[CPEO-MEF] Fire Sparks Support for San Francisco's Proposition P

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For Immediate Release

PROPOSITION P: NAVY SHIPYARD FIRE SPARKS SUPPORT FOR SAN FRANCISCO'S 
LANDMARK VOTER RESOLUTION ON STANDARDS FOR BASE CLEANUP 

As the Navy and the EPA attempt to douse public concern over a 
smoldering landfill fire with premature assurances based on a couple of 
sampling days, support continues to grow for Proposition P the 
resolution on the November ballot in San Francisco calling for 
residential levels of cleanup for the Superfund site. 

The Hunters Point Shipyard is one of the Navy's most polluted BRAC sites 
in California, and the smoldering landfill is one of its most polluted 
areas. The landfill is contaminated with radium, drums of chlorine, 
PCBs, dioxins, and other potentially health threatening pollutants. Now 
in its fifth week, the fire has sent asthmatic and chemically sensitive 
residents of the mostly African American and minority Bayview Hunters 
Point community reaching for their respirators. 

In August, after twenty years of Navy mismanagement of the Shipyard's 
cleanup, four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, lead by 
Board President Tom Ammiano, placed Proposition P (written by Arc 
Ecology) on the November ballot. Proposition P is the first time a 
community has placed a cleanup level for a Superfund site on the ballot. 
   From the Republican Party to the Green Party, Proposition P is now 
gaining widespread support from all of San Francisco's political 
sectors. 

"The City is coming to consensus over the proposition that a healthy 
environment is a human right," said Proposition P Treasurer Olin Webb, 
the nationally recognized environmental justice activist and leader of 
the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates. "Proposition P is an 
expression of San Francisco's rejection of the ongoing environmental 
racism being practiced by the Navy and the EPA in our community."

Eight of the eleven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors 
now support Proposition P.  So does both the Republican and Democratic 
Party Central Committees.

The following is a list of some of the growing list of individuals now 
supporting Proposition P.

1. Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors 

Tom Ammiano (President)

Sue Bierman

Amos Brown

Leslie Katz

Mark Leno

Mabel Teng

Mike Yaki

Leland Yee

2.Political Parties

San Francisco Democratic Central Committee

San Francisco Republican Central Committee

3. Prominent Bayview Residents, Community Organizations & Businesses

(Organizations for Identification Purposes)

Dr. George Davis, BVHP Multipurpose Senior Center

Jill Fox, Friends of India Basin Park

Marie Harrison, Bayview Newspaper & Supervisor Candidate

Espanola Jackson, Community Activist & Supervisor Candidate

Dwayne Jones, Young Community Developers

Angelo King, Neighborhood Jobs Initiative Roundtable

Alex Lantsberg, Community Environmental Activist

Gaylon Logan, Infusion One

Jesse Mason, Bayview Hunters Point Advocates

Sophie Maxwell, President, Bayview PAC and Supervisor Candidate 

Mohammed Nuru, SF League of Urban Gardeners

Pauline Peele, ROSES

Karen Pierce, BVHP Environmental Health Task Force 

Willie and Mary Ratcliff, Bayview Newspaper

Linda Richardson, Former Planning Commissioner & Supervisor Candidate

Essie Webb, Community Activist

Olin Webb, Bayview Hunters Point Advocates

Claude Wilson, Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice

Shipyard Trust for the Arts 

4. City-Wide Environmental and Public Interest Leaders (Organizations 
for Identification Purposes) 

Bradley Angel, Greenaction

Saul Bloom, Arc Ecology

Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Action

Lynne Brown, Communities for a Better Environment

Margeurite Young & Scott Brunner, Clean Water Action

Jennifer Clary, San Francisco Tomorrow

Rob Eschelman, Housing Rights Committee

Arthur Feinstein, Golden Gate Audubon Society

Peter Ferrenbach, California Peace Action

Ruth Gravanis, Treasure Island Wetlands Project

Sue Hestor & Calvin Welch, San Franciscans for Reasonable Growth

Amandeep Jawa, SF League of Conservation Voters

Jonathan Kaplan, San Francisco Baykeeper

Alex Lantsberg, Arc Ecology

Denny Larsen, Communities for a Better Environment

Beryl Magilavy, Sustainable City

Fran Martin, Visitacion Valley Planning Alliance

Jane Morrison, San Francisco Tomorrow

John Lindsay Poland

Tom Radulovich, BART Director

David Snyder, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Debra Walker, Coalition for Jobs, Arts, & Housing

Claude Wilson, Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice

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