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Midway Village Demands Health and
Environmental Justice!
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6/15/06 Read News
story update on Midway Village, Daly City. Residents
continue to live on top
of PG&E’s toxic waste.
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8/25/01Stop
the Toxic Coverup at Midway Village! Read
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8/14/01 Midway
Village Residents and Supporters Disrupt Work on Toxic Soil in Contaminated
Housing Project. Residents demand permanent relocation, health care
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6/14/01 Breaking News! Government Admits More Toxic Dirt Still At Midway,
Despite Years of Denials. Read the San
Mateo Times Front Page Story!
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12/8/00 Tardy toxicity
results upset residents at Midway Village Read the San Mateo County
Times Press Coverage!
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11/7/00 Victory for Midway Village Residents and Greenaction! Calpine Drops Power Plant Proposed Next to Midway
Village!
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San Francisco Chronicle Front Page Coverage!
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10/5/00 PG&E Trucks Blocked
Again!
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8/19/00 San Mateo Times Dirt Removal Delayed Near Midway! Residents say they weren't given enough notice
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6/26/00 Direct Action at Midway
Village! Residents and Greenaction Disrupt Flawed Soil Testing
Project at Toxic-Contaminated Midway Village!
6/13/00 Residents and Greenaction
hold Candlelight Vigil at Midway Village. Greenaction Forces State
Officials to Admit Soil is Toxic Waste!
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Action Alert! Support Midway Village
Residents in their Fight for Environmental Justice:
4/12/00 Midway Residents
and Environmental Justice Supporters Picket PG&E Corporate
Headquarters in downtown San Francisco
Several dozen Midway Village community members
and supporters from Greenaction, West County Toxics Coalition,
Chinese Progressive Association and Bayview Hunters Point Community
Advocates picketed the corporate offices of polluter PG&E
today to demand justice for Midway Village residents. Postcards
to PG&E were signed by people on the busy street calling on
PG&E to negotiate in good faith with the residents and to
pay for permanent relocation, health care and just compensation.
Demand PG&E Stop their Environmental Racism!
Residents are demanding that PG&E accept
responsibility for their toxic waste and reach a fair settlement
with the community to provide permanent relocation, health care
and just compensation for years of living on toxic waste.
Contact PG&E's Chairman, CEO and President,
Robert Glynn and demand health and justice for Midway Village
residents!
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(415) 267-7111
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fax
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(415) 267-7250
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Email him care of
michelle.antonio@pge-corp.com
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3/16/00 Midway Village Residents
and Greenaction Escalate Protests at PG&E Front Gates Locked
and Blocked As Residents Demand Justice!
Read Press Coverage:
Subsidy
offer criticized by residents, SF Chronicle
3/15
San
Francisco Chronicle, 3/14
San
Jose Mercury News, 3/14
San Mateo County
Times, 3/14
Art imitates Life
San Mateo County Times, 3/18, Activists: Film
Parallels Midway
San Francisco Chronicle, 3/16, PG&E
Cast as Villain in New `True-Story' Movie
Residents are demanding that PG&E accept
responsibility for their toxic waste and reach a fair settlement
with the community to provide permanent relocation, health care
and just compensation for years of living on toxic waste.
Contact PG&E's Chairman, CEO and President,
Robert Glynn and demand health and justice for Midway Village
residents!!
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(415) 267-7111
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(415) 267-7250
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Email him care of michelle.antonio@pge-corp.com
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2/25/00 PG&E Truck Drives Into Peaceful Protesters!
Midway Village Residents
& Greenaction Block PG&E's Front Gate Demanding Permanent
Relocation, Health Care and Just Compensation!
2/17/00 Midway Village Residents
& Greenaction Block PG&E's Front Gate Demanding Relocation,
Health Care and Just Compensation
Breakthrough in Midway Village Campaign!
Protests Expose Toxic Coverup and Neglect
County Supervisors Support Relocation of Residents
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Breaking News, 1/6/00 Midway Village Community Protests For Health
and Environmental Justice to Continue Thursday. ACTION Thursday Morning, January 6!
Press Coverage:
San
Francisco Chronicle
San
Francisco Weekly
San Mateo County
Times
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Breaking News, 1/3/00! Midway Village Residents
and Greenaction Continue Direct Action At Toxic Threat Site!
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Breaking News, 12/14/99! Midway Village Residents
and Greenaction Take Direct Action Against Toxic Threat
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Read press coverage
from the San Mateo County Times!
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11/06/99: Emergency at Midway Village! Residents and Greenaction
Take Action to Stop Further Poisoning; Demand Relocation. Trucks
Blocked at Toxic Site!
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Health and Justice for Midway Village, CA in
August 1999: Read Update and letters
from residents and Greenaction demanding relocation away from
toxic homes
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New Toxic Waste Scandal
Erupts at Midway Village in Daly City! US EPA Admits Cleanup Was
Inadequate!
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Midway Village:
Reverend Jesse Jackson calls on PG&E to negotiate in good
faith
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Midway Village
Residents Hold Candlelight Vigil and Memorial To Pray for Victims
of Cancer and Other Illnesses in their Toxic-Contaminated Community
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Greenaction Brings Together
Midway Village and West Oakland Residents
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For more information
contact:
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Midway Residents
for Environmental Justice
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(415) 467-4892
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Midway for
Children's Health and Environmental
Justice
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(707) 642-0449
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Bradley
Angel
Greenaction
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(415) 248-5010
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Residents and Former Residents
Unite
Midway
Village is a housing complex located in Daly City, between
the Cow Palace and Highway 101, adjacent to the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company (PG&E) site. Midway Village was
built in the late 1970's and is owned and operated by the
San Mateo County Housing Authority. The 150 units are
occupied by 1200 people, primarily people of color.
The Midway
Village complex is adjacent to Bayshore Park, which provides
open space and recreation area for families in Midway
Village as well as the adjacent day care center and
elementary schools. Bayshore Park is also host to organized
outdoor sports activities for children in the general
area.
Unfortunately, Midway Village and Bayshore
Park are contaminated with toxic substances, notably
polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PNAs), a class of
compounds of which many are known carcinogens. Midway
Village was built on land heavily contaminated with toxic
chemicals from the neighboring PG&E site.
Residents
were never warned of the contamination when they moved into
Midway Village.
Investigation and remediation activities due
to the toxic contamination began at the PG&E Martin site
in the early 1980s. Similar activities were conducted at
Midway Village and Bayshore Park from 1990 through 1994.
Some removal of contaminated soil took place in Midway
Village and Bayshore Park, but the primary "remediation"
consisted of construction of patios over contaminated soil
at the dwellings. Many housing units were built on soil
which remains contaminated. The DTSC has not properly
cleaned the site.
Exposure to
contaminated soils was unrestricted for many years. Children
played in the toxic soil and residents grew vegetables for
home consumption. Residents began complaining to DTSC of
cancers, tumors, body rashes and sores, bloody noses, and
respiratory problems in 1990. These problems
continue.
The State
Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has just
approved a drainage improvement project at Bayshore Park
which will involve the excavation of contaminated soil,
again exposing already impacted residents to toxic fumes.
Residents and former
residents of Midway Village have united to demand
justice:
- DTSC, PG&E, Housing
Authority, USEPA, Daly City and other agencies should
work together to permanently relocate all Midway Village
residents;
- No excavation of toxic
dirt until all residents are relocated;
- Health care for life for
current and former residents;
- Just compensation
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