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 Movement The Landless People's Movement was an independent social movement in South Africa. It consisted of rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities. The Landless People's Movement boycotted parliamentary elections and had a history ...

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Homeless Workers' Movement The Homeless Workers Movement ( pt, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto. MTST) is a social movement in Brazil. It originated from the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra ( en, Landless Rural Workers' Movement). Although the MTST can t ...

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Take Back the Land Take Back the Land is an American organization based in Miami, Florida, devoted to blocking evictions, and rehousing homeless people in foreclosed houses. Take Back the Land was formed in October 2006 to build the Umoja Village shantytown on ...

. POOR Magazine additionally holds office in Oakland, CA through its Homefulness Project, a sustainable permanent housing initiative for families displaced by gentrification. POOR Magazine was founded in 1996 by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia and Dee Gray, a mother and daughter team struggling with

extreme poverty Extreme poverty, deep poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, includi ...

, racism, incarceration, and homelessness in the U.S. 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. POOR Magazine operates low-power FM radio station KEXU-LP.

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POOR Magazine

The Homefulness Project
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