Our City Update

Voter Guide 2007, Solar & Wind Power, Stopping Fossil Fuel Plants & Toxic Waste In SF

1 - Voter Guide For November: Critical Votes On Transit & Parking
2 - 50% Solar & Wind Power For San Francisco!
3 - Stopping Another Fossil Fuel Plant In San Francisco
4 - CORE REPORT: Bayview Under Siege - The Toxic Corporate Attack On Our Most Polluted Neighborhood
5 - The Past Year's Election Victories

NOTE: This Update and Voter Guide can be directly accessed online. (Mozilla/Netscape users view PDF version.)
- See the Update (PDF version) at http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or the web version at http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm
- See the printable half page Voter Guide (PDF) at http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf or the web version at http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm

(If you have trouble with these or any of the links below, go to the Our City home page at http://our-city.org and follow the links on the lefthand side entitled Voter Guide, and (under Updates) Fall 2007: Stopping Fossil Fuel Plants & Toxic Waste In SF.)

Top Stories

1 - Voter Guide For November: Critical Votes On Transit & Parking
This November, two critical local measures on Mass Transit and Parking are on the Ballot. Proposition H is an extremely bad, pro-automobile measure (sponsored by corporate conservatives) which will vastly increase parking, gridlock, pollution and greenhouse gases in San Francisco. Proposition A is a grassroots initiative that will increase funding for cleaner mass transit, and will strike down Prop H if it passes. Vote NO on H! and YES on A!
See our entire 2007 Voter Guide at (PDF) http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Voteguide-Nov07.htm

2 - 50% Solar & Wind Power For San Francisco!
In June 2007, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Community Choice renewable energy project, which will run San Francisco on 50% solar and wind power within the next decade, and will end San Francisco's century long dependence on PG&E's polluting corporate energy monopoly. See the full report at (PDF) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm

3 - Stopping Another Fossil Fuel Plant In San Francisco
Even though San Francisco is about to build the largest municipal solar and wind power project on Earth, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) still has plans to allow a private corporation to build another polluting natural gas power plant inside the City! And to make matters worse, the SFPUC plans to let this plant be built in the Bayview Hunters Point, which is already San Francisco's most polluted neighborhood. The SFPUC will vote as early as this week on whether or not to approve the project. Read more about this unacceptable power plant on page 2 of the Update, (PDF) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm Get more detail and Take Action to stop the plant at http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html

4 - CORE REPORT: Bayview Under Siege - The Toxic Corporate Attack On Our Most Polluted Neighborhood
For decades, the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood has suffered terrible toxic pollution because the U.S. Navy, various corporations, and the City itself, have been allowed to emit pollutants (including deadly asbestos) and to dump other toxic and even radioactive wastes in this community; a community which is, in vast majority, people of color and low income. Now the City and its Health department is continuing the toxic assault by allowing Miami based Lennar corporation to further devastate the Bayview and illegally stir those hazardous chemicals back up into the atmosphere, as it builds gentrifying market rate and luxury condos for profit. We, the people of San Francisco, must halt this outrage immediately. Read the full expose on page 3 of the Update at (PDF) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0002.htm

5 - The Past Year's Election Victories
Over the past year, progressives have won crucial tenant protections, paid sick days for workers, and mandatory public hearings on chain stores; have stopped dangerous ballot attacks on the environment and reproductive choice; and have won critical victories for progressive education board candidates and Board Supervisors.
See our full report on ballot measure victories on page 1 of the Update, (PDF) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.htm
See our report on the now majority progressive School Board, and other candidate victories, on page 2 of the Update at (PDF) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07.pdf or (web) http://our-city.org/Update-Oct07_files/page0001.htm

As always, thank you for your continued involvement and action.

peace

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City

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