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.
1) Lennar paid federal lobbyists $240,000 to win them a $320 million cash bailout characterized as a retroactive tax refund. 2) In the accounting for its fourth quarter report, announced on Jan. 7, 2010, Lennar used $284.9 million of the $320 million to offset its quarter losses. 3) Lennar then reported the remaining $35.6 million as profit, earned income. 4) Taxpayers, yet again, footed the bill.
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AIG,
Ann Garrison,
bioremediation,
create green jobs,
credit default swaps,
derivatives,
earned income profit,
Eric Rosenbaum,
extend unemployment benefits,
federal bailout for big industrial homebuilder-lenders,
foreclosure and distressed real estate,
forest restoration,
Gretchen Morgenson,
higher education,
Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009,
Lennar Corp.,
lobbyists,
mortgage-backed securities,
New York Times,
predatory lending and foreclosure,
private prison realty,
public transportation,
real estate investment trusts,
recession,
retroactive tax refund,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sigmund Freud,
solar installation,
tax credit,
tax refund,
Too Big to Not Build tax bailout plan,
trickledown economics,
Worker,
“jobless recovery”
The exact moment in time has arrived to pull down the veil of the corrupt, ethics depleted political status quo being perpetuated at City Hall via Supervisor Sophenia Maxwell, who represents District 10. Her controllers do not want to see her moved from that seat one second before January 2011. They have a well established relationship and flow with Ms. Maxwell right where she is. Putting the sledge hammer of RECALL to that coup will speak volumes to that power structure.
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BVHP Redevelopment Project Area,
District 10,
early (dirty) transfer,
hazardous dust exposure,
Lennar,
Nyese Joshua,
polluted air,
Precautionary Principle,
Proposition P,
recall,
residential standards,
Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
Sophie Maxwell,
Superfund site,
Supervisor John Avalos,
Supervisor Sophenia Maxwell,
voting record
As San Francisco grapples with a looming budget crisis, Public Defender Jeff Adachi is seeking $2 million in state reimbursement to the City for its defense of eight men charged in a 1971 homicide case involving a police officer. The city’s right to reimbursement is based on the fact that the California Attorney General took on the 36-year-old case after the San Francisco District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute.
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Black Liberation Army,
Francisco Torres,
Harold Taylor,
Henry Jones,
Herman Bell,
Jalil Muntaquim (also known as Anthony Bottom),
Public Defender Jeff Adachi,
Ray Boudreaux,
Richard O’Neal,
San Francisco 8,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
Scott Peterson,
Sen. Mark Leno,
Supervisor David Campos,
Supervisor Eric Mar,
Tamara Barak Aparton
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
Privatizing parks is not popular in San Francisco. As opposition and media attention mount, state Sen. Mark Leno wants to rush his Senate Bill 792 through the legislature. We urge the Assembly and the Senate to hold the bill until the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted on a resolution opposing SB 792 that is currently one vote short of a majority.
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49ers,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area,
Leland Yee,
Majority Leader Alberto Torrico,
Mary Ratcliff,
privatizing parks,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
SB 792,
Senate Bill 792,
Speaker Karen Bass,
state Sen. Mark Leno,
Tom Ammiano,
urban state park
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
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
The current plan to launch yet another environmental assault on Bayview Hunters Point, with three natural gas turbine combustion power plants, and yet another at the San Francisco International Airport, was tabled for two weeks by the Board of Supervisors.
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Ann Garrison,
Australia,
Barack Obama,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Burrup Peninsula,
Chevron-Shell,
Coastal Conservation Association,
energy security,
Gavin Newsom,
Gulf Coast Protection Act,
Indonesia,
Iraq,
LNG terminals,
Nancy Pelosi,
natural gas combustion turbine power plants,
New Orleans,
San Francisco,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission,
Sierra Club,
Stand Up for the Burrup,
the Gulf Restoration Network,
wetlands restoration,
Woodside Petroleum
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