GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). OUR STORY – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE On the Frontlines of Environmental Justice:The Founding of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice In the summer of 1997, grassroots community and environmental justice leaders from urban, rural and indigenous communities in California and Arizona met to support each other and strengthen the environmental justice movement.

GET INVOLVED

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. Greenaction has a small staff and a strong internship and volunteer program offering opportunities for college students, law students, community members and professionals to get involved and use their skills and talents to advance environmental, social, economic and climate justice. OUR BOARD – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Karen rejoined Greenaction’s Board of Directors in January 2021. Karen was a co-founder and original Board member of Greenaction when she worked with grassroots leaders from frontline urban, rural, and Indigenous communities to found our organization in late 1997. A resident of the frontline community of Richmond, California, Karen has

been a

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & CIVIL RIGHTS Greenaction is a national leader in challenging government agencies that receive federal and/or state funding to consider civil rights impacts and to refrain from racially discriminatory permit and regulatory processes and decisions. Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27,

1991, in

GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to JUNETEENTH IN BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bayview Hunters Point Greenaction, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai and Pamela Tau Lee presentation to the Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter – August 18, 2020 GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE … 4 Nothing is more important than life, and air pollution kills. That is a fact. V. Comprehensive Testing of the BUILD LLC Site for Hazardous and Radioactive JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: MARCH 2021 SAN FRANCISCO BAY CLIMATE Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice • 315 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 • www.greenaction.org Familiarity with various social media channels such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. Willing to work some evenings and weekends. Bilingual (English and either Spanish or Chinese) a strong plus. Salary: $55,000, plus benefits (including medical BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). OUR STORY – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE On the Frontlines of Environmental Justice:The Founding of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice In the summer of 1997, grassroots community and environmental justice leaders from urban, rural and indigenous communities in California and Arizona met to support each other and strengthen the environmental justice movement.

GET INVOLVED

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. Greenaction has a small staff and a strong internship and volunteer program offering opportunities for college students, law students, community members and professionals to get involved and use their skills and talents to advance environmental, social, economic and climate justice. OUR BOARD – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Karen rejoined Greenaction’s Board of Directors in January 2021. Karen was a co-founder and original Board member of Greenaction when she worked with grassroots leaders from frontline urban, rural, and Indigenous communities to found our organization in late 1997. A resident of the frontline community of Richmond, California, Karen has

been a

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & CIVIL RIGHTS Greenaction is a national leader in challenging government agencies that receive federal and/or state funding to consider civil rights impacts and to refrain from racially discriminatory permit and regulatory processes and decisions. Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27,

1991, in

GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to JUNETEENTH IN BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bayview Hunters Point Greenaction, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai and Pamela Tau Lee presentation to the Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter – August 18, 2020 GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE … 4 Nothing is more important than life, and air pollution kills. That is a fact. V. Comprehensive Testing of the BUILD LLC Site for Hazardous and Radioactive JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: MARCH 2021 SAN FRANCISCO BAY CLIMATE Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice • 315 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 • www.greenaction.org Familiarity with various social media channels such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. Willing to work some evenings and weekends. Bilingual (English and either Spanish or Chinese) a strong plus. Salary: $55,000, plus benefits (including medical BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine). GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Contact Us For More Information: 559 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone: 415-447-3904 greenaction@greenaction.org

www.greenaction.org

GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEWHO WE AREWE WORK FORCOMMUNITIESTHE LATESTTAKE ACTIONOUR STORY Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. We mobilize community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living! (1) We are a multiracial grassroots organization

founded by

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM OUR STAFF – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Bradley Angel. Executive Director bradley@greenaction.org. In 1997, Bradley joined with grassroots urban, rural and indigenous community leaders from California and Arizona to form Greenaction. For over 30 years, Bradley has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities

win some of

HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts GRAYSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Grayson, Stanislaus County, California. Grayson is a small, rural and primarily Latino, Spanish-speaking community located on the west side of Stanislaus County in the northern part of the Central Valley. Located along Interstate 5, Grayson residents are exposed to the terrible air quality that plauges the Central Valley, as well as

massive

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS We work for: •Environmental health and Environmental and Climate Justice •Clean Air & Clean Water & Healthy Communities •Cleanup of Contaminated Sites •Community Empowerment & Education •End Environmental Racism, Defend and Protect Civil Rights •Clean, Renewable Energy •Zero waste future not dumping and burning •Protection of Indigenous Lands BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) is a low-income community of color located on San Francisco Bay in southeast San Francisco. The residents and environment of BVHP are disproportionately impacted by many stationary and mobile pollution sources, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the PIPA AVA MACAV CULTURAL CENTER 22 years ago, Greenaction played a leading role with our allies in the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado River Indian Tribes) and a huge and diverse coalition of community, health, environmental, labor, environmental and social justice groups in blocking plans by the

government and US

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT Contact Us For More Information: 559 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone: 415-447-3904 greenaction@greenaction.org

www.greenaction.org

WHO WE ARE – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Who We Are. Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice is a multiracial grassroots organization that fights for health and environmental justice with low-income and working class, urban, rural, and indigenous communities. Founded in 1997 by grassroots community leaders, Greenaction has been at the forefront of the environmental

justice

OUR BOARD – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Karen rejoined Greenaction’s Board of Directors in January 2021. Karen was a co-founder and original Board member of Greenaction when she worked with grassroots leaders from frontline urban, rural, and Indigenous communities to found our organization in late 1997. A resident of the frontline community of Richmond, California, Karen has

been a

OUR STORY – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE On the Frontlines of Environmental Justice:The Founding of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. In the summer of 1997, grassroots community and environmental justice leaders from urban, rural and indigenous communities in California and Arizona met to support each other and strengthen the environmental justice movement. HAWAI’I – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The aquifer located within Mauna Kea provides fresh water for the town of Hilo and other surrounding communities. Greenaction advocates and supports the protection of Mauna Kea and is adamantly against the building of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project. The TMT project would have devastating and irreversible environmental impacts ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & CIVIL RIGHTS Greenaction is a national leader in challenging government agencies that receive federal and/or state funding to consider civil rights impacts and to refrain from racially discriminatory permit and regulatory processes and decisions. Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27,

1991, in

UTAH – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Greenaction is proud to stand with Native Nations in the fight to protect the beautiful and sacred Bears Ears region in southern Utah. Donald Trump and his Interior Department have dramatically and illegally reduced the Bears Ears National Monument which is not only a spectacular landscape of canyons, mountains, buttes, mesas and rivers,

but

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (1991) Principles of Environmental Justice WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to ARIZONA – GREENACTION FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ARIZONA. Gila River Indian Community, Arizona: Greenaction and the grassroots tribal member organization the Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment have worked together since 2000 on many environmental health and justice issues on this reservation near

Phoenix.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: MARCH 2021 SAN FRANCISCO BAY CLIMATE Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice • 315 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 • www.greenaction.org Familiarity with various social media channels such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. Willing to work some evenings and weekends. Bilingual (English and either Spanish or Chinese) a strong plus. Salary: $55,000, plus benefits (including medical BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MOTHERS AND FATHERS COMMITTEE 3 serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property, such as residential and non-maritime related commercial and office uses” (emphasis added) (2001 State Lands Commission Memo on Public Trust Doctrine).

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