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"Nobody wants to destroy the image of San Francisco." —James Baldwin

About:

Whereas Part One looks into the origin of San Francisco's F-word, and Part Two looks at the buildup and fallout of urban renewal in neighborhoods like Bayview-Hunters Point, Part Three looks at a far more sinister force and questions just how liberal and progressive this city really is.

Show Notes:

[00:30] "The Layers of Heaven" by Jovica
[01:00] Allston Night Owl by The Blue Dot Sessions
[03:00] Short bio of Lena Miller
[04:00] "Rethinking San Francisco's War on Drugs" (SF Weekly)
[04:10] Some background on 94124
[04:15] Health data on Bayview-Hunters Point (San Francisco Department of Health)
[05:25] Flashing Runner by The Blue Dot Sessions
[06:30] Light reading on Dr. Raymond Tompkins (SF Bayview Newspaper)
[10:30] Light reading on Bayview-Hunters Point's 14-year life expectancy gap (SF Gate)
[11:35] Related: A local push for more air monitoring in Bayview-Hunters Point (SF Examiner)
[13:05] "Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody" by The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir
[13:30] Short except from Take This Hammer, a film by James Baldwin
[15:20] Short bio on Dr. Rachel Brahinsky
[15:45] "Milkwood" by The Blue Dot Sessions
[16:20] Light reading on Bayview-Hunters Point history
[17:30] "Order of Entrance" by The Blue Dot Sessions
[17:45] San Francisco's 49-square mile myth (SF Gate)
[17:50] Size of Bayview-Hunters Point
[17:55] Map of San Francisco's Public Utilities
[18:05] Light reading on San Francisco's Southeast Water Treatment Plant (San Francisco Chronicle)
[18:45] "The Snowgarden" by The Blue Dot Sessions
[19:20] Light reading on the:
1. PG&E Power Plant (FoundSF)
2. Its health impact (Grist)
3. Its closure (SFGate)
4. Its environmental impact (EPA / Greenaction)
5. Its relation to the high asthma rates in the neighborhood (SFGate)
6. The activists behind its closure (SFGate)
7. Its demolition (ABC News)
8. Video here
[19:30] List of other sources of pollution in Bayview Hunters Point (Greenaction)
[20:10] "Building the Sled" by The Blue Dot Sessions
[20:20] Short bio on Marie Harrison (SF Gate)
[21:45] Brief history on the Hunters Point shipyard (US Navy)
[22:00] Light reading on America's Great White Fleet (ThoughtCo)
[22:05] Light reading on the history of the shipyard according to its current developers (FivePoint)
[22:10] General reading on the Hunters Point shipyard
[22:20] A much deeper dive on the history of the Hunters Point shipyard and surrounding community
[22:35] President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war on Japan
[22:40] Light reading on the Navy's acquisition of the shipyard
[22:45] Short video on the shipbuilding in the Bay Area during World War II
1. And a mucher shorter video
[23:15] A recap of worker life at at the Hunters Point Shipyard during World War II (FoundSF)
[23:35] A deeper dive on the Hunters Point community following the drawdown after World War II
[23:40] Footage from Operation Crossroads
[24:05] The impact of studying the impact of nuclear weapons on naval warships (Stanford University)
[24:10] Light reading on the USS Independence
[24:35] Light reading on Operation Crossroads