SATSUMAxMILPA

STATEMENT OF INTENT

We gather on the unceded Tongva lands of Los Angeles, carrying forward a legacy of community defense, organizing, and mutual aid. Our work is rooted in decolonization: refusing extractive systems, reclaiming rest as resistance, and centering care as collective power. We recognize healing as political—disrupting cycles of violence, dismantling inherited trauma and rewriting the epigenetics of future generations.

The world aches for healing from the atrocities of war, exploitation, capitalism and environmental pollution, brutality of militarized forces. If the system is failing us, how can we make change– however small? 

SATSUMA x MILPA is a living practice of resistance and repair. We believe that healing is not private, but profoundly communal. Together, we are cultivating a trade economy around art and healing—sharing labor, resources, and creativity in ways that resist commodification and affirm interdependence.

We invite sound as medicine, movement as liberation, poetry as testimony, and conversation as care. We hold that caring for ourselves and our communities is an act of survival and political warfare. We enact new ways of being—where rest becomes refusal, art becomes economy, and solidarity becomes the foundation from which liberated futures breathe into expansion.