Marie's Tree

Annenberg award-winning journalist Tom Molanphy’ s Marie’ s Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco tells the story of environmental activist Marie Harrison (1948-2019) of San Francisco’ s Bayview Hunters Point and her three major battles: saving her home of Geneva Towers from implosion; advocating for the removal of polluting PG&E stacks; and protecting her community from contamination from one of the country’ s worst superfund cleanup sites. Marie Harrison (1948-2019), an environmental activist of San Francisco’ s Bayview Hunters Point, spent her life fighting for basic services such as housing, energy, and employment that had become money makers for a few but a dream deferred for her community. What she endured – the brown water that ran out of her taps at Geneva Towers; the blood that ran from her grandson’ s nose while living next door to the PG&E smokestacks; and the fear of radiation poisoning from one of the country’ s worst superfund cleanup sites – are environmental injustices citizens of the United States suffer every day.