[Sustain] Fwd: ALERT! Leno's Bill Unfair Exchange in Bayview Hunters Point

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

See the urgent action request below from POWER and sign your groups onto 
the attached letter by tomorrow.

Because the letter is totally consistent with our past decisions on 
Lennar and the Hunters Point Redevelopment deal, and because I have been 
interacting actively with the growing Stop Lennar campaign, I will go 
ahead and sign the SFGP onto the letter unless someone raises a concern 
before midnight.

peace, Eric B

alicia at peopleorganized.org wrote:

Comrades,

Mark Leno's SB 792 left the Appropriations Committee today to be voted 
on by the full Senate.  While the timeline for the vote is still 
unclear, we still have a few POWERful days to register our opposition.

Leno's bill would allow for the transfer of clean parkland at 
Candlestick Point to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for private 
development, and replace it with toxic land that is not an even 
exchange.  As you may know, the Lennar Corporation, a developer that has 
endangered the community by exposing it to toxic dust from the Hunters 
Point Shipyard, is planning to build 10,000 luxury condominiums on the 
site as part of a brand new neighborhood they plan to build inside the 
boundaries of Bayview Hunters Point.  Not only is this a prime example 
of environmental racism, it is also a marker of what is to come in the 
community if we don't make our voices heard TODAY.  

Here's the link to the bill:
_http://www.totalcapitol.com/?bill_id=10961
_
*Bayview deserves better.*  The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is one of 
the worst Superfund sites in the country, and community residents are 
feeling the impacts.  African American communities are 
disproportionately impacted by exposure to toxics, and Bayview Hunters 
Point is no different.  

More than 50% of community residents have some form of cancer or 
respiratory illness from living in proximity to a power plant, sewage 
treatment facility, a major freeway, and the Hunters Point Naval 
Shipyard.  *SB 792 masks the reality that the Shipyard is not a park; 
it's a toxic Superfund site where radiation is still present.  As a 
result, the exchange of the Shipyard for clean parkland in the community 
is is not an even exchange.*  It's an insult  to the Bayview Hunters 
Point community, and your voice is needed today!

*Please take the attached letter, add your information, and send it back 
to us by THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009. Include your zip code, and the full 
name of your organization (if applicable).* We want to gather 500 
letters from San Franciscans and community based organizations 
everywhere who are concerned about the future of the Bayview Hunters 
Point community specifically, and African American communities and 
working class communities of color broadly.

Forward to all of your networks!

Alicia Schwartz
Co-Director
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
(415) 864-8372 ext. 305
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San Francisco, CA 94103

4923 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94124
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they are fighting to entrench an outworn, anachronistic vile system of 
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we represent progress: they represent decadence.  
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