From Homelessness to Homefulness: POOR Magazine Evicted By Unscrupulous Landlords

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Tue, Sep 30, 2008 7:13AM

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 : “Think of a Number”, said Peter Johnson, the new millionaire buyer of the office building where POOR Magazine is located and now faces eviction. He was smooth--smooth like a snake; his voice, his demeanor, his bootstrap “rags to riches” story. He was smooth and authentic-seeming as he prodded co-editor and founder Tiny AKA Lisa Gray-Garcia and myself to think of a “number”, i.e., the price of what it would cost for POOR to relocate our entire multilingual, multigenerational classroom and multi-media production center.

At that moment, Tiny and myself were completely drawn into his story. What we later discovered was his cleverly woven web of lies and betrayal.

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