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Title: Support the Huntersview Mothers
Environmental Health and Justice Committee.
Time
Frame: 1 Month
Plan of Action: Contribute financial support,
and supplies to organizers and write/call/fax elected officials
that can and should protect the rights of mothers that are working
to improve the quality of housing and environmental conditions of
residents in the Bayview Area.
Purpose of Action: Provide resources that
will enable the Bayview Huntersview Mothers Environmental Health
and Justice Committee to continue it's work as well as notify political
figures to not retaliate against this organization.
PURPOSE OF ACTION: In a public meeting
held at Milton Meyers Auditorium in Hunters Point, Mothers Committee
members unveiled a year-long effort entitled "Pollution,
Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice: A Toxic Inventory of
Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco." The
40-page report exposed the dirty truth about the sources of water
and air pollution in BVHP and provides detailed accounts of toxic
waste sites in the community and the health problems that the residents
are suffering. The full report
can be read or downloaded at here.
Despite these findings the City intends to expand the presence of
environmentally hazardous plants in the community.
For all of their courageous and tireless efforts,
the Mothers Committee find themselves under constant attack by the
City. In retaliation the Housing Authority is attempting to
evict them from public housing and bar these MOTHERS from the community!
At present, these dynamic Sistas are providing
services to their community wherever they see the need, (with little
or no financial help) which includes an after school program; parenting
skills for young mothers, food assistance. They have also begun
to seeking training so they can provide certified supportive services
to young drug-addicts.
These women activists need our help!
Read More
http://www.sfbayview.com/091504/thecrises091504.shtml
http://www.sfbayview.com/010406/moredirtyair.shtml
What You Should Do Now:
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CONTACT THE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING AUTHORITY ASAP.
Ask the Director to please stop trying to evict Organizer Tessie
Ester from her public housing.
Executive Director Gregg Fortner
San Francisco Housing Authority
440 Turk Street - San Francisco, CA 94102
415.554.1296
fortnerg@sfha.org
Director of Public Housing Operations Anthony Ihejeto
San Francisco Housing Authority
440 Turk Street - San Francisco, CA 94102
415.920.2600
ihejetoa@sfha.org
Complete SFHA Contact Info at http://www.sfha.org/contact/index.htm |
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MAKE A FINANCIAL DONATION.
Checks and Money Orders to:
Huntersview Mother's Committee
Attn: Marie Harrison & Tessie Ester
20 West Point
San Francisco, CA 94124. |
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DONATE SUPPLIES. The Huntersview Mother's Committee needs
two (2) new or reasonably used computers, a printer/fax, xerox
machine and office supplies. The youth program requires paper,
pencils, snacks, as well as donations of food and clothing for
all those community residents so desperately in need. |
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CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS. Interview Sis. Marie Harrison and
keep these issues on the front burner! We must stay in touch
with these wonderful women and keep abreast of how best we can
continue to support them. Contact her by phone at (415) 720-3139
or by e-mail at marie@greenaction.org. |
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Goals
Convince
Housing Authority to stop trying to evict Sis. Tessie Ester
Increase public exposure
of the Huntersview Mother's Committee
Increase supplies
and financial donations to the Huntersview Mother's Committee
Outcomes
Huntersview
Mother's Committee organizers can continue work without harassment.
Increase awareness
of housing & environmental hazards in low-income communities.
Inspire community
activism in low-income areas around world.
Huntersview Mother's
Committee will have resources to provide services.
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