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This House is Not For Sale

“Poetry for People and Siasoco worked closely with the CLCLT to identify eight households throughout the City of Minneapolis who were willing to share stories about the state of their home at the time of purchase, the transformation the home underwent after purchase, the stories they have learned or made up about its past, and how their lives have been impacted by owning the home. Inspired by the story exchanges, a poet wrote an original poem and Witt Siasoco created visuals that manifested in a one-of-a-kind screen print.”

Live Arts in Resistance (LAIR) 

“LAIR is a multidisciplinary performing arts project where artists and audience members can engage in a meaningful dialogue about innovative ideas and experimental work, where artists can reflect on the process of creating progressive art and revolutionary movements while redefining aesthetics and ethics that will decolonize our minds.”  

“First They Came For Our Homes... Together We Fight Back!”

“We strung a clothesline of 60 white outfits on the burned out site of previous rent-controlled housing representing the 60 people who lost their homes in the fire. Projected above (onto Vida luxury condos) and framed on the burned out site's gated fence were stories and images of folks who've been displaced, some made homeless, during this housing crisis that I collected from SF housing and homeless advocacy groups...Together we said YES to Homes for All and NO to realtor-backed and hate-filled Propositions P, U, Q and R that would degrade our right to housing.” 

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“Uplifting the political agent, artist, poet, designer, and planner within all of us, these 5 yard signs were designed to saturate the city beginning on the eve of the November 8, 2016 election and into the future because civic engagement does not end at the ballot.” - Blights Out Org

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