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,
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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,
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environmental justice,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
HOPE SF,
Judge Thelton Henderson,
Kim Rohrbach,
Lennar,
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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
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,
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Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
John Rizzo,
Kofi Bonner,
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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
As the struggle to defend Black-owned land in San Francisco has hit a fevered pitch in Bayview Hunters Point through the work of resident activists, popular support for Proposition F – the “Truly Affordable Housing Initiative” – and the Stop Lennar Action Movement, shareholding residents of Freedom West Homes are bracing for a similar fight in one of the last vestiges of affordable housing in the Fillmore/Western Addition. This article honors their requests for anonymity.
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Bayview Hunters Point,
Bethel Housing,
Black and Latino families,
Black-owned land,
Freedom West,
Marco Sanchez,
Proposition F,
San Francisco,
the Fillmore,
the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
the Stop Lennar Action Movement,
“private-public partnerships”
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