For many decades residents and workers have been getting cancer and other diseases at San Francisco’s radioactive former Hunters Point and Treasure Island Naval Shipyard. Hunters Point is a superfund site with condos built by the Lennar Corporation on top of it.
Now two doctors, James Dahlgren and Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, have discovered plutonium in the bodies of both residents and workers there. Former San Francisco Mayor, now California Governor Gavin Newsom, current San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and San Francisco’s Congressional Representative Nancy Pelosi have all known about cancer epidemics in the area for decades, but none have taken steps to investigate or protect the residents. Not only that, the Pelosi family were involved in the condo development on the site.
Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer interviewed Dr. Sumchai and Dr. Dahlgren about the significance of their findings.
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In the early morning of January 4, in a move orchestrated by the University of California-Berkeley, hundreds of police and highway patrol closed off Berkeley’s historic People’s Park, then demolished it and built a barricade of shipping containers. We hear the voices of park defenders.
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Next, Electronic Intifada Editor Ali Abunimah debunks the New York Times’s Hamas rape story on the Electronic Intifada podcast.
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It’s a year of elections across Latin America. Pacifica’s Don DeBar speaks to Nicaragua-based journalists Stephen Sefton and Camila Escalante.
And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race, and Democracy Collective and hosted by Thomas O’Rourke.
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Music:
Pink Floyd, “Money”
BA Abab, “Rapp Thesis”
Palestinian Dabke music
