Samoan Dual Language Pre-K Program launched in the Bayview!
July 28, 2021
An instructor sits with her class at the diverse Leola M. Havard Early Education School right here in Bayview! Leola Havard will be the first SFUSD school to offer a Samoan Dual Language Learner Pre-K. Our city of San Francisco is home to several thousand people who are Samoan or are of Samoan descent and stay closely linked with our Black communities here. Bayview Hunters Point, Potrero Hill and Sunnydale are where a majority of the city’s Samoan population lives.
by Daphne Young, Education Reporter
When the fall 2021-22 semester begins on Aug. 16, 2021, the Leola M. Havard Early Education School in the Bayview Hunters Point community will offer for the first time a new dual language program.
Bobbing for bad apples: True accountability still elusive in the SFPD slaying of Keita OâNeil
July 28, 2021
by Jeremy Miller
On Dec. 1, 2017, Keita âIckyâ OâNeil was shot to death by former rookie police officer Christopher Samayoa, who was only four days on the job at the time of the killing. Icky was a suspect in the carjacking of a California state lottery van, a vehicle which he had just recently abandoned when he was gunned down.
Six days later, on Dec. 7, 2017, a customary SFPD townhall meeting revealed damning details, including the shooterâs own unintentionally recorded body cam footage, leading to public outcry and demands for accountability. It was underscored that Icky was unarmed at the time of his death.
Seven Bayview businesses that powered through the pandemic
Seven Bayview businesses that powered through the pandemic
July 26, 2021
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While it’s known for being home to historical landmarks like the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Bayview Opera Houseand Sam Jordan’s Bar, the Bayview District is also a historically under-resourced neighborhood. It’s considered a food desert and has struggled over the years to secure basic neighborhood amenities such as a full-service affordable grocery store.
Despite these setbacks and a nationwide pandemic, over the past year, a group of solution-oriented and relentless craft makers and “do-it-yourselfers” combined their resources to create a booming food and art scene. And while COVID-19 shuttered hundreds of businesses citywide, the Bayview District gained 12, with seven owned by women of color along Third Street.
A set of crucial decisions that could impact the city’s politics for the next decade are going to start to play out
Monday/19 at the Board of Supes Rules Committee – and most of the news media hasn’t even notices.
The committee will recommend three people to serve on the city’s Redistricting Task Force, which will write new lines for the supervisorial districts based on the 2020 census.
This is potentially critical – even small changes in the current lines could have a big political impact.
And the task force will be making more than small changes: The city has picked up 80,000 new residents in the past ten years, most of them on the East Side of town, so some district lines will have to change pretty significantly.
No more sacrifices
This is the atomic bomb “Little Boy” at the Hunters Point Shipyard being loaded onto the USS Indianapolis on July 15, 1945. That one bomb killed 140,000 people when it was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Thursday, July 15, 2021, is the 76th anniversary of the loading of the bomb at the Shipyard.
Statement of solidarity by the Pacific Asian Nuclear-Free Peace Alliance with the people of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco
by Tsukuru Fors, Founding Member, Pacific Asian Nuclear-Free Peace Alliance
On July 15, 1945, a canister of approximately 3 feet by 4 feet and a large crate were loaded onto the USS Indianapolis at Hunters Point in southeastern San Francisco. Nuclear ingredients in the canister and a firing device in the crate were later assembled into an A-bomb called “Little Boy,” which exploded over the sky of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, killing as many as 140,000 in a matter of a few months, including 350 studen