Sunday, June 6, 2010

Stencil


Walking home from a yoga class on a windy bright Sunday afternoon in San Francisco I passed this sidewalk stencil in the Mission. The names above the fists meant nothing to me, but a quick google search informed me that they are three villages in Chiapas under attack by "a paramilitary group" fronting for the Mexican government which wants to replace the local population with a "development" for eco-tourism – so North Americans like you and me can go enjoy the lovely waterfalls there without any pesky indigenous people cluttering things up.