A revolutionary poor people-led theory and solutions based text book that also comes with a downloadable curriculum, released by poet, author and poverty skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and POOR Magazine family.
Homefulness noun A Poor & Indigenous-people led solution to homelessness A sweat equity, permanent co-housing, education, arts, micro-business and social change project for landless/houseless and formerly houseless families and individuals How do poor, houseless, Indigenous, evicted, disabled, false-border-terrorized peoples from all four corners of Mama Earth, now residing on stolen and occupied Turtle Island, who have been displaced, evicted, incarcerated, swept, criminalized and traumatized actually "buy" land and build permanent homes, food justice, art and healing comeUnity for themselves and the world? Through layers of what we call Poverty Scholarship in Practice, it can be done. This book is the journey and the how-to of the powerFULL poverty skolaz and ancestors of POOR Magazine spiritually and legally unselling Mama Earth and building the vision that is Homefulness. This books takes you through the unfolding in real time, with all the hard parts, gray areas, and UnClarity that MamaFestation means in a stolen land of lies.
In twenty-one years of collective love and struggle, the poor, unhoused, disabled, Black, Brown, Indigenous, elder and youth leaders, artists, and cultural workers of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, PoorNewsNetwork (PNN)/Homefulness have never called the Po'Lice.We face our demons ALL THE TIME, because we all come out of colonial trauma experiences of racism, white supremacy, ableism, family violence, false borders, eviction, houselessness, criminalization, elder/child abuse, sexual violence, rape, incarceration, Po'Lice violence, genderism, hate crimes, and so much more. At Homefulness, we go within to solve our community's problems.Based off POOR Magazine's revolutionary workshops of the same name and collected here in writing for the first time, this handbook takes readers through the Herstory/His-STORY of Po'Lice Terror of our bodies, lives, children and elders in this stolen land, and then shares the model of the Elephant Council at Homefulness-a poor, Indigenous people/traumatized people's accountability circle, which includes a redefinition of the silently violent, western white supremacist notion of "security," and enables us to hold each other through trauma and institute a true definition of interdependent safety.Thru participatory exercises, theatre, art, prayer, and poetry, Poverty Skolaz and Elephant Co-Leaders Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, Leroy Moore, Muteado Silencio, Aunti Frances Moore, and many more revolutionary poets, artists, and thinkers take us all through one way to make a collective shift away from the lie of state-sponsored murder and into the realness of what we can build ourselves.
The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration. In 2011, Nigel Poor--artist, educator, and cocreator of the acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle--began teaching a history ofphotography class through the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison. Neither books nor cameras were allowedinto the facility, so an unorthodox course with a range of inventivemapping exercises ensued: students crafted "verbal photographs" of memories for which they had no visual documentation, and annotated iconic images from different artists. After the first semester, Poor says, "one student told me he could now see fascination everywhere in San Quentin." When Poor received access to thousands of negatives in the prison's archive, made by corrections officers of a former era, these images of San Quentin's everyday occurrences soon became launchpads for her students' keen observations. From thebanal to the brutal, to distinct moments of respite, the pictures in this archive gave those who were involved in the project theopportunity to share their stories and reflections on incarceration.
PC Magazine contributing editor Alfred Poor guides readers through preventive maintenance, diagnosing the most common hardware problems and the most common upgrades and repairs users will want to perform on their systems. Topics include installing multimedia components, adding more RAM, upgrading the processor, and getting your hardware ready for Windows 95.
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