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DESCRIPTION:Climate Justice in San Francisco: Racism, Radioactive & Toxic Waste, and 
 Rising Oceans \n\nHosts: Climate Reality Project Bay Area & Commonwealth 
 Club\n\nThursday, Oct 1, 2020 @ noon PT \n\nInfo & RSVP: 
 https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-10-01/climate-justice-radioactive-and-toxic-waste-racism-and-rising-oceans\n\nLivestream: 
 https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/\n\nWebsite of Climate Reality 
 Project Bay Area: https://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/\n\nAt the recent 
 Global Training in July 2020, former Vice President Al Gore and \nthe 
 Climate Reality Project continued their call to prioritize and center the 
 \nenvironmental justice work of communities of color and indigenous 
 communities. \n\nIn this spirit, we invite you to learn about and engage 
 with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice's "We Can't Breathe" 
 campaign in San Francisco's Bayview and \nHunters Point (BVHP) 
 neighborhoods, a low-income community of color (33.7 percent \nAfrican 
 American, 30.7 percent Asian, and 24.9 percent Latinx per the 2010 Census) 
 \nwhere residents suffer from high rates of asthma and cancer and where 
 radioactive waste \nand toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval 
 Shipyard Superfund site and multiple other contaminated sites are 
 located.\n\nAs one of the lowest-lying points in San Francisco, BVHP will 
 also be first impacted by rising oceans, which have already risen by almost 
 8 inches as of 2016 and which threaten to create flooding of hazardous and 
 radioactive waste of neighborhoods, transportation infrastructure, and the 
 entire San Francisco Bay, while several hundred new luxury homes have been 
 built next to and possibly on top of radioactive contamination, and 10,000 
 more homes are planned at the contaminated Shipyard Superfund Site where 
 critics complain that radioactive and \ntoxic cleanup has been marred by 
 fraud and lax standards.\n\nSpeakers will also discuss the August 25 Car 
 Caravan Protest to San Francisco City Hall for the Bayview Hunters Point 
 Environmental Justice "We Can't Breathe" Campaign.\n\nMODERATOR\n\nAlma 
 Soongi Beck\nClimate Justice Co-Chair, Climate Reality Project Bay Area 
 \n\nSPEAKERS\n\nDalila Adofo\nCommunity Organizer, Policy Advocate, and 
 Coordinator, Bayview Hunters Point Community Air Monitoring Project with 
 Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice\n\nBradley 
 Angel\nExecutive Director, Greenaction for Health and Environmental 
 Justice\n\nSabrina Hall\nCommunity Activist; Volunteer; Member, Bayview 
 Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee; Member, Student Site Council 
 and African American Parent Advisory Council, Paul Revere Elementary 
 School; Member, California Environmental Justice Coalition; \nVice Chair, 
 Southeast Community Council; Community Organizer, Green Action for Health 
 and Environmental Justice\n\nAhimsa Sumchai\nM.D., P.D., Emergency Medicine 
 Physician; President and Medical Director, Golden State MD Health & 
 Wellness; Principal Investigator, Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring 
 Program; Member, UCSF Medical Alumni Association Board of 
 Directors\n______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/22/18836861.php
SUMMARY:Climate Justice in San Francisco: Racism, Radioactive & Toxic Waste, and Rising Oceans
LOCATION:Online (FREE)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/22/18836861.php
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