Bay Guardian Bayview Brouhaha

While these two groups have worked in common cause in the past year to fight the Bayview Redevelopment plan, the fissures erupted after City Attorney Dennis Herrera invalidated the 33,000 signatures that would have challenged Bayview Redevelopment at the ballot box. In response to this sudden disenfranchisement, some Bayview activists poured their energy into passing Proposition 90 – which would not only limit eminent domain, but also make it impossible for the government to ever effectively regulate private property for the public good. This division became readily apparent at the September 27th march that was ostensibly organized to protest the City Attorney’s recent action. White progressive activists who attended the march to support Bayview residents were visibly shocked and angry, and felt naturally betrayed by their allies. But their gut reaction (treat the Bayview residents as clueless idiots) has done more harm than good – when a more appropriate target of their anger should be Prop 90 itself.

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