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@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 -- *Please note our new addresses! * 335 South Van Ness, 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94103 4923 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94124 -- we are fighting for the noblest cause on earth, the liberation of mankind. they are fighting to entrench an outworn, anachronistic vile system of oppression. we represent progress: they represent decadence. we represent the fresh fragrance of flowers in bloom: they represent the rancid smell of decaying vegetation. we have the whole continent on our side. we have history on our side. we will win. robert mangaliso sobukwe, first president of the pan african congress