Isis street is a small side street located off 12th street and around the corner from the newly built Eagle Plaza in the San Francisco South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. While Isis street was a fine name for many years, paying homage to Isis, a major goddess in Egyptian theology, it has become synonymous with terrorism and evil since the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).



ISIS is responsible for killing and torturing scores of American soldiers and service men and women, many Iraqi citizens, as well as otherwise innocent civilians in many corners of the globe. Moreover, there are at least a half dozen documented cases of ISIS killing men accused of being gay, and SOMA, San Francisco is an eclectic and progressive neighborhood with a vibrant gay presence.

ISIS is expected to continue their reign of terror in the years to come, making Isis a highly problematic street name for the foreseeable future. Would the city of San Francisco allow a newly developed street to be named "ISIS" now? Would any City or local government in the United States allow a street named after ISIS?

This petition will be presented to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in hopes that they will take action and change this street name to Harvey Milk street in honor of the late San Francisco Supervisor and California's first openly gay, publicly elected official.

Please sign this petition so we may continue to immortalize a local and national hero, help with revitalizing an entire city neighborhood, and remove the negative connotation that Isis now carries domestically and abroad.

Following, is a brief out line of some of the atrocities committed by ISIS worldwide.

From CNN.com “The ISIS group implements Sharia Law, rooted in eighth-century Islam, to establish a society that mirrors the region's ancient past. ISIS is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions, crucifixions and other acts.

March 2015 - ISIS posts images of a man being thrown off a building in Raqqa, Syria. He had been accused of being gay. There are at least a half dozen documented cases of ISIS killing men accused of being gay.

August 6, 2014 - ISIS fighters attack the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, home of a religious minority group called the Yazidis. More than 30,000 Yazidi families are stranded in the Sinjar Mountains. A Yazidi lawmaker says that 500 men have been killed, 70 children have died of thirst and women are being sold into slavery.

August 19, 2014 - ISIS posts a video showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley, missing in Syria since 2012.

September 2, 2014 - ISIS releases a video showing the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff. The apparent executioner speaks in the same British accent as the man who purportedly killed Foley.

September 13, 2014 - ISIS posts a video showing the apparent execution of British aid worker David Haines.

October 3, 2014 - ISIS releases a video showing the apparent beheading of British hostage, Alan Henning.

November 3, 2014 - The Iraqi government announces ISIS militants have killed 322 members of a Sunni tribe in a series of executions.

January 24, 2015 - A photo and audio released by ISIS appear to show the beheaded body of Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa

February 3, 2015 - Video and still images posted by ISIS apparently shows Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh being burned alive while locked in a cage.

February 15, 2015 - ISIS posts a video in which militants appear to behead more than a dozen Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach.

February 22, 2015 - ISIS releases a video that appears to show at least 21 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in cages carried down Iraqi streets.

March 2015 - ISIS posts images of a man being thrown off a building in Raqqa, Syria. He had been accused of being gay. There are at least a half dozen documented cases of ISIS killing men accused of being gay.

April 19, 2015 - ISIS releases a video that appears to show militants beheading two groups of prisoners in Libya. The Ethiopian government confirms that 30 of the victims were Ethiopian citizens.

June 19, 2015 - The US State Department issues its annual terrorism report, declaring that ISIS is becoming a greater threat than al Qaeda. The frequency and savagery of ISIS attacks are alarming, according to the report.

July 4, 2015 - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports it has received a video showing ISIS militants executing 25 captives in Palmyra.

November 12, 2015 - Two suicide bombs hit the Bourj al-Barajneh district of southern Beirut, killing more than 40 people and wounding hundreds. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.

November 13, 2015 - Three teams of gun-wielding ISIS suicide bombers hit six locations around Paris, killing at least 130 people and wounding 494 others.

June 28, 2016 - At least 44 people die and more than 230 are injured when three attackers arrive at Turkey's Istanbul Ataturk Airport in a taxi, then open fire before blowing themselves up. US officials believe the man who directed the three attackers is Akhmed Chatayev, a terrorist from Russia's North Caucasus region and a well-known ISIS lieutenant.

July 3, 2016 - A suicide car bomb detonates in a busy shopping district in Baghdad, killing at least 292 people and injuring another 200. It is the deadliest single attack in Iraq since 2003. ISIS claims responsibility.

October 24, 2016 - Suicide bombers attack sleeping cadets at a police training academy in Pakistan, killing 61 and injuring 117.

ISIS claims responsibility, releasing a photo of the three purported attackers but Pakistani military leaders say they believe a Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi carried out the attack.

April 9, 2017 - ISIS claims responsibility for two deadly bombings targeting Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday in Egypt. At least 49 people are killed and 119 others are injured in the blasts.

May 26-28, 2017 - More than 200 civilians are killed by ISIS militants in Mosul, according to the UN.

July 25, 2018 - At least 166 people are killed in a suicide bombing and other attacks in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Syria says. ISIS claims responsibility.

January 16, 2019 - A deadly explosion kills four Americans and at least 10 other people in the Syrian city of Manbij. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.



Please sign this petition so we may continue to immortalize a local and national hero, help with revitalizing an entire city neighborhood, and remove the negative connotation that Isis now carries domestically and abroad.



Thank you.