Greenaction Team. “Bayview Hunters Point Says: WE CAN’T BREATHE! Protest.” Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, 10 Aug. 2020, greenaction.org/2020/08/10/bayview-hunters-point-says-we-cant-breathe-protest/. 

This is a flyer from a group based in San Francisco called “Greenaction”, they are a group that mobilizes community power to change corporate and government policies that help promote environmental, social and economic justice and to help protect the health of marginalized communities. This is an organized socially distant protest at Bayview Hunters Point on August 25 to “stop environmental racism”, specifically pollution and displacement, cleaning up toxic and radioactive waste at the Shipyard in Hunters point and other contaminated areas in the Bay Area, and lastly to stop upscale developments that would directly impact people of color.

 

I think that we live in an entitled bubble where we think that a lot of this stuff we hear on the news could never affect us, like radioactive waste being dumped in San Francisco. That is something that I never thought of, I thought that “we were better” than that, and that is why I think this group of activists is so important. They are bringing awareness to the injustices that are happening to the environment where we have grown up in, and showing the government that the people are serious and will force better laws to be made to help the future.