LAUNCHING THE MARIE HARRISON BAYVIEW AIR MONITORING NETWORK

MHBAM IN BVHP…Detect…Protect…Prevent!

Marie Harrison Bayview Air Monitoring Steering Committee Chair Dalila Adofo and Air Monitor Tech Tiffany Williams hoist a ladder to view the roof of St. John Missionary Baptist Church to site a Dylos particulate sensing air monitor…one of ten to be strategically sited throughout one of California’s most high risk communities.

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.

Marie Harrison was memorialized at St John Missionary Baptist Church on May 18, 2019. Known as the Mother of the Environmental Health & Justice Movement in Bayview Hunters Point, Marie Harrison fought — to the very last breath — for the right to “live, work, play and pray on land that is clean.”

Like the Joan of Arc of Environmental Justice, Marie Harrison led sweeping crusades from Southeast San Francisco to the steps of City Hall to her “very last breath!”

Harrison lost her epic battle on May 5, 2019 and succumbed in cardiopulmonary arrest to scars and inflammation in her lungs caused by chronic exposure to air pollution. She wore oxygen cannulas in the final crusades she mounted from Southeast San Francisco to the halls of City Government.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is known to be caused by exposure to dust and toxic air contaminants.