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Lennar Corp and other scum bags exposed in public at City Hall on May 7, 2007.

by Francisco Da Costa
For years the forces of EVIL have been polluting the Bayview Hunters Point aided and abated by Sell Outs. Now, the forces of good gathered before the Land Use Committee on May 7, 2007 and exposed Lennar Corp. and its operations and many scum bags on the take. We call them sell outs.
May 7. 2007 will go down in history as a day where the forces of EVIL were challenged by those that stood for what is good. Good people from the Bayview Hunters Point and all over the City and County of San Francisco came to bat for the victim poisoned by Lennar Corp.

Lennar Corp. has been buying influence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is keeping a close eye on the SF Health Department, other Regulatory Agencies, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Sophie Maxwell, other too many to mention - and time will tell about the corruption.

The City and County of San Francisco has the Precautionary Principle but does not enforce it when it comes to people of color.

Lennar Corp. from April to August did not conduct its operations in a proper manner.

For over four months it bombarded innocent constituents many of them children - with lead, mercury, asbestos friables, and many other toxic elements. Some of them radiological in nature.

Lennar Corp. is fast tracking its project on Parcel A which is at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.

At the Land Use Committee Supervisor Sophie Maxwell with Bevan Dufty and Geraldo Sandoval heard the pleas of the community.

The community was NOT pleased with Lennar Corp. What is City Hall going to do about it? Can City Hall stand the TRUTH? What is the Mayor going to do about this fact linked to adverse impacts and Lennar Corp.?

Minister Christopher Muhammad spoke and so did Archbishop King, Jim Queen, Espanola Jackson, JD from the Samoan Community, Brother Landary from the Fillmore, Pastor Ernie Jackson, Lynne Brown and many more.

Of course there were the sell outs trying to say something but their voices were stifled by the lies that were forced from their throats. Every one saw the writing on the wall - do not trust Lennar Corp ever.

Amy Brownell from the SF Health Department was lying through her teeth. But, that is fine - one day she will have to answer to come entity that knows it all.

May 7, 2007 is a historic day - on that day the City and the cronies were all exposed about the harm done to thousands in the Bayview Hunters Point and all over San Francisco.

You cannot fool all the people all the time. In the Bayview we have women and men warriors and they will take on this fight - one battle at a time until we win this WAR.

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Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
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by El Campesino
A Newsom-Pelosi-Lennar connection?

Ever since Lennar/BVHP, a subsidiary of the nation's largest homebuilder, was designated Master Developer for the Hunters Point Shipyard by the San Francisco Redevelopment Commission, they've been dying to get started on the extremely profitable project of building 1,600 new homes right next to the Shipyard's radioactive, toxic Parcel E landfill, one of the most contaminated sites in the country. And Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has been leading the charge to make it happen.

When Lennar first got the nod, Willie Brown was mayor, and San Franciscans learned that he had once had a business relationship with Lennar. What about Mayor Gavin Newsom?

Triumphantly, Mayor Newsom announced upon his return from a meeting in Washington with Pelosi in late March, "For the first time, we have the Navy's signature on an agreement that ensures the conveyance will begin shortly," according to the April 1 Chronicle ("Navy signs binding pact on first parts of shipyard"). Newsom was speaking of the conveyance of Parcel A, the part of the Shipyard where the new homes are planned, from the Navy to the City.

To make it happen, Congresswoman Pelosi, the Democratic "whip" in Congress, had had to call in the ranking Democrat on the House minority appropriations subcommittee, described by the Chronicle as "a big gun," because the Navy had been "having doubts about going ahead" with the transfer. "'I have been working on this agreement for more than a decade, and I am proud we are near our goal,' Pelosi said in a statement" made after the Navy signed off, the Chronicle reported.

Could Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom have a personal interest in seeing Lennar succeed? Bay View Hunters Point activists noticed recently that a man named Laurence Pelosi was until very recently the senior vice president of Lennar Communities, another Lennar subsidiary and a component of Lennar/BVHP. Laurence Pelosi was the treasurer for Gavin Newsom's campaign for mayor last year. He is described in the press as Newsom's cousin, while Nancy Pelosi is related to Newsom through his aunt.

Activists are continuing to look into these intriguing relationships and will keep Bay View readers posted.
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