Poor press /PrensaPobre 2024 Book Release is a prayer, a poem, palabra  , Herstory & multiple mensajes for land liberation and love from us Houseless, poor, Black/Brown, indigenous, disabled  povertyskolaz to the world - the noche will include danza prayer , theatre and urgent messages from those of us closest to MamaEarth about how we can thrive and survive without more violent wealth-hoarding, land-hoarding , and xtracting and killing of this already occupied Turtle island , POORpress is the publishing arm of the poor/indigenous /houseless people led movement known as POOR magazine.

Participants will include;

Aunti Frances Moore is a formerly houseless Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader from North Oakland/South Berkeley. She was honored to work alongside with courageous geniuses of the revolutions as a member of the Black Panthers. She continues on with the legacy of the Black Panther party using food as an organizing tool to fight against gentrification and displacement. In her work, she has touched the lives of many community members, housed and houseless, through her Self-help Hunger Program. Frances is a brilliant actor and writer and has starred in Teatro de los Pobres productions since 2016. She is a founding member of Homefulness and the co-author of How to Not Call the PoLice ever and the Making of Aunti Volume 1 & 11 on poorpress.net 

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher, single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled, indigenous mama Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of A Decolonizer’s Guide to A Humble Revolution, When Mama and Me Lived Outside, and Poverty Scholarship:Poor People Theory, Arts, words and Tears Across Mama Earth. In 2011, she co-launched The Homefulness Project , the Bank of ComeUnity Reparations, and Deecolonize Academy.  In 2022 she narrated a short movie based on her children’s book When Mama and Me Lived Outside - one families journey thru homelessness which has subsequently won 22 awards across the country. In 2023, she began production on a feature length movie Crushing Wheelchairs based on her first adapted screenplay with an all houseless cast, set to be released in 2024. 

Leroy Moore. Since the 1990s, Moore, a disabled povertyskola has been a member of POOR Magazine, starting with the column “Illin-N-Chillin” and then as a founding member of PeopleSkool, the Homefulness Project and Decolonize Academy. Leroy has launched and helped launch organizations including Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization, Sins Invalid, and Krip-Hop Nation. Currently Leroy is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at UCLA and member of UCLA’s Hip-Hop Study Group. 

Bella Martrice is a povertyskola, Artist, published poet, journalist, song writer and guerilla activist with POOR Magazine and beyond. She was born & raised in the Historically Black Fillmore district of San Francisco. Her writing is impenitent, her passion enchanting. She is Thee Ghetto Poet. Her music is rhythm and poetry literally! She is a word smith, painting pictures with words; Beats are another one of her canvasses.

Angel Heart, Quechua-Puna, is an Activist, Author, Poverty Scholar and formerly houseless (now Homeful) Homefulness Resident. She is currently leading a project and radio show with POOR Magazine on 96.1 FM - PNN - KEXU - titled, "The People's Botanica." Angel Heart is an Intuitive-Empath with many years of knowledge & practice in Espiritismu & Brujeria. She is the creator of The People's Botanica - A spiritual wellness & supplies market. 

Ingrid DeLeon. Ingrid is a formerly houseless, migrant, indigenous, povertyskola mama of four and grandmama of two and refugee of domestic violence and false border terrorism from Guatemala. She is a member of the Po Poets Project of POOR Magazine since 2006 and a reportera with Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia with POOR Magazine and a teacher and poverty skola with PeopleSkool 

Lori Herrera. Born in the chicano resistance of The Mission District of San Francisco (occupied Yelamu) and raised in the calles of Vallejo (occupied Karkin), Lori is a mixed brown Mama, Daughter, Grandmother, revolutionary writer, storyteller, artist, povertyskola with POOR Magazine and a love & liberation soulja, on a journey of decolonizing, remembering and connecting to roots. 

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