The People’s National Party of Belize organized a Kayak for Haiti Kayakathon to raise funds for the victims of the quake. Despite the inclement weather, Kayak for Haiti was a success because the target was met and surpassed. The total amount raised was $1,404. The money will go to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.
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environmental justice,
George and Candy Gonzalez,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund,
human rights,
Jean Bertrand Aristide,
Kayak for Haiti Kayakathon,
Lavalas Party,
People’s National Party (PNP),
Playa Blanca Guatemala,
Punta Gorda Belize,
San Ignacio,
Sarstoon River,
TIDE Tours,
Wil Maheia
In December 2009, leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen cited new satellite data doubling or tripling previous sea level rise predictions. Climate change, he said, “is really a moral issue analogous to that faced by Lincoln with slavery,” an apt comparison considering the dangers for peoples of color in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
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100-year flood hazard area,
2006 Final Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Impact Report,
23-acre Parcel E-2,
Al Gore,
amplification affects on the aquifer,
Amy Goodman,
Antarctic ice sheets,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bay estuary,
Bay water rise,
Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood,
Bush administration,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Draft Environmental Impact Report,
Carol Harvey,
chronic nosebleeds,
climate system tipping points,
climatologist Dr. James Hansen,
Cypress Freeway,
Dan Miller,
deadly water rise-earthquake-amplification-liquefaction combination,
Democracy Now,
Dr. Peter Palmer,
Dr. Ray Tompkins,
earthquake amplification,
earthquake zones,
earth’s gravitational field,
environmental justice,
EPA,
EPA Superfund Site,
Eric Brooks,
geological rock formations,
green energy,
Greenaction,
Greenland,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site,
hydraulic pressure measurements,
Iraq toxic wastes,
Lennar,
Lennar-Redevelopment Draft EIR,
liquefaction,
Loma Prieta quake,
Marie Harrison,
NASA Goddard Space Studies Institute,
Navy,
nazism,
organic chemist Dr. Raymond Tompkins,
poisons,
political subterfuge,
radiated animal carcasses,
radiation materials,
radioactive toxic soil,
radiological contamination,
radium dials,
radium-radon-polonium gas combination,
radon gas,
Redevelopment’s “Master Developer” of the Shipyard,
San Francisco Bay,
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC),
San Francisco Community Choice,
San Francisco Planning Commission,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco Redevelopment Commission,
San Francisco State University,
satellite data,
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR),
sea level rise predictions,
Shipyard Parcels A and B,
shock wave amplification,
Threadwell & Rollo,
toxic chemicals,
toxic gas pressure,
toxic Superfund site,
U.S. Geological Survey maps,
underground fire,
Yosemite Slough Bridge,
‘49ers stadium,
“Big One”,
“residential standards”
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.
We are too big to fail! Call President Barack Obama to remind him that a bold reinvestment in, recovery for and restoration of our environment is even more critical, and less expensive, than the trillions he has given to prop up Wall Street, the military contractors, capitalist for-profit corporations and now the insurance industry that stands to benefit so greatly from his health care “reform.”
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Alicia Garza,
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS),
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Cecil Corbin-Mark,
climate change,
climate chaos,
Copenhagen,
deep reductions in emissions,
Diana Lopez,
Diana Pei Wu,
Dr. Henry Clark,
ecological debt,
environmental justice,
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative,
fair and open treaty negotiations,
false solutions,
G77 grouping of “developing” nations,
Global South,
Gopal Dayaneni,
Gov. Arnold “Swastika” Schwarzenegger,
greenhouse gases and carbon,
Jill Johnston,
José Bravo,
Kalila Barnett,
lack of transparency,
Mari Rose Taruc,
Marisa Franco,
Michele Roberts,
Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project,
North American Indigenous Delegation,
Pacific Islanders,
President Barack Obama,
reparations,
Roxana Aguilar,
side deals,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
weak targets
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
Marcel Diallo is a legend in Oakland for having put in over a decade of cultural work with the Black Dot Artist Collective, and now he is the main architect of a Black cultural district, the Village Bottoms Cultural District in the Lower Bottoms of West Oakland, near the old Army base.
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" "under-served",
"food deserts",
10th and Pine Street,
actor Glenn Plummer,
Black cultural district,
Black Dot Artist Collective,
Black Farmers,
Black self-determination,
Clean Air Festival,
community-based farm,
Cornelia Bell's Black Bottoms Gallery,
cultural work,
David Roach,
disenfranchised,
Dr. Burns at the Prescott Joseph Center,
Environmental Indicators Project,
environmental justice,
environmentalists,
ganga Diallo's House of Common Sense aka The Juju Shop,
gentrification,
intense vertical farming,
Lower Bottoms of West Oakland,
MacArthur Genius Awardee Will Allen,
Marcel Diallo,
Margret Gordon,
Milwaukee,
Minister of Information JR,
Mo Better Foods Farmers' Market,
Monsa Nitoto,
non-profits,
Oakland,
OT Jackson's Flophouse,
renewable energy,
Richmond,
the "Green Movement",
The Black Dot Cafe,
The Black New World Social Aid & Pleasure Club,
the Dellums administration,
the Obama administration,
the Schwarzenegger administration,
ustainable communities,
Village Bottoms Community Building and Development Co.,
Village Bottoms Cultural District,
Village Bottoms Farms
A time bomb is ticking, waiting to explode in communities of color across the nation. Law enforcement officers have become an occupation force. If we are to have peace, we first must place economic justice at the top of our agenda. The day Lovelle Mixon died, those close to him mentioned two explanations: He dreaded being sent back to prison yet he couldn’t find a job.
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14th Amendment,
Abdur-Rahim Hameed,
affirmative action,
African American Contractors of San Francisco,
airborne asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point,
beating,
Black business owners,
Black businesses,
Brazilian President Lula da Silva,
Caravan for Justice,
Congressional Black Caucus,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
criminal justice,
discrimination,
disrespect of citizens,
Earl Ofari Hutchison,
economic justice,
environmental justice,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
HOPE SF,
Judge Thelton Henderson,
Kim Rohrbach,
Lennar,
Liberty Builders,
Local Hire Ordinance,
Lovelle Mixon,
minority- and women-owned business enterprises,
National Black Contractors of America,
occupation force,
Oscar Grant,
Peace Officers' Bill of Rights,
planting evidence,
police execution,
police misconduct,
political justice,
Proposition F,
Proposition G land grab,
public housing privatization,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Second Chance Act,
Sierra Club,
Superfund site,
The John Stewart Co.,
white supremacists,
Willie Ratcliff
MacArthur Genius Award-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx.
In San Francisco the average infant will exceed the EPA’s lifetime exposure to toxic air pollutants in 19 days. In LA, it takes only 12 days.
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air emissions,
asthma,
birth defects,
brain tumor,
California Air Resources Board,
cancer,
cancer-causing pollutants,
carcinogens,
Clean Act Air,
diesel trucks,
environmental justice,
EPA,
Jeffrey St. Clair,
leukemia,
lymphoma,
National Environmental Trust,
toxic air,
Toxic Air Contaminants,
Toxic Beginnings,
toxins,
West Oakland
Lennar’s LEN stocks had sunk to $3.60 per share by mid-November despite restructuring and partnership with the financial firm CB Richard Ellis, headed by Richard Blum, a UC regent and husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a principle sponsor of the Lennar-funded Proposition G.
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"polluter pays" regulations,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
asbestos,
BAAQMD Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
biomonitoring,
California Body Burden Campaign,
CH2M Hill,
Community Choice Aggregation,
dirty transfer,
Dr. Kevin Grumbach,
Dr. Tomas Aragon,
environmental justice,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
John Rizzo,
Kofi Bonner,
Lennar,
Lennar-BVHP,
Mirant power plant,
Proposition F,
Proposition G,
Richard Blum,
San Francisco 49ers stadium,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Sierra Club,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
The Healthy California Biomonitoring Program
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