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
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”
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”
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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