Hi all, If you call the School Board today, you can help stop a toxic travesty in San Francisco. Over the past year, the Miami based Lennar construction corporation has been exposing children and residents in San Francisco to toxic exposures of deadly chemicals, most notably the extremely dangerous and cancer causing air born substance, asbestos. Lennar was given permission to do large scale housing and condo construction in the Bayview Hunters point district of San Francisco, and almost immediately began violating safety precautions meant to prevent toxic dust and asbestos in that area from being released into the City's air. Community activists went before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to demand that Lennar's construction work to be halted until it can be guaranteed safe to the public, but unfortunately, under serious pressure from Lennar and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (which is outrageously complicit in Lennar's violations) six of our eleven Board of Supervisors members voted in the majority to allow Lennar to continue its hazardous behavior. But the fight is not over. Eric Mar and other members of the San Francisco Board of Education have brought new hope by drafting their own resolution to insist that Lennar's construction be halted until proper testing can be done to guarantee that public school students will not be exposed to toxic emissions from Lennar's work. The School Board will vote on this resolution as early as tomorrow, Tuesday, September 25th at around 6pm. _*What You Can Do*_ Take a quick moment to call the San Francisco School Board Executive Assistant's office at: 415-241-6427 and give them the following message: "Please forward my message to all School Board members. Please suspend the rules, and vote immediately to insist that schools and students near the Lennar construction site be tested for chemical and asbestos exposure, before allowing Lennar's construction to continue." If you get an answering machine, just leave your message on the machine. For more information, see the San Francisco Bay Guardian report at: http://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=3084 Thanks for you action and support! Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City http://our-city.org