Fukushima Mon Amour

p San Francisco, June 2011 ndash; A big shout out to Dennis Bernstein and his FlashPoints team for their series, ldquo;We All Live in Japan,rdquo; keeping listeners updated on the latest developments on the emDai-ichi/emnuclear catastrophe in emFukushima/em, Japan. Yes, we do all live in Japan and Fukushima is right here in the Bay Area./p p Know that radioactive dirt that the Japanese moms poured onto the desks of government officials, telling them this is what their children were playing in as the sounds of geiger counters went through the ceiling? Well, our own children in the BayView Hunters Point play in radioactive dirt blown off from the Superfund site, Hunters Point Navy Yard. Piles of radioactive dirt, covered only by a loosely tacked tarp, are right next to a schoolyard where Nation of Islam children go out to play. And the clean up effort?/p p Our TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company)? Lennar, an exploitment (emi.e./em, development) corporation,given a sweetheart deal by City Hall to convert the former naval base to a gated-community of luxury condos. Now wouldnrsquo;t you think that such a corporation would not want a superfund site? Apparently not for Lennar who saw/smoozed /seized the opportunity as they already had one profitable exploitment venture on a Superfund site across the Bay at Point Richmond, a now gentrified/yuppified neighborhood of Richmond, Cali./p p Besides, since Lennar is not a Bay Area corporation, not even a Cali corporation, theyrsquo;re just here to take the money and run. So they donrsquo;t care what happens to us denizens of our SF Bay Area. Itrsquo;s not their families, itrsquo;s not their neighbors, it not their communities that will suffer from their exploitment. In fact, it is their families who will benefit from the exploitment! So, of what concern to them?/p p nbsp;I just wanna laugh, then cry when someone tells me they live in up/uuoint/u Richmond. So that I donrsquo;t get the mistaken idea that they live in Richmond. Donrsquo;t they know they live on or next to a Superfund site? Donrsquo;t they care?/p p But actually specific locality doesnrsquo;t really matter since all that radioactive dirt decomposes to radioactive dust that the wind carries wherever it wants, which we breathe everyday. So donrsquo;t we know? Donrsquo;t we care?/p p nbsp;Indeed, we all live in Japan. Fukushima is right here in the Bay Area./p p nbsp;All my love, Noh I.D.entity./p p nbsp;/p p Noh I.D.entity is a sometimes correspondent/blogger for Poor News Network, artist/poet with Po Poets Project, and yellow/disability/elder skolar on leave of absence from PeopleSkool./p