SAM’s behavior is reprehensible. It is the bad neighbor, not the people living outdoors.
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Ro Fonder Reeve
5 years ago
The city continues to undermine every aspect of life for our unhoused neighbors, while providinng only a few, mostly substandard solutions. I am sickend and ashamed by our collective lack of will.
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Tye Reed
5 years ago
Do better, SAM!!!
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Alison Brunther
5 years ago
The fact they are homeless is a shame on our city. They are still our friends and neighbors. You don't have to have a house to be treated as a human!
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Keenan Calhoun
5 years ago
The unhoused are part of our community and need to be supported rather than pushed out
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Alayna Becker
5 years ago
If you wish to fulfill any version of equity and justice work, prioritize the treatment of our community museum's neighbors. You're on stolen land displaying stolen objects.
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Mike Greene
5 years ago
House and protect our unhoused community members, don't chase them away and destroy their belongings!
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Will Giles
5 years ago
Invest in community, dont invest in criminalization.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
This is all of our city- please reconsider, SAM.
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Judi martinez
5 years ago
SAM, please reconsider
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Danielle Mohlman
5 years ago
As a former SAM employee in the Admissions department, I stand with the Seattle Art Museum Workers in support of keeping SAM's unhoused neighbors safe. Our unhoused neighbors are vital and should be protected from these awful new policies.
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Minke Tahar
5 years ago
Sam is the police
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Sarah Salvador
5 years ago
As a former VSO for the SAM, I am extremely disappointed with the actions that this museum has took towards the homeless population. I hope SAM listens to the folks on the floor and reconsiders their policies.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
As a museum worker myself, it's disheartening and shameful to see such a big industry player like the SAM enact this violence on our unhoused neighbors. This sets a dangerous pretense to and bad example for other arts organizations and nonprofits. SAM is the biggest museum around, they have the resources many of us dont
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Matthew Van Duyn
5 years ago
Share the park with our unhoused neighbors!
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Ian Siporin
5 years ago
In solidarity with SAM workers in support of our unhoused neighbors. Access for all, inside and out!
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Emily Turner
5 years ago
Museum educator, SAM partner, and occasional member.
Museums should be actively working to undo white supremacist culture within their institutions and repair harm they have caused to their communities. This requires an intentional, collaborative, reflective look inwards to build public spaces and resources that are inclusive for all. It requires transparency, working across departments and levels of power, and dialoguing with affected communities. It is disappointing, to say the least, that SAM is actively choosing to harm community members instead of helping them, and is creating a hostile working environment for staff, who have worked thanklessly for decades to transform the institution for the better – work that the museum’s ‘woke’ image relies upon. As an educator, I cannot express how important it is that our learning spaces as physical and social environments feel safe, and that the adults young people interact with are compassionate. Actions like this communicate to our students that their value to us as an institution is conditional, and circumstantial. Please work directly with affected staff and community on developing more compassionate alternatives.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Museums should be “of and by, not just for” their community and constituents. Where’s the empathy in these actions?
SAM can do better.
SAM’s behavior is reprehensible. It is the bad neighbor, not the people living outdoors.
The city continues to undermine every aspect of life for our unhoused neighbors, while providinng only a few, mostly substandard solutions. I am sickend and ashamed by our collective lack of will.
Do better, SAM!!!
The fact they are homeless is a shame on our city. They are still our friends and neighbors. You don't have to have a house to be treated as a human!
The unhoused are part of our community and need to be supported rather than pushed out
If you wish to fulfill any version of equity and justice work, prioritize the treatment of our community museum's neighbors. You're on stolen land displaying stolen objects.
House and protect our unhoused community members, don't chase them away and destroy their belongings!
Invest in community, dont invest in criminalization.
This is all of our city- please reconsider, SAM.
SAM, please reconsider
As a former SAM employee in the Admissions department, I stand with the Seattle Art Museum Workers in support of keeping SAM's unhoused neighbors safe. Our unhoused neighbors are vital and should be protected from these awful new policies.
Sam is the police
As a former VSO for the SAM, I am extremely disappointed with the actions that this museum has took towards the homeless population. I hope SAM listens to the folks on the floor and reconsiders their policies.
As a museum worker myself, it's disheartening and shameful to see such a big industry player like the SAM enact this violence on our unhoused neighbors. This sets a dangerous pretense to and bad example for other arts organizations and nonprofits. SAM is the biggest museum around, they have the resources many of us dont
Share the park with our unhoused neighbors!
In solidarity with SAM workers in support of our unhoused neighbors. Access for all, inside and out!
Museum educator, SAM partner, and occasional member. Museums should be actively working to undo white supremacist culture within their institutions and repair harm they have caused to their communities. This requires an intentional, collaborative, reflective look inwards to build public spaces and resources that are inclusive for all. It requires transparency, working across departments and levels of power, and dialoguing with affected communities. It is disappointing, to say the least, that SAM is actively choosing to harm community members instead of helping them, and is creating a hostile working environment for staff, who have worked thanklessly for decades to transform the institution for the better – work that the museum’s ‘woke’ image relies upon. As an educator, I cannot express how important it is that our learning spaces as physical and social environments feel safe, and that the adults young people interact with are compassionate. Actions like this communicate to our students that their value to us as an institution is conditional, and circumstantial. Please work directly with affected staff and community on developing more compassionate alternatives.
Museums should be “of and by, not just for” their community and constituents. Where’s the empathy in these actions?
Stop SAM! House our neighbors!