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Hi all, <br>
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See the urgent action request below from POWER and sign your groups
onto the attached letter by tomorrow.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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peace, Eric B<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alicia@peopleorganized.org">alicia@peopleorganized.org</a> wrote:<br>
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</span><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Comrades,<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Here’s the link to the bill:<br>
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face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><u><a
href="http://www.totalcapitol.com/?bill_id=10961">http://www.totalcapitol.com/?bill_id=10961</a><br>
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face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Bayview deserves better.</b> 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. <br>
<br>
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. <b>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.</b> It’s an insult to the
Bayview Hunters Point community, and your voice is needed today!<br>
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<b>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).</b> 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.<br>
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Forward to all of your networks!<br>
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</span></font><font size="1"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">Alicia Schwartz<br>
Co-Director<br>
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)<br>
(415) 864-8372 ext. 305<br>
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San Francisco, CA 94103<br>
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San Francisco, CA 94124<br>
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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. <br>
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