No notice has been paid to the root causes of violence in the Black community. On CBS5, I suggested unemployment in the Black community is directly related to Black people being locked out of the public works construction and that white people might be in danger working in a Black community without a diversified crew.
Tags:
Bay Area Black Builders,
bio-chemical engineer,
Black man working,
Black unemployment,
City/Lennar Draft Environmental Impact Report,
construction lockout,
economic opportunity,
EPA,
Fillmore,
general engineering contractor,
government cheese,
Hayes Valley,
Hunters Point,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Joseph Debro,
Kabuki,
Lennar,
National Association of Minority Contractors,
non-diverse work crews,
police occupying force,
poor Black population,
public works construction lockout,
San Francisco Examiner,
San Francisco police,
Section 8 housing,
Third Street rail,
unlock the doors to economic opportunity,
Vis Valley,
Visitacion Valley Community Development Corp.,
Western Addition,
white ex-cops,
white ex-cops working for Lennar,
white workers
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.
Tags:
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.
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 12 noon, a press conference will be held on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco by the Ohlone, the original people of the land. It will begin with a welcome and blessing by the Ohlone and, at its conclusion, they will deliver letters to the Planning Department calling for their inclusion in the planning process for Lennar’s development of Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard and an extension of the draft EIR comment period.
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American Indian Movement West,
Ann Marie Sayers,
Anthony Sul,
archeological sites,
Board of Supervisors,
California Senate Bill 18,
Candlestick Point,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Development Plan Project Draft Environmental Impact Report,
Carmen Sandoval,
Charlene Sul,
City Attorney Dennis Herrera,
Corrina Gould,
draft EIR,
Espanola Jackson,
Francisco Da Costa,
GreenAction for Health and the Environment,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Indian Canyon,
Indian People Organized for Change,
International Indian Treaty Council,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Mishwa Lee,
Native American Heritage Commission,
Neil MacLean,
Ohlone,
Ohlone Cultural Center,
Ohlone Indigenous sites,
Ohlone Profiles Project,
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights),
Rosemary Cambra,
United Native Americans
Sen. Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 792 would give clean parkland at Candlestick Point to Lennar and replace it with toxic land. Lennar, the “toxic dust developer,” plans to build 10,000 luxury condos at the Hunters Point Shipyard. This toxic trade bill is now in the California Assembly, so calls opposing SB 792 should be made immediately to Fiona Ma, (916) 319-2012, and Tom Ammiano, (916) 319-2013.
Tags:
African American communities,
Alicia Schwartz,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview neighborhood,
California,
cancer,
Candlestick Point,
environmental racism,
health,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar,
multibillion-dollar developer,
parcel,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights,
POWER,
Proposition P,
radioactive elements,
respiratory illnesses,
Sacramento,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco's sewage,
SB 792,
Sen. Mark Leno,
Senate Bill 792,
toxic,
toxic dust,
toxic inorganics,
U.S. Navy,
working class communities
The City of San Francisco has applied for a $14.6 million grant to fund the infrastructure for dirty developer Lennar to build 10,000 luxury condominiums and a stadium on the Superfund site of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point. Tell the state to just say NO!
Tags:
Alicia Schwartz,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Candlestick Point,
dirty development,
environmental protection violations,
environmental racism,
Grace Tabernacle Community Church,
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice,
health and safety violations,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar Corp.,
Nation of Islam,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church,
Superfund site,
Tabernacle Development Group,
toxic dust
In an email to the San Francisco Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verified that he was a Lennar senior executive in March of 2004 at the time San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, his cousin for whom he had served as mayoral campaign treasurer, had signed the Hunters Point Shipyard Conveyance Agreement at the behest of Laurence’s Aunt Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Tags:
A. Philip Randolph Institute,
Administrative Assistant Ceola Richardson,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
Amy D. Brownell P.E.,
arsenic and lead testing,
Article 31 of the Health Code,
Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan,
Attorney Angela Alioto,
Barbara Newsom Callan,
Bayview Opera House,
civil criminal and environmental regulatory violations,
Community Liaison Clementine Clarke,
corporate polluter,
Darius Anderson,
dirty transfer,
Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List,
environmental racism,
ethical conflicts of interest,
ethics laws,
federal Superfund Act,
Gavin Newsom,
governmental integrity,
Historical Radiological Assessment,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard Parcel A,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board,
James Bryant,
Kofi Bonner,
Laurence Pelosi,
Lennar,
Lennar's $5 million Proposition G campaign,
Mayor Willie Brown,
Michael Cohen,
Morgan Stanley,
Nancy Pelosi,
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories,
Navy Secretary Gordon England,
Paul Pelosi,
Peter Byrne,
Planning Commission President Shelley Bell,
Project Manager Gary McIntyre,
Proposition P,
racial discrimination,
Rajiv Bhatia M.D.,
Rep. John Murtha,
Richard Blum,
Ronald Pelosi,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu,
San Francisco Division of the FBI,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco Redevelopment Commission,
Sen. Barbara Boxer,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research),
Supervisor Aaron Peskin,
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
toxic dust,
Treasure Island Community Development
Grading and construction activities by the Florida-based megadeveloper Lennar enter a third year … with asbestos and particulate levels at air monitor HV9 – located adjacent to a residential complex – skyrocketing to over 296,000 structures per cubic meter Dec. 28-30.
Tags:
adult and pediatric asthma,
adult congestive heart failure,
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
Amy Brownell,
Angela Alioto,
asthma,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Candlestick Point,
chest pain,
chronic bronchitis,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
cough,
Dr. John Balmes,
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
EPA Office of Air and Radiation,
fatigue,
federal Superfund site,
fetal and infant deaths,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board,
irregular heartbeat,
Kofi Bonner,
Lennar,
Lennar president and CEO Stuart Miller,
low birth weight infants,
mesothelioma,
National Center for Environmental Health,
Parcel A,
particle air pollution,
Ph.D.,
pneumoconioses,
pre-term deliveries,
Public Health Director Mitch Katz,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
shortness of breath,
stadium,
Thomas Sinks,
toxic asbestos,
weight loss,
World Trade Center,
Yosemite Slough
With Black youth on the front lines this election season, along with all youth plus older Blacks and other people of color, the struggle for real democracy can finally claim victory in the U.S. Masses of new voters have registered and are already lining up to vote wherever early voting is available, as it is here in the Bay Area.
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affordable housing,
And Marriage for All,
ANSWER Coalition,
Barack Obama,
Bay View Prisoners' Subscription Fund,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bishop Yvette Flunder,
Black and Latino youths,
California Federation of Teachers,
Cindy Sheehan,
Clean Energy Act,
Criminal Justice Center,
Dortell Williams,
Dr. Amos Brown,
Drug Policy Institute,
equal rights,
Eric Mar,
federal housing assistance,
free and independent press,
George W. Bush,
homelessness,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Jones United Methodist Church,
JROTC,
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps,
Lennar,
Marian Wright Edelman,
Marty Hittelman,
military recruiters,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
NAACP,
Nancy Pelosi,
National Black Justice Coalition,
new prison construction,
Non-Violent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008,
Peace Mom,
POOR Magazine,
privatization,
Prop 36,
Prop F,
Prop G,
Rev. Kenneth Samuels,
Rev. Phillip Lawson,
San Francisco Bay View,
San Francisco Proposition B,
San Francisco Proposition H,
San Francisco Proposition L,
San Francisco Proposition V,
San Francisco's Black heartland,
socio-economically disadvantaged communities,
State Proposition 5,
State Proposition 6,
State Proposition 8,
State Proposition 9,
stop criminalizing children,
Superfund site,
United for Peace and Justice,
Willie Ratcliff
Blacks were very instrumental in San Francisco’s founding, but today in San Francisco you run the risk of losing the entire Black population. It is not only appropriate to call a hearing, there should be emergency hearings because this is an emergency situation. Minister Christopher Muhammad explains that one of the reasons for this emergency is the land grab and poisoning of the Black community by the Lennar Corp.
Tags:
2008 Proposition F,
2008 Proposition G,
airborne asbestos,
EPA,
Fred Blackwell,
Grace Tabernacle Community Church,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
Nation of Islam,
public housing demolition,
Redevelopment Agency,
reparations,
San Francisco's declining African American population,
Tabernacle Group,
Vallejo
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