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February 2012

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[Sustain] ALERT! - Call Today! Contact Supes Cohen, Olague & Kim To Stop Redevelopment Freight Train
by Eric Brooks 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi again all, Final Alert! Before tomorrow's Redevelopment transfer 'Freight Train' vote: Call Supervisors Malia Cohen, Christina Olague, and Jane Kim before 2pm tomorrow (Tue, Jan 24) to stop the Redevelopment Transition Freight Train! See my previous post below for details on what's happening. Call, Malia Cohen: 415-554-7670 Christina Olague: 415-554-7630 Jane Kim: 415-554-7970 with one or more of the following 3 demands: - Amend your Redevelopment transition legislation to be only the -minimal- required transfer of powers and authority necessary to comply with the State's deadline on February 1st. NO other powers or authority over Redevelopment should be given to the City, agency staff, or any Oversight Board, until a full WELL NOTICED public hearing, allowing public comment, is held in mid to late February, so that the people of San Francisco have a strong voice in this process. - The Mayor's appointment of three high level, unelected, Mayor's office, Planning Department, and Controller's office staff to run the Redevelopment Oversight Board is UNACCEPTABLE. We demand that actual RESIDENT representatives of the Bayview Hunters Point, Mission Bay, and Transbay neighborhoods be appointed to the Oversight Board, and we demand that you postpone these appointment decisions to full WELL NOTICED public hearings, ALLOWING PUBLIC COMMENT, to be held in mid to late February. - The fact that there was no broad public notice of this legislation sent in early January, to ALL of the thousands of San Francisco residents who have formally commented on the Mission Bay, Hunters Point Shipyard phase 1 & 2, Transbay Terminal, Treasure Island and other San Francisco Redevelopment projects is UNACCEPTABLE. Immediate timely notice of the current proposed legislation, and of all future hearings on this matter, must go out to all such commenters who provided their contact information when commenting on Redevelopment projects! That's the alert! Please call Cohen, Olague and Kim immediately so that the public gets a voice in this unacceptably fast tracked Redevelopment freight train process! thanks Eric Brooks 415-756-8844 http://ourcitysf.org/campaigns >Here is my previous email which shows links to the details on what's happening: Here are the details on the sudden Redevelopment crisis which emerged during the MLK holiday weekend.. The Mayor's office is using the fact that San Francisco must transfer legal authority over SF Redevelopment projects to itself by February 1st as an excuse to fast track legislation that will give far -more- authority than necessary over Redevelopment (especially in the Transbay Terminal, Hunters Point Shipyard, and Mission Bay projects) to high level pro-developer Mayoral and Controller staff. Specifically, Lee is trying to put the Planning Director, Mayor's Housing Director, and the Controller's office in firm control of an 'Oversight Board' for Redevelopment in San Francisco; in legislation which gives them authority to make program changes without approval of the Board of Supervisors. The legislation, which will probably be voted on this Tuesday, can be read at http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/bf0118… The specific section on the Oversight Board is on page 9-9 (page 33 of this pdf file). The Mayor's appointees are; Nadia Sesay (Controller's Office), Olsen Lee (Housing Director), John Rahaim (Planning Director), and Bob Muscat (a state required appointment from Local 21). These appointments are currently 'at will' and perpetual, with no fixed term of office! Supervisors Cohen, Olague, and Kim are co-sponsoring the Mayor's legislation and appointments. I will be sending out an alert on Monday asking people to call Cohen, Olague and Kim to insist that the Redevelopment legislation be -drastically- scaled down to only fill state transfer requirements with no added authority or powers, delaying any such expanded powers to be taken up in full public hearings in February and/or March; and also delaying the appointments of the 'Oversight Board' for full public hearings in which we should insist on community representatives being on the Oversight Board. Anyone who knows Cohen, Olague and Kim, please call them ASAP to insist on these changes! Otherwise the Mayor's Downtown developer backers will continue to undemocratically and disastrously lord over Redevelopment in San Francisco for decades. cheers Eric B

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[Sustain] URGENT Alert: New Head Of CA Fish & Game Hunted & Killed Mountain Lion For Sport! Demand His Removal!
by Eric Brooks 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Alert: New Head Of CA Fish & Game Hunted & Killed Mountain Lion For Sport - Bragged & Posed For 'Trophy' Photo! Please all, take a moment to express your outrage and forward this alert widely to others. We must demand that Dan Richard be removed from his post immediately! http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/ca_fish_and_ga… CA Fish and Game Commission President Shoots Cougar and Boasts About Hunt in Magazine by Maureen Nandini Mitra <http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/oeuvre/maureen-mitra/> -- February 17, 2012 Humane Society of US Urges Californians to Voice Concern About Dan Richards' Leadership Apparently Dan Richards, the new president of California Fish and Game Commission likes to hunt and is willing to travel to states that allow people to kill big wildlife --- environment, conservation, and simple compassion be damned. Photo courtesy www.ForestWander.com <http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/ca_fish_and_ga…>We can't post the photograph in question here since it might be subject to copyright. To view Richards with his "trophy", click here <http://www.wonews.com/images/image-manager/2012/feb/3%20yrs%20110%20lb%20ca…>. Yesterday, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), CA, posted a picture of the Richards holding up a dead mountain lion he shot during a hunting expedition in Idaho. It's illegal to shoot mountain lions in California. So Richards schlepped over to another state to fulfill his bloodlust. A little snooping around on the Net turned up the site where the original photo was posted --- a blog in Western Outdoor News <http://www.wonews.com/Blog.aspx?id=1646> --- a fishing and hunting weekly. Here's the caption accompanying the photograph that Richards himself supplied the publication. */"NEW COMMISSION PRESIDENT CELEBRATES A SUCCESSFUL HUNT --/*/California Fish and Game commissioner Dan W. Richards travelled deep into the wicked terrain of Idaho's Flying B Ranch to fulfill a long-held goal. "It was the most physically exhausting hunt of my lifetime. Eight hours of cold weather hiking in very difficult terrain. I told the guides I appreciated the hard work. They were unbelievably professional, first class all the way," he said. Richards said he took the big cat over iron sights using a Winchester Centennial lever action .45 carbine. Asked about California's mountain lion moratorium, Richards didn't hesitate. *"I'm glad it's legal in Idaho." *(emphasis added) / Wow! The blog also notes that Richards is outspoken opponent of the Marine Life Protection Act <http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/> (MLPA) that requires the state to improve the way it protects the ocean. Richards' decision to "not only hunt an animal whose protection has twice been approved by California voters, but to post a photo showing his glee over the trophy kill, undermines Californians' confidence in the state's leadership and commitment to wisely managed natural resources," HSUS' California director Jennifer Fearing said in a statement today. "Richards' example stands in stark contrast to the work by dozens of stakeholders -- including The HSUS -- which just yesterday culminated in the adoption of an interim strategic vision <http://vision.ca.gov/docs/Final_EC_Adopts_ISV_120216.pdf> for California's fish and wildlife," she added. The Humane Society is urging Californians to contact the Fish and Game Commission <http://www.fgc.ca.gov/contact/> and voice their concerns about Richards' leadership role. I urge you to heed their call. PS: When I contacted the Fish and Game Commission this afternoon I was told that their phones had been "ringing off the hook" but there were no senior officials around today to field the calls. *Maureen Nandini Mitra <http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/oeuvre/maureen-mitra/>, Managing Editor, Earth Island Journal.*Maureen Nandini Mitra photo In addition to her work at the Journal, Maureen is a columnist for The Faster Times <http://thefastertimes.com> and writes for several other magazines and online publications in the US and India. A journalism graduate from Columbia University, her work has appeared in the San Francisco Public Press <http://sfpublicpress.org>, The New Internationalist <http://www.newint.org/>, Sueddeutsche Zeitung <http://www.sueddeutsche.de>, /The Caravan <http://www.caravanmagazine.in>/ and Down to Earth <http://downtoearth.org.in>.

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