º•º Beyond Toxic: A project by Storm º•º

Bayview Hunters Point residents live next to an abandoned Navy shipyard,
a sewage waste facility, a PG&E power plant and many other toxic waste
sites including one superfund site.
This neighborhood houses low-income families that are exposed to pollution,
poverty, asthma and cancer.
Women under 50 in Hunters Point have twice the rate of breast cancer
as women in the rest of the city.
Most impacted are the 12,000 residents who live East of Third Street.
approximatley 70 percent are African America and 15 percent of asian descent.

Photography, editing and video by:
Alicia Sangiuliano (Storm)

Poetry and singing by: Shelia Cole

Voice over by:
Francisco Da Costa
Environmental Justice Advocacy
www.franciscodacosta.com

I want to give a big thanks for the support and help with this project to:

Kevin Epps, who is working on his next film Straight Outta Hunters Point 02

Alicia Schwartz, organizer from POWER (people organized to win employment rights)

Gale Bishop, president of Sisters Network

Rhoda Charles, from BVHP Health and Environmental Resource Center

Marie Harrison, from Green Action, SF
www.greenaction.org

Thanks again to:
Francisco Da Costa
Sharon Green Peace
Shelia Cole
and all people fighting injustice in Bayview Hunters Point!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• hunters
• point
• bayview
• toxic
• dump
• navy
• shipyard
• cancer
• asthma
• children

[psylentknight]

Thank you for the awareness.

[Methadone4Life]

This is what the wealthy industrialists is doing to the poor and the working class. Just a shame. I just do not know what more to say,great job Storm!!

[annemaerose]

excellant video. thank you for exposing these environmental justice issues.

[KaiOneXxX]

sad sry :(

[LimitlessThinker]

This was very well done. Shocking and sad.

[keithstah]

The City of San Francisco, The EPA, & the US Navy has consistently shown that it has no regard for any of the residents of Bayview / Hunter's Point. I know how things truly work in cities around the world, when it comes to how they deal with the poor & working class. This particular epidemic/situation in SF has always bothered me, as far as the hypocrisy in how San Francisco tries to present itself to the rest of the world, as being a democratic, culturally sensitive city.....

[Ebe420]

next thursday they should have a meeting on how to band together, get all medical facts on everyone ill and get the hell outta there ASAP!! then find a lawler and go for it!  but don't just hang around ?!? peace.

[mszalbooboo]

my mom grew up in west point for 10 years and just found out she has 4th stage cancer.she lived there in 1980 and moved the day i was born in 1990. The cancer was a surprise to her because she just found out recently this year in june.my mom always feared she would be next because of the toxic waste she lived around year after year year.she's now 39.

[AliDaMuslimG]

damn man, i feel bad for ma peeps in tha point, including me!

[annalisse1981]

i have been so blined for so long, almost as if my own life was far more important than whot was going on around me, i wish more people would open their eyes to whots realy going on in this messed up world an help love an unity is the key help others in need un vile thier blindfold,so we can stand up i feel so sad learning about are world an the pain enfilcted on good people,

[vnlongo78]

The video really moves me. You did a good job.