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MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 18, 2013 - Event September 21, 2013
Contact: Eric Brooks, (415)-756-8844

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & CLIMATE ACTIVISTS TO DRAW THE LINE CONNECTING
SEA LEVEL RISE, EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI DANGERS, & LOCAL TOXIC WASTE SITES

PRESS CONFERENCE, PHOTO/VIDEO OPPORTUNITY

WHO: Organizers from Greenaction, 350 Bay Area, Treasure Island Health Network (TIHN), SF Green Party, Our City, & Residents of the Bayview Hunters Point & Treasure Island

VISUALS: Rally Signs with Climate Crisis Messages, and Large Banner reading:

STOP CLIMATE CHANGE!
SEA RISE + TOXIC SITES = DESTROYED NEIGHBORHOODS

SPEAKERS: Greenaction, 350 SF, TIHN, Bayview & Treasure Island Residents, SF Green Party

WHERE: Entrance to Heron’s Head Park, Jennings Street & Cargo Way (near 3rd & Evans Muni T-Line Stop), San Francisco, CA

WHEN: Saturday, September 21, 12 NOON

DETAILS:

In San Francisco, on September 21, 2013, at noon, environmental justice and climate activists will convene at the entrance to Heron'’s Head Park with residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island as part of a global day of action to ‘'Draw The Line’' to highlight severe local climate crisis impacts that will hit vulnerable neighborhoods all over the world.

Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice will join with 350 Bay Area, Treasure Island Health Network, San Francisco Green Party, Our City, and residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island, to sound a warning on how the dangerous acceleration of climate warming will impact San Francisco'’s local neighborhoods that are most vulnerable to sea rise caused by climate change. Cities all over the U.S. and the world will hold similar actions to call attention to their own looming local climate and sea rise impacts.

THE LOCAL ISSUE:

Because vast tracts of San Francisco’'s Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island are at sea level on the San Francisco Bay and are also situated on or next to toxic and radioactively contaminated sites, as climate change progresses, these neighborhoods will be at high danger of a perfect storm of disastrous interactions between sea rise, earth quake liquefaction, tsunami vulnerability, and the toxic and radioactive contamination.

For more information see:

https://act.350.org/event/draw_the_line_attend

http://greenaction.org/campaign-bvhp-cleanup

http://tinyurl.com/TreasureIsland-Radiation

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