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Blowing Up Candlestick Park-From Ferguson To San Francisco With Dr. Ray Tomkins
The politicians of San Francisco are colluding with the corrupt developer Lennar to blow up the Candlestick stadium since it is in a poor Black and working class neighborhood. This effort to increase the profits of Lennar seriously threaten the health and safety of the community. Willie Brown, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee all have their hands in this development
Blowing Up Candlestick Park-From Ferguson To San Francisco With Dr. Ray Tomkins
http://youtu.be/ZzfFB6wiQVo
At an education meeting at San Francisco General Hospital initiated by SEIU 1021 General Hospital Chapter and UPWA Dr. Ray Tomkins made a report on the healthcare crisis in Bayview Hunter's Point and the plans to blow up part of the Candlestick Park in their community.
Production of Labor Video Project http://www.laborvideo.org
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Carcinogens, not bad luck, cause cancer
http://sfbayview.com/2015/01/carcinogens-not-bad-luck-cause-cancer/
January 4, 2015
by Janette Sherman
The twin 20-story Geneva Towers, located just a few minutes away from Candlestick in Visitacion Valley, were imploded on May 16, 1998. Note the dust cloud – laden with toxins – over hundreds of homes. – Photo: Thor Swift, SF Chronicle
The headline, “Biological bad luck blamed in two-thirds of cancer cases, researchers say,” has received very wide coverage. Tell that to the people living at Hunters Point!
If one ignores chemistry, biology, physics and history, then one might believe it. It matters little whether exposures occur at home, workplace or neighborhood – it is not bad luck, it is exposure to carcinogens, and they are additive and cumulative. Carcinogens are found in common chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and nuclear radiation.
Vogelstein & Tomasetti, the authors of the Johns Hopkins study that prompted the headline, claim that cancer is due to random mutations in cells. Where do they think those mutations originated? A simple Internet search would have provided them with ample information on known carcinogens.
Why did this study get such press coverage? Can it be that prevention of disease interferes with the business of medical (sickness) care?
Hunters Point residents continue to battle for their health, and certainly have the right to ask: What researcher can possibly claim that cancer is the result of bad luck?
Hunters Point is a unique place – it was a major shipbuilding and repair site during World War II, and then a largely minority and poor neighborhood. When I worked there for the Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory in the early 1950s, it was easy to see the clouds of asbestos used in ship repairs.
However, it was impossible to see the radioactive contamination from decommissioning the vessels that were exposed to nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Hunters Point was declared a Superfund Site in 1989.
Adjacent to Hunters Point is Candlestick Park, the world famous stadium built of reinforced concrete in the beginning of 1958. Lennar, the corporation given rights by San Francisco City Hall to develop both the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick, has plans to implode – to blow up – the building.
Asbestos, as well as other toxic materials commonly used to build at that time, would rise up in a gigantic dust cloud, only to settle back down on the surrounding residential neighborhood to be breathed by the residents. Yet neither those residents nor the public at large were notified or consulted; permission to implode was not publicized.
Neither those residents nor the public at large were notified or consulted; permission to implode was not publicized.
Hunters Point residents continue to battle for their health, and certainly have the right to ask: What researcher can possibly claim that cancer is the result of bad luck?
Janette D. Sherman, M.D., a physician, toxicologist and author, concentrating on chemicals and nuclear radiation that cause cancer and birth defects, is consulting editor for “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature,” a comprehensive presentation of all the available information concerning the health and environmental effects of the low dose radioactive contaminants. Originally published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009 for $150, she has had it republished for wide distribution at only $10. Seehttp://janettesherman.com/books/. Dr. Sherman has worked in radiation and biologic research at the University of California nuclear facility and at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco. Her primary interest is the prevention of illness through public education and patient awareness. She can be reached at http://www.janettesherman.com.
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Firm tied to Willie Brown gets political boost for Hunters Point plan
http://cironline.org/reports/firm-tied-willie-brown-gets-political-boost-hunters-point-plan-4896
Jul 02, 2013
http://youtu.be/ZzfFB6wiQVo
At an education meeting at San Francisco General Hospital initiated by SEIU 1021 General Hospital Chapter and UPWA Dr. Ray Tomkins made a report on the healthcare crisis in Bayview Hunter's Point and the plans to blow up part of the Candlestick Park in their community.
Production of Labor Video Project http://www.laborvideo.org
-----
Carcinogens, not bad luck, cause cancer
http://sfbayview.com/2015/01/carcinogens-not-bad-luck-cause-cancer/
January 4, 2015
by Janette Sherman
The twin 20-story Geneva Towers, located just a few minutes away from Candlestick in Visitacion Valley, were imploded on May 16, 1998. Note the dust cloud – laden with toxins – over hundreds of homes. – Photo: Thor Swift, SF Chronicle
The headline, “Biological bad luck blamed in two-thirds of cancer cases, researchers say,” has received very wide coverage. Tell that to the people living at Hunters Point!
If one ignores chemistry, biology, physics and history, then one might believe it. It matters little whether exposures occur at home, workplace or neighborhood – it is not bad luck, it is exposure to carcinogens, and they are additive and cumulative. Carcinogens are found in common chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and nuclear radiation.
Vogelstein & Tomasetti, the authors of the Johns Hopkins study that prompted the headline, claim that cancer is due to random mutations in cells. Where do they think those mutations originated? A simple Internet search would have provided them with ample information on known carcinogens.
Why did this study get such press coverage? Can it be that prevention of disease interferes with the business of medical (sickness) care?
Hunters Point residents continue to battle for their health, and certainly have the right to ask: What researcher can possibly claim that cancer is the result of bad luck?
Hunters Point is a unique place – it was a major shipbuilding and repair site during World War II, and then a largely minority and poor neighborhood. When I worked there for the Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory in the early 1950s, it was easy to see the clouds of asbestos used in ship repairs.
However, it was impossible to see the radioactive contamination from decommissioning the vessels that were exposed to nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Hunters Point was declared a Superfund Site in 1989.
Adjacent to Hunters Point is Candlestick Park, the world famous stadium built of reinforced concrete in the beginning of 1958. Lennar, the corporation given rights by San Francisco City Hall to develop both the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick, has plans to implode – to blow up – the building.
Asbestos, as well as other toxic materials commonly used to build at that time, would rise up in a gigantic dust cloud, only to settle back down on the surrounding residential neighborhood to be breathed by the residents. Yet neither those residents nor the public at large were notified or consulted; permission to implode was not publicized.
Neither those residents nor the public at large were notified or consulted; permission to implode was not publicized.
Hunters Point residents continue to battle for their health, and certainly have the right to ask: What researcher can possibly claim that cancer is the result of bad luck?
Janette D. Sherman, M.D., a physician, toxicologist and author, concentrating on chemicals and nuclear radiation that cause cancer and birth defects, is consulting editor for “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature,” a comprehensive presentation of all the available information concerning the health and environmental effects of the low dose radioactive contaminants. Originally published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009 for $150, she has had it republished for wide distribution at only $10. Seehttp://janettesherman.com/books/. Dr. Sherman has worked in radiation and biologic research at the University of California nuclear facility and at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco. Her primary interest is the prevention of illness through public education and patient awareness. She can be reached at http://www.janettesherman.com.
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Firm tied to Willie Brown gets political boost for Hunters Point plan
http://cironline.org/reports/firm-tied-willie-brown-gets-political-boost-hunters-point-plan-4896
Jul 02, 2013
For more information:
http://youtu.be/ZzfFB6wiQVo
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SF City Phil Ginsburg, head of Rec and Park Want To Blow Up Candlestick in Black Community
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Candlestick-to-get-a-smashing-farewell-4247560.php
Candlestick to get a smashing farewell
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnists Updated 11:14 pm, Sunday, February 3, 2013
The development proposed for the Candlestick site is billed as resembling the downtown Walnut Creek shopping district.
General view of the crowds in Candlestick Park after an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the richter scale, rocks Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989. Candlestick Park, home of many S.F. memories, will be turned into a shopping development when the 49ers move to Santa Clara.
It hosted two World Series, The Catch and the Beatles' last concert. Now it looks like Candlestick Park will go out with a blast next year to make way for a shopping center.
Plans are to blow up the 69,000-seat stadium with a 30-second implosion, possibly within weeks of the 49ers' final touchdown next season.
San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department, which owns Candlestick, had feared it would be stuck spending millions to mothball the 53-year-old structure until Lennar Corp. was ready to build something on the land.
Lennar, however, figures there's no point in waiting.
"The best thing for our development and the neighborhood is not to have that hulking building sitting there empty," saidKofi Bonner, president of Lennar Urban, which plans a retail, residential and office complex for the stadium site and the former Hunters Point Shipyard.
The city couldn't be happier with the plan for the dynamite spectacular. "Everything has a life, and Candlestick has exceeded it," said Phil Ginsburg, head of Rec and Park.
Plans for a side-by-side stadium and mall at Candlestick evaporated after the Niners announced in 2006 that they were building a $1 billion stadium in Santa Clara.
Bonner said rubble from the Stick will be used to grade the site for an 800,000-square-foot shopping district similar to the one in downtown Walnut Creek.
There are also plans for a 3,000- to 4,000-seat arena that could accommodate small concerts, house the San Francisco Bulls ice hockey team and maybe even host pro women's basketball.
In the meantime, the city will be taking suggestions for a suitable Stick send-off before the big blast.
More sporting news: The Giants have hired San Francisco political consultant Alex Clemens (spokesman for hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) to try to win support for their proposed development across from AT&T Park.
The team can certainly use the help, judging by the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association gathering this past week. Attendees told us there was serious talk of launching a referendum to make it hard for the Giants to erect the 30-story condo towers the team has in mind for the project.
Among those on hand urging a fight was former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who is leading the ballot drive to stop the 8 Washington condo development on the northern waterfront.
Just up the road from the ballpark, by the way, the Warriors are doing their best to allay concerns that their proposed waterfront arena will block views. Their latest plan calls for wrapping the 13-story arena at Piers 30-32 with a publicly accessible ramp that would lead to a rooftop observation deck and some of the best views around.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Candlestick-to-get-a-smashing-farewell-4247560.php
Candlestick to get a smashing farewell
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnists Updated 11:14 pm, Sunday, February 3, 2013
The development proposed for the Candlestick site is billed as resembling the downtown Walnut Creek shopping district.
General view of the crowds in Candlestick Park after an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the richter scale, rocks Game 3 of the World Series between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989. Candlestick Park, home of many S.F. memories, will be turned into a shopping development when the 49ers move to Santa Clara.
It hosted two World Series, The Catch and the Beatles' last concert. Now it looks like Candlestick Park will go out with a blast next year to make way for a shopping center.
Plans are to blow up the 69,000-seat stadium with a 30-second implosion, possibly within weeks of the 49ers' final touchdown next season.
San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department, which owns Candlestick, had feared it would be stuck spending millions to mothball the 53-year-old structure until Lennar Corp. was ready to build something on the land.
Lennar, however, figures there's no point in waiting.
"The best thing for our development and the neighborhood is not to have that hulking building sitting there empty," saidKofi Bonner, president of Lennar Urban, which plans a retail, residential and office complex for the stadium site and the former Hunters Point Shipyard.
The city couldn't be happier with the plan for the dynamite spectacular. "Everything has a life, and Candlestick has exceeded it," said Phil Ginsburg, head of Rec and Park.
Plans for a side-by-side stadium and mall at Candlestick evaporated after the Niners announced in 2006 that they were building a $1 billion stadium in Santa Clara.
Bonner said rubble from the Stick will be used to grade the site for an 800,000-square-foot shopping district similar to the one in downtown Walnut Creek.
There are also plans for a 3,000- to 4,000-seat arena that could accommodate small concerts, house the San Francisco Bulls ice hockey team and maybe even host pro women's basketball.
In the meantime, the city will be taking suggestions for a suitable Stick send-off before the big blast.
More sporting news: The Giants have hired San Francisco political consultant Alex Clemens (spokesman for hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) to try to win support for their proposed development across from AT&T Park.
The team can certainly use the help, judging by the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association gathering this past week. Attendees told us there was serious talk of launching a referendum to make it hard for the Giants to erect the 30-story condo towers the team has in mind for the project.
Among those on hand urging a fight was former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who is leading the ballot drive to stop the 8 Washington condo development on the northern waterfront.
Just up the road from the ballpark, by the way, the Warriors are doing their best to allay concerns that their proposed waterfront arena will block views. Their latest plan calls for wrapping the 13-story arena at Piers 30-32 with a publicly accessible ramp that would lead to a rooftop observation deck and some of the best views around.
For more information:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/...
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