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Micro-economics
Poor Women writers and artists transition off of Welfare through micro-economics. A project of POOR MAGAZINE.

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Loaves vs. Lofts
Gourmet catering company objects to being relocated by high priced live work/lofts. (Part two in an ongoing series of special reports from "the inside" on gentrification) by Giovonna Willis-Barela staff writer, POOR Magazine

The Po' Poets Project

Ode to JFK Jr.

Notes from the inside
A Journal of Incarcerated Writers & Artists

Photography

REFRAMING THE OUTSIDE
by John M.
subject: Ken Moshesh

Accessing the Media
by The California Department of Corrections (CDoC).


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Richard At Work
Artist Ed Gould

Woman with Hammer
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Twas The Night Before Capitalismas...

By Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia

Leroy Moore, Darla Lennox, Maria Palacios, Zilwood, Tiny
Monday, December 21, 2009;

Capitalismas Def: Holiday created by capitalists who appropriated multiple pagan and indigenous celebrations and "changed" the birthdate of a revolutionary who cared for gente pobre (Jesus Christ) all in pursuit of consumer-based profits

Twas' the night before capitalistmas
And all thru the house
not a product was stirring
not a PC nor its mouse

The children were nestled
all snug in their beds –
while visions of corporate-fueled gang violence
covert army videos and fetishized
females
danced in their head

Mama slathered
in the newest skin rejuvenation
cream to be competitive in the gender wars
and Papa dreaming of the an on-line date
he just might score

When out on the lawn
there arose such a clatter –
the family sprung from the bed to see what was
the matter –
it was the marshal to deliver a summons to take
back their title and render them homeless cause
since dad had lost his job - they couldn't keep up
the payments

As the marshal gave the family one last kick and
a push they were secure in knowing it was all
cause of Citigroup, BofA, AIG and their rich
corporate friends
Warm and cosy all tucked in their beds
dreaming of the rich getting richer, the poor left
for dead….



Its KripMas- Karols Re-Mixed!:



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