[Sustain] Urgent: Call School Board To Stop Lennar's Toxic Exposures To Students

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

If you call the School Board today, you can help stop a toxic travesty 
in San Francisco.

Over the past year, the Miami based Lennar construction corporation has 
been exposing children and residents in San Francisco to toxic exposures 
of deadly chemicals, most notably the extremely dangerous and cancer 
causing air born substance, asbestos. Lennar was given permission to do 
large scale housing and condo construction in the Bayview Hunters point 
district of San Francisco, and almost immediately began violating safety 
precautions meant to prevent toxic dust and asbestos in that area from 
being released into the City's air.

Community activists went before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors 
to demand that Lennar's construction work to be halted until it can be 
guaranteed safe to the public, but unfortunately, under serious pressure 
from Lennar and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (which is 
outrageously complicit in Lennar's violations) six of our eleven Board 
of Supervisors members voted in the majority to allow Lennar to continue 
its hazardous behavior.

But the fight is not over. Eric Mar and other members of the San 
Francisco Board of Education have brought new hope by drafting their own 
resolution to insist that Lennar's construction be halted until proper 
testing can be done to guarantee that public school students will not be 
exposed to toxic emissions from Lennar's work.

The School Board will vote on this resolution as early as tomorrow, 
Tuesday, September 25th at around 6pm.

_*What You Can Do*_

Take a quick moment to call the San Francisco School Board Executive 
Assistant's office at:

415-241-6427

and give them the following message:

"Please forward my message to all School Board members. Please suspend 
the rules, and vote immediately to insist that schools and students near 
the Lennar construction site be tested for chemical and asbestos 
exposure, before allowing Lennar's construction to continue."

If you get an answering machine, just leave your message on the machine.

For more information, see the San Francisco Bay Guardian report at:
http://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=3084

Thanks for you action and support!

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City
http://our-city.org
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