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Oakland, CA. Elephant & Homefulness Mtg Postponed Play SUNDAY! ! Deecolonewz Published and UNCLE AL ROBLES DAY !!!!!

February 21, 2023 by Jonathan Leave a Comment


Greetings family- this has been a hard week and it hasnt even started yet- 😄 sending u all love-First of all BIG ANNOUNCEMENT as of this last week- Feb 16th will forever be Uncle Al Robles Day– one of our powerFULL ancestor Board Members birthday read more about him from Tony Robles, his nephew and one of our longtime POOR family members – will also be adding May 18th as Mama Dee Day ( her bornDay- and will  also be adding July 1 for Laure McElroy, Kathy Galvez, Papa Bear and Kiiulu Nyasha Day- but stay tuned on those)-  WE had a beautiful garden planning ceremony – and soil testing day at Homefulness #2  (see pics) and youth skola Tibu is gonns write the continued HERstory of Homefulness #2 to build momentum for the whole ComeUnity to get behind us when we start building Homefulness #2 permit – free –ALSO  PLEASE SEE THE CALENDAR BELOW and SAVE THE DATES April 2 and April 11th  FOR Natural Building WORKSHOP in Forestville with Ras K Dee – African/Pomo builder and musican and long-time friend of POOR and creator of SNAG magazine – and then on April 11th a tuesday over a tHomefulness #2 – an all day workshop with youth and elders – to learn how to /and actually begin the build of the 1st house at Homefulness #2 ( if u want to go to Forestville you have to confirm cuz we gonna have limited space for rides – This coming Sunday is the Last Bay Area showing of Crushing Wheelchairs – was really amazing and we got ALOT of media- some stupid – some not too stupid– here is the documentary that was made by Adrian Diamond!  if u havent seen it- – Also sisSTAR Juju has begin writing some Amazing work – check it out on poormagazine.org and one is a feature of sisSTAR sharena – and then the launc of her healing Column– also stay tuned for more work from SisSTAR momii, and Angel HEart and Chet, Broken Cloud and ISrael and Teo and Amir and AKil are doing some amazing journalism  work! check out their work ! and the youth skolaz and adult skolaz are  all published in the new EDITION #17  of DECOLONEWZ !!!! including Dee, BRoken Cloud, Angel HEart, Momii, Chet Anniyah, Shane, Donnie, AMun Ra, Ziair, Nija, Kai, Avery, Amir, Akil and Tibu – check it out here ! you can also pic up a papre copy – spread the medicine !!!!  online… or here- https://enewspaper.makemynewspaper.com/9a1225cc856787/2023-01-20-decolonewz-17

WE HAVE WASHINGTON AND LA DATES COMING UP IN MARCH AND MAY SEE BELOW AND. A CONSULTATION WITH SISTAR LORI ON TAXES !!! … LASTLY WE ARE GOING TO SCHEDULE PeopleSKool for Poverty SKOLAZ- MAMA DEES REQUIRED READINGS!- Mandatory for ALL RESIDENTS AND RESIDENTS TO BE AT HOMEFULNESS- WE ARE WORKING ON THE DATE- BUT IT WILL PROLLY BE 3 WEDNESDAYs AS THIS IS THE ONE DAY WHEN EVERYONE CAN BE PRESEBT

CALENDAR :

  • TODAY, Monday, Feb 20th HAD TO Postpone 1st REVOLUTIONARY JOURN CLASS TONITE becuz of powerfailure –
    -TOMORROW TUESDAY, 4pm FEB 21st Land Operations Mtg
    -WEDNESDAY, Feb 22nd – HOMEFULNESS #2 and ELEPHANT MTG- POSPOTNED TO NEXT WEEK –
  • THURSDAY, FEB 23rd Mtg on ZOOM WITH KEITH CARSON TO PUSH BACK ON THEFT OF POOR AND HOUSELESS PEOPLES RESOURCES BY POLTRICKS – Join me in the back at 12:30 if we can step away from Sliding Scale Cafe and School
    -SATURDAY, FEB 25th !2pm LAST REHEARSAL FOR CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS IN SF at REDSTONE
    -2pm SUNDAY, FEB 26th CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS AT PIANO FIGHT – ITS ALMOST SOLD OUT _ – PLEASE TELL US IF U WANT TO COME – WE CAN GET YOU A SEAT –
    MONDAY, FEB 27th –
    4:30pm RADIO CLASS
    6:30pm Rev Journ Class -( preqrequsite to Book Class) – this is hybrid for folks not present on the land – for folks on the land please be in back classroom for this
    WEDNESDAY, MArch 1,
    3pm HOMEFULNESS 32 Building PLANNING MTG ON ZOOM( LINK RIGHT BELOW FOR BOTH MEETINGS)
    4:30p- ELEPHANT MTG FOR EVERYONE !!!!! ON ZOOM ! PLEASE EVERYONE BE PRESENT –

ZOOM INFO HERE FOR BOTH MTGS-
oin Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9432352233
Meeting ID: 943 235 2233

-1pm THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd COMeUnity NEWSROOM/Orientation – – ALL PROSPECTIVE RESIDENTS AND CURRENT RESIDENTS AND FOLKS WANTING TO KNOW WHATS WE R ABOUT SHOULD COME TO THIS_

  • SPRING BREAK AT DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY and PEOPLESKOOL- MARCH 25th- MARCH 31st

-March 25-27th (Launching Homefulness in PNW – Stolen Land UnTour in Chief Sia’hl (Seattle) and RoofLESS radio workshops with houseless street skolaz and hopefully book readings

  • – SUNDAY APRIL 2nd COMeUnity Building WOrkshop at POMO Lands ( ALL DAY!) need to confirm who is going – space is limited-
  • TUESDAY, APRIL 11th COmeUnity BUILD at HOMEFUNESS #2 – -MAY 5-7th LA PO POETS READING AND FILM SHOWING – CONFIRM IF U WANNA GO-
    MORE DATES SOON !

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