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Terrorism 101: Opium's Debut Album

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Marlon Crump/PNN
Sunday, December 20, 2009

HOTEL VOICES: THE REVIEW

BY

MARLON CRUMP/PNN

Tuesday February 9th, 2010

The Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels (SRO) aka poor people housing in the Bay Area.

A Poor People-Led Revolution

By Bruce Allison and Thornton Kimes

San Francisco has a “Housing First” policy. The (very extended) Patel
family, which owns the vast majority of SRO hotel (Single Room
Occupancy: a.k.a. Poor People Housing) properties in the city, is
spitting in our faces by leaving SRO’s vacant for years. There is one
in the Mission (22nd and Mission, above the Ritmo music store, with 40

Thornton Kimes/An Alleged Po'Poet/

warm up the car! we
have to massage concrete for
a nano-second

what the system did

to me now a grown man treated as a kid

pulling me inside steady trying to get rid

forcing me in court to pay to see my kid

burnt my history soup, forgot about the lid

what the system's doing