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Mario Mena and more than a dozen teenage artists completed the mural that envelops a house at 19th Street and Wolcott Avenue.
Completed in the late 1970s, “Education for the People” has new murals on either side of it. An artist behind those wants to repair and rejuvenate Diaz’s painting.
It’s about “anti-gentrification but mostly the big impact from investors,” Duarte says. “They buy the small, old houses, and they destroy the character of Pilsen.”