“The modern Environmental Justice Movement would not be what it is today if it were not for the African Americans who helped shape it. African Americans have been fighting for decades, from sparking the modern Environmental Justice Movement, to conducting key research on environmental pollution, to founding countless grassroots organizations, their legacy is undeniable” Eddie Junsay -350.org — The Environmental Justice Movement is Rooted in Black History.

Civil rights attorney Abre’ Conner and the Moms Clean Air Force explain why environmental protections are important to Black History Month in the Huffington Post. …

Legal Legacy of Harm to the Hunters Point Community

“On behalf of named plaintiffs and thousands of other victims to be named including residents, deceased family members and unborn children,” renown civil rights attorneys Bonner & Bonner filed a $27 billion lawsuit — on May 1, 2018 — for damages arising from “generational threats of cancer and other incurable illnesses attributed to the documented fraud perpetrated by US Navy contractor Tetra Tech in assuring Hunters Point residents and the City of San Francisco that the radiation contaminated land at the Hunters Point shipyard had been cleaned.”

In that historic filing…

Motion Sensing Floodlight Cameras — Security, Surveillance…and High Tech Stalking!

The new frontier of privacy war is being waged around the complex legal and regulatory issues stemming from the “terrifically addictive and widely engaging hodgepodge of voyeurism, suspicion and unease” generated by the rising use of motion activated floodlight cameras and neighborhood security apps. Amazon touts it’s $1.2 billion investment in Ring camera technology as the “Evolution of Outdoor Security.”

This is an important statement for all of humanity.! We are trending globally towards multiracial societies particularly populations living in the worlds seaport cities. We all have to accept the fact that the human genome is more the same than different and we all share a basic genetic code. My family lineage includes Louisiana Choctaw from my maternal grandfather and my paternal grandfather could pass for white. I recently completed a survey that asked me to identify my race. I check African American and OTHER!

Medical Malpractice and Lack of Professional Courtesy are Central to the Death of Dr. Susan Moore

There has been an enormous outpouring of empathy generated by the fully preventable, untimely and iconic death of Dr. Susan Moore. Her death ignited a “lightning rod” of debate about well known and well documented health disparities and poor disease outcomes seen in African Americans and other minority groups. In COVID-19 it is termed BAME -the disproportionately high death rate seen in black, Asian and minority/ethnic groups. This population cohort is 27% overrepresented in COVID -19 deaths. …

The Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program has established cause and effect relationships between environmental toxins and expressions of disease. Science is defined as the observation, identification, description, investigation and theoretical explanation of natural…and unnatural phenomenon! The flow of scientific theory leads ultimately to scientific law:

MHBAM IN BVHP…Detect…Protect…Prevent!

On Saturday, October 17, 2020 the Marie Harrison Bayview Air Monitoring Steering Committee took a giant step forward in one of the highest risk communities in the State of California for air pollution, particulate emissions and toxic air contaminants.

NAVIGATING THE TOXIC TRIANGLE IN BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT

The USDA defines a food desert as a region without access to nutritious, affordable, quality whole food. Food deserts are areas with a 20% or greater poverty rate and where a third of residents live more than a mile from a supermarket, farmers market or local grocery store. In The Grocery Gap, Food Trust researchers found African Americans 400% more likely to live in a community that lacks a full service supermarket.

Ron Finley is a food justice advocate in south Los Angeles. …