quentin Prison
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Tiburcio Garcia-Gray and Solomon Kealoha Tiburcio listens intently to the speakers. - Photo: Wanda Sabir It was Dead Prez day in Amerikkka. Feb. 20 to be exact. To...
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Poor can change the world via KPFA
by Lisa Gray-Garcia, aka Tiny, Poor News Network Poor News Network at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta June 27, 2007 – Photo: PNN “This is survival radio, without- it-us-po’-folks-might-die radio,...
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Corporations try to kill community colleges
by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia My 15-month-old son and I were down to our last piece of WIC cheese. I was tired and depressed from multiple poverty struggles and impending houselessness as the sole...
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Houseless homeowners: Will San Francisco declare them illegal?
Call the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to oppose ‘Large Vehicle Parking Restrictions,’ Item 120142 on their agenda for Tuesday, Sept. 25 by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia and Maggie Williams “We are...
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The District 5 Poor Peoples Candidate Forum
by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia Holding the District 5 Poor Peoples Candidate Forum in the Plaza East Community Room gave residents of public housing a rare opportunity to educate the candidates who are...
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Taking back City College from the corporations – by any means necessary
The fight to save City College comes to Bayview Hunters Point Wednesday, April 3, 6 p.m., Southeast Campus, 1800 Oakdale at Phelps, San Francisco – come learn and get involved by Tiny, daughter of Dee,...
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White people, run, don’t walk to ‘12 Years a Slave’
Poor News Network review for the revolution by Tiny, daughter of Dee, Mama of Tiburcio I’m not sure which knife-point of ancestral trauma in the new movie “12 Years a Slave,” based on Solomon Northup’s...
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The crime of Ellis Act evictions
The people charge landlords with elder abuse for Ellis Act evictions by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio On Wednesday, Feb. 5, citing California Penal Code Section 368, we,...
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SFPD-enforced gentrification killed Alex Nieto
Join the march on Saturday, March 29, for Alex Nieto at 2 p.m. from Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St., to Bernal Heights Park, San Francisco by Tiny, daughter of Dee “We don’t want to hear...
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SF public housing privatization threatens tenants and union workers
by Lynda Carson The plan to privatize and sell our public housing projects in San Francisco and across the nation is harmful to the poor, elderly and disabled, including the thousands of union workers...
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A woman called Maya
by Mumia Abu Jamal Maya Angelou had to be the name of a poet. It is too perfect, too lyrical to fit any other personality. Born on April 4, 1928, as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, she...
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Revolutionary education for our youth: Homefulness runs a summer camp and...
by Coriander Mellios DEECOLONIZE Academy, on the land in Deep East Oakland known as Homefulness, is born! These are a few of the folks who came to the Open House Aug. 30. The other photos were taken at...
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Decolonization not canonization: Enslaver Junipero Serra was no saint
by Tiny Lisa Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, granddaughter of Mimi The screams traveled in the wind. Some so faint you could hardly hear, some so loud you couldn’t see. A gust of hurt blew in my face as...
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The Broken Windows Theory is broken
Poor houseless, disabled mamaz, daddys, elders and youth release findings on the racist, classist Broken Windows Theory by Tiny, Poor News Network “Welcome to the 2015 WeSearch Policy Group 2015...
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