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Few prisoners strike at San Quentin
by Kevin D. Sawyer Few prisoners, if any, at San Quentin State Prison participated in what was reported to be the largest prisoner-led strike in United States history. There are many reasons for these...
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Kevin Hart’s new movie ‘Night School’ can help us create Real School
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio The new Kevin Hart movie, “Night School,” was about so many things, but like a good artist, as my poverty skola-teacher Mama Dee used to...
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Outside support grows as prison resistance continues with ongoing strikes and...
by Amani Sawari The extensive participation in the National Prison Strike in Florida, both inside the prisons and outside, must have been a major contributor to the historic victory of the initiative...
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‘The Execution of X-Raided’: The power of redemption
by Amani Sawari Being a rapper has a stigma attached due to the “trap” rap genre saturating mainstream music entertainment. The genre’s repetitive lyrics and catchy melody coerce people into praising...
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Introducing the Free South Carolina Movement
Ideology The Free South Carolina Movement is a collective of political prisoners, politicized and political prisoners of war, organized with friends, family, loved ones and supporters with a common...
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End the gladiator fights! End the separation of families and of fathers from...
by Desiree Morales Prisoners’ wives, children and supporters will keep rallying until these abuses stop. – Photo: Estela Ramirez CDC, your power trip is destroying our families and creating the...
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Every Black athlete and entertainer is a means to Black empowerment
Colin Kaepernick congratulates Draymond Green May 20 after the Warriors beat Portland 119-117. Kaepernick sat behind coach Steve Kerr during the game and afterward joined the team on the court to...
View ArticleYoung Women’s Freedom Center reports dire impact of criminalization in San...
by Layla Crater San Francisco – The Young Women’s Freedom Center, in partnership with the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) and the San Francisco Adult Probation...
View ArticleIncarcerated pregnant women face enormous challenges with few reproductive...
by Ericka Blount Ericka Blount: Women are the fastest growing group among incarcerated people in the United States. Approximately 6 to 10 percent of incarcerated women come into this system pregnant,...
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2020 Here we go again
“Imperialism Destroying the Entire World to Enrich a Tiny Few” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490 W. Reformatory Road, Pendleton, IN 46064 by Shaka...
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Make anti-racist Chesa Boudin our SF DA
Black votes can do it by Chesa Boudin, leading candidate for District Attorney The United States is addicted to incarceration. We lock up more people than any other country in the history of the...
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In Texas, environmental racism is in our FACE
A smoke plume rising from a petrochemical fire at Intercontinental Terminals Co. in Deer Park, Texas, on March 19, 2019, is undeniably toxic. Comrade Malik says, “Chronic industrial polluters flock to...
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Activists across the world deliver South Carolina prisoners’ demands to...
Organizers in Washington, D.C., with D.C. Abolition Coalition and the D.C. Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee deliver the demands of South Carolina prisoners to the local United Nations office....
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It doesn’t taste like chicken
“Imbalance of Justice” – Art: Ruben Beltran, 10A3301, Sullivan CF, P.O. Box 16, Fallsburg NY 12733-0116 by Ruben Beltran Have you ever asked yourself, I wonder how it feels to be in prison for a crime...
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Modern-day slavery from incarceration to forced adoption
by Michelle Chan Every aspect of modern incarceration has been meticulously engineered to threaten and shatter all sense of self-worth and to drain the mind and soul of all vigor and clarity: every...
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Elected prosecutors address COVID-19 and the rights and needs of those in...
“We must address inequities in the system through bail reform, restorative justice programs, mental health services and treatment for drug addiction. And we must have better outcomes for the youth of...
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Soledad’s Black prisoners brutalized in 3 a.m. raid report guards warned,...
This photo of prisoners at Soledad shows men of many races, and all of them are subject to the dehumanization that is the “business” of prisons, where everything is designed to break people’s spirits....
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From E-RADication to Reparations
POOR Magazine’s Nandi speaks out for human rights over corporate profiteers trying to privatize life! – Photo: Tiburcio Garcia The people resist the lies called RAD and No Hope VI by Tiburcio Garcia...
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From Salt Lake to San Francisco, from Ute to Huichin: Sweeping, killing and...
In July, POOR Magazine toured unhoused communities and wealth hoarding areas in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colo., to spread the medicine of homefulness. We placed this POOR Magazine sign at the...
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Tyrell Wilson: Killed for being Black and houseless in Klanville aka Danville
On Sept. 12, 2021, family, community members, POOR Magazine and Conscious Contra Costa County came together to love and honor the life of Tyrell Wilson, a young man killed by Danville police in March...
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