This webinar focuses on the intersection of climate change, poverty, and homelessness, led by a "poverty Skola" from POOR Magazine, a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty. The poorest among us know that climate change exacerbates the challenge of the day to day. When people are already struggling to get by without shelter, clothing, or food in places hit by gentrification, displacement, and poverty, emergencies like wildfire or hurricanes will cause another crisis in impossible situations. Some may also be driven to poverty due to climate change and forced migration or become unhoused during climate crises. Access to scant resources for recovery is often complicated by immigration status, age, race, gender, disability, mental health, and other factors that impede the ability to get one’s paperwork in order. While these stories reveal the struggles faced by those living in poverty, they also demonstrate the community resilience and real solutions, beginning with redefining who is centered closest to the crisis of Mama Earth change aka Climate change and the concept of Poverty Scholarship itself, a poor people-led theory to redefine the voices of poor peoples in crisis as experts, rather than "subjects" of research to be talked about us without us. These are seen in the programs run by POOR Magazine called Homefulness. The Camp Fire in Paradise, CA will be used as a case study to discuss crisis points and homelessness, as well as solutions like Unselling Mama Earth, Radical Redistribution & land liberation projects like Homefulness.
Side by Side
chair frames and baby toys,
jackets, toothbrushes coffee cans and pillows
wrapped up in paper made of memories
nylon homes buried under lives made of storms
these aren’t the storms of rain and thunder
sleet or hail- these rain drops include sheriff’s boots
and eviction notices,
this thunder is made of the sound of your home bouncing on the pavement
the lightening is a po”lice flashlight shining car windows
and hail filled slices of
foreclosure
dreams of what was replaces your leases
humans walking softly on mama earth
permanently outside.....
Excerpt of Exposed & Closest to Mama Earth- by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
VIDEOS from Webinar:
Chico/Paradise /Butte County Unhoused poverty skolaz #1: youtube.com/watch?v=In6FLB13_fs
Chico/Paradise /Butte County Fire Unhoused poverty skolaz - #2: youtube.com/watch?v=goumZEa2CZg
