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From 5M to The End (of SoMa): How does a corporation wipe out an entire...
by Tiny, Poor News Network The light from their eyes was missing; in its place was the color of fear. Lined up, hard-working backs huddled up against the cold white marble walls of City Hall in San...
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I’m the same as you – I just don’t have a roof
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Side by side / chair frames and baby toys, / jackets, toothbrushes coffee cans and pillows / wrapped up in paper made of memories … “These businesses around...
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A multi-nationed prayer from San Francisco to Dakota land protectors
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio “I don’t care if we have half a T-shirt to sell, we have no money and food left so you gotta go out there!” On my mama’s words directing me to sell on the...
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Poor people don’t have presidents
by Tiny, Poor News Network Poor, unhoused, barely housed, indigenous, Black, Brown and Red people don’t have presidents. We have prison wardens, police, sheriffs, anti-social workers, landlords,...
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A loving farewell to Iris Canada, 100 years of Black herstory killed by...
When will we charge the real criminals? by Tiny, Lisa Gray-Garcia Knives are sharpened into paper called leases – with blades that cut children and elders into pieces. Murderers called landlords get...
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Bay View turns 40!
Bay View turns 40! Part 1 Editorial by Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff It’s 2016, 40 years since Muhammad al-Kareem founded the New Bayview, now renamed the San Francisco Bay View, in 1976....
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Penal abolition and the razor wire plantations
Poverty skolaz report and reflect on the International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 17) by Tiny, Lisa Gray-Garcia We walk back and forth in a jail cell every day It’s called your doorways Tent...
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From deportations to reparations: An emergency call for Ag-Reparations and...
by Tiny, Daughter of Dee, Mama of Tiburcio Daughters and sons crying, hardworking fathers and mothers wrenched from their children’s arms, families stolen, babies traumatized. Oranges dying on the...
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Shero Kiilu
As usual, there’s Kiilu, right in the thick of things in this anti-war march on Sept. 24, 2005. – Photo: Kamau Amen-Ra by Tiny What is a shero who never gave up & NEVER let go never stood down,...
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‘Poverty Scholarship’: Poor people create their own theory, textbook and...
by Poor News Network Poor, homeless and disabled scholars are releasing a book sharing their truly innovative solutions to homelessness and poverty and launch a national theatre production on poverty,...
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The District 5 Poor Peoples Candidate Forum
by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia “We went to City Hall over 65 times last year and at the end of the day we got nothing,” said Martha Hollins, mama and auntie to many at the Plaza East Housing Complex in San...
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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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