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
in 2006 there was a cluster of retinoblastoma. it s a rare eye cancer you might be wondering, why should we care about a nuclear accident that happened more than half a century ago? because as you are about to see, thousands of people in the san fernando and simi valleys have been secretly exposed to dangerous radioactive fallout. it was pretty clear to me that there were people inside certain government agencies, like the de-tsa, who are very close with boeing. it was a very effective way for bowing to my protection for themselves. i was looking into the department of toxic substances control, and i decided to look into how is it really regulating toxics. and we did get a very revealing material, that showed us that though dtse is what i called haphazard agency. it s captured by the polluters