Earth Day in San Francisco
April 23, 2022
Huge energized gathering of Bay Area Youth standing for Climate Justice for the neglected communities of Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island and calling for the immediate cleanup of toxic and radioactive waste!
From the organizers at Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and Youth Vs. Apocalypse:
"While it’s lovely that Earth Day is a universal day that everyone gathers around with the intention of combating climate change, we need to make sure that we are inclusive in our actions. Historically, Earth Day has been a day in San Francisco where places like Golden Gate Park and Crissy Fields are cleansed and cared for while low income communities of color, like Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island, have been neglected by city, state, and federal elected officials and agencies.
With full consciousness, the city is letting poor Black and Brown people die, allowing multiple generations to live on radioactive land and breathe dirty air. Our civic officials are complicit, silent, and indifferent about this because those most impacted are Black, Brown, and poor. We need to reframe how we celebrate this day with our actions.
This Earth Day, we call on those in the climate justice movement to fight with us to demand the cleanup of radioactive and toxic waste from our city. We call on those that recognize that at the root of the issues we face as low-income people, Black, Brown, Indigenous people, and as LGBTQ+ people, is a system profiting off of our struggles. We call on San Francisco to acknowledge our plight with climate injustice through actions."
Youth vs. Apocalypse, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice, Marie Harrison Community Foundation, Inc. & Bayview Hunters Point Mothers & Fathers Committee
