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Check out our upcoming seminars

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Upcoming Seminars for PeopleSkooL:

Revolutionary Change Session: June 15 2012 - June 17 2012

RYME (Revolutionary Youth Media Education) Summer Session:: July 3 2012 - July 31 2012

HEAALS (HEaling from Addictions through Art Liberation, & Spirituality) Weekend: : July 7th 2012 - July 8th 2012

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How do you work with, write with, provide service to, fund, legislate, facilitate, educate, and heal youth, adults, elders, children, and families in poverty? The trauma of poverty, racism, disability, violence, and/or immigration on a family system, a community, and a person, has a devastating impact on an individuals', families' and communities' ability to survive, work, be educated and progress.

How does one come up and out of poverty, to not only survive, but thrive, and work on change for themselves and their families?

The Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine has a revolutionary way of addressing the impact of poverty that up–ends the traditional US models of service provision, mental health treatment, media production, education, policy creation and philanthropy. Each training seminar or workshop is led by Poverty Scholars who have survived poverty, homelessness, violence, profiling, immigration, disability, incarceration, police harassment, domestic violence, etc. The seminars are led by poverty scholar and institute director Tiny aka Lisa Gray–Garcia in collaboration with Race, Poverty, Youth, Elder, Migrant and Indigenous Scholars on staff at POOR Magazine.

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Programs and Seminars / Registration and Fees

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POOR magazine is a grassroots, non-profit, arts organization that is dedicated to providing extreme media access, education and art to communities of color struggling with poverty, racism, disability, immigration/migration, and criminalization in the bay area and beyond.

All of POOR's education and advocacy programs are focused on teaching non–colonizing, community–based and community–led media and art with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, homelessness, disability and race locally and globally, as well as creating short and long–term social change and racial justice.

To accomplish these goals, POOR offers several revolutionary educational and art programs, as well as, projects in print, online, radio journalism, multi–media skills and book publishing classes.