Events

Upcoming Events

Save The Date: June 26, 2021:

For the Kettleman City Environmental Justice Health Fair!

When: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Where: Kettleman City Community Center

Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm

Come enjoy a family-friendly event that will include:

Children’s Activities
Live Entertainment
Community Displays
Educational Exhibits
Food and Beverages for sale

(559) 816-3561 for more information

This is a free event sponsored by El Pueblo para el Aire & Agua Limpia de Kettleman City and Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021:

May Environmental Justice Response Task Force Meeting

Who: Bayview Hunters Point & Southeast San Francisco Environmental Justice Response Task Force

What: May’s Environmental Justice Response Task Force Meeting

Do you notice
air, water, or toxic pollution? Trucks idling their engines? Illegal dumping? Dust from construction & demolition sites?

Come to our monthly EJ Taskforce meeting to learn about how you can help protect your community! Local, state, and federal government officials will be present to hear your concerns and suggestions about pollution in your community.

Where: Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87187684959

Meeting ID: 850 0854 8338 OR Call +1 408 638 0968 X 850 0854 8338

When: May 19, 2021

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00PM

Contact: bvhp.ivan@greenaction.org

Remember to continue to file pollution complaints online! Visit www.bvhp-ivan.org to file a
complaint about illegal dumping, water & air pollution, diesel truck idling, or any other pollution issues. Contact Dalila at dalila@greenaction.org with any questions, or call (415)-447-3904 x105. Remember to continue to file pollution complaints online! Visit www.bvhp-ivan.org to file a complaint about illegal dumping, water & air pollution, diesel truck idling, or any other pollution issues. Contact Dalila at dalila@greenaction.org with any questions, or call (415)-447-3904 x105

Bring your concerns about environmental violations to the attention of government officials at monthly meetings. Let us work together to get these issues addressed. Greenaction Phone: 415-447-3904 • www.greenaction.org • IVAN Website: bvhp-ivan.org

Thursday, April 22 2021:

PEOPLE’S EARTH DAY RALLY!

Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point & Treasure Island Residents!

When: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 12:00pm / Noon
Where:  San Francisco City Hall/Polk Street Steps - wear a mask/social distance
What: Demand Mayor Breed & Board of Supervisors:
● Declare MORATORIUM on Lennar’s Shipyard development and
unsafe soil excavation!
● Declare PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY!
● Conduct full retesting, safe cleanup & removal of all radioactive
and toxic waste at the Shipyard Superfund Site & Treasure Island!

Peoples Earth Day Rally Sponsors: Hunters Point Community Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Treasure Island Community
Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Greenaction for Health and
Environmental Justice, Marie Harrison Community Foundation, Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring
Program, SF Bay View, ANSWER Coalition/SF Bay Area, Our City, Breathe, Occupy San Francisco
Environmental Justice Working Group, Extinction Rebellion/SFBay, California Environmental Justice
Coalition, 350 San Francisco
For more info contact: hunterspointlawsuit@gmail.com and greenaction@greenaction.org
(833) 926-6637 and (415) 447-3904 x 102

Friday, April 9th 2021:

Tell President Biden to Stop the “Line 3” Tar Sands Pipeline!

Action Alert:  https://www.stopline3.org/take-action

For more info on Line 3: https://www.stopline3.org/

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What: Protest Wells Fargo’s funding of the Line 3 Pipeline!

When: Friday, April 9, 2021, 10 am  at 420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco

San Francisco Action to stop the Line 3 pipeline!

This Friday, April 9, 2021, Greenaction will join fellow activists in taking action again to stop the Line 3 pipeline. This time, we’re going straight to San Francisco’s hometown bank– Wells Fargo! And we’ll be demanding that the bank fire Wells Fargo’s Board Chair Charles Noski!

Wells Fargo has been the world’s third largest financier of fossil fuels over the last five years, with $223 billion in lending and underwriting over 2016-20. It is the world’s leading funder of fracked oil and gas. It’s one of the leading funders of the Line 3 pipeline.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021:

April’s Environmental Justice Response Task Force Meeting

Who: Bayview Hunters Point & Southeast San Francisco Environmental Justice Response Task Force

What: April’s Environmental Justice Response Task Force Meeting

Where: Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87187684959

Meeting ID: 871 8768 4959

When: Apr 21, 2021

Time: 5:00 PM-7:00PM

Contact: bvhp.ivan@greenaction.org

Notes:  Environmental Justice Response Taskforce is a group of dedicated community members and various environmental agency representatives that convene once a month (every third Wednesday) to review and discuss environmental reports submitted on IVAN Online (https://bvhp-ivan.org/), as well as other environmental concerns brought forth by the community. These meetings provide the community information on the San Francisco government’s plans and policies and the ability to hold them accountable.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021:

Annual Ward Valley Occupation & Victory Celebration

When? Thursday, February 25th, 2021
What time? 4:00pm California Time / 5:00pm Arizona/Mountain Time
Where? Live Via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84777143884?pwd=dHU0VlZhL3labG1PL3ExQ2lXTlJFQT09
Meeting ID: 847 7714 3884 Passcode: ga12345 or by phone 14086380968
or livestream on: https://www.facebook.com/We-saved-Ward-Valley-191079480912292/
Orhttps://www.facebook.com/Greenaction4EJ/
What is it about? Livestream event to Celebrate the 23rd Anniversary of the 113-day Occupation of Ward Valley that led to the victory against the proposed nuclear waste dump on sacred Indigenous Land near the Colorado River.

Monday, February 8, 2021:

Protect Treasure Island Residents & San Francisco Bay
from Toxic and Radioactive Contamination!

When? Monday, February 8, 2021

What time? 1pm

What is it about? Speak out at San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee hearing regarding toxic and radioactive contamination at Treasure Island

PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN 1 (415) 655-0001 / Meeting ID: 187 361 8447
WATCH SF Cable Channel 26, 78 or 99 (depending on provider) OR www.sfgovtv.org

Treasure Island was used by the Navy for weapons practice, ship and aircraft storage, and refueling, illegal dumping, open burning of “debris,” and repairing ships with deck markers painted with radium.

The training center for radiological decontamination, where the mock ship USS Pandemonium
containing cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, helped prepare for radiological warfare. The Navy dumped radioactive materials and other contaminants in large pits and in many locations on the Island.

Today, many low-income people of color live in subsidized housing on top of or right next to
radioactive and toxic contamination.

Rising sea levels caused by climate change will eventually inundate the radioactive and toxic waste and further contaminate Treasure Island and San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, City Hall seems more interested in promoting mega-development than protecting residents and our San Francisco Bay.

Join us to call on the Board of Supervisors, the State and US Government to:

• Protect residents by relocating them away from contamination, providing full
  compensation, long-term safe housing, and rental support
• Protect residents and San Francisco Bay by conducting comprehensive retesting and cleanup of all contamination
• Guarantee that residents will not be evicted in retaliation for speaking out

March 26th, 2018:

You’re invited to the Laytonville Community Meeting!

When? Monday, March 26th, 2018
What time? 6pm
Where? Laytonville Lions Club 44920 Willis Ave.
What is it about? You are invited to join tribal and community 
members to discuss ongoing health concerns and pollution issues
related to the Laytonville landfills.
Sponsored by: Wailaki Tribal Members, Concerned Residents, 
Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
Contact: 
Peggy Hoaglin (707) 223-6366  
Pastor David Sanchez (707) 223-3946

March 20th, 2018:

JOIN US! At the Treasure Island Naval Station Environmental Restoration Advisory Board Meeting!

When? Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
What time? 7pm
What is it about? We will be addressing concerns relating to the
contractor Tetra Tech given their apparent massive falsification 
of radiological data at the BVHP Shipyard. We will also raise 
concerns about residents living near radioactive contamination,
and potentially unsafe cleanup activities. Additionally, we will
ask questions about the impact of sea-level rise for both
Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island.

YOU’RE INVITED! 

To the 6th Annual Zero Waste Youth Convergence! This year’s theme is Resilient Communities Fight Back: Equity in Zero Waste.

This convergence aims to empower students and young professionals to lead their communities to a zero waste future.The convergence brings professionals and activists who are working towards protecting and raising the voices of communities that have been damaged by the unjust dumping of toxic and hazardous waste.

WHO?
 Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Community Organizer and Policy Advocate with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice will be keynoting on Sunday, March 18th at 9am. Maricela has been fighting for environmental justice in Kettleman City and around the state since 1990, inciting local and state governments, and communities to action!

WHERE?

The main event will be on

Sunday, March 18th @ CCSF,

Multi-use Building Ocean Campus.

 

MORE INFO:

California Environmental Justice Coalition Networking Session: Building Unity, Solidarity and People Power in the Statewide Movement for Environmental and Climate Justice

Thursday, September 7, 2017 — 4 PM -6:30 pm

California Environmental Justice Coalition Networking Session: Building Unity, Solidarity and People Power in the Statewide Movement for Environmental and Climate Justice

Soil Not Oil Conference, Richmond Memorial and Civic Center, 408 Civic Center Plaza

The networking session will be facilitated by CEJC members Rey Leon/San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project, Bradley Angel/Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Ms. Margaret Gordon/West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.

Join in discussion with the grassroots community and environmental justice leaders in the California Environmental Justice Coalition (CEJC) to learn about each other’s work, and how we can work together to strengthen the unity, solidarity and effectiveness of the environmental and climate justice movement in California. The CEJC is the largest and most diverse environmental justice coalition in the state, and operates on the principles of unity and solidarity. CEJC is a grassroots, community-led coalition of over 60 diverse organizations, and was founded in Kettleman City in the San Joaquin Valley in 2014.

www.cejcoalition.org   www.soilnotoilcoalition.org

Sunday, February 12, 2017 Ward Valley, CA – Join with the Native Nations along the Colorado River for the Annual Celebration of the 113 day Occupation and Victory that defeated the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump.

Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Task Force – Every Second Wednesday of the month! – Come join us for our next monthly convening of the  at the Southeast Community College (1800 Oakdale) in the Alice Pitcher Room in Bayview. Check out the Taskforce website to make a complaint.

Taskforce Meeting Schedule 2016:

• The December 21, 2016 meeting has been cancelled! Please join us in January.
  

Upcoming 2017 Taskforce Meeting Schedule:

• January 18th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• February 15th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• March 15th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• April 19th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• May 17th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• June 21st, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• July 19th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• August 16th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• September 20th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• October 18th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• November 16th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• December 13th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF

Past events

Saturday, December 3, 2016: Greenaction’s 20th Anniversary Kickoff! 559 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA, 5-8pm. Please RSVP with number of attendees: greenaction@greenaction.org. Check our Facebook Event Page for more info!

December 3rd, 1:30 pm at the Chase Bank, 1201 Market Street (corner of 8th street), San Francisco. Join Greenaction in supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the thousands of water protectors putting themselves on the line in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline! Check out our flier HERE and check in with our Facebook Event Page for updates and to show support HERE!

October 11, 2016, White Mesa, Utah: Greenaction joins Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and White Mesa tribal members in Protest March against the last uranium mill in the US located next to their reservation, on top of ancient culturally significant and sacred sites. See pictures HERE!

October 3, 2016: White Mesa Ute Community, Utah – Meeting & Film Showing about the Uranium Mill’s threat to health, environment, culture and sacred sites. Greenaction is working with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, tribal members and allies to mobilize opposition to the uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community in southern Utah. See flier HERE for more details.

September 28, 2016: Attention Bayview Hunters Point Teens: Create and Star in your own original play with the never-silent SF Mime Troupe & Greenaction – please see the flier for more details on getting involved!

September 8, 2016 (Thursday, 10am): Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline!  Join Indigenous Peoples’ Press Conference at Army Corps of Engineers, 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.  Stop the Crude Oil Pipeline, Desecration of Sacred Sites and Threat to Drinking Water! Stop Company Violence against Protesters!

September 2016, Support Standing Rock – Support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s action to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline that threatens the environment and sacred and cultural sites! Greenaction helps mobilize support!

• Learn more on how to support Standing Rock HERE and HERE!
•  Read the solidarity letter signed by 43 organizations HERE!

Saturday, June 25th – No Coal in Oakland! Rally at 1pm, City Hall. Monday, June 27, 5 p.m. Special City Council Meeting, First Vote on Local Coal Ordinance – speak out for a complete ban! Check out the flier HERE!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Moab, Utah – Upstream & Downstream Film Festival and Forum – Indigenous & Community Voices to Protect the Colorado River, Its Tributaries, People and Sacred Places. Check out the press release HERE! See poster HERE

Thursday April 21, 12PM! From the Bayview to the Mission to Treasure Island, LENNAR is toxic for our communities!!  Lennar Downtown Sales Office. 645 Howard, SF (between 2nd and 3rd street). Read, download and distribute our event flier here, and check in with us on Facebook at our Event Page. Read the Press Release HERE and download our new pamphlet on Lennar – What Lennar won’t tell you but We Will.

Thursday April 21, 2016: From the Bayview to the Mission to Treasure Island, LENNAR is toxic for our communities!! Rally with us on Thursday April 21, 12PM! Lennar Downtown Sales Office. 645 Howard, SF (between 2nd and 3rd street). Read, download and distribute our event flier here, and check in with us on Facebook at our Event Page.

California Department of Toxic Substances Control scientists of color denounce racial discrimination inside DTSC, as Greenaction and allies call for end to racism by DTSC inside the agency and in our communities: Read the news story in InsideEPA.com

Saturday, February 13, 2016 – (8 am California time) *Ward Valley Celebration!* – Join the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, Greenaction and allies in the 18th annual commemoration of the 113 day peaceful occupation of Ward Valley that led to defeat of the proposed nuclear waste dump.

Thursday, January 28th 2016 – Noon at Lennar’s Shipyard Sales Office, 645 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA (between 2nd/3rd Streets) followed by march to US EPA Region IX Headquarters.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 @12 NOON: Environmental Justice, Community & Environmental Groups to Protest to Demand Congress & White House Uphold Congressional Ban on Crude Oil Exports & Stop Exports of all Fossil Fuels – See full post HERE!  Where: Federal Building, Mission and 7th Streets, San Francisco Contact: Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice (415) 722-5270 Check out flier here!

August 25, 2015:  Greenaction unites Utah & Bay Area groups to oppose plan to export Utah coal from proposed Oakland, CA export terminal. Read press release and letter to Utah Community Impact Fund.

July 22, 2015: Greenaction Launches Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Response Task Force – and our new Bayview Hunters Point Point Pollution Complaint Website Now Online! Click here for more!

July 11, 2015, Richmond, CA – Stop Crude Oil Trains – Take Action, Richmond, CA

April 24th & 25th 2015, Moab Utah – Greenaction Unites Communities & Tribes Up and Down the Colorado River to Protect Our Rivers, Watershed, Health & Environment. Read more here.

October 14, 2014 – Kettleman City residents and Greenaction to challenge State Department of Toxic Substances Control’s denial of appeal of Chem Waste Expansion Permit

November 8, 2014 – California Environmental Justice Coalition to hold statewide founding conference in Kettleman City, California Saturday. Dozens of urban, rural and indigenous grassroots groups have United in Solidarity for Environmental Justice!

September 18, 2014: North Salt Lake Residents, Utah Physicians for Healthy Environment & Greenaction Demand Governor, State and US EPA immediately shut Stericycle medical waste incinerator.

August 18, 2014 at 7pm in Moab, Utah – We All Live Downstream – Stop the Proposed Green River Nuclear Power Plant Public Meeting with Colorado River Indian Tribes tribal leaders sponsored by Greenaction, Uranium Watch and Living Rivers.

Saturday, November 8, 2014 – California Environmental Justice Coalition to hold statewide founding conference in Kettleman City, California. Dozens of urban, rural and indigenous grassroots groups have United in Solidarity for Environmental Justice! Read/download flyers for the November 8th CEJC statewide grassroots conference – English  Espanol Read the Mission Statement (English & Spanish) and the list of the dozens of members of the California Environmental Justice Coalition

August 18, 2014 at 7pm in Moab, Utah – We All Live Downstream – Stop the Proposed Green River Nuclear Power Plant, Public Meeting with Colorado River Indian Tribes tribal leaders sponsored by Greenaction, Uranium Watch and Living Rivers. See the flyer here.

Friday August 22, 2014 – You are invited! Greenaction Office Warming Party! @ 5-8 pm, 559 Ellis Street, San Francisco.

Join with our staff, Board members, volunteers and community leaders and enjoy good food, beverages and see our Environmental Justice photo exhibit.
See the flyer

Saturday, August 2, 2014. Greenaction’s Director Bradley Angel, Dr. Robert Bullard & Lois Gibbs to give keynotes at Houston Texas Waste Summit.

Saturday April 26, 2014 Buttonwillow, CA – Stop the HECA Coal and Fertilizer Plant proposed for Farmworker town of Buttonwillow! flyers in English & en Espanol

Saturday, April 26, 2014, Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA. People’s Earth Day Walk: Flyer. People’s Earth Day Walk: More Information

Tell the Bureau of Land Management US Department of the Interior to Stop Fracking our Public Lands!

Wednesday January 8, 2014 — Speak out against Fracking! Rally and Public Hearing in Bakersfield, California Rally Starts at 2:30pm. Public Comment Starts at 3pm and goes until 7pm. Where: Kern County Administrative Center, first floor board chambers, 1115 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield CA. What: Valley Community Residents including farmers and farmworkers, Greenaction and many other allies will call for a ban to fracking before publicly commenting on DOGGR’s bad regulations that don’t protect Valley communities health, environment and climate. http://greenaction.org/ban-fracking/

December 7th, 4 pm, North Salt Lake City Utah – Candlelight Vigil in front of Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – “Air Pollution is a Killer!” – Join with residents living near the notorious and dangerous incinerator to demand closure of this polluter and protection of peoples’ health!  see flyer

Friday, December 6, 2013 3pm, Santa Cruz, CA – Attend Environmental Justice Forum at University of California  – Attend this forum featuring grassroots environmental justice leaders who work with Greenaction from urban, rural and indigenous communities in California and Arizona. Hear and discuss how race, ethnicity, equity and class interact in creating environmental and social justice…  see flyer 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, San Francisco, CA – Tell the San Francisco Commission on the Environment to Protect Bayview Hunters Point from Pollution:  5 pm Bayview Opera House ..see flyer

July 13, 2013 – North Salt Lake City, Utah residents & Greenaction Protest Medical Waste Incinerator on . Read Salt Lake Tribune article and watch television coverage. Greenaction’s Bradley Angel interviewed at community protest against Stericycle’s incinerator.

October 9, 2013- Rally and Action for Healthy Communities & Environmental Justice.  Join us at Noon in Sacramento Unite to demand Governor Jerry Brown and the State Department of Toxic Substances Control to get out of bed with polluters! Protect People, Not Polluters! No Permits for Repeat Offenders.

Thursday, August 15th 2013-  Stop Stericycle’s Pollution Protest!, 5:30pm – 7:00pm Stericycle Incinerator. Stop the pollution from Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator! Join us on Thursday, August 15th from 5:30pm – 7:00pm at the Stericycle Incinerator. Stericycle is currently under criminal investigation by the EPA, yet they continue to release toxins, including mercury and dioxin. Join our 2nd protest again Stericycle’s corrupt and intentional poisoning of our community and earth. Their profits are not more important than our children’s lives!

Saturday, August 3, 2013 10 am Richmond, California – March, Rally & Non-violent Direct Action at Chevron Refinery, Richmond, CA (meet at Richmond BART station)

July 18-21, 2013- Downstream Community Leadership Training –Greenaction & Before It Starts Sponsors Forum and Nonviolent Direct Action Training Moab, Utah

Thursday, July 18, 2013 –Stopping Climate Change and Dirty Energy, Moab, Utah (6:30 pm Grand County High School Auditorium). Hear Bill McKibben/350.org; Bradley Angel/Greenaction; Dave Harper/Spokesperson, Mohave Elders of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and John Weisheit/Living Rivers —

Saturday & Sunday, July 20-21, 2013, Moab, Utah. Downstream Community Leadership and Non-Violent Direct Action Training http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50874/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=8157

July 2, 2013- Protest Against Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator Tuesday, North Salt Lake City, Utah Meeting point: In front of Stericycle Incincerator. Join Communities for Clean Air & Greenaction in a protest against the Stericycle medical waste incinerator that pollutes the air and violates the law! Click here to see the press release. Click here to see the flyer.

Sunday May 5, 2013 – 3rd Annual Walkathon for Health & Environmental Justice 2013. 10:30 am – 2:00 pm, Golden Gate Park. Meeting point: Peacock Meadow (near Conservatory of Flowers)

Monday, April 22nd, 12 noon – Earth Day Action for Environmental and Climate Justice.75 Hawthorn St, San Francisco, CA. Meeting point: in front of the US EPA Region IX office

February 10, 2013 Ward Valley Gathering to Commemorate the Occupation that Stopped the Nuclear Waste Dump. Ward Valley. “Ground Zero” off Water Road

February 4, 2013. Occupy Forum with Greenaction & Environmental Justice Communities. 209 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco

Thursday December 6, 2012. Greenaction End of the Year Party! 5 to 9pm Greenaction office, 703 Market Street, Suite 501, San Francisco. Friends! Food! Drinks! Live Music! Raffle! Games! Prizes!

September 5, 2012- Speak out at Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board of Directors Meeting 9:45 am Protest the Whitewash of Chevron’s Toxic Fire in Richmond at 939 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA

September 7, 2012- Greenaction’s Director Bradley Angel speaking at New York City Film Showing of “Trashed,” and Forum on Solutions to the Trash Problem. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, New York City

June 19, 2012- Kettleman City press conference and action. Kettleman City, California

May 18 and 19, 2012. Public Meeting and Protest to Save Green and Colorado Rivers from Proposed Nuclear Plants Moab, Utah

April 18, 2012. Joint Action at California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Berkeley, California