Salvar la gente y los niños - save the people and the children - the motto above a mural that's been painted on a blocked off doorway of what used to be the base of Warehouse 21, in the Railyard. This was the site of a Santa Fe arts organization that supports teens and young people with, and in, various activities and events. According to their website, they actually moved out in 2019, which makes me perplexed that I hadn't fully taken this on board earlier: that is, I'd seen that the building (which belong to the City of Santa Fe, and may well be for sale - at least, there's a dilapidated sign suggesting as much) was looking more and more run down, and graffitti was starting to cover some of the murals, but despite going regularly both to the farmers' market and Site Santa Fe, next door, I just hadn't registered its utter inaccessible vacancy until maybe last year ...
The motto seems very apt for our times.
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