I’m going to be honest with you. I can’t tell whose meeting we’re going to be protesting on November 17, 2022 in Simi Valley. The Boeing Company pays the salaries of the scientist on the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB)’s “Expert Panel.” 

The Expert Panel advises the LARWQCB about the contaminated rainwater that flows offsite from the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), one of California’s most toxic sites and home to one of America’s worst nuclear meltdowns. The contaminated rainwater has radioactive waste, “forever chemicals,” and heavy metals like lead and arsenic. The rainwater flows into the Los Angeles River and Ventura County’s Calleguas Creek Watershed. The Calleguas Creek watershed is used for residential drinking water, crop irrigation, recreation, and reaches the Pacific Ocean. 

This is the same Expert Panel shown in the Emmy-nominated documentary In the Dark of the Valley. After the Woolsey Fire there were over 70 exceedances in the rain water… unsurprisingly, Boeing’s paid “Expert Panel” didn’t believe any of the radioactive or toxic contamination found in the water samples were from the Santa Susana Field Lab. 

These are the same scientists who will be presenting at a meeting on November 17th in Simi Valley. 

As far as we can tell, this isn’t a public meeting by the LARWQCB… we got the invite from Boeing…but why is Boeing hosting a meeting for an “independent” expert panel that work for the LARWQCB?

Boeing and the Water Control Board are so entangled it’s not just unethical, it’s protestable!
So join us! We need to let the general public know that there’s no chance this will be an honest, science-based meeting. This stinks of Boeing’s greenwashing and our protest will alert the public that they need to come to the meeting with their guard up and their critical-thinking caps on! And we’ll have a good time, we always do!