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Flint Speaks- Poisoned Flint residents give testimony — Transcript

by Sarah Roevember (votefor_good) · 2,637 words · 363 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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0:00tested as high as 72 hundred parts per
0:02billion my last two tests were 399 parts
0:08per billion out of my bathtub and 293
0:12parts per billion out of my shower I'm
0:15testing height for lead in my blood and
0:19they're trying to figure out how I got
0:22high blood levels in my blood because I
0:24cannot drink the water since November
0:272015
0:30completely discounting the fact that
0:33I've been showering in the water because
0:41there are no rules for testing bathing
0:47and showering water they come into my
0:51house they've had to let abatement team
0:53come in they're trying to find out why
0:56I've got high blood levels in my blood
0:58the only thing they found in my house
1:00was some lead paint in my windows which
1:04except the one window I'd never opened
1:06the windows
1:07and I have not chewed on a windowsill
1:09for 16 years so they kind of had to
1:16discount that but all the water tests
1:18that they did during the light abatement
1:21my levels will except for one outside
1:25faucet and one faucet my utility sink
1:28we're all over the fifteen parts per
1:30billion letter safe like I said my last
1:35two LED levels have been way over what
1:41they should be I went to the doctor
1:44Tuesday and had my blood redrawn to
1:46check the lead levels in my blood and
1:49the state is thinking well anything
1:53above ten in your blood is serious
1:57my original blood tests that I had ended
2:01July was 38.4 a month later it went down
2:06to twenty five point nine but in there
2:11saying oh well it's going away the blood
2:13is not leaving my system it's moving
2:15into my brain and my bones they seem to
2:19think what the levels dropping things
2:21are all right they're not the lead is
2:25still in my body so Tuesday I went to
2:27get blood redrawn again
2:30because not only do I have Parkinsons
2:34from the web I've also my hands going
2:43know I've got aches and pains in my
2:48joint but the state keeps well now
3:05they're saying well yeah the leg as the
3:09water is safe to drink in Flint it's not
3:13they stopped the Sentinel over testing
3:16program last month because the water was
3:21so much in food they cut down the water
3:24pads from nine of them in the city to
3:27four of them and they also took the
3:31water test kits from the water pads
3:34which made it convenient you'd stop to
3:36pick up water you pick up a test kit do
3:40your water sample drop them off the next
3:44time you went by well because the state
3:47says the water is getting so fine
3:49they've taken the water test kits away
3:52from the water pads so now to get a test
3:55kit you've got to drive to City Hall pay
3:57to park walk into all the way into City
4:00Hall get your test kit get a sign for it
4:05and then go back in your car and then
4:07repeat it when you do your water sample
4:10I believe the reason they're doing that
4:12is because every time I post one of my
4:16water results online
4:19it makes the state look bad so they're
4:21making it more difficult for the
4:24residents to test their water to get
4:27back these side results which is
4:29crawfish it's just something else that
4:36the state is making it more difficult
4:39but I know they're telling everybody the
4:44corporate media the state everyone is
4:48saying oh yeah Flint's water sign it's
4:52better than any other state that has
4:55lead lines but they're not testing every
5:00house they're testing a certain amount
5:03of houses in certain areas
5:12I just like to let people know that it's
5:17not getting any better they're not
5:19testing for the bacteria that's in the
5:21water they're not testing for anything
5:23except happily it's a joke and if you
5:34think you don't have to worry about
5:35what's going on in the city of flint
5:37think twice because it's coming to a
5:40city or a town near you probably where
5:43you live
5:49okay
5:53that was a really good ending though
5:55coming to a town near you probably
5:59already is yeah there's just people
6:00don't know yeah if people haven't set up
6:04camp yet yeah well and people are
6:08believing what whatever the team you
6:11said or whatever the government's
6:13telling and the government is the one
6:14that's doing the Snider's got what till
6:58the January and then he's done his terms
7:01up and then he's gonna go rent a nice
7:04house out of that somewhere far away
7:08from here and oh well in hopes people
7:10will just forget yeah well you know he's
7:13wrong because we've got we could still
7:16go after them personally
7:18besides the class-action lawsuit which
7:22they've made me a class representative
7:24this is because you do such good
7:26interviews and I keep such good records
7:29the people that are all the law firms
7:35that are running that class-action
7:36lawsuit unanimously decided to ask me to
7:41be a class representative you know
7:48he told us to go home the crisis is over
8:00what's his name Tyson Morse T Y s Oh
8:07n-nothing to make videos well he was
8:11just watching that livestream or was he
8:15what'd he say how is that what he said
8:22yeah I am cause you know those types of
8:35comments those types of comments will
8:38only get more people to support you
8:41they'll see it so you don't even I've
8:44noticed with when I turn when I promote
8:46the DNC fraud protests they come at me
8:49and they tell me that the election was
8:51rigged and I have proof I mean I that's
8:54what I do is shared the proof and and so
8:58you know I'm I have a lot of ammunition
9:00to prove my case you know otherwise why
9:03am I doing this and then when you show
9:06them the proof then they get harassing
9:08and they get you know yeah I mean I get
9:11I get death threats I get people just
9:14saying horrible things about me and you
9:15know what that kind of thing all I have
9:18to do is just keep my mouth shut keep
9:20you know keep doing what I'm already
9:22doing and not react to them because I
9:25gain more support by just you know not
9:29stupid to their level and just keep
9:31going onward hey I worked with being
9:38fracking for Michigan
9:40I talked to literally thousands of
9:41people and when I go to the gym or I go
9:43wherever I go I talk to people about
9:45climate change
9:46yeah and I'm tellin yes oh my god okay
9:50let me there's one instance I was down
9:53at Eastern Market in Detroit my petition
9:58for so I didn't speak to anyone
10:08in the rest have been 1500 to say 2,000
10:10people in line you know I never knew you
10:15know cuz I live right next to frack same
10:17money like you guys live in Flint you
10:18know because you're living this yeah
10:21it's it in developed your life yeah okay
10:24so you know it's taken over right right
10:26right yeah well you've been poisoned
10:28yeah living this every single day so you
10:30know and people don't know I tell
10:33activists people that are pretty much in
10:35an old bottle lot of people in
10:40Wisconsin didn't I mean with more info
10:43in different places about what's going
10:45on here and they're going you gotta be
10:46kidding me man and they want you to pay
10:48for poison water I go yeah it's not
10:49gonna foreclose on their houses they can
10:51only pay pay the highest prices in the
10:54nation so these are people in the know
10:56of a lot of things in there most people
10:58don't know okay so what I'm trying
11:00to get at is is well anyway with this
11:03let me just finish that when we were out
11:08there getting signatures you and your
11:13husband attorney
11:15we got about 200,000 signatures and it's
11:18amazing you find out what people know
11:20you don't know there's an event
11:22going on today that I usually went to it
11:25honey ran in the water yeah it's called
11:35a waterfowl festival yeah you know hey
11:39you used to live in I just went through
11:46Monroe last night I'm like neuro that
11:49looks like they're always City day on
11:52the way out here yeah the city you see
11:54the Custer statue there maybe you went
11:56right through the city hotel yeah Monroe
11:59so pretty yeah you forgetting she's me
12:01but um made any rate going back to that
12:04I gotta finish that one story out cuz I
12:06jump anyway standing in line in these
12:10people you could see their eyes they
12:12were reading because the blind was very
12:14sickly not moving in the event was a
12:16drinking event for microbreweries so
12:20everybody's standing in line and they're
12:23younger people and they're reading if
12:25there's gonna be bands in there and
12:26everything else and they're reading this
12:28thing and I would say out of 1,500 to
12:302,000 people it's hard to guess you know
12:31they get along long so they were all
12:36reading I was watching their eyes
12:37they're all reading it maybe 10 to 15
12:40people out of Paul of them said yeah
12:41I'll sign that and I embarrassed the
12:43other ones around it by saying yeah
12:45these other people around you knew what
12:47fracking was what it was like because
12:48they knew yeah I'll sign that you know
12:50called me over check and say a word
12:52anybody so he had 10 to 15 people on it
12:57and we had to vote on this do you think
13:00that was
13:09glorious people understood what living
13:13in the community where they got the
13:25leases first then they come in and drill
13:28and cut the Wits down put pipelines in
13:30and they didn't know the other went
13:31with it like all the thousands of water
13:34trucks care enough all the roads yeah
13:35and they
14:10we'll see that people don't know the
14:12damage of things they sign up for it you
14:15know because they get a dollar or
14:16something out of it you know they don't
14:18know the damage that what it was into
14:20the environment result my community I'm
14:33the only one that basically stands up to
14:35these people because I'm right next door
14:36my neighbor next next to the UAW he's
14:41way up in the air whenever he goes to
14:43the conventions and all that just
14:47went to one meeting I mean you did let
14:56me put a sign up the big silica sign in
14:58front of his house which I put in but
15:01that's all they do yeah I'll sign that
15:02petition take seconds it's just like
15:05here this place should be full of people
15:06you know wanting this resolved it's like
15:09in my community nothing's resolved
15:11nobody knows what you're breathing it's
15:13like water
15:14you got a a glass of water with lead and
15:17in it you don't know what's in it
15:19if you drink it but if you check the air
15:21that's the same thing you can see what
15:23levels are in the air we don't know what
15:25we're great you know what I'm saying and
15:27then if you look at a map and you see
15:29the direction it's going to know what
15:30the layers of silicates and the places
15:33that have been
15:35okay to Cory and then you got the Koch
15:39brothers bought the glass plant that at
15:41Guardian glass and they're putting up a
15:4460-acre and onto the factory well did
15:49you know that they did the Waltons
15:53Walmart owned the biggest solar company
15:57in the world
15:57you know I yes in Ohio yeah those people
16:03are going into clean energy too at the
16:06same time they're poisoning the planet
16:07now they're gonna save us with making
16:09money either way you know when things
16:11switch cuz they probably already see it
16:13they got billions and billions of
16:15dollars they can hire the smartest
16:16people in the world
16:28yeah yeah we have the pure of silica in
16:31the hemisphere for glass so it's my ear
16:35that's perfect my neighbor
16:36you can't even like yeah I've been to
16:42before never happened I used to drive
16:44through here I fought a concrete plan up
16:46in us st. Helen Michigan and I have
16:49drilled through here every week back and
16:50forth with my problem started and I was
17:04talking to the air battery people
17:05because they wanted a quarry for
17:06different places at once well I was
17:08looking at what was going on in West
17:09concen and holy they're gonna
17:11destroy it
17:12well it built the house here I used to
17:14lift up my family I basically grew up on
17:17the Kalamazoo River right where that
17:18pipeline leaked so in 2010 when that
17:21pipeline leaked all over the place at
17:23the exact same time my grandparents had
17:25a place right on the water and so did my
17:26parents and the river and that was the
17:28only thing to do in the country was
17:29canoe and on like that so that's
17:31all I did you know when we were kids
17:33growing up you know going out there
17:34every weekend that's the only thing to
17:35do so I used to hunt right before there
17:38was my favorite honey girl going into
17:39from Albion Michigan River wise right
17:42there so these people were I already had
17:45plans these corporations of pouring up
17:47and destroying my community
17:51to the area because
17:59the exact same time these people had a
18:01hidden agenda to annex the village poor
18:05quarry's going and basically record
18:07place and the people wouldn't know
18:08nothing that people didn't know nothing
18:09about Forex and mining or what was going
18:11on what they were you be voting on
18:20that's why they're education they don't
18:40care if ranking and irrigation whatever
18:46they can make money off its a sellable
19:09they always have a hidden agenda
19:39I want that tripod that's a real one
20:06this is all I can afford
20:51we take the bed
20:58I went to all my Google got a no
21:14decided kidding the codes and how things
21:17go yeah I am the og martini bar
21:25sorry yeah sous-chef Porter there's a
21:29joke kind of the scene ain't got no fan
21:34down I'm loving you don't sit down
21:42though I feel okay guys Hypno's be
21:46playing our dope just what's up Joe
21:48ain't no pop going on no good all night
21:50though Oh dump in it though
21:52I'm crybaby like a half break step don't
21:55step no go find you body like no I
22:04didn't do it
22:05this is going to come to dinner oh oh
22:09that's good put it out there though a
22:14little boy and everybody your wife
22:16though simple little wife though your
22:18man I do nothing let the Mary why don't
22:20you put a dagger to the little white oh
22:22hey no chores oh oh it's chore I know
22:30y'all all the man what there's no Joe
22:35without a magazine I got a pistol gun my
22:42mom dad you sure you just know my name
22:47my name my father was adopted into and
22:50definitely the Jones Jones though he's a
22:54little short he's one bad dad Chicago I
22:58got thrown a mantle good oh sure my team
23:03hey I think it's a veto hey play head Oh
23:08house house house what's going on here
23:12infected you well I don't I don't
23:29so my name is my name no see my father
23:32was abducted
23:33that was a kid growing up it run up in
23:36schools and Chicago when I may help me
23:40then you know and it down north on the
23:43next street oh yeah why cuz I smoke weed
23:45right there
23:47he'll table it should just give me

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