The Visit/2:

From City lights we went around the corner to the mural painted on the side of the City Lights Bookstore building, which sits on Jack Kerouac alley. In 1988 Ferlinghetti spearheaded a successful movement to change 12 San Francisco street & alley names to honor great San Francisco writers. The mural is a replica of a Mexican mural burned down by opponents of the indigenous people's rights movement in Chiapas. In protest, artists around the world pledged themselves to reproduce the mural everywhere. Ferlinghetti offered the side of his famed store for the San Francisco site. Mission district artists contributed the beautiful mural and incorporated the unique features of the wall into the original mural design.

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