In its comments on the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Environmental Impact Report, POWER focused on the carcinogens and radiological contamination at the Shipyard; the dangers of liquefaction; climate change and sea level rise; transportation impacts from the proposed development; the connection of the development to the existing community; and the preservation of historic Ohlone sites.
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abatement procedures,
adjacent elementary schools,
Administrative Orders on Consent,
Alice Griffith public housing development,
American Indian Movement West,
asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point,
beryllium,
Bret Harte Elementary School,
cancer clusters,
Candlestick Point,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Development Plan Project Draft Environmental Impact Report,
carbon tetrachloride,
carcinogens,
chemicals and radioactive materials,
chlorinated pesticides,
chloroform,
chromium,
chromium VI,
climate change and sea level rise,
construction activities,
copper,
early transfer,
Early Transfer Cooperative Agreement,
ecological assessments,
environmental and human health exposures,
Environmental Impact Report,
environmental justice,
environmental racism,
environmental review process,
hazardous contaminants,
hazardous materials,
heavy metals,
heavy metals (arsenic,
heavy metals (chromium VI,
historic indigenous ceremonial and burial sites,
historic Ohlone sites,
human and ecological receptors,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard (HPS),
hydrocarbons,
Indian People Organized for Change,
International Indian Treaty Council,
lack of enforcement,
lead,
Lennar’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR),
liquefaction,
Louisiana Environmental Action Network,
MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ grant recipient,
manganese,
Marylee Orr,
mechanism for immediate notification,
mercury,
mercury and nickel),
Muhammad University of Islam,
Muhammad University of Islam (MUI),
naphthalene,
nickel and zinc),
Ohlone nation,
Ohlone Profiles Project,
PCBs,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
pesticides,
petroleum hydrocarbons,
polluters,
polluting industries,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,
protection of human health and the environment,
radiological cleanup activities,
radiological contamination,
radionuclides,
remedial activities,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Planning Department,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
semi-volatile organic compounds,
site remediation,
Superfund site,
Technical Assistance Services for Communities (TASC),
tetrachloroethane and others),
toxic spills,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
U.S. Navy,
United Native Americans,
volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds,
volatile organic compounds (VOC: benzene,
Wilma Subra Ph.D.
BMAGIC’s 5th Annual Winter Ball on Friday, Dec. 18, at the Joseph Lee Recreational Center, 1395 Mendell St., San Francisco, is the event that youth in Bayview Hunters Point have been waiting for. All youth ages 14-18 in Bayview Hunters Point are invitedto celebrate the end of the year and take pride as their accomplishments are recognized and honored. Free admission to the formal includes DJ and dancing, dinner and professional photos. Teens who show up in street clothes will change into formal wear and keep the clothes they select.
Stand with the residents of Bayview Hunters Point Thursday, Dec. 17, 6:30-10 p.m., at the SF Planning Commission hearing on Lennar’s Environmental Impact Report in San Francisco City Hall Room 400. Tell the commissioners: No to bricks on Jello! No building on top of liquefaction! No nuclear stadiums! No capping over toxic landfills! And YES to true complete cleanup of the ENTIRE SHIPYARD.
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asbestos laden dust,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Double Rock/Alice Griffith,
environmental justice,
environmental racism,
Lennar's Environmental Impact Report,
liquefaction,
major earthquake,
Ohlone Indian burial sites,
radiologically contaminated Hunters Point Shipyard,
San Francisco Planning Commission,
sea level rise,
Superfund site,
toxic Superfund site
On Thursday, Dec. 3, while President Obama holds a national summit on jobs and unemployment, unemployed workers will picket at 11:30 a.m. in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in the SF Federal Building, 90 7th St., calling for Congress to take immediate action to put people back to work.
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Arnulfo de la Cruz of Coleman Advocates,
Bayview Hunters Point,
communities of color,
community infrastructure development,
community jobs program,
distressed communities,
economic insecurity,
Ernest Stokes,
Great Depression,
Great Recession,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Jaron Browne of POWER,
jobs,
out-of-school youth,
President Obama,
Shaw San Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association,
small businesses,
stimulate the economy,
underemployed,
unemployment,
unemployment benefits,
upgrade physical infrastructure,
Wall Street CEOs
They shot my grandson three times – two times in his back. That must have turned him around. Then they shot him in his face just above his right eye. That was the cause of death, according to the Coroner’s Office. So we know one thing: They shot him in the back first. How was he threatening the police if he was running from them? That’s what I want to know.
Tonight is a night of rejoicing in San Francisco’s Black heartland, Bayview Hunters Point. After more than a decade of fighting the land-grabbing Lennar cabal – Florida-based mega-homebuilder Lennar and its sponsors, Mayor Gavin Newsom, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, richest member of the U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Lennar partner Richard Blum – we the people of the poorest neighborhood in filthy rich Frisco finally won one.
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Alice Griffith public housing,
asbestos-laden toxic dust,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview Hunters Point Project Area Committee (PAC),
Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan,
Candlestick Point‐Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 2,
Double Rock,
eminent domain,
Espanola Jackson,
federal stimulus-funded work,
Gretchen Morgenson,
Hunters View (West Point),
KPOO,
Lennar,
Leon Muhammad,
Mary Ratcliff,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
mixed-income housing,
retaliatory eviction,
Richard Blum,
San Francisco Bay View,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Housing Authority,
San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Willie Ratcliff
In 2006, using this poster, Bayview Hunters Point activists gathered over 33,000 signatures in 90 days on our refendum petition. But City Hall tossed it. Now that the California Supreme Court has reinstated a similar Pleasanton referendum petition, can BVHP find lawyers to take ours back to court … and win back our community?
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African American employees of Lennar Corporation,
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch,
arsenic,
BAAQMD Executive Officer Jack Broadbent,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD),
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black Mayor Willie Brown,
Bret Harte,
California Health and Safety Code Section 42400,
chromium,
City Hall,
Commissioners Eric Mar and Kim-Shree Maufas,
Congressman John Conyers,
developers Jennifer and Frederick Lin,
Dr. Charles Drew College Prep Academy,
dust monitoring,
El Dorado County,
EPA Superfund Site,
George Washington Carver,
Kofi Bonner,
lead,
Lennar,
Lennar Corporation’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard development,
Malcolm X Academy,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Muslim University,
Oak Ridge High School,
Parcel A,
Pleasanton,
radon,
Roland Sheppard,
San Francisco,
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis J. Herrera,
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Mitchell H. Katz,
San Francisco Public Health Director Katz,
Save Pleasanton Hills,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Serpentine rock,
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,
the Board of Education,
the California Air Resources Board (ARB),
the California Supreme Court,
the carcinogenic effect of asbestos,
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),
the Defend Bayview Hunters Point Committee,
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
the Hunter’s Point Shipyard,
the Painters Union,
the Precautionary Principle,
the San Francisco 49ers football team,
the San Francisco Unified School District,
the School District’s School Health Programs Office,
the SF Asthma Task Force,
The World Health Organization,
white Pleasanton,
World cancer expert Samuel S. Epstein
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) predicts a 16-inch mid-century sea level rise, covering Bay Area coastal lands and eventually swamping downtown San Francisco up to Market Street. The primary global warming gas is carbon dioxide. Methane gas, heavily implicated in global warming, has been emitted for years from the Bayview Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Sea level rise will release methane gas from wetlands and landfill, of which much of Hunters Point is composed.
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anti-corruption,
anti-discrimination,
Antioch,
atomic bomb “Little Boy”,
Bay Area Air Quality Control Management,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
Biochemist Dr. Raymond Tompkins,
breast cancer rates,
British Petroleum (BP),
carbon dioxide,
Carol Harvey,
Chevron,
China,
collective bargaining,
dropping property values,
East Palo Alto,
EPA,
Francisco Da Costa,
green technologies,
human rights,
Hunters Point,
insurance rates,
ittle Hollywood,
Jaron Browne,
John Upton,
Lennar Corp.,
Marie Harrison,
Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 792,
methane gas,
Navy,
Pittsburg,
Potrero Hill,
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights),
radiated materials,
radiation-contaminated by depleted uranium,
radioactive materials,
Sacramento,
San Francisco Bay,
San Francisco Bayview,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
San Jose,
Stockton,
Sunnydale,
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
the Central Valley,
the Kyoto Treaty,
the precautionary principle in approaching environmental challenges,
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight,
the San Francisco Department of Public Health,
the San Francisco Examiner,
the Stop Lennar Action Movement,
the U.S.,
the U.S. Navy,
toxic exposure,
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan,
U.S. Naval Shipyard,
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen,
Visitacion Valley,
“United Nations Global Compact Center”
A commercial message broadcast on national television last month by women’s breast cancer advocacy groups was assailed as outrageous, insensitive and an example of reverse sexism. It portrayed men in form fitting T-shirts and sexy tops with “tits” and “boobs.” Their message was clear if not “over the top.” If men had breasts, funding for breast cancer research and treatment in the U.S. would be a higher priority!
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alcohol consumption greater than two drinks per day,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Benzene,
breast cancer,
Camp Lejeune,
carcinogen,
community scientist Raymond Tompkins,
Department of Public Health epidemiologists,
Dr. John Kiluk,
environmental health and justice advocates in Bayview Hunters Point,
estrogens in pesticides,
federal Superfund sites,
ionizing radiation,
obesity,
osteoporosis,
perchloroethylene,
Peter Palmer,
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
the Department of Public Health,
the Environmental Impact Reviews,
the Environmental Protection Agency,
the George Washington Carver school,
the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
the Marine Corps,
The Navy,
the Parcel E landfill at the Shipyard,
the Potrero Hill power plant,
the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
the sewage treatment plant,
The World Health Organization,
trichloroethylene,
U.S. military installation,
women’s breast cancer advocacy groups
Lack of capacity and lack of wealth often result from our deceptive practices with each other. More often they result from the acts of malice perpetrated by powerful predators who profit from our community dysfunction. These predators come with names that are disarming. They are often religious church names. They are always controlled by the rapacious and the greedy.
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Bayview Hunters Point,
crimes of need,
Fillmore,
Fronts,
Hayes Valley,
Joseph Debro,
minority contractors,
our unemployed young people,
pimps,
the flatlands of Oakland,
the National Association of Minority Contractors,
the poor
SB 792 is a license for Lennar to dump worthless, dangerous, highly toxic and radioactive land on the public, in exchange for clean, desirable Candlestick parkland that graces the Black and working class community of Bayview Hunters Point. Labor must not be deceived into becoming an unwitting and involuntary participant in a major crime.
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Aquatic Park,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District standards,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black and disadvantaged residents,
Bradley Wiedmaier,
Candlestick Point land,
detoxification,
environmental racism,
Fort Mason,
Lennar,
Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 792,
Naval Shipyard Superfund,
Presidio,
Proposition G,
radiation issues,
Ralph Schoenman,
San Francisco,
San Francisco Labor Council officials,
the Center for Self Improvement,
the city of San Francisco,
the Democratic Party,
the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Golden Gate,
the Hunters Point development plan,
the party of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi,
the Redevelopment Agency,
the San Francisco 49ers,
the TOXIC SWAP,
Tim Paulson,
toxic dump,
toxic shipyard land,
toxic sites
On Thursday, Sept. 3, at their weekly town hall meeting, the leaders of SLAM (Stop Lennar Action Movement) reminded the audience of the kind of power they have in the battle to save Bayview Hunters Point. Minister Christopher Muhammad, Archbishop Franzo King and Francisco Da Costa shared the latest news of SLAM’s progress and urged the audience to understand that by staying focused and vigilant and not letting anything turn them around, they will win the war.
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African Americans,
Antioch,
Archbishop Franzo King,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Chowchilla Prison for Women,
East Palo Alto,
exploiting the poor and disadvantaged,
Francisco Da Costa,
greedy politicians,
Hurricane Katrina,
Lennar,
Lower 9th Ward,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
New Orleans,
Oakland,
Pittsburg,
Rev. Andrew L. Bozeman,
Sacramento,
Sen. Mark Leno,
SLAM (Stop Lennar Action Movement),
the Bay Area,
the Pacific Heights Mafia,
the power of God,
the United States,
unscrupulous developers,
Vallejo
To this day, no testing of children living and learning near the Shipyard has occurred. Bayview Hunters Point deserves better. Children, elderly, working class and low income residents shouldn’t have to suffer from a neighbor who cares more about profit than people. As a community, we demand that our children be tested for exposure to toxics present in the dirt at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and for a temporary stoppage of work until the damage done to the community can be assessed.
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Alicia Garza,
asthma,
Bayview Hunters Point,
bronchitis,
headaches,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
nosebleeds,
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights),
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
severe skin rashes that scar,
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
The Lennar Corp.,
“environmental mayor”
Privatizing parks is not popular in San Francisco. As opposition and media attention mount, state Sen. Mark Leno wants to rush his Senate Bill 792 through the legislature. We urge the Assembly and the Senate to hold the bill until the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted on a resolution opposing SB 792 that is currently one vote short of a majority.
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49ers,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area,
Leland Yee,
Majority Leader Alberto Torrico,
Mary Ratcliff,
privatizing parks,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
SB 792,
Senate Bill 792,
Speaker Karen Bass,
state Sen. Mark Leno,
Tom Ammiano,
urban state park
One of the ways City College is dealing with the cuts is a hiring freeze. No new instructors were hired to replace retirees, so nobody is available to teach the class. Griffin said the college is trying to shore up a $ 20,000,000 hole in City College’s budget.
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Aaron Salazar,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Chris Jackson,
City College,
City College Chancellor Don Griffin,
community colleges,
Dean Hunnicutt,
Dr. Charles Collins,
Dwayne Jones,
Elizabeth Skow,
Oakdale,
Robert Tago,
San Francisco,
San Francisco State University,
Southeast Community Facility Commissioner Espanola Jackson,
Stacey Jones,
the Bayview community,
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the Gateway program,
the San Francisco Unified School District,
the Southeast campus,
Trustee Chris Jackson
In their fight against the push to privatize their state park, Bayview Hunters Point activists are fighting the privatization of California as hard as anyone I know. They’re fighting for all of us, so I hope that other Californians who don’t want to see the whole state on the auction block will contact their Assembly representatives and ask them to vote against Senate Bill 792.
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12th District Assembly Member Fiona Ma,
13th District Assembly Member Tom Ammiano,
8th District Sen. Leland Yee,
Ann Garrison,
Arc Ecology,
ARC Ecology Director Saul Bloom,
Audubon Society,
Bayview Hunters Point,
California Native Plant Society,
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area,
Caravan for Justice,
Chinese Progressive Association,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club,
Idriss Stelley Action and Resource Center,
IMF and World Bank,
KPFA News,
KPFA Weekend News Producer Anthony Fest,
Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles,
Lennar,
Lynn Suter,
Michael Cohen,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
privatization of California,
San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
San Francisco Green Party,
San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly,
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos,
Sen. Mark Leno,
Senate Bill 792,
Sierra Club,
Sierra Club trustee John Rizzo,
state budget crisis,
Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM),
structural readjustment,
Tranquillon Ridge
San Franciscans have a right to be outraged about SB 792, sponsored by state Sen. Mark Leno. SB 792 unnecessarily gives away a valuable California State Park in exchange for high-rise condominiums. If San Franciscans allow parkland that was set aside in trust for Californians to enjoy to be transferred to private developers, we risk opening a Pandora’s box that allows development to go unfettered in state parks already threatened by budget cuts.
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Alicia Garza,
Arc Ecology,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Betty Higgins,
Candlestick Point State Park,
environmental racism,
Golden Gate Park,
health,
irresponsible developers,
Lennar,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
Senate Bill 792,
state parks,
state Sen. Mark Leno,
the Black community,
the Chinese Progressive Association,
the environmental impact,
the Presidio,
the Redevelopment Agency,
the Sierra Club
It’s been 33 years, but Ed Donaldson can still see the anxious look on his mother’s face when she was told she had to move. It was 1976, and Donaldson was only 10 – the youngest of three children – when the family received word from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency that they were being kicked out of their Hunters Point apartment.
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a single Black woman,
Aileen Hernandez,
Alicia Garza,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black residents,
Black San Francisco neighborhood,
Black veterans,
Chinatown,
displaced families,
East Palo Alto,
Ed Donaldson,
Fillmore district,
Jamilah King,
Lennar Corp.,
Mayor Newsom,
Oakland,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights,
Proposition G,
Regina Davis,
San Francisco,
San Francisco’s Black population,
Shawn Ginwright,
Supervisor Maxwell,
the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
the Osiris Coalition,
the San Francisco Housing Development Corp.,
the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Tinisch Hollins,
young Black entrepreneurs
Mayor Gavin Newsom claims the most important item on his agenda is the revitalization of Bayview Hunters Point. Illustrating his editorial is this picture of a Black woman laborer. She is likely to be the only Black worker on any Hunters Point construction if things do not change. I propose an anti-gentrification subsidy of affordable housing and jobs for all residents displaced or in danger of displacement.
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affordable homeownership,
anti-gentrification subsidy,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black woman laborer,
breathmobiles,
community benefit,
economic and ethnic diversity,
electricians,
Farmers Home Administration,
Fillmore,
gentrification,
Hayes Valley,
homeowners,
homeownership,
Hunters View,
HVAC workers,
job skills,
Joseph Debro,
National Association of Minority Contractors,
on-the-job training,
plumbers,
quality health for children,
Redevelopment Agency,
Sunnydale,
Visitacion Valley,
Visitacion Valley Community Development Corp.,
Western Addition
Add your name and organization to the growing chorus of grassroots and environmental justice organizations — including the Caravan for Justice, Sierra Club, Audubon Society, Chinese Progressive Association, POWER, PODER, La Raza Centro Legal, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Arc Ecology, Greenlining Institute, San Francisco Green Party, San Francisco Bay View newspaper and many more — saying No to California Senate Bill 792, a bill state Sen. Mark Leno introduced that would allow the state of California to sell 42 acres of state parkland on the shoreline at Candlestick Point in Bayview Hunters Point for private condominium development.
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African American families,
Arc Ecology,
Asian Pacific Environmental Network,
Audubon Society,
Bayview Hunters Point,
California,
Candlestick Point,
CEQA assessment,
Chinese Progressive Association,
Greenlining Institute,
La Raza Centro Legal,
Lennar,
Naval Shipyard,
PG&E power plant,
PODER,
POWER,
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights),
Prop G,
San Francisco,
San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
San Francisco Green Party,
SB 792,
Sierra Club,
the California Assembly Appropriations Committee,
the Caravan for Justice,
The Environmental Impact Reports,
vote NO on SB 792
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