Theatre Written, Lived and Died by Houseless, Disabled Humans Swept like We R Trash

CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS is a social justice thriller film about the violent machinery of poverty in the United States today.

Starring the talents of POOR Magazine—the prominent California arts & activism collective—the film features a cast and crew of unhoused and formerly unhoused residents of the San Francisco Bay Area who brought their real-life stories to the screen. https://www.poormagazine.org/ 

Cast aside by society like trash, a group of poor people living in a homeless community struggle to find hope amid gentrification, domestic violence and the brutality of the State.

The film traces the descent of a group of people into homelessness:

Arrival: 1pm | Refreshments
Program Start: 1:30pm
Welcome & Ceremony, Danza, Po’ Poets
Movie Trailer
Panel Discussions with Tiny Gray Garcia “Poverty Skolar” & Cast
Program End: 3:30pm