LOCKED DOORS, OPEN QUESTIONS: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, AND THE CRISIS OF TRUST AT HUNTERS POINT

As new discoveries emerge inside a secured Navy building, Bayview-Hunters Point residents are asking whether the latest revelations represent an isolated incident—or another chapter in a decades-long struggle for accountability. In the City of San Francisco, we are relying on strong,intelligent, and capable Black women to protect usfrom a government that does not have our […]
FUND THE OVERSIGHT — OR ANSWER THE QUESTION

Part 2 of San Francisco’s 23-Year Reckoning Photo Credits:Top left: https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/bayview-hunters.htmlTop right: https://www.canwelive.org/environmental-justiceBottom left: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/environmental-law-clinic/lawsuit-filed-over-radioactive-waste-at-hunters-point-naval-shipyard/Bottom right: https://extinctionrebellionsfbay.org/announcements/2022/04/ally-event-peoples-earth-day-2022/ In Part One of this investigation, we established a documented timeline. The question before the City is not whether pollution burden exists.The question is whether oversight capacity will be strengthened — or reduced — at precisely the moment […]
**REPARATIONS ON TRIAL:

Part 1: San Francisco’s Debt, America’s Fear, and the Lie of “Societal Discrimination”** Photo credits: Newly unearthed trove of photographs shows the Fillmore’s devastation in stunning detail https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/29/san-francisco-fillmore-destruction-documented/ (top left) The Rise & Fall of the “Harlem of the West” https://bishopsf.org/blog/remembering-the-harlem-of-the-west (top right and bottom) San Francisco likes to describe itself as a city of […]