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BMAGIC to distribute backpacks, uniforms to Bayview kids

by Tamara Barak Aparton San Francisco – In an effort to ensure every student starts school with the tools to succeed, the San Francisco Public Defender’s BMAGIC program will provide backpacks stuffed...

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2,000+ Bayview residents celebrate learning at BMAGIC’s backpack giveaway

by Tamara Aparton Public Defender Jeff Adachi, founder of BMAGIC and a much loved figure in Bayview Hunters Point, talks with a family – the children sporting their brand new backpacks – in beautiful...

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Bring our courageous elders home, now!

A few of our Afro-Vegans – from as far away as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Jamaica and, of course, East Oakland – gather to commemorate the sacred B’EARTHday and profound life and message of...

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Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of...

“On Monday morning, a delegation of elected officials and ministers from Alameda and Contra Costa counties who organized to fight environmental racism in African American neighborhoods came to Hunters...

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Polluter pays!

Environmental justice demands the cessation of the production of all toxins, hazardous wastes, and radioactive materials, and that all past and current producers be held strictly accountable to the...

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Prop G’s false promises

Bayview Hunters Point matriarch Espanola Jackson shared her three-quarters of a century of wisdom with Tuesday’s rally crowd. “I know a scam when I see one,” she says. “Don’t buy their lies. Vote No...

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Proposition F: A fight for the heart and soul of San Francisco

At the lively rally Tuesday for Prop F that filled BVHP with the sound and spirit of fighting back – and winning! – MC Joanne Abernathy shared a word with lead organizer Alicia Schwartz. Both are with...

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The sinking Titanic

Just as San Francisco trusted the Florida mega-developer Lennar with its naval base, the Hunters Point Shipyard, and hundreds of surrounding acres of the city, Vallejo trusted Lennar with its naval...

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All of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard must be cleaned to residential standards

by Francisco Da Costa The United States Navy is suggesting that all of Parcel B of the Hunters Point Shipyard be capped and in doing so is trying to suggest that the other Shipyard parcels be...

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SF Health Dept. waited six weeks to notify community of Lennar’s huge toxic...

Speaking to the SF Health Commission, Minister Christopher Muhammad demands a hearing on Lennar’s environmental impact in Hunters Point, questioning why a huge toxic exceedence occurring four days...

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Deep reflections for a world on fire: A review of two books by Victor Wallis

A world on fire – from the Amazon to Africa and California to India, shown here – requires that we bring forth a new world from the ashes of the old. – Photo: Reuters by Joseph G. Ramsey With his two...

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New signs trigger confusion about Treasure Island’s radiation, chemical and...

Every Treasure Island renter has the right to know what radiation, chemicals and heavy metals lie inside, beneath and in the common areas between their homes by Carol Harvey Part One of this series...

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Power concedes nothing without a demand: Community demands reinstatement of...

by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD In a letter to BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) Director Laura Duchnak dated Sept. 17, 2019, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, the Bayview Hunters Point...

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As court considers BVHP referendum, Lennar plows ahead

photo – Chris Roberts by Paul Hogarth Superior Court Judge Patrick Mahoney heard oral arguments Monday between activists who gathered over 33,000 signatures to bring the Bayview Hunters Point...

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Air district votes to fine Lennar

Polluting developer subject to fines for more than a year of non-compliance photo by Sanfranman59 / Wikicommons by Alicia Schwartz The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), a regulatory...

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Did CDC conceal toxic dust threat in Hunters Point as it did in Ohio?

Learn the latest developments in the fight against Lennar’s toxic dust and get involved in the movement for environmental and economic justice – and the passage of Proposition F – at the town hall...

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Everyone talks about affordable housing; Prop F makes it the law

Editorial by Willie Ratcliff Are you dreaming of a home of your own? Are you dreaming of the opportunity to build homes for your family and your neighbors? Proposition F on the June 3 ballot can make...

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In Texas, environmental racism is in our FACE

A smoke plume rising from a petrochemical fire at Intercontinental Terminals Co. in Deer Park, Texas, on March 19, 2019, is undeniably toxic. Comrade Malik says, “Chronic industrial polluters flock to...

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Hurricane Ida: On the 16th anniversary of Katrina, we get hit again

Asante Salaam, visual artist and NOLA native, stands here in mid-city New Orleans with a mighty oak tree uprooted by the powerfully high winds blowing through the region from Hurricane Ida. Due to...

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