screening Crushing Wheelchairs

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A screening of the 2025 film “Crushing Wheelchairs” is followed by a Q&A with its directors and the POOR Magazine group. The film follows artists and community members amid encampment sweeps and gentrification.

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Friday, November 6, 7pm screening Crushing Wheelchairs (2025) Directed by tiny gray-garcia and Adrian Diamond Runtime: 1:56. min. Q&A with directors and the POOR Magazine group A powerful new movie created by houseless/formerly houseless artists, cultural workers, poets, and survivors in the Bay Area. It follows them as they struggle amid city-led encampment sweeps, gentrification, and the growing brutality of the State, and find hope and safety in community--“the people.” The film stars the talents of POOR Magazine’s arts & activism collective, whose motto is: “We aren’t acting, we are living.” “*A lot of times our stories are one-dimensional. We’re just seen as the victim, just holding on by a thread. Which we are… but we are also beautiful, and we also create life and beauty*.” –tiny gray-garcia, director “*It’s us, it’s you, it’s me, together. We cannot depend on the government, because we see which way that’s going. When we say‘all power in the people,’ there is power in the people*.” –Frances Moore, cast member POOR Magazine was started in 1996 by an indigenous, landless mother and daughter who struggled with extreme poverty, incarceration, and criminalization in the US. It is a poor-peoples, indigenous-led grassroots arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, arts, and education, and building solutions through community self-determination and Homefulness.

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