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
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 to. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had 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 cancer. a few of the photos, i just wanna fly through real quick. to some of them that we ve met, the women who are local, they kept with us last weekend. he s about to lose a second i. his little boy has leukemia. he s doing all right. we ve had several who passed away. we need you to step in and protect us, and protect our children, do the right thin
los angeles. in the mid to late 1940s, the u.s. government was trying to find a location to do nuclear reactive development and testing. also rocket dusting. it was originally selected as a location to be away from populated areas, because they knew they were going to be doing research that could be potentially dangerous. they did it marvelously in the study to determine which would be the least dangerous place for a reactor testing facility. it ranked very poorly. they were concerned that any radioactivity that was released could probably get to populated areas nearby. it shows to anyway. santa susana ranked fifth or sixth because of the meteorological conditions, but it was selected, anyway because of the driving time to ucla. at the time that the santa susana facility was established, there was relatively little population and city around it. this is a quiet place. the adam four were get pieces quiet. they built ten nuclear
you know, it s kind of on your shoulders now, because. that you ve got to make this happen or we are all gonna lose. and i was like, you know, some people are trying to say like oh these people are using you, these people are using you. i m a very small person, you know? this is not what i thought my life would be. and i feel so little. and i feel so powerless right now, and it doesn t stop. and then, i have these little times of melting out, and then i pack up. and i wash my face, and then, i go pick up the kids from school. my life just moves on. i think that s all i have to say. i ve been dealing with the santa susana facility for 39 years. i tried to walk away from the
we would see mushroom clouds above the facility. i would play outside with my friends until it got dark. i would be in the cul-de-sac and we don t look up and we could hear those roars. in california, sent that susan a mountains, rocket engineers that created america s largest pro function field laboratory. the whole of the valley which is shutter. [inaudible] tens of thousands of rocket tests. and there were huge plumes of contamination that would spread at substantial distances. on the actions of campfires built here, engines poured forth their pillars of flames. over 30,000 mark attentions a lot of the chemical contamination on the site is the result of that.