On today’s Your Call Media Roundtable, I’ll be guest hosting a discussion of an investigation by the San Francisco Public Press: Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point. It details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at least 1,073 dockworkers, military personnel, lab employees and others to radiation in technical exercises and medical experiments early in the Cold War.
Joining us for the hour will be Chris Roberts, award winning investigative journalist.
Tune in at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live at 10am PT. What comments or questions do you have for our guest? Call 866-798-TALK to join the conversation!
Some residents of San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood feel like they’ve been lied to by the government about the toxicity of the adjacent Hunters Point Shipyard. The Navy used the area for decades as a nuclear energy and waste facility. After the Navy left, it became a designated Superfund site and underwent a major cleanup effort.
Yet while San Francisco has big plans to develop the site, questions remain about falsified soil tests, the health of Bayview residents, and the government’s failure to protect these communities of color.
On tonight’s City Vision we explore the accusations of environmental racism around the Hunters Point Shipyard clean up. Joining me to discuss will be:
- Sheridan Enomoto – Community Organizer and Policy Advocate for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice.
- Theo Ellington – Resident of Parcel A in the Hunters Point Shipyard, member of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and candidate for Supervisor representing Bayview Hunters Point.
- Lindsey Dillon – at UC Santa Cruz, author of an upcoming book on the history of the Hunters Point Shipyard.
Tune in at 7pm or live stream. Hope you can join the discussion!
