Please join us for the inauguration of Not In Our Name, A Collaboration between Muralist Juana Alicia and San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim
Saturday, August 2, 2 – 4pm
Clarion Alley (between 17th & 18th, and Mission & Valencia Streets
Street Mural Painting led by David Solnit, 12:30 – 2pm – Everyone’s welcome!
Line‑Up Highlights:
• Francis Wong – composer | saxophonist | activist | educator
• Poets Alexandro Murguía & Devorah Major – both former SF Poets Laureate
• Chun Yu – Chinese poet/translator (reading in Chinese)
• Mo Sati – Palestinian American poet
Plus onsite live‑poster-printing by the San Francisco Poster Syndicate!
Organizing Team:
Led by David Solnit, with volunteers Tirso González Araiza, Catherine Cusic, Eric Mar, Jade Mar, and video documentation by @artsed4aall
Genny Lim’s poem has been translated into Spanish and Arabic to reach broader audiences
Our mural and poem, Not in Our Name, is an urgent call to demand a permanent Cease Fire to end the genocide in Palestine. The large scale poetic mural (15 feet by 25 feet) by internationally reknowned muralist, Juana Alicia and Genny Lim, SF Poet Laureate, is mounted in San Francisco’s celebrated Mission District’s Clarion Mural Alley Project in Clarion Alley at the Valencia corridor between 17th and 18th Streets. The mural stands alongside a length of vibrant, global social justice murals, created by artist activists. Since the October 7 attack on the Nova Music Festival almost two years ago, there has been no let-up in the bombardment of Gaza and the West Bank, with over 60,000 Palestinians killed, more than half of whom were children and women. With hospitals and schools destroyed, starvation looming without any sufficient food or medical supplies allowed access, famine and disease, is inevitable. To date, there is no significant movement towards a cease fire and, in fact, the war threatens to spread with Israel’s attacks on Iran, Syria and Lebanon, which has elicited retaliatory attacks. As artists and poets, we use the tools of our craft to help raise social consciousness.
Our crew of dedicated volunteers, led by activist, David Solnit, former SF Supervisor, Eric Mar, peace activist, Catherine Cusic and Tirso Araiza, among others with the generous moral and material support support by CAMP, is a labor of love in tribute to all the victims of this horrific genocide. We believe that all war is an aberration, an abomination and a sign of moral decay. We believe that dialogue and honest cooperation are the only way to achieve true and lasting peace. NOT IN OUR NAME is a plea for peace and hope. It is a call to action. A message to all individuals with a moral conscience to defend the human rights and dignity of all human beings and the sovereignty of all nations by speaking truth to power and injustice. Below the mural is a QR Code, which allows the user to hear the audio translations of the poem in English as well as eight different languages: Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hebrew, Mayan and German.
— Juana Alicia and Genny Lim
