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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''
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'''The full view from across 24th Street.'''
''Photos: Chris Carlsson''


In 2019 Carla Wojczuk and Lucia Ippolito led a crew of wonderful community muralists in painting a stunning full-building mural at 24th and Capp Streets on a building owned by Mission Housing and with the streetside storefront rented by the Calle 24 Cultural District organizing project.  
In 2019 Carla Wojczuk and Lucia Ippolito led a crew of wonderful community muralists in painting a stunning full-building mural at 24th and Capp Streets on a building owned by Mission Housing and with the streetside storefront rented by the Calle 24 Cultural District organizing project.  
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Titled ''Alto al Fuego en la Misión'' the mural honors multiple homicide victims, [[Mayor Ed Lee's Police Legacy|all killed by the San Francisco Police Department]] in the past few years. Prominently featured are Amilcar Perez-Lopez, shot in the back by undercover police on Folsom Street, Alex Nieto, shot down in a hail of 59 bullets after eating his burrito on Bernal Heights, Luis Gongora Pat, killed in less than 30 seconds while sitting on the ground on Shotwell near 19th... and quite a few more too.
Titled ''Alto al Fuego en la Misión'' the mural honors multiple homicide victims, [[Mayor Ed Lee's Police Legacy|all killed by the San Francisco Police Department]] in the past few years. Prominently featured are Amilcar Perez-Lopez, shot in the back by undercover police on Folsom Street, Alex Nieto, shot down in a hail of 59 bullets after eating his burrito on Bernal Heights, Luis Gongora Pat, killed in less than 30 seconds while sitting on the ground on Shotwell near 19th... and quite a few more too.


[[Image:Capp-24th-full-mural 20200608 202524.jpg]]
[[Image:Alto muralistas at inaugural.jpg|800px]]


'''The full view from across 24th Street.'''
'''The muralists are honored at the unveiling.'''


''Photos: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


[[Image:Capp-24th-Amilcar-detail 20200608 202548.jpg]]
[[Image:Capp-24th-Amilcar-detail 20200608 202548.jpg]]

Revision as of 13:35, 9 July 2020

Unfinished History

Capp-24th-full-mural 20200608 202524.jpg

The full view from across 24th Street.

Photos: Chris Carlsson


In 2019 Carla Wojczuk and Lucia Ippolito led a crew of wonderful community muralists in painting a stunning full-building mural at 24th and Capp Streets on a building owned by Mission Housing and with the streetside storefront rented by the Calle 24 Cultural District organizing project.

Titled Alto al Fuego en la Misión the mural honors multiple homicide victims, all killed by the San Francisco Police Department in the past few years. Prominently featured are Amilcar Perez-Lopez, shot in the back by undercover police on Folsom Street, Alex Nieto, shot down in a hail of 59 bullets after eating his burrito on Bernal Heights, Luis Gongora Pat, killed in less than 30 seconds while sitting on the ground on Shotwell near 19th... and quite a few more too.

Alto muralistas at inaugural.jpg

The muralists are honored at the unveiling.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Capp-24th-Amilcar-detail 20200608 202548.jpg

The detail on Amilcar Perez-Lopez, a Guatemalan immigrant laborer, whose family mourns him in their mountain village.

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At right, Luis Gongora Pat; center, Alfonso Delgado (shot in a hail of police bullets while hiding in the trunk of a car); front and center: Roxana Hernandes.

Capp-24th-mural-detail 20200608 202556.jpg

Based on a photo of Amilcar Perez-Lopez's family holding a banner demanding justice in their village.


Alto al fuego original Juana Alicia.jpg

As is often true among local muralists, the Amilcar memorial is painted in part as an homage to an earlier work that was destroyed, Alto al Fuego, by Juana Alicia, decrying the wars in Central America in the 1980s.

Photo: Chris Carlsson