About me:

POOR Magazine is a literary, visual arts based community organization founded by a previously homeless, currently at-risk mother daughter team.

POOR Magazine offers the following programs:

Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine which provides extremely innovative programming and curriculum to low and no-income youth and adults of color in the Bay Area as well as internships to college students who are interesting in learning and practicing, arts-centered non-colonizing, media justice and advocacy. One of the programs in the Institute is The Digital Resistance Program which just graduated 14 very low-income youth and adults in radio , on-line and print journalism and multi-media

The F.A.M.I.L.Y. Project is a revolutionary collaboration between POOR and Artistikal Revolutionary Teaching (ART) While adults learn digital media resistance in one room, children participate in the F.A.M.I.L.Y (Family Access to Multi-cultural Intergenerational Learning with our Youth) Project, which teaches a multi-generational model of eldership, ancestor worship, family involvement and respect, while offering an arts and social justice curriculum to children 2-14 on a sliding scale pay distribution.

Welfare QUEENS is a cultural media activism play and movie project focused on shattering the harmful mythologies about poor single mothers and fathers as well as giving voice to the true experience of trying to parent a child with little or no resources in a society that does not support poor parents and families.

Voices of Immigrant Resistance is an innovative journalism and media training program for mono-lingual immigrants in the Bay Area. Once they graduate from the fist session of the program they qualify for the Po Scholar fund and are paid to produce independent radio, video, on-line and print media projects on issues related to the struggle of being a poor immigrant in the US, day labor, community racism, border fascism, language barriers, government and police abuse and harassment, parenting, survival and more.

Indigenous Peoples Media Projectis a part of the bigger spectrum of POOR magazine and how we include the World's Indigenous peoples of Mother Earth. This will be an intentional project that will actively seek out the perspectives of Indigenous peoples through individual, group, and/or organizational media collaboration. Self-identified Indigenous people in POOR Magazine will be in control of framing the project. POOR Magazine will be intentional about media supporting/collaboration any events/actions/rallies that are led by Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay Area, and when capacity is a possibility will support these movements that happen outside the Bay Area. The intention will always be for an Indigenous person for whom that issue is affected and who has been identified in that movement to cover that story. This will always be the intention and media collaboration is always possible in every story. This will follow POOR Magazine's dedication to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as providing society with a perspective usually not heard or seen within the mainstream media. Media collaborations will happen inside POOR Magazine's community newsroom, which is a newsmaking talking circle where the peoples' media happen. Go to www.poormagazine.org to view stories on Indigenous Peoples issues and on poverty, race, and class issues in the Bay area and beyond! Are u Indigenous and have a story to tell or pitch? Email Mari at mari@poormagzine.org with your story or story ideas. All Indigenous Peoples welcome!

The Resistance In Film Series is a film series focusing on film as a media for learning an critiquing our communities locally and globally who deal with and resist poverty , racism , oppression. Each film showing includes a discussion led by a poverty scholar on the issue that is portrayed in the film.

POOR’s .. Magazine is updated weekly on important topics that are brought to our attention through members of our community and through our Community Newsroom meetings on the first Tuesday of every month. To see some of the things we are currently involved in and other new stories check us out at www.poormagazine.org. or listen to our monthly radio broadcast on KPFA 94.1fm’s Morning Show.

POOR Press is POOR Magazine’s publishing arm and is dedicated to publishing the books and CD’ s of very low and no-income youth and adults in the Bay Area; to date we have published over 45 books from very low –income poverty scholars and three additions of our catalogue.

CHECK OUT POOR MAGAZINE'S MYSPACE GROUP FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR CURRENT PROJECTS, EVENTS, and CLASSES ..