Environmental Dog and Pony Shows.

San Francisco is the City that knows how but the pitty is that today we have SPIN Gurus the likes of Jared Blumenfeld and Mayor Gavin Newsom that have nothing much to offer in terms of Truth and Action that benefits the constituents of San Francisco and the Bay Area. More in terms of the Environment. At the Metreon and at Lower Fort Mason the Dog and Pony Shows continue. You see very little diversity and People of Color are shut out. Al Gore came to town - so what is the big deal - the man tried to convince us he had something to do with the Internet - in fact he had nothing to do with the Cyberspace technology at all. When he was in power nothing much was attained on the International level in terms of the Environment.. The United States is the worst when it comes to polluting. We even walked out of Environmental Summits with Naitons booing us for not having the courage to respect Mother Earth. We really do not want people talking down to us in San Francisco - we want to stop pollution, the arms race and everything that disrespects Mother Earth. Today over $1 trillion arms are sold - more arms then were sold during the Cold War. Today, we have Nuclear Missiles ready to go when all of them should be disarmed. Today, Superpowers use their Veto Power at the United Nations to keep poorer Nations down. It is a shame what happened in Rwanda and it is a greater shame what is happening today in Darfur. San Francisco did not have the balls to send $100,000 for the Tsunami Relief. We have a $5 Billion budget. All of San Francisco was stolen from the First People - the Muwekma Ohlone. Today, San Francisco with its Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisor are pushing for building thousands of homes. They have NO plan where the raw sewage will go and what will be the impact. They have NO plan where they will get the Energy from. They have a $100 million Solar bond measure that should have gone into affect 2 years ago - it has not. Jared Blumenfeld wants this money - more for administrative uses then to better our Energy uses and standing. Right now we have to have our Transmission Lines in place. The Jefferson-Martin by 2006. The Potrero-Hunters Point - Mission by 2008. The Pittsburg-Potrero under the Bay by 2011. We really do not need the two toxic spewing power plants nor the proposed 3 Combustion Turbines that Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jared Blumenfeld, Susan Leal, Karen Kubick, Barbara Hale and a host of cronies want to placed nearer the Bayview Hunters Point area. Our children are dying. Our Health Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are supposed to enforce pollution laws and clean up areas. The last time any empirical data was collected was in 1990. We now have laws to enforce but the EPA, the City, other Federal and State Agencies are doing nothing. We have crooks like Doctor Rajiv Bhatia who is a disgrace to his profession. So called Environmental Advocates should go picket the San Francisco Health Department, the EPA, the DTSC, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors. I have never ever seen those that have time to scream and shout - tell the SF Board of Supervisors that they have blood on their hands. Our children are dying all over the City and County of San Francisco. Particulate Traps that should have been placed on our MUNI buses have not been placed. We do not have a sound Transportation Document. We do not have a sound Housing Element. Gavin Newsom talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. The Dog and Pony shows will end soon. I want to see action and see it so that it benefits our children and our youth. PG&E has given San Francisco Enivironment over $100,000 for World Environment Day (WED) - one does not take BLOOD MONEY if one is honest and true to the principles of sound Ethics. Green Action has taken over $200,000 from San Francisco Environment and has blood on its hands. You cannot sleep with crooks and show case actions from the blood money. Anyone can shout at a building - anyone can put down PG&E. I have not seen you at the Stakeholders Meeting and I challenge you to be there on June 10 at 77 Beale with solutions. You have people that cannot write and have others writing for them on issues concerning the Bayview - this is wrong. I write my own stuff - with or without spelling mistakes and poor grammar. I do not give a rat ass when it comes to calling a spade and spade and going after the crooks. Environmentalists cannot succeed if they are in bed with SFE, PG&E, and other crooks that have helped DISRESPECT Mother Earth.

Francisco Da Costa
Environmental Justice Advocacy
4909 3rd Street
San Francisco California 94124