[CPEO-BIF] "Race, class and the brownfields battle"

[Tony Chenhansa <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

Responses by California Center for Land Recycling and Sierra Club to follow.

"Race, class and the brownfields battle"

SCOTT WINOKUR
EXAMINER COLUMNIST
Sept. 21, 1999 
San Francisco Examiner 

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THE SIERRA CLUB took an unexpected hit July 5, when it was
called elitist in a full-page ad in the New York Times. 

The Sierrans were predictably indignant. They claimed to deserve better. 

It could have been worse. "Racist" and "fascist" also were kicked around by
the militant young copywriters at the Greenlining Institute, which bought
the space for the big-type screed. 

The institute is another San Francisco-based group with a vision of how
things should be. I'm told the ad's authors were restrained by their boss,
John Gamboa, who sees the Sierra Club as a potential ally. 

The institute wants to transform California's estimated 30,000 fallow
inner-city lots - "brownfields" - into sites for educational, commercial
and recreational activities benefiting the lives of people of color in the
inner cities. 

The Sierra Club could help to put this effort into orbit, but it's balking.
People at the institute think that's because it's just a group of
self-important white liberals who don't have a clue about real life in the
inner city.

Continued... 

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