POOR Magazine/Prensa Pobre is a grassroots poor people led non-profit arts organization in San Francisco, California and part of the greater indigenous and poor peoples led movements around the world, such as the Landless Peoples Movements, The Homeless Workers' Movement, and Take Back the Land. POOR Magazine additionally holds office in Oakland, CA through its Homefulness Project, a sustainable permanent housing initiative for families displaced by gentrification.[1]

POOR Magazine was founded in 1996 by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia and Dee Gray, a mother and daughter team struggling with extreme poverty, racism, incarceration, and homelessness in the U.S.[2] In November 2013 POOR Magazine staged a highly publicized action theater piece in front of Twitter Headquarters to protest Twitter's greater financial presence within San Francisco.[3][4]

POOR Magazine operates low-power FM radio station KEXU-LP.

References

  1. ↑ ”The Audacity of Home" http://bitchmagazine.org/article/the-audacity-of-home-poor-media-magazine, Bitch Magazine, Habit{at}, 2013
  2. ↑ "POOR Magazine gives the Bay Area's needy a forum". Los Angeles Times. July 23, 2001. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  3. ↑ ”#ThrownOutByTwitter Protests on Twitter IPO Opening” http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/ThrownOutByTwitter-Protests-on-Twitter-IPO-Opening-230981451.html November 07, 2013
  4. ↑ Twitter IPO highlights big money friction in San Francisco” http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/twitter-ipo-highlights-big-money-friction-in-san-francisco/Content?oid=2622158 November, 2013


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