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Perhaps no demonstration has been more effective in illustrating the states’ inhumane treatment of prisoners than officials’ decision not to safely relocate incarcerated people trapped in the red zone area of Hurricane Florence’s path after South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an evacuation order to citizens on Sept. 10. The state’s refusal to safely move prisoners out of the hurricane’s path is a blatant disregard to the humanity of those residing there dependent solely on the state’s protection.

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, then 22, spent the next 40 days in Mississippi jail cells. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has waited, unread, for more than 50 years. “Freedom Rider Diary” is that account.

On Sidewalks are for People Day, May 22, the people decided to reclaim San Francisco sidewalks. Then Berkeley folks asked, “Can we do that too?” Then Portland folks were like, “We’ll do something simultaneously.”

This evening at 5:00 pm, Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA’s award winning news magazine Flashpoints, interviews former Treasure Island employee Asia Marie William and investigative reporter Carol Harvey about the poisoning of poor and people of color on Treasure Island. Today's wind storm is intensifying the danger.

Treasure Island soil and groundwater is heavily contaminated with radioactive and hazardous waste deposited through sloppy mishandling of toxic material during Naval operations in the 56 years Treasure Island was a Navy base.

Classism is being played out at Maceo May, a building for low income vets. Racism is occurring. Many are Black. Would the actual Maceo May, a Black veteran, approve?

The Navy says Treasure island is polluted with dangerous ‘forever chemicals’ that could be nearly impossible to clean up, which thwarts the Treasure Island Development Authority’s plans to bestow on the City of San Francisco a toxic swathe of land larger than Golden Gate Park.

On Treasure Island, new highrises are sprouting skyward but no one seems to be paying attention to the danger from the ubiquitous radiation.

“They planned it and built it when they thought that they could fill it and nobody's coming.”

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When Supervisor Dorsey sees a thousand or more real, actual living people literally about to be made homeless by something as arbitrary and callous as an eviction lottery, does he care?

Now, when residents and businesses no longer serve its purposes, the City and County of San Francisco is trying to devise ways to get rid of them – to shake them loose.

Superfund sites Treasure Island and Hunters Point share virtually identical socioeconomic and toxic histories.

Over $1 billion taxpayer dollars over 30 years have been spent to clean up the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site that continues to poison and kill residents.

This Earth Day in SF, roughly 1,000 young people marched with environmental advocates from Union Square to City Hall calling for environmental justice.

This segment of the saga on Treasure Island highlights a ‘walk past Arsenic Park’ through the Navy’s toxic dump.

Samuel-Ace Ieremia Johnson’s journey home is carried in celebration of the love he had for life.

Deceptions and lies have brought pain, suffering and death to Treasure Island and Bayview Hunters Point, with no trustworthy assurances in sight for present or future residents.

Rest in Power 10-year-old Sammy Johnson, precious human being.

Sam Johnson is fighting for his young life and with hope laced with anguish, friends are asking for prayers and community offerings to help Sam’s family and save this precious human life.