 Okay. And I want to do a screen share. Thank you all for being here as well. Thank you. Thank you. I know I bugged you all a lot. Thank you. And I'll probably bug you some more. That's us librarians do. I am a fan girl have seen you at the library many, many times. Oh, thank you. Thank you for inviting us. Absolutely. The end. So you meter yourself. I am about to open the doors. Can you all see my screen? Yes. All right. Here we go. Hello, everybody. Welcome. And hello, YouTube friends. Welcome everyone. We're going to get started right away. I want to thank you all for being here tonight. And we are here to talk with a panel of folks from core magazine on their new publication, how not to call the police forever, forever, forever. And we want to welcome you to the unseated land of the aloney tribal people. And we are going to talk about the many aloney tribe, Romitush aloney tribal groups and families as the rightful stewards in the lands in which we reside. SFPL is committed to uplifting the names of these communities and providing factual and useful information about first person land rights. Lots of reading lists. We love to make them at our library. And I'll put a link in the chat box that has a list. And I'll put a link in the chat box. And I'll put a link in the chat box tonight. As well as links to poor magazine and poor press. And anything that they talk about tonight that comes up that I can link back to, I will do my best to make that happen. And we want to let everyone know in the library community that we are not a neutral institution at the library that we stand in solidarity with the black lives matter movement. We are not a neutral institution at the library. We are not a neutral institution at the library. We are Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. With the recent and. Maybe not so recent always. Asian hate crimes that have been happening. Both reported and invisible. The library stands in solidarity with our communities, neighbors, colleagues and those distressed and hurt by these attacks. We are determined to work with our city and communities to make sure that we don't have to do anything that we can. And that we don't have to do anything that we can do to eliminate discrimination and violence. Of these events have caused. We also want to acknowledge these events are complicated by the entanglement of anti black and anti Asian stereotypes. And the reporting of these violence acts. And the anti black and anti Asian racism, both uphold white supremacy. And we are all harmed. By these racial structures. And we have to work together to make sure that we don't have to do anything very hard on all of this. And I will again, put some more links into our box. And you can check out all sorts of reading lists about this. There is a pandemic still happening. And our areas are open, which we are excited about. So 13 libraries on board now for contactless pickup. We have a lot of people working in the streets. We have a lot of family out there working in the streets. And all of our family and friends working in the streets and continue to wear your mask. Birthday celebration with Jane Kim. Of ink dwell studio. Who, if you've been down high. You've noticed the humongous monarch mural and it's gorgeous. So come here about their work. And I'll just breeze through a couple of library events we have coming up. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about this. In conversation with Ray Lynn Barnes. And talking about his latest book, a little devil in America. This is a partner with the museum of African diaspora. April 28th, 6pm. Edelville food recovery part of climate action month. April 24th. We are still celebrating our one city one book campaign, which is our largest literary campaign. And we're also going to talk about her sexual assault. Rape on the Stanford campus. And her subsequent dealings with the judicial system. The shame. And her family and being a survivor. So we still have a few more events. I encourage you all to check out the book and come to our Monday night events. And let's see. I also want to hit on this one, which is an organization called African diaspora. We have a community of non-violence groups here. Here or here in the world. People who will be holding a virtual healing circle. For survivors of childhood sexual assault. Happening April 20th. And then in May, we head into our API celebration. Heritage month. Lots of events. And I'm going to quickly breeze through these ones. Also, a now option of Netflix will be in the house joining us from Holland and the Philippines, so a little silver lining of pandemic world and going virtual. We'll also have a panel art as a vehicle for social and political change. May 8. And lots and lots of great things. Lewis Gordon freedom justice in the colonization of partnership with before Columbus Foundation. All right, and some fun. Some great San Francisco history to Ali Evoles will be in the virtual library talking about her book home baked my mom marijuana and the stoning of San Francisco. This is a really fun book and really great history. All right, so as I was telling the group of poor magazine, I am a bit of a fan girl and have been working at our library since 1999. And they have been around since before then and gracing the library with their presence and their knowledge, and they're writing. It's amazing. I'm so honored to have them all here. The press is the poor people led publishing arm, the grassroots homeless and poor people led movement known as poor magazine, which has been dedicated to publishing and producing the books, art, education, and culture, a very low, no income, homeless, Indigenous disabled and incarcerated youth adults and elders since 1996. And without further ado, I would like to turn it over to poor magazine. Thank you for being here. So we started with our bio. I am the black cripple. We came out my boxes and lenses have been shot by police. I just tell me. Okay, the more we see you. And we will always never call the police. Mutiado silencio presente mi alegro, mis palabras son mis balas, mi lápiz es mi arma mutiado silencio, my words are my bullets, my pen is my gun and see back and relax because we're going to drive by your mind. No nonprofit organizer could speak for the pope. No college professor can speak for the pope. I can speak for the pope because I'm still among the pope. I got my head on the broke on this block. You see me because I'm less than you. You diss me. He slums my frustration, my distress, my starvation, my he's won't mind his tears, my mind this fears, my they're with me all the time. The president is my and neither is his government. They strip or present the class hate I present. I don't count the institutions of power. I don't count to a racist count picture me not once worship and they flag as long as it continues to deny slag. No news report can speak for the pope. No social worker can speak for the pope. I can speak for the pope because I'm still among the pope. I got my head on the broke on this block. You see me being out deep in so California. Come on D. I am that poverty scholar that house was mama that house was daughter. I'm a poverty scholar all those people you don't want to see, never want to be look away from me because we invisible as you see but we in your city. I wrote my jailhouse attire not because orange is the new black don't believe that crack Hollywood will sell you that. It's because me and my poor mama did jail time for the poverty crime of being unhoused in this occupied indigenous holler. I'm a poverty scholar the melanin challenge daughter of a strong apple boat equal mama for without home. There would be no me a mama so dead and a welfare queen. And I will add this to you all the beautiful people so with us today. There is no safe in a polite state. There is no safe in a polite state. So the book how to not call the police ever is really in poverty scholarship as poverty in this is scholars are theory is our life. It is also survival theory launched by us police theorized houses is able to inches black and brown people at poor magazine, a movement that organization, a movement living without police. Yes, right on brother Leroy. And yes, for the folks for magazine is poor people indigenous people movement. We live what we teach every day in the stolen land. We fight the racist polies and all of us have been profile harassed and stolen terrorized by these polies these pigs. While we fight. We also build and manifest solutions. This book is the documentation of the solutions we have been living and going through 25 years and we practice our homefulness. And homefulness, homefulness, a homeless people solution to homelessness. Guess what, as poor people who don't got a pot to piss in our roof to call our own can actually build our own solutions, because of my brother Leroy said, our solutions, our theory is our life. So yeah, building a homeless people solution, because when you talk about polies terror you also have to talk about the terror of eviction, displacement and gentrification. So when us poor people build our own solutions. They never include polies. We have a poor people's radio. We have houses that we're building for houses families right now, and we have house six residents already myself and D and we'll get on his mama, and he said I had. And we have a liberation school. And guess what teachers and scholars and liberators out there, we are not mandated reporters, because we refuse to engage with the state, who believes the test and arrest and incarcerate of us. Solve our problems. Anti social work in case mangler has nothing to do with lifting up and living in solutions rooted in love. So that's homefulness decolonize Academy poor people's radio and many more actual movements that we are living into that never engage with the state, but I don't want to give anybody on this zoom call the wrong idea. This is extremely hard to do because as poor colonized traumatized houseless and indigenous peoples living in this stolen land. We hurt each other all the time. Hard but necessary. So it's a constant battle for us to hold each other love each other and live into this polite free liberation movement. So we're going to ask, because tonight, as we sit here in this zoom digital street, our brothers and sisters are out in different parts of occupied the Lamu. We've been lifting up Roger Allen killed by racist ass coal ice in daily city, lifting up to want a right killed by race and braces as coal ice and Minneapolis of Brooklyn Center, lifting up George Floyd killed by more racist white terror in that part of occupied turtle island. So many more. And so we're going to start tonight with a prayer vigil because we need to honor our hearts in all of this as well. And we need to lift up our ancestors for guidance for liberation and for collective healing as we walk into these solutions. This is something we practice at poor magazine as well, which is to constantly actually honor, lift up, learn from, and listen carefully to our ancestors for without home there would be no us. So I'm going to ask to start tonight in a good way. I don't know a sister Karina is there yet. I'm requesting and the honor at porn magazine and hopefulness of walking alongside our first nations. Warriors of land liberation from security land trust from West Berkeley shell mound from Indians organizing for change, because if you are humble and walking in liberation, you don't go onto people's land without asking permission first. We have land indigenous and poverty scholars that's what we did and we have the blessing of having Karina as part of our family, part of our liberation warriors, and to start tonight in a good way. We're going to be lifting up a prayer, which is in the beginning of the book how to not call polis ever that actually not only blesses the book, but blesses all of our ancestors in this way. I don't is Karina are you there. Yes, here. Thank you. Good evening thank you so much tiny thank you to poor magazine and hopefulness for the amazing work that they do thank you for the San Francisco public library for lifting up this amazing work done by these warriors, the land. I want to thank. Thank everybody for inviting me I'm so sorry that my camera is not working. I've got issues with technical stuff and I'm hoping to get that fixed, but I'm going to offer a prayer. I need this one. Just because I think that we're in this place right now, where we're seeing this increased violence of our young people are our people of color that are being continuously murdered and we're holding that in our hearts right now. We're seeing our Asian brothers and sisters being continuously harassed and and violated and amazingly crazy ways. We've had elders that have passed recently that were warriors at Standing Rock in our community in San Francisco. We're all kind of feeling that heaviness and so I want to acknowledge that right now that we have this heaviness, and we're here in this virtual land, because we're facing a pandemic, and that we're all dealing with that so with that. I also want to acknowledge that San Francisco as original name is Yolamu, and it is the territory of the Ramatush aloney nation that still exists today, and the violence that happened in our territories were the first part of gentrification that happened and occurred here, and the oppression of our people still exists today. Grandmothers and grandfathers, creators and ancestors, we ask you to come in from all four directions to lift us up to heal our hearts to ask you to open up our minds and our ears and our hearts to the work that's happening to heal right now. We're asking you to help us to find a better way to be human beings again, to remember our rightful place, the place that we're supposed to be in this circle of creation. I ask you grandmothers and grandfathers for protection of the people that are standing on the front lines, the front lines against all the isms, the front lines of poverty, the front lines of oppression. We ask grandmothers and grandfathers to take care of our relatives that are behind the walls. We ask that you take care of those ones that are behind the walls that are imprisoned behind the false walls and borders, those that are behind the walls of addiction and isolation. We ask grandmothers and grandfathers to protect all of our young people and ask them to give them good hearts and strong minds, ask for courage for them as they stand up in this world. We ask grandmothers and grandfathers that we create allegiance between elders and young people to do this good work, to create a world that is abundant for all of us. We ask that we remember the abundance of the lands that we're on, the abundance that fed us and clothed us and gave us water and shelter and that there was no such thing as homelessness or hunger 200 years ago. We ask grandmothers and grandfathers to protect the heirs that we breathe for the next seven generations and beyond, to give us fresh water to drink for the next seven generations and beyond, to give us good land to grow our medicines and our foods for the next seven generations and beyond. To protect our elders, our medicine carriers, our warriors, our people that are working in the hospitals. We pray for the sick right now, not only for those with COVID but other diseases that are afflicting them. We pray for the health of those. As we look into this virtual world and on the social media, we see all of these people asking for prayer. We lift up our voices in prayer for all of them, asking and taking care of whatever they need. We ask grandmothers and grandfathers for the words of this wonderful book to reach the hearts and minds of those that need to hear it so that we can create a sustainable change for the future generations. We ask that we continue to stand up right and do the work that you ask us to do on this earth right now, and to protect all of us as we go forward. Thank you, Karina. I want to make sure that people understand and over stand that when we talk again about full ice terror that it didn't start yesterday. It didn't start with George Floyd, Rihanna Taylor, Rahim, and so many more. It didn't start with Idris Stelly, and it didn't start with Louise Demeter, Gungarapat, and it didn't start with Taylor Moore, and it didn't start in the 21st or the 20th century. It began with the original theft of this indigenous territory. Again, as we move forward, I want people to understand and over stand that that is one of the pieces that we lift up as poor and houseless and indigenous landless peoples is that these are all connected. So, we're going to honor ancestors of the polite state, because as we say you can't be safe in the polite state. There are probably too many to mention tonight. But again, we're spending a chunk of our time on dishonoring, because we cannot move forward without the multiple strands of prayer of love and of listening. Our ancestors have many messages and lessons for us always. Again, what you're looking at is the thought that we have at the sacred land of houseless indigenous people called homelessness. And as you can see, there's all kinds of folks and some of the pictures fall off and then we have to put them on again so that isn't even everybody. And it is just a small piece of the many ancestors that we try to walk with and listen to every day. But we're going to be honoring the ancestors today specifically that are talked about in the book. We are blessed to have in this book. The story of Kayla Moore told by her sister Maria. We are blessed to have the story of Luis Demetro Gungarapat told by their brother, and many more personal stories that we are the impacted people. And that's who this book is written by for and about. And so again, we're going to lift all of our ancestors up in prayer in the tradition of Eva, or Dubai, as well as the Shambhala tradition with our sister from poor magazine, Perla, Perla are you there. Hi. Hey. Hey. Well, we're just basically going to ask people to, well, what we say is we say Mojubayu love and respect to you. After we name the ancestors, we say it three times. We'll be naming again, a small portion of the victims of policed hair, lifting them up in liberation and prayer and then sending them onto their spirit journey. We just lost another brother, uncle, father, son, Duante, right. Again, lifting him up in so much prayer. So we're spending this time and we're going to be saying their name and then saying Mojubayu love and respect to you and those of you who are in the zoom with us. Please also bring your ancestors into the room. You don't have to say them out loud, but please bring them in with you, as any of us have so many things to learn from the folks who have been stolen away from us from the cultures and languages who are no longer and inside of our communities intentionally separated by and then some of us will be saying a little bit more about some of the ancestors who are written about in the book. So I'm going to turn it over to begin this right now. And then Pearl and I will go over these lifting up these names and then we'll go to Libra and others. Okay. I'm going to take in a deep breath. Thank you creator for another day of life. Thank you ancestors brought in from so many directions, specifically calling out the ancestor survivors who are mentioned and thought about right now in all of this time of life. There's so much pain and change and so much pain. We're going to call out their names. Starting with. Go ahead, Pearl. Rihanna Taylor. Mojubayu love and respect to you. George Floyd. Mojubayu love and respect to you. Steven Taylor. Mojubayu love and respect to you. Libra. Love and respect to you. Mojubayu love and respect to you. Luis the material going good apart. Love and respect to you Mojubayu. Lisa Lisa. I don't know if Lisa answers there. Ivan McDonald. Mojubayu love and respect to you. You want a right. Mojubayu love and respect to you. You run. I think it's easy says. Mojubayu love and respect to you. Um, in these, in these ancestors again there's many stories. But I want to ask. Sister Pearl. To also, and sorry. Alexander. What am I saying? Quintero or Quinto say it. Angela Quinto. Mojubayu love and respect to you. Um, can you talk a little bit about Angela? Yes, Angela was having, um, a mental health crisis at home. Uh, this was around Christmas time last year. And the police came and basically did a knee on the neck. Style killing. He lived in Antioch. This happened in his mother's bedroom. And, um, one of the, the connections that we have from. Our work with the Gongora Pat family is that the, one of the police killers. Of Luis. Officer Malone. Left before he was reprimanded, he left SFPD before he was reprimanded and he was hired by the Antioch PD. So this is the same department. What's your bio love and respect to you. Lisa, can you talk a little bit about Yvonne? Yes. I am coming to you from a so-called Olympia, Washington, which is the land of the medicine, great treaty tribes and specifically the squawks and island. People's. And here, a few years ago, Yvonne McDonald, who was a. In her early fifties was a graduate of evergreen black woman. Was found. Dead here in Olympia. And it was never investigated. It's pretty obvious what happened that a city employee. Hit her with a street sweeper. That person was never investigated. And there's never been justice for Yvonne's family. And yeah, she was a poverty scholar and a really awesome person and an auntie and. Yeah, I'm friends with her niece. Talana, and I've learned a lot about Yvonne McDonald after her death and I'm sending so much love to her family. More as you buy your love and respect to you. Thank you, Lisa. Um, Leroy, do you want to talk about Issa? Yes. Contreras. Yeah. Issa is a Latino artistic youth. Um, he also has a brother with CP. Um, he, what I know about is that he called the police. And the police came and shot him. And on removed the parents from the apartment, but left for his brother with CP in the place alone. So, um, now the Latino community in LA is, um, you know, trying to get justice, trying to get the real record from the police. And we know about that. That kind of struggle. Um, unfortunately, I just have to be honest is that, um, the two rallies that they had, um, you know, but last night it wasn't there. But, you know, um, the family was there, which is more important in, um, the movement. The family was there in the Latino community. He has his back and, um, his lawyer has an artistic son. So his lawyer is, um, committed to disability. Um, justice are at least being disability into the case and never to lose it. So that's, that's what I have, um, you, you know, disability voices, which I sit on the board. So Judy has been involved with the case since the beginning, beginning, beginning, going on in there still fighting for justice. Okay. Okay. Um, Carol, can you talk about Luis? Um, yeah, we were just with the family on April 7th. That was the, it was the five year anniversary. Of his, of his killing. He was killed at 18th and shot well on the mission. And as we know, you know, all of the issues are, are interconnected. Right. So he had lost work. He had lost his housing. He became homeless. And by the end of the day, he was killed at 18th and shot well on the mission. And as we know, you know, all of the issues are interconnected. Right. So he had lost work. He was killed at 18th. And by being homeless, he was criminalized. A neighbor called. And we know this. All too familiar scene where. Within 29 seconds, he was gone. And he was murdered in a brutal way because he was down. And the final shot was execution style to his head. And I'm glad that for those of you who may not know about this case, or many people in occupied Yolanda, do know, but it's very important to understand. Again, as we talk about land liberation. And gentrification as I call it. If Luis had not been evicted from his apartment. He would not have been killed. And we know this as evicted and displaced people. And there's often a lot of talk about, you know, polite terror. Without talking about eviction terror. Without talking about the fact that displacement kills and eviction is elder and child abuse as poor magazine has proven. And that these are very much connected. And we know that the indigenous man who crossed these false borders to come here and work in the kitchen of rich gentrified in Frisco was killed because of what I call the violence of exposure. Any of you who happened to go through a mental health crisis or even a bad day because he wasn't having a mental health crisis. And he was doing what he always did. He was doing what he always did. He was doing what he always did. And someone wanted to help him. Oh, the homeless person needs some help. Even though he didn't ask for help. He was just doing what he always does. So essentially when we know. That these three one one calls up a time lead to nine one one calls. And I want to lift up the fact that they're trying right now and they're trying to help us. And it's not just the same as well as the powerful work of mh first over in. Occupied. Chin Oakland and Sacramento. But sadly, there are still people who don't want to see us on the street. And so they perpetrate the violence of sweeps. Equating our body with trash. And try to help us, which is more savior industrial complex and testing. So we want to move. Close this moment out. And then with our sister Kayla. Who is a powerful, beautiful transgender sister who was killed by Berkeley po lives. Lee Roy, can you talk about Kayla. Kayla Moore lives in Berkeley. Matter of fact, her family came to Berkeley because of disability services. Because they thought that Kayla would do it grow in the disability service in the disability community. Kayla, you know, and Lisa, you know, help me out. I don't know if I get this wrong. What I've heard and I've been close to the case is Kayla lives downtown Berkeley. And Kayla's personal care attendant was there at Kayla's home. I don't know who called police, police came in, tackled Kayla, called Kayla, all kinds of names, put Kayla in a forest kind of jacket. And Kayla stopped reading. So that's it. So the justice campaign has been going on for years now in Berkeley. Lisa ain't know any good music and artwork for it. Berkeley top watch is one of the main players that had taught the lawyers about disability and about transgender issues. The lawyers were kind of clueless about that. So we talked to them about that. And, you know, the fight continues. Kayla's sister, Maya Moore, excellent activist in Berkeley. And she's always on the ground, you know, getting support. So if I left anything out, Lisa, please add to it. Yeah, I'm really glad that you brought up the Berkeley top watch, Berkeley top watch published in partnership with a bunch of organizers and movement builders and people's investigation into the wrongful death, into the murder of Kayla Moore. And so if you go to the Berkeley top watch page, which I know that we're getting some support in the chat so that you can read about that. And a people's investigation is an investigation outside of the cop narrative. So outside of the police narrative, there was a very in depth. And that kind of that sort of investigation could be happening every single time that someone is killed. Someone is murdered by the police. And it serves as a good example. I'll read this. I'll read the words that are on this art. They tried to blame her death on obesity. Shame on the Berkeley police department. Yeah, you can't blame us for being fat after you kill us. It's like, it's another thing that cops do. But thank you, Leigh Roy for inviting me back in. Has to buy your love and respect to you. I want to apologize to all the other ancestors that we're not talking about today. And for any of you who are with us and are sitting with us and there's ancestors of polo. It's like, it's another thing that cops do. But thank you, Leigh Roy for inviting me back in. Has to buy your love and respect to you. Mojue bio love and respect to you. Mojue bio love and respect to you. Taking a deep breath. I want to apologize to all the other ancestors that we're not talking about today. I want to apologize to all of the other ancestors. I want to apologize to all of the other ancestors that we're not talking about today. They're ancestors of polo is terror, gun and violence, poverty, eviction, displacement. Please name them, put them in your hearts. Put them on your altar. As we do. Because again, there are many lessons to be learned. From all of our ancestors. Not just to protest, to also liberate and to also change. Leigh Roy, go ahead. Yeah, so one of the many ways we manifest this liberation to never call the police is through our prayers. Our honor of our ancestors and our indigenous poor people that circle. One of these is the Family Council and the Elephant Council. Tonight we will hear our momma's uncles, aunties, youth elders, and ancestors voices featured in the book. Are you there? Yes, I am. Okay, so the Elephant Council is a poor indigenous people's traumatized people's accountability. Circle which includes a redefinition of the silently violent western white supremacist notion of security and enables us to hold each other. Through trauma and institute a true definition of interdependent safety. Now let's be honest over 70% of police calls are petty and can be solved without police. We manifest this as a poor and police carerized people's because we live without ever engaging, which is very hard, because we do hurt each other. I just want to add on to Auntie Francis, Auntie Francis is a powerful warrior, one of our co-founders of homefulness and a member of our Elephant Council, a teacher at our school, a poverty scholar, an author, check out her books at poorpress.net, as well as a teacher in people school. I urge people to check out people's school it happens twice a year. And it's where we teach folks with racing class privilege about the concept of radical redistribution and come unity reparations. We can't do this without that movement happening and we as poor people teach wealth orders about a different way to live. These are all interlinked. This is how we can be doing this land liberation movement. But again, the Elephant Council is a concept that is very hard to do. It's very hard for poor people who are already hurting to hold other folks who are broken. We know that there is a lot of safe in the polite state and I just want to bring us back again to that message. As we listened carefully to our ancestors that there was nothing unsafe about Luis Dimitri Bunger Pat being on 18th Street in San Francisco houseless. There was nothing unsafe about Kayla Moore being in her apartment, needing a with her family calling for a well check innocently expecting just to find out how she was. There was nothing unsafe with Isaias Cervantes. What there was was a crisis that we all have. And so this is also a different way to live. I want to make sure we are, you know, we should be spending all night on this frankly, but San Francisco library gave us an hour. So I also want to remind people that we'll be doing our workshop how to not call polite ever, which is a full workshop tomorrow night at 545 as part of the imagining abolition conference. I want to turn it over to, to my brother, JV, Joey, who is another co author of this powerful book. We only have about three minutes and I hope you made it in there JV we all digital divided folks by the way. So, bear with us. We get old scholars trying to figure out these digital streets, JV. Yes. Yeah, can you hear me. Perfect. So these are pieces of my art that I did while I was at the concentration camp and Pelican Bay shoe. You know, just quick note, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional with their colonizer constitution. It was unconstitutional to hold this in solitary confinement, but they held us there for years and in some cases decades. This is some of the work that I did while I was in the concentration camp and they held me there for a decade. A decade of torture and you know, and I use that that decade of torture in order to create this art and these each piece of art is a bullet. You know, this is a bullet and, you know, it's a weapon. And, you know, and I created this art in order to help raise consciousness amongst them, my fellow prisoners as well as those folks outside of the prison gates, who, you know, we're in solidarity and we are in solidarity with the captives held in the concentration camps. So my art is, it's, it's, you know, revolutionary art, it speaks for liberation for the oppressed nations for the Chicano nation and for all oppressed people in these false U.S. borders. So these are, you know, these pieces of art are also in my book, Aslan Realism, Chicano Revolutionary Art from Pelican Bay Shoe. So these pieces, you know, many of these pieces I sent out to poor magazine as well, and you could see them on the website, they were also included, you know, in this beautiful book. This book that teaches not to call the policed the pigs, because, you know, as we see when they arrive, no matter what it's for, you know, oftentimes brown and black folks don't make it out alive. You know, we rather interact with our own, you know, community, rather than the pigs, because, you know, it doesn't turn out good for us, we either go to jail, or we go to the mortuary. You know, this art right here is speaking to that pain. It's speaking to the pain of, you know, of being criminalized, you know, it's speaking to the pain of the school to prison pipeline. It's speaking to the pain of colonization that we all face some more than others. It's also speaking from the concentration camp and as you see these pieces of art, each piece is deliberate every single aspect of this piece of art is very deliberate and has a very strong message. I'm speaking about the criminalization of brown mostly brown and black people, as well as the kids in the cages we can't forget the children. And I, and I, right here that you're seeing it shows an ice of an ice period. And, and, you know, and it's a quick, you know, realization that we are all, you know, held in a cage, you know, it's a bigger cage than the kids. But we need to get them kids as well. This artwork speaks about freeing all people, all political prisoners and all oppressed people brown and black. Thank you very much. Okay. And remember that media and authorship is not just words, but it's visual, it's performance, it's poetry and it's prayer. JB's work is powerful. You can also hear him on four people's radio. That's Kex you 96.1 FM free as line that's our poor people's radio station out here for magazine.org slash radio. And we will hear from other impacted polis, terrorized mamas, uncle poverty scholar voices with their contributions to this powerful book. And I must remind each person participating after I speak, if one minute each. Christy. Hey. Hey, thank you for having me. All right, so the poem's called stolen. So I'll just start it. You take our babies, marking them before they can walk child staying with reflection part of a problem stolen from them the opportunity to do the eternal work. Years after the corrupt system repeatedly broke them down to the core of transparent cries for help. The trauma left behind stolen brown baby criminalize. We will keep telling history through your press die. And though you at 12 understood the life and disadvantage of having colored skin. You stayed woke to the circumstances. You shaped your mindset and were capable of change. No brother gets left behind. A brown brother struggle for freedom at last finally found 21 20 years later. Once again, you fall victim to systematic racism draped from head to feet with their biased ass opinion. We resist against those who you speak with courage to denounce wrong place wrong time. No chance to draw that line stolen was a day your freedom was denied across the board through the mouth of the beast himself. The beast that your mama read to you about, and those stories raining carved upon her skin, embedded into our bloodline before the concept of understanding the malinche of our present time, taking and breaking our sangria across the board. Moment stolen from the moment from the streets where you were meant to informally man and that line to Ben stolen brown baby right from your mama's arms. The struggle is real. You've been marked. We don't entertain. We use our gap. We use our given skills to break that chain. No gavel, no 12 nefarious souls. No subsequent exploited badge stolen baby. You are but a married image of years of hate stolen baby. You are but a married image of years of unjust treatment. So when baby, you are but a mirror image that will be shattered of the systematic oppression. So when baby, your struggle will continue on roads painted and tainted color to brown freedom stolen baby. Oh, beautiful family. Thank you. Thank you. That is in the book. I'm calling out. I'd be candy corns I hear you in the house. Yes, we're in the house. Right. We're going to bring up your piece. Maya, do you have it? Right now. Okay, cool. You also have the book though too. So we probably only can do like the first paragraph because of time before mama. I don't see anything. It's on the screen right now, but you can also read it out of the book if you got it. Okay, I do have the book, but I couldn't find it inside of the book. So I'm trying to work this. All right. Right. I see West Oakland chronicles boy on boy male incest and the decriminalization on the basketball courts currently use as a parole prison in the back of cold school next door neighbor. Three young males, no older than 11 years old were caught by the other children. And the neighborhood. It began to scream and run around and disbelief for what they had witnessed on the courts. They were crying. It was the child that had gotten violated. I went to ask the young man what was wrong. The children spoke up for him. The word rape was being used to my left for three women. I said ladies, are you all aware of this current situation. One of our children has been violated. You want me to keep going tiny. We have to run out of time, but it's beautiful. All right. It's in the middle of the paragraph. I can keep going. One of our children has been violated. One of the women turned her head. They be at your house all the time. One of the women turned her head. The other said it's not my business. And the last woman said, let their parents deal with it. I walked back to the children circle. Apparently the little boys own cousin. Who he lived with. The little boys. They were doing something inappropriate. To another neighbor boy. Pinning him down. By the head. I'm going to stop there. This is not a piece that I would have chose. Particularly. But there it is. This is basically a piece that's really touching. This is a piece that I did. I discussed how you deal with these type of situations without getting the police involved and without getting CPS involved. And I also hinted in the aspect of us being our very own department of violence prevention. And with that being said, using the tools that I have learned to deal with these kinds of situations. And I think that's what helped me put this piece together. And yeah, thank you. You can see. Revolutionary blogs on four magazine. Can you give us like excerpt the first couple of lines excerpt. Yes. One moment. Okay. I'm Zaire and in my neighborhood West Oakland. Carrying gun fair is. My brother got shot in the same hood. Where we live. So I really know how it is to have a family. In West Oakland. The little. With. This is about. Being in West Oakland and living in the jungle. And thank you for letting me share this. The book is all the youth poverty scholars are in there and they're powerful, powerful. We free. Oh, tiny. Is it okay if, um, if we read a piece for a mirror? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Is it okay if, um, If we read a piece for a mirror? Well, I got to go on to, to flee flee. But I want people to get. Okay. You should get the book to lead a mirror, which was another warrior Pimo T. Boo or feel so many more. Thank you so much. I hear. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hey, uh, relatives. It's a great blessing to be here with all of you. Uh, today. And I know our time is short. I know our time. Let me, uh, Okay. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, We count them, we pick up the large pieces, we pick up the wounds is really what I'm saying. We pick up the wounds, all the pieces, all the names, the histories that were criminalized and were stolen from us. So what we do is we pick them up. We put, okay, I see. I'm reading from a totally different project that I'm doing. Okay. Okay, yeah, well, yes. It worked. And that's it. And at the end here, we'll just say, what we do, our relatives, is we embrace and we mourn for those ancestors that were lost as part of a process of weaving the many broken pieces back together in a large fallout or a mat that will become the finest galore or gift that we give to the ancestors of the next seven generations. So thank you so much. Much love to everybody. You definitely have to learn more about West Berkeley Shell Mount. Again, as we talk about a policed terror, we need to talk about colonial terror. And our relatives from Segorte Land Trust and Moananui and West Berkeley Shell Mount are taking back the stolen 5,700 year sacred spaces and everybody needs to throw down support and lift up because we learn from our ancestors and we learn about this colonial terror every day. And that's how we got where we are now. The policed state don't keep you safe. Thank you, Fui Fui. Thank you, Karina. I know we're running out of time. I know we're supposed to be all over by eight. And I wanted to ask if Jumbug is there. Is Jumbug in the room? Jumbug, I don't think she made it. And Nisa, can we have three more minutes or we have to close out? Take all the time you need. Okay, all right. All right, I know if some people have to leave right at eight, we got you, but Leroy, do you wanna spit your piece? Is it in the book? Are you gonna spit it out? Are you gonna spit any piece? Well, I have a piece, but if you wanna find, we have to kinda do an excerpt of it. If you wanna do a piece from the book, that's fine. I can read mine while you're finding yours. Yeah, I don't have the book here, that, so you go. Okay, okay. I'm not gonna read the whole thing. Just gonna read a little. This is a message, it's a message out. Stop calling, stop stalling. Stop talking while more black and brown daughters and sons are falling. No, I mean stop enabling and colonizing. A system that kills more than it ever appears are ills with roots in the original theft of Turtle Island meant to confuse our already confused mindsets. Got us all believing that numbers like 911 means housed people are safe from houseless, that whites and lights are safe from our own embedded desire for wealth hoarding whiteness. That continuing to buy and sell, evict for clothes, sweep and kick makes anyone safe from the myths about how to be safe. And what is the way to handle fear and danger every day in a place already stolen, a land ripe with murderous lies that keep getting told and told and sold like poison? That's an excerpt of the opening piece. And there's so much more poetry in there, including by my brother Dee, do you wanna close this out with your words? I did that early. That's in the book as well. Land liberation is also co-lice resistance for us houseless people. We as Pope people are the man in fact or housed being stolen from us and trying to build our own solutions, which brings us to the flyer that's gonna appear on the screen shortly. Mike, stealing our last acre and our last new. So basically no hope, six and rad. And for those of you who don't know, and you might think, well, how does this fit with co-lice tear? It's called the way that we are ending up on the street. The way that we are ending up houseless, living in our vans, living in street corners, bus benches, park benches, and anywhere we can hide, which even in a pandemic continues to happen. We are gonna be doing this in San Francisco because in San Francisco, they've implemented rad and no hope, six. And it's the HUD gentrification plan. And we are all connecting those dots because they are connected. Also, don't forget about tomorrow's prison abolition workshop. And Maya will bring up the flyer for that as well. Imagining abolition beyond prisons, wars, and borders. And lastly, we always say for poor folks, our intellectual property is the only property we have. So if you've learned something tonight, please credit back to the poverty scholars for the work and for the liberation. For those of you interested in knowing more, you can go to poormagazine.org. Also, the digital street currency is real. So follow us on Instascam and Facecrack and Twitter. Listen to poor people's radio. We're gonna ask Sister Pearl to close us out with a prayer. And also, again, thank you all for sitting with us, for listening to us, for putting up with our ghetto scholars on the digital streets. And for more importantly, lifting up our ancestors victims of this polarized terror because there it will never be safe in this polarized state. Thank you, Tiny. Ashay. So this is an invocation for raising wind horse, drawing down the heaven energy, purification, and lifting up our spirits. The assembly of the three jewels, the three rues, gods and sages, the three protector, ma, sapras, jaya deve, Padma totring and the vidyadras of India and Tibet, the glorious protector, Ganapati, with the divine armies of Dralas, the five patron gods, the great bingasar and so on. All those gods of the cosmic lineage who command coincidence to all of those, I offer clouds of real and imagined good offerings. I offer you this cleansing offering with kindness. Please grant your blessings, curses, spells, burial, sorcery, dunes, obstructing spirits, obstacles and so on. May all these signs of the weakening and corruption of wind horse be pacified, strife, enmity, scandal, warfare, lawsuits, recurring calamity and so on. Passify all such obstructing discord, multiply the power and strength of the virtuous. Wind horse, a four-legged miracle, please accomplish the spiritual and temporal, supreme in ordinary cities, and without exception, whatever mine desires. Om Vajrasvaraimum, Om Manipadmehum, Om Vajrapanihum, Om Akshamalavarayam, Om Mahum Vajraguru Padmasiddhihum, Ha Ha Hey Hey Ho Ho, Saravijaya City Ho, Taksen Kindrukya Kei, gather all Sarva, gather, gather ho, rows all our life virtue and glorious wind horse, higher and higher, Om Yedana Mahetu, Prabhava Hittam, Tisham Tittagato, Yavadat, Tisham Chai Naroda, Ebham Vadima, Shwamana Zoha. Thank you. Thank you. And we always say, change won't come from a savior of pimp or an institution, change will only come from a poor people, red revolution. Resolution! Woo! Love you, Champs, this public library, love you family and relatives, love you ancestors, and thank you to the people. All right, Lisa! Hi! Hi! Love you all. See you tomorrow, family. All right, bye-bye. See you tomorrow. Library community, I put in the chat box, the link to tonight's event, so many amazing resources. And thank you, Poor Press, Poor Magazine. Thank you all for being here, we're honored. And everyone have a wonderful night, try to sleep well, and let's do it again. We miss you.