hi. my name is denise duffield. it s okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? okay, let s go to disneyland! oh, yeah! are you coming? i m coming too. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient state, white for chemotherapy. this is what you earned the first month. i d like to share with you what she s earned over the last two times fighting
this was part of what was so amazing about this story, to me. i grew up near the field lab, thousands of people have lived near the field lab. and most people have never heard of it. the santa susana issue was almost dead, and that fire jump-started a whole new round of attention. millions are learning about the toxic threat from the contaminated santa susana field lab, all because of tweets from the kardashians. the woolsey fire, it blew up. without a doubt, there is new life. people need attention. people are listening. the communities have radically changed. kim kardashian tweeted, and all of a sudden, get 100,000 shares! kim kardashian telling her
there did not appear to be a hazard to the public. no discernible signs of radiation. the potential of hazard, major released into the environment was just not there. significant about the woolsey fire is that it started on the property of the santa susana field laboratory. it s very distressing, when you know how terribly polluted it is, to then turn on the television and see it in flames. after the fire, you know, 80% of the site burnt. we have learned since then that nasa took down tanks and piping, and removed a fire station. the tide they ve been in place, could have put that fire out, regardless of what happens to the site, it s always going to be in a fire risk area, so why one would remove water tanks and piping? i don t know. not getting far systems up to date is, to me, that s a
58 million twitter followers she shocked, furious to learn that woolsey fire started at santa susana, and is potentially radioactive. the reporting we did throughout, got some attention, but of course, the kardashians can bring the issue way more attention. people are believing this. you know, this is the real thing. we re not just playing games anymore. on the other side of the sign, okay? these are all my other children here. and second of changes happening that i m hopeful it could be ripped out from underneath us at any moment. i know what it s like to lose a child with cancer. and nobody should ever have to face that again. it s gone so fast that i m still out of breath. we re trying to put together a coalition with all of our elected officials. people need to start passing the ball, take leadership.
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