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.
Tags:
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
Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 4 p.m. in City Hall Room 416 is the FINAL hearing on the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard EIR, a very callous, negligent and dangerous document that identifies numerous life threatening and potentially disastrous impacts to human health and the environment – most dangerous of all the potential construction activities at a federal Superfund site listed as one of the most toxic properties in the nation!
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49ers stadium,
AB 81X3 (Hall),
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
air contaminants,
American peregrine falcons,
asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan EIR,
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR),
cumulative impacts,
Draft Final Historical Radiological Assessment,
early (dirty) transfer,
economic benefits,
eminent domain,
endangered species,
environmental activists,
Environmental Impact Report (EIR),
environmental protection law,
environmental review,
flood hazard zone,
hazardous air emissions,
hazardous materials study,
human and ecological exposure risk,
Hunters Point Shipyard FEIR,
lead,
life threatening fire and medical emergency,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Michael Cohen,
mitigation measures,
NASA satellite data,
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories,
PCBs,
pesticides,
potential adverse impacts on children,
POWER,
radiation contaminated soils,
sea level rise,
seismically unstable earthquake liquefaction zone,
Sue Hestor,
Superfund sites,
Tiffany Bohee,
toxic metals
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
POOR Press will be releasing its new books and introducing their authors at a benefit – “Talk-Story Circle on Land, Migration, Occupation and Resistance” – at Galleria de la Raza, 2857 24th St. at Bryant in San Francisco, this Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. Enjoy good food, DJ, performance and scholarship for $5-$15 or whatever you can spare.
Tags:
Al Robles,
Brother Y,
Child Protective Services,
Chispita,
Dee Gray,
Digital Resistance,
Ingrid De Leon,
James Robles,
Kim Swan,
Lisa Gray-Garcia,
Los Viajes: The Journeys,
Marlon Crump,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
police brutality,
POOR Magazine,
Poor News Network,
POOR Press,
Po’ Poets,
Queennandi X Sheba,
racism,
Revolutionary Rap Villain,
Ruyata Akio McGlothin,
San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness,
Silencio Muteado,
The Street Sheet,
Thornton Kimes,
Tony Robles
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
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.
Tags:
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”
America’s infant mortality rate is the highest of all industrial countries. It is no secret that a Black baby born in America has more than a two fold greater chance than a white baby of dying before its first birthday. No secret and actually a national disgrace that a baby born in the much-lambasted tiny poor communist island of Cuba has a better chance of having a healthy infancy than a Black baby born in America.
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African American population,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Black babies,
Black woman,
Blacks,
California cities,
Candlestick Park,
Carol McGruder,
County of San Francisco,
Cuba,
first trimester of pregnancy,
inadequate healthcare,
indifferent healthcare,
Jim Crow segregation,
Karen Bass,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
no healthcare,
San Francisco,
the Black Infant Health program,
the infant mortality disparity
The Public Defender’s Office will be forced to lay off seven attorneys and five staff members and eliminate the BMAGIC and Mo’ MAGIC programs if $1.6 million is cut from the office’s budget, as proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Show the Board of Supervisors your support for the Public Defender’s Office on Tuesday, July 21, 2 p.m., City Hall Room 250. Give them a call today.
Tags:
African Americans,
Bayview,
BMAGIC,
BMAGIC Director Yvette Mari Robles,
California Rules of Court,
Caucasian,
Fillmore,
Hispanics,
Hunters Point,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Mo’ MAGIC,
Public Defender Jeff Adachi,
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
the Board of Supervisors,
the Department of Juvenile Justice,
the National Council on Crime and Delinquency,
the Public Defender’s Office,
Western Addition
The San Francisco Housing Authority plans to tear down thousands of homes in public housing and give the projects to Bridge Housing, the John Stewart Co. and Mercy Housing to prey on the poor and gentrify the areas. Bridge will have Potrero public housing, John Stewart has already started executing its plans at Hunters View in Hunters Point and Mercy Housing is waiting for the green light to gentrify and make hay while the sun shines at Sunnydale. Where are the people? They are fast asleep!
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AIMCO,
Bridge Housing,
District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
Doug Shoemaker,
Francisco Da Costa,
Geneva Towers,
HOPE SF,
Hunters Point,
Hunters View,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Mercy Housing,
Potrero public housing,
Rubecon,
Ruben Santana,
Sunnydale,
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
the federal HOPE VI program,
The John Stewart Co.,
the Presidio of San Francisco,
The San Francisco Housing Authority,
the Tenderloin,
the White House,
Treasure Island
Notwithstanding a blistering defeat at the polls and strong opposition from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom has opened his Community Justice Center, diverting several million dollars from essential City services to incarcerate poor people for the sole act of being poor.
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"quality of life" crimes,
affordable housing,
Community Justice Center (CJC),
crimes of poverty,
District Attorney Kamala Harris,
houseless people,
incarcerate poor people,
Lisa Gray-Garcia,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
misdemeanors,
non-profit industrial complex,
POOR Magazine,
Poor News Network,
prison industrial complex,
Proposition L,
Tony Robles
James Bryant, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s San Francisco chapter and chairperson of SEIU Local 1021’s political action committee, is the subject of a Los Angeles Times investigation into corruption, largely for taking funds from PG&E and Lennar.
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A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI),
Aaron Peskin,
Andy Stern,
APRI-SF,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
CityBuild,
Clayola Brown,
conflict-of-interest rules,
Damita Davis Howard,
Daniel Borochoff,
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Guillermo Rodriguez,
James Bryant,
Josie Bryant,
Kamala Harris,
Lennar Homes,
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
Mark Leno,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E),
Paul Pringle,
SEIU Local 1021,
self-dealing,
Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
Tyrone Freeman,
Willie L. Brown
As city departments cut vital health and tenant protection programs, one might conclude that the obvious targets for cost savings have already been hit. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Despite the city’s considerable wealth, our local economy is suffering. Ten thousand more San Franciscans are unemployed than a year ago, 1,000 families have lost their homes to foreclosure and more people are waiting in lines for free food than anyone has seen in a generation.
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Board of Supervisors,
budget crisis,
budget deficit,
Budget Townhalls,
Chelsea Boilard,
child care subsidies,
child safety,
Children's Amendment,
Children's Fund,
city government,
city's wealthiest individuals and businesses,
collective responsibility,
Community Budget Reform Council,
community-based recovery,
David Chiu,
dis-invested neighborhoods,
economically secure,
Family Budget Coalition,
family incomes,
foster care,
free food,
global economy,
Great Depression,
homelessness,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
NTanya Lee,
poverty,
Prop H the Public School Enrichment Fund,
rehabilitation,
Ross Mirkarimi,
safety net set-asides for kids,
tax revenue,
unemployed
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, the California Supreme Court rejected our appeal, ruling against the 33,000 San Franciscans who signed our referendum and against the right of the 33,000 residents of Bayview Hunters Point – 91 percent of us people of color – to determine our own destiny.
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33000 signatures,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan,
Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin,
California Supreme Court,
Defend Bayview Hunters Point Committee,
District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
Fillmore district,
Harlem of the West,
Lennar,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Parcel A of the Hunters Point Shipyard,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
“A guy was lying on the sidewalk. I leaned down and asked him if he wanted something to eat. He pulled the blanket down and there was a 5-year-old little boy lying with him.”
Tags:
Dariush Kayhan,
emergency food and shelter,
eviction,
Foreclosures,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
homelessness,
just cause,
Larkin Street Youth Services,
Marge Holland,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
unemployment,
utility cutoff,
Walden House
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with student, activist and poet Lamont (Dee) Allen, who was singled out and arrested while participating in the July 30 counter-demonstration against the Minuteman Project. Allen’s only “crime” is having the courage, as a Black man, to stand up against an aspiring lynch mob.
It has often been said that prevention is the best medicine. But there are many obstacles in life which prevent this age-old truism from being put into practice – ignorance, laziness and something of an entirely different order – budget cuts.
Tags:
Chinatown,
Dolores Park,
Ella Howell,
Felicha Bell,
fiscal year 2007-08 budget,
Home Support Services (IHSS),
Hunters Point,
Laguna Honda Hospital,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Meals on Wheels,
Mitch Katz,
Modern health care,
San Francisco,
San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH),
Stefan Lynch,
the Chronic Care Program,
the Chronic Care Public Health Nursing Program (CCP),
the San Francisco Chronicle,
the Senior Disaster Registry,
Visitacion Valley
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