The dirt is in the details. Dirty early transfer, dirty development, dirty politics is not the answer to any of the conditions that plague Bayview Hunters Point or San Francisco as a whole. Now it is our call, our time to get involved to say no to the dirty onslaught upon BVHP and San Francisco.
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asbestos,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Development Plan Project Draft Environmental Impact Report,
dirty early transfer,
early transfer – transfer before cleanup is complete,
EARTHWORKS,
environmental justice movement,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
Environmental Protection Agency’s Technical Assistance Services for Communities (TASC),
heavy metals,
hydrocarbons,
MacArthur Genius Award recipient,
Naturally occurring asbestos (NOA),
Nyese Joshua,
PCBs,
pesticides,
radionuclides,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
short fibers v. long fibers,
volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds,
Wilma Subra
In December 2009, leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen cited new satellite data doubling or tripling previous sea level rise predictions. Climate change, he said, “is really a moral issue analogous to that faced by Lincoln with slavery,” an apt comparison considering the dangers for peoples of color in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
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100-year flood hazard area,
2006 Final Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Impact Report,
23-acre Parcel E-2,
Al Gore,
amplification affects on the aquifer,
Amy Goodman,
Antarctic ice sheets,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bay estuary,
Bay water rise,
Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood,
Bush administration,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Draft Environmental Impact Report,
Carol Harvey,
chronic nosebleeds,
climate system tipping points,
climatologist Dr. James Hansen,
Cypress Freeway,
Dan Miller,
deadly water rise-earthquake-amplification-liquefaction combination,
Democracy Now,
Dr. Peter Palmer,
Dr. Ray Tompkins,
earthquake amplification,
earthquake zones,
earth’s gravitational field,
environmental justice,
EPA,
EPA Superfund Site,
Eric Brooks,
geological rock formations,
green energy,
Greenaction,
Greenland,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site,
hydraulic pressure measurements,
Iraq toxic wastes,
Lennar,
Lennar-Redevelopment Draft EIR,
liquefaction,
Loma Prieta quake,
Marie Harrison,
NASA Goddard Space Studies Institute,
Navy,
nazism,
organic chemist Dr. Raymond Tompkins,
poisons,
political subterfuge,
radiated animal carcasses,
radiation materials,
radioactive toxic soil,
radiological contamination,
radium dials,
radium-radon-polonium gas combination,
radon gas,
Redevelopment’s “Master Developer” of the Shipyard,
San Francisco Bay,
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC),
San Francisco Community Choice,
San Francisco Planning Commission,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco Redevelopment Commission,
San Francisco State University,
satellite data,
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR),
sea level rise predictions,
Shipyard Parcels A and B,
shock wave amplification,
Threadwell & Rollo,
toxic chemicals,
toxic gas pressure,
toxic Superfund site,
U.S. Geological Survey maps,
underground fire,
Yosemite Slough Bridge,
‘49ers stadium,
“Big One”,
“residential standards”
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”
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
In a letter dated May 22, 2009, Navy representatives announced their intention to dissolve the RAB. This is not the first time the Navy has threatened to take this action. Indeed, whenever a critical impasse has arisen regarding key shipyard cleanup matters, a threat to disband the elected body recognized by Congress as the legitimate organized voice for public comment, dissent and scientific debate has been made.
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Bret Harte School,
Congress,
DPH Director of Environmental Health Rajiv Bhatia,
DPH regulator Amy Brownell,
Dr. Raymond Tompkins,
Espanola Jackson,
federal Superfund site,
First Lady Michelle Obama,
Libby,
Mahatma Ghandi,
Margaret Mead,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
Notice of Violation (NOV),
Parcel E landfill,
Patrick Monk,
Proposition G campaign,
publisher Willie Ratcliff,
RAB Community Co-chair Lynne Brown,
Rajiv Bhatia,
Restoration Advisory Board community co-chair Leon Muhammad,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization,
the Base Realignment and Closure Process,
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD),
the Bayview Hunters Point Health and Environmental Task Force,
the California Department of Public Health,
the Dust Control Plan,
the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Hunters Point Shipyard,
the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board,
The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
the Lennar,
The National Contingency Plan,
the National Priorities List,
The Navy,
the San Francisco Bay,
the San Francisco Department of Health,
the toxic dust,
West Oakland
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.
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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
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.
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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
Lennar, when will you stop stirring up all that radioactive asbestos in the Hunters Point Shipyard into the air that all the fine people of color in Bayview Hunters Point are obliged to breathe in order to live?
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,
Black business owners,
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,
economic justice,
environmental justice,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
HOPE SF,
Judge Thelton Henderson,
Kim Rohrbach,
Lennar,
Liberty Builders,
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
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.
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
A Yes We Can Coalition of Asian and Black King-Garvey shareholders chanting, “Stop the land grab; yes, we can!” marched outside Citibank subsidiary Citi Community Capital in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District on Thursday, Nov. 13.
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Africana Studies,
attorney Carl Williams,
Black Studies Department,
Black-Asian unity,
Citi Community Capital,
Citibank,
Dr. Oba T'Shaka,
Harlem of the West,
HUD,
King-Garvey Board President Carlos Levexier,
King-Garvey Co-op,
King-Garvey shareholders,
land grab,
Martin Luther King-Marcus Garvey Square Cooperative Apartments,
Mary Ratcliff,
National Black United Front,
National Cooperative Bank,
Operation We Are Family,
public housing in New Orleans,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Section 8 subsidies,
Sharon Jones,
Wendell Harper
Many of us see, within the Bayview Hunters Point district and without, strategic similarities in the wars being waged in Iraq, in New Orleans and here in our own home town.
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Ann Garrison,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bechtel,
breast cancer rate,
Bremerton,
Catellus,
Common Ground Collective,
Dianne Feinstein,
Entergy,
environmental racism,
Fidel Castro,
Gavin Newsom,
George Bush,
Halliburton,
Hanford,
Hugo Chavez,
Joseph Allbaugh,
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco,
Kenyon International,
Laurence Pelosi,
Lennar,
levee,
Lorie Arcenaux Seruntine,
Lower 9th Ward,
Master Developer,
Nancy Pelosi,
National Radiological Defense Laboratory,
New Orleans,
Richard Blum,
Robert Waltrip,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
SCI,
Service Corporation International,
Shaw Group,
Sophie Maxwell,
St. Augustine's Parish Church,
Willie Brown
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