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<b><big>Our City Update</big><br>
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Voter Guide 2007, Solar & Wind Power,
Stopping Fossil Fuel Plants & Toxic Waste In SF</b><br>
<b><br>
1 - Voter Guide For November: Critical Votes On Transit & Parking<br>
2 - 50% Solar & Wind Power For San Francisco!<br>
3 - Stopping Another Fossil Fuel Plant In San Francisco<br>
4 - CORE REPORT: Bayview Under Siege - The Toxic Corporate Attack On
Our Most Polluted Neighborhood<br>
5 - The Past Year's Election Victories<br>
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NOTE: This Update and Voter Guide can be
directly accessed online. (Mozilla/Netscape users view PDF version.)<br>
- See the Update (PDF version) at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or the web version at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm</a>
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- See the printable half page Voter Guide (PDF) at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf</a>
or the web version at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm">http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm</a><br>
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(If you have trouble with these or any of the links below, go to the
Our City home page at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org">http://our-city.org</a> and follow the
links on the
lefthand side entitled <b>Voter Guide</b>, and (under Updates) <b>Fall
2007: Stopping Fossil Fuel Plants & Toxic Waste In SF</b>.)<br>
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<b>Top Stories<br>
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</b><b>1 - Voter Guide For November: Critical Votes On Transit &
Parking</b><br>
This November, two critical local measures on Mass Transit and Parking
are on the Ballot. Proposition H is an extremely bad, pro-automobile
measure (sponsored by corporate conservatives) which will vastly
increase parking, gridlock, pollution and greenhouse gases in San
Francisco. Proposition A is a grassroots initiative that will increase
funding for cleaner mass transit, and will strike down Prop H if it
passes. <b>Vote NO on H! and YES on A!</b><b><br>
</b>See our entire 2007 Voter Guide at (PDF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm">http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm</a><br>
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<b>2 - 50% Solar & Wind Power For San Francisco!<br>
</b>In June 2007, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
passed the Community Choice renewable energy project, which will
run San Francisco on 50% solar and wind power within the next decade,
and will end San Francisco's century long dependence on PG&E's
polluting corporate energy monopoly. See the full report at (PDF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm</a><br>
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<b>3 - Stopping Another Fossil Fuel Plant In San Francisco<br>
</b>Even though San Francisco is about to build the largest municipal
solar and wind power project on Earth, the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) still has plans to allow a private
corporation to build another polluting natural gas power plant inside
the City! And to make matters worse, the SFPUC plans to let this plant
be built in the Bayview Hunters Point, which is already San Francisco's
most polluted neighborhood. The SFPUC will vote as early as this week
on whether or not to approve the project. Read more about this
unacceptable power plant on page 2 of the Update, (PDF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm</a>
Get more
detail and <b>Take Action</b> to stop the plant at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html">http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html</a><br>
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<b>4 - CORE REPORT: Bayview Under Siege - The Toxic Corporate Attack On
Our Most Polluted Neighborhood<br>
</b>For decades, the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood has suffered
terrible toxic pollution because the U.S. Navy, various corporations,
and the City itself, have been allowed to emit pollutants (including
deadly asbestos) and to dump other toxic and even radioactive
wastes in this community; a community which is, in vast majority,
people of color and
low income. Now the City and its Health department is continuing the
toxic assault by allowing Miami based Lennar corporation to further
devastate the Bayview and illegally stir those hazardous chemicals back
up into the atmosphere, as it builds gentrifying market rate and luxury
condos for profit. We, the people of San Francisco, must halt this
outrage immediately. Read the full expose on page 3 of the Update at
(PDF) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0002.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0002.htm</a><br>
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<b>5 - The Past Year's Election Victories<br>
</b>Over the past year, progressives have won crucial tenant
protections, paid sick days for workers, and mandatory public hearings
on chain stores; have stopped dangerous ballot attacks on the
environment and reproductive choice; and have won critical victories
for progressive education board candidates and Board Supervisors.<br>
See our full report on ballot measure victories on page 1 of the
Update, (PDF) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm</a><br>
See our report on the now majority progressive School Board, and other
candidate victories, on page 2 of the Update at (PDF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf</a>
or (web)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm">http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://our-city.org/join/index.html"></a><br>
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As always, thank you for your continued involvement and action.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks<br>
Campaign Coordinator<br>
Our City<br>
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