[CPEO-MEF] Stop Shipyard Land Grab

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California
NEW CALIFORNIA MEDIA
Stop Shipyard Land Grab
SF Bayview
Willie Ratcliff, Ahimsa Sumchai, M.D., and Francisco da Costa
Apr 22, 2003

Privatization of the Hunters Point Shipyard through the San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency has so far been blocked by the ferocious opposition
of the Bayview Hunters Point community. Now the mayor and a current and
former supervisor are pushing a new and, up to now, secret privatization
plan to create something called the Hunters Point Shipyard Development
Authority.

Residents of Bayview Hunters Point, as victims of some of the most
deadly military base pollution in the country, demand instead that the
community control development of the Shipyard, once it is completely
cleaned up by the Navy. Legally, according to the law governing base
closures and all the agreements for the eventual transfer of the
Shipyard from the Navy to the City, the surrounding community - Bayview
Hunters Point - is the Shipyard’s intended beneficiary.

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