Join us next week to protest, and stop, Lennar Corporation's toxic gentrification of San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood and Candlestick Point State Park! Tuesday June 30, 2009, 1pm Innes & Donahue Streets, Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco (See event and transportation details near the end of this email or at http://our-city.org/events/index.html ) BACKGROUND The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency is poised to purchase 40 acres of precious State protected wetland open space in the Candlestick Point State Park area, on which it will then allow Florida based Lennar Corporation to build high priced condos, destroying the open space and cheating San Francisco out of a vital public natural treasure. Lennar corporation has a long history of similar land grabs, of ongoing illegal toxic releases from its projects, and of making unwritten promises to build low income housing and hire local workers in order to justify these land grabs, only to later completely betray those promises. Ground zero of Lennar's toxic gentrification is the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood which is over 40% African American and has a high percentage of other residents of color, as well as thousands of low income residents who depend on the Bayview's lower housing costs to enable them to continue living in, and contributing crucial cultural diversity to San Francisco. In its existing developments in the Bayview, Lennar has continuously stirred up deadly, carcinogenic asbestos dust during its shoddy operations, putting the Bayview and every resident of San Francisco at completely unnecessary risk of illness and death. It is time for this greed driven toxic gentrification to stop! WHAT YOU CAN DO Join us this Tuesday with Stop Lennar Action Movement at Lennar's main work site in the Bayview to demand an end to Lennar's crimes in our city. For protest time and location see below, or go to our events alert page at http://our-city.org/events/index.html STOP LENNAR CORPORATION?S TOXIC GENTRIFICATION OF BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT! COMMUNITY PROTEST AND ACTION! TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009 at 1PM Meet at the front gate of the Hunters Point Shipyard Innes & Donahue Streets, San Francisco PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO THE PROTEST: - Take the Muni T Train to 3rd/Evans & transfer to the Muni #44 or #19 bus - Or from 8th/Market take the #19 Muni Bus outbound to the protest Sponsored by Stop Lennar Action Movement, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice, Huntersview Mothers Committee for Health & Environmental Justice, PODER, POWER, Chinese Progressive Association, Our City, San Francisco Green Party, West County Toxics Coalition, ANSWER, SF Bayview Newspaper, Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition Thanks for your action and support! peace Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City 415-756-8844 -- This alert sent by: Our City 1028-A Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 415-756-8844 For more information about Our City campaigns go to: http://our-city.org info@our-city.org