On March 7th, there will be a hearing before the Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the fate of Bayview Hunter's Point. A Rally and Press Conference will take place before the meeting, at 3:00pm. 1 | 2

The meeting will take place in City Hall, Room 416, at 4:00pm. At issue will be a proposed amendment to the Redevelopment plan, in which some 1,360 acres of new land would be designated ‘Project Area B’ and added to the existing 137-acre Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area. A map of the proposal shows early the entire neighborhood as the proposed Project Area B, dwarfing the existing project area, which covers much of Hunters Point Hill. The proposed “amendment” stretches from Cesar Chavez Street south to the county line and from Highway 101 east to San Francisco Bay. Willie Ratcliff explains that March 7th could be an eviction date for the residents of Bayview Hunters Point. Many people have been saying for years that the Bayview would be the new Fillmore (where housing projects were torn down and poor people of color were evicted in favor of a "new" arts district). The Bayview/Hunters Point has beautiful views and is considered to have the most sunshine in the City.

Although San Francisco appears to be a progressive city, classism and racism are alive and well, as the poor, working-class, and people of color are pushed out of the city by Ellis Act evictions for TICs for the upper middle class and Redevelopment Authority's "negro removal," as it was called by black activists in the 60s. Ratcliff writes that the "Redevelopment" of this neighborhood must be the largest land grab outside of post-Katrina New Orleans. 2006 is the 40 year anniversary of the Hunters Point uprising, when tanks rolled up and down Third Street, and the SFPD lined up like a firing squad and shot their rifles into the Bayview Opera House where children had taken refuge. Less than a month later, in October 1966, the Black Panther Party was born.

Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point, by Willie Ratcliff | Tommi Avicolli Mecca | Photos from 2005 Toxics Tour of Southeast SF