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Prologis' 3600 Alameda Ave Development Poisons Community & Environment

by Voices for the Voiceless.
Monster Real Estate Investment Trust, Prologis, hires reckless demo company to get redevelopment done fast. They, City of Oakland, and Noel Gallo turn a blind eye to these crimes
Toxic mess left open to elements, shockingly close to homes and Estuary.
Gallo- we see you. Peterson Vollmann, and planning commission- we see you. "City of Oakland", we see you.

Prologis and contractors- we see you. Despite your sneaky behavior, we see you partnered with Zionists too.

We know, despite your endless PRopaganda, you don't care about our community or environment. We've had enough of your empty words, and promises not lived up to. We see your cronyism for what it is.

You don't speak for this community, and we shall not allow you to rewrite history.

We never asked for 5+ months of your toxic demolition dust.

So now, we're gifting something back to you. Extensive footage has been taken of your and Wall Street's crimes within and against our community.

Get these people out of governance, and Prologis' propaganda out of Oakland schools!

More updates to come. This rot goes deeper than we could have ever imagined.

Long Live the Resistance!

Free Palestine, and all oppressed people worldwide.
§Inner City Demolition drops a huge wall without any dust control
by Voices for the Voiceless.
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§Aerial shot of communal and waterway proximity
by Voices for the Voiceless.
An aerial shot of the toxic mess and community immediately downwind.
§Dust from the site
by Voices for the Voiceless.
A windshield downwind shows dust collected over the months (protected from rain).
§Car windshield
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Shows dust collected on a car windshield over a few weeks (in between rain).
§Dusty can
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Shows dust collected and dried on a nearby trash can
§waterway violation
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Shows concrete slurry allowed to gather and wash down a 37th Ave stormdrain
§waterway violation
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Polluted water pooled above the same drain when clogged.
§Sausal creek outflow pollution
by Voices for the Voiceless.
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Shows the outlet of Sausal Creek turbid and polluted, suggesting heavy demolition runoff.
§Estuary post-storm
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Polluted water mixing into the Oakland Estuary.
§storm drain with feeble attempt at control
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Shows the 37th Ave storm drain with bare minimum of sediment mitigation, caustic rubble gathered in background.
Concrete rubble often leaches hexavalent Chromium into waterways when exposed to rain.

https://www.ngi.no/globalassets/bilder/prosjekter/georecirc/wascon2018_concrete_final.pdf
§Dusty loading
by Voices for the Voiceless.
An excavator loads a truck with dusty rubble, making a plume.
§No dust control
by Voices for the Voiceless.
Excavators recklessly demolishing structure without dust control.
Homes and children are a mere 100-200ft downwind.
§Intimidators
by Voices for the Voiceless.
On left, a security guard brandishes pepper spray in public. On right, he and his boss intimidate photographer.
Hawk Security Group fascist pigs working thuggery for Wall Street polluters by proxy.
§Dusty gusts 1
by Voices for the Voiceless.
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Shows rubble left open to elements, with wind blowing towards people and wildlife.
§Dusty gusts 2
by Voices for the Voiceless.
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Wind gusts up to 45 MPH kicks up toxic dust
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by Luigi Esparza
There is evidence suggesting environmental air monitoring data for this site has been tampered with, or tactically removed at certain times, to avoid showing the truth. For starters, there are not enough monitors to accurately cover all activities at the huge site, and monitors have often been removed before work is done. Additionally, air monitoring is not done at night or on weekends, when dust is still blowing towards homes.

Almost everyone with real power is in bed with Prologis. City inspectors, private environmental monitoring firms, air quality inspectors, so far all capitulate to the Wall Street demons.

All complaints have been quickly shuffled aside, or the facts on complaints completely misrepresented to the County and Water Board.

The perpetrators claim their monitor data is a magic bullet, somehow absolving themselves of cumulative dust pollution. They write the checks for Apex Companies, LLC, who filter the truth and craft a greener narrative. Prologis is using this data to deny the validity of complaints in ways that are an insult to our intellect.

https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report.asp?global_id=T10000017631

Under "site maps/documents", these weekly summary reports show air monitor data, as well as logs of community complaints. Those who complained have noted their stories not being shared accurately in these reports.

Additionally, the crooks in charge have not placed adequate signage in the community, often with nothing in Spanish. Still, there is no Mandarin language sign now, and the current bilingual signs are fully obstructed when the gate they're mounted to is open.

As demonstrated in the report below, there is no air monitor data for Jan 6th at 4:38PM: the exact time the video of irresponsible wall-dropping was captured. Why? Because Apex took the monitors down before that occurred, with the last data entry logged a full hour beforehand.

https://documents.geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/esi/uploads/geo_report/9944899380/T10000017631.PDF

This is not the only incident where no monitors were running while a massive violation occurred. We have more videos that show no or suspiciously clean monitor data, despite a serious violation being documented. How could a nuclear winter type plume show nothing abnormal at all on the monitors? Fraudsters made it look clean, but the record shows otherwise. That video will be uploaded fairly soon.

The arrogance of those involved may be their downfall. Truly, these arguments are a stretch at best. They blame anything but the demo site for the fugitive dust, and use a narrow slice of monitor data on one day as "proof". The dust builds up across multiple days, with differing wind conditions. They have left a dusty mess across the entire site, so regardless of what building was being demo'ed at the time of complaint, dust is coming from multiple areas across the site.

They even said "high winds" were to blame for the videos of dust blowing off site. As though they did not negligently create conditions for it in the first place!

Well done, Prologis. Just blame nature for the mess, and continue to gaslight and bully this disadvantaged community. SHAME!
by Luigi Esparza
My bad, that wall was dropped at about 4:00, not later. Still, Apex failed to have air monitoring running- I wonder how many other air quality violations they committed in this way. This isn’t the only documentation proving they continued to work, and work recklessly, while no air monitors were watching.

Not that the number of monitors they have is enough to give a good idea of their pollution- Apex even has the authority to reposition monitors however they want, so, in theory, could move them strategically to hide pollution.

The monitors have already been weaponized against us in an attempt to deny wrongdoing. They are not shields, but liability defense spikes.

These companies and people are sick.
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