Marie's Tree - by Tom Molanphy (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tom Molanphy's journalism has appeared in 48 Hills, USA Today Travel.com, The Frisc, Earth Island Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. His work as a 2022 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow led to a 2023 1st Place Award in Environmental Reporting from the California News Publishers Association. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and teaches journalism, composition, creative writing and art/design appreciation classes at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.