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Posted Date: 2006-05-01T04:00Z

Translation
of
testimonies
in
Spanish
 
Public
hearing
for
revisions
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1
of
5
First
woman
talking
in
Spanish:

Sandy
García
"
Bien.
Bueno,
yo
soy
una
campesina
que
tiene
30
años
trabajando
en
el
campo,
trabajando,

poniendo
la
comida
en
la
mesa
y
el
propósito
de
venir
aquí
es
porque
quiero
monitoreo
en
mi
pueblo,
en
esas
areas
rurales
en
el
condado
de
Tulare
porque
en
un
lado
de
mi
pueblo
está
una
lechería
y
al
otro
lado
del
pueblo
está
otra
lechería
y
toda
esa
caca
de
vaca,
todo
el
ácido
que
suelta
los
químicos
que
le
echan
a
las
vacas
todo
con
que
lavan
las
vacas
todo
llega
a
nosotros,
a
esas
areas
rurales
que
no
hay
nada,
que
no
hay
quien
diga
nada;
entonces
si
no
hacen
monitoreo
si
nadien
hace
nada
habla
entonces
no
hay
quien
diga
que
nos
estamos
enfermando,
si
es
fiebre
dle
valle
si
es
de
la
garganta,
de
gripas
nadie
sabe
porqué
hay
tanta
enfermedad,
entonces
nosotros
los
campesinos
estamos
expuestos
a
todo
ese
ácido
que
suelta
la
caca
de
vaca
y
nos
está
afectando
nuestra
salud
los
pulmones,
nuestros
niños,
l'agua
que
tomamos
esta
siendo
afectada
por
lo
mismo,
porque
va
hacia
los
canales,
entonces
necesitamos
nosotros
campesinos
que
uetedes
pongan
algo
de
atención
y
esos
monitoreos
que
lleguen
a
esos
pueblos
rurales
donde
no
hay
quien
hable
porque
son
pueblos
chicos
pero
que
estamos
la
mayoria
de
las
personas
que
ponemos
esta
comida
en
la
mesa."

"
Good.
Well,
I
am
a
farm
worker
who
has
been
working
in
the
fields
for
thirty
years,
working,

placing
food
in
the
table.
And
the
purpose
in
coming
here
is
because
I
want
monitoring
in
my
own
town,
in
those
rural
areas
in
Tulare
County
because
on
one
side
of
my
town
there's
a
dairy
farm
and
on
the
other
side
is
another
dairy
farm
and
all
the
excrement,
all
the
acid
that
is
released
by
the
chemicals
used
to
treat
the
cattle,
all
that
they
use
to
clean
the
cows,
all
is
affecting
us,

reaching
those
rural
areas
where
there's
nothing,
where
nobody
says
anything;
then
if
there's
no
monitoring,
nobody
complains
and
tells
that
we're
getting
sick,
either
from
hay
fever
or
throat,

colds,
nobody
knows
why
there's
so
much
sickness,
then
we
field
workers
are
exposed
to
all
the
acid
coming
from
cow's
excrement
and
is
affecting
our
health,
lungs,
our
children,
the
water
we
drink
is
also
contaminated
because
it
goes
to
the
channels,
then
we
field
workers
need
you
to
pay
attention
and
monitoring
is
done
in
these
rural
towns
where
there's
no
one
to
talk
because
they
are
small
towns
in
which
the
majority
of
workers
who
put
food
in
the
table
live."
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Esther
Martínez
Buenas
tardes.
Soy
la
señora
Ester
Martínez,
vengo
del
condado
de
Tulare
y
tambien
como
mi
compañera
dice
nosotros
somos
trabajadores
del
campo,
yo
tengo
trabajando
15
años
y
el
problema
de
nosotros
es
todo
el
estiercol
que
hay
en
la
lecheria,
vuela
en
el
aire
y
eso
nos
contamina
a
nosotros
porque
eso
es
lo
que
respiramos.
Y
yo
se
los
digo
por
experiencia
mia,
de
que
yo
tengo
15
años
trabajando
en
el
campo
y
nos
enfermamos
de
los
ojos,
de
la
piel
y
queremos
que
por
favor
nos
oigan,
que
a
nosotros
campesinos
nos
oigan,
que
todos
nos
estamos
enfermando,
tanto
los
ancianos,
los
niños
y
ese
aire
que
vuela
de
los
trailers
que
pasan,
que
llevan
toda
esa
suciedad
vuela
en
el
aire
y
uno
lo
suerbe.
Y
que
ojala
que
nos
pongan
monitores
porque
dicen
que
no
hace
mal,
si
hace
mucho
daño,
yo
se
los
digo
por
experiencia
mia
y
de
mis
nietos,
tengo
un
nieto
que
está
enfermo
de
asma,
y
la
fiebre
del
valle
se
esta
acumulando
mucho
en
esa
area
todo
ese
condado
esta,
hay
mucha
gripa 
(?)
pero
tambien
estamos
todos
envenándonos
en
nuestra
salud
y
les
pedimos
de
favor
que
nos
pongan
un
monitore
en
esa
area
porque
nosotros
somos
campesinos
y
somos
seres
humanos
y
todos
tenemos
tristeza
de
que
toda
la
gente
se
esta
enfermando.
No
tenemos
muchos
recursos
para
ir
al
doctor
para
que
nos
de
medecina.
Es
todo
gracias.

Good
afternoon.
I
am
Ms.
Esther
Martinez.
I
come
from
Tulare
County
and
as
my
companion
has
said
we
are
field
workers,
I
have
worked
for
fifteen
years
and
our
problem
is
all
the
dung
coming
from
the
dairy,
it
flies
in
the
air
and
contaminates
us
because
we
breathe
that
air.
And
I
tell
you
this
because
of
my
own
experience,
because
I've
worked
the
fields
for
15
years
and
we
are
getting
sick
in
our
eyes,
skin,
and
we
want
you
to
listen,
that
you
listen
to
us
farmers,
we
are
all
getting
sick,
the
elderly,
the
children,
all
the
air
that
flies
from
the
trucks
that
go
by,
that
carry
all
the
dirt
that
flies
in
the
air
and
one
absorbs
it.
And
we
hope
that
you
place
monitors
because
they
say
it
isn't
harmful,
but
it
is
very
harmful,
I
tell
you
by
own
experience
and
my
grandchildren,
I
have
a
grandson
who
is
sick
from
asthma,
and
the
hay
fever
is
accumulating
a
lot
in
that
area,
in
all
that
county
there
is
a
lot
of
flu 
(?)
but
we
are
all
getting
poisoned
in
our
health
and
we
ask
you
to
please
put
a
monitor
in
that
area
because
we're
farmers
and
we're
human
beings
and
we're
all
sad
because
people
are
getting
sick.
We
do
not
have
the
resources
to
go
to
the
doctor
for
him
to
give
us
medications.
That
is
all,
thank
you.
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Braulio
Martínez
Buenas
tardes,
mi
nombre
es
Braulio
Martínez,
vengo
del
condado
de
Tulare,
vengo
de
un
pueblito
que
se
llama
Apple
(?)
California,
tengo
15
viviendo
allí
y
30
años
viviendo
en
este
país
y
pues
pedimos
que
por
favor
nos
escuchen
porque
allá
hay
muchos
espreyes
en
las
plantas,
en
el
farms
completamente
todo
y
hay
bastante
gente
que
nos
estamos
enfermando
de
asma
de
diferentes
enfermedades
y
nosotros
somos
de
recursos
muy
bajos
que
no
tenemos
algunos
medical
o
alguna
cosa
para
ir
al
doctor
y
navegamos
mucho
sufriendo
las
enfermedades.

Inclusive
yo,
esos
espreyes
que
a
veces
espreyan
los
rancheros
no
le
avisan
a
uno
que
van
a
espreyar
y
a
varia
gente
la
envenenan,
como
yo
tengo
mis
ojos
enfermos
del
82
yo
vivia
en
el
condado
de
King's
County
y
la
compañia
que
estaba
vecina
a
la
que
yo
trabajaba
no
avisaron
que
iban
a
espreyar
y
yo
agarré
esprey
y
de
ahi
para
aca
yo
padezco
de
mi
cabeza
a
veces
dolores
de
cabeza
a
veces
me
da
rasquera
y
ya
la
infección
de
los
ojos
nunca
se
me
ha
quitado.
Yo
pertenezco
a
una
asociación
sear
pit
y
quisiera
que
por
favor
nos
ayude
y
tambien
como
dice
mi
esposa
tenemos
un
nieto
que
está
alérgico
y
nos
ha
dicho
el
doctor
que
está
como
propenso
a
que
le
pegue
asma.
Gracias,
es
todo.

Good
afternoon,
my
name
is
Braulio
Martínez,
I
come
from
Tulare
County,
I
come
from
a
little
town
named
Apple
(?)
California,
I
have
lived
there
for
15
years
and
have
been
in
this
country
for
30
years
and
we
want
us
to
please
listen
to
us
because
over
there
there's
a
lot
of
spraying
of
plants,
everywhere
in
the
farm
and
there's
a
lot
of
people
who
is
getting
sick
from
asthma,
from
different
illnesses
and
we
have
very
little
resources,
without
Medical
or
something
that
helps
us
to
go
to
the
doctor
and
we
struggle
and
suffer
illnesses.
In
my
case,
those
sprays
that
the
farmers
spray
sometimes,
they
do
not
warn
us
that
they
are
going
to
spray
and
several
persons
are
poisoned
by
it,
like
myself,
my
eyes
are
bad
since
'
82,
I
lived
in
Kings
County
and
the
company
next
to
the
one
I
was
working
for
did
not
tell
us
they
were
going
to
spray
and
I
caught
spray
and
from
then
on
I
suffer
from
my
head,
sometimes
headaches,
sometimes
I
itch
and
the
eye
infection
has
never
left
me.
I
belong
to
an
association
`
sear
pit'
(?)
and
wish
that
you
please
help
us
and,
as
my
wife
said,
we
have
a
grandson
who
is
allergic
and
the
doctor
has
said
that
he's
susceptible
to
asthma.
Thanks,
that's
all.
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Santos
Valenzuela
Buenas
tardes.
Mi
nombre
es
Santos.
Yo
vengo
también
del
condado
de
Tulare,
de
un
pueblo
que
se
llama
Erling
(?).
Este,
yo,
lo
que
yo
podría
decirles
muchas
cosas
que
suceden
en
el
valle,

pero
yo
pienso
que 
que
lo
que
mas
fuerte,
lo
que
debe
suceder
allí
es
que
estas
juntas
sean
allá
para
que
ustedes
anden
en
el
valle,
las
personas
pues
que
se
encargen
de
esto
anden
en
el
valle
y
ustedes
se
van
a
dar
cuenta
al
pasar
por
los
files,
las
partes,
al
pasar
por
establos,
donde
a
veces
usted
aunque
lleve
la
puerta
cerrada
del
auto
ustedes
no
aguantan
el
aroma
al
pasar
por
un
establo,
al
pasar
por
unas
partes,
entonces
yo
quisiera
pedir
que
estas 
o
bien
estas
audiens
(?)

dentro
del
valle,
en
el
condado
de
Tulare
donde
el
fil,
pero
alla
cerca
de
donde
esta
el
problema,

verdad,
para
que
ustedes
cuando
pasen
o
vayan
allá
pues
se
cercioren
bien
que
uno
no
viene
a
decir
cosas
que 
o
a
hacer
una
cosa
de
que
no
es,
para
que
ustedes
mismos 
(?)
 
cuando
pasa
un
tractor
o
cuando
tiran
quimicas
grandes.
Yo
una
vez
tuve
una
experiencia
de
un
fulano
que
aventó
una
química
en
una
uva
verdad,
y
el
tractorista
se
enojo
porque
algo
no
le
habia
dado
algo
pa'
proteccion,
verdad,
entonces
el
se
quejo
en
las
partes
y
le
hicieron
un
analisis
a
la
tierra
esa
y
el
doctor
no
se
enojo
por
la
quimica,
ni 
pues
se
enojo
con
el
porque
no
le
habia
pagado
bien
y
le
puso
que
estaba
echando
quimicas,
verdad,
entonces
le
hicieron
un
analisis
a
la
tierra
y
le
dijeron
que 
por
ocho
años
no
se
podría
sembrar
esa
tierra,
nunca
se
supo
si
era
acumulación
a
traves
de
tantas
veces
que
iban
aplicando
esas
quimicas
o
si
la
habian
aplicado
de
un
jalón.

Entonces
yo
tambien
pediria
el
monitoreo
de
las
tierras
despues
que
se
apliquen
esas
quimicas
para
que
engorde
la
uva
son
quimicas
muy
fuertes,
pues
imaginate
darle
ocho
años
que
no
podia
levantarse
en
esa
tierra.
Algo
grande
había
ahí.
Y
yo
pienso
que
de
esas
tierras
debe
haber
muchas.
Y
es
todo
lo
que
yo
les
digo,
que
vayan
pues
allá
al
valle
y
pa'
que
vean 
(?)

Good
afternoon.
My
name
is
Santos.
I
also
come
from
Tulare
County,
from
a
town
named
Erling
(?).
I,
er,
I
could
tell
you
a
lot
of
things
that
occur
in
the
valley,
but
I
think
that 
the
strongest,

what
must
happen
there
is
that
this
meetings
be
held
there
so
that
you
go
through
the
valley,
the
persons
in
charge
of
this
go
through
the
valley
and
you
will
realize
when
you
go
through
the
fields,
the
parts,
passing
through
stables,
where
sometimes
even
with
the
car's
doors
closed
you
cant't
stand
the
stench
when
you
pass
by
a
stable,
when
passing
by
some
parts,
then
I
would
like
to
ask
that
this 
or
this
audiences
(?)
are
inside
the
valley,
in
Tulare
County,
in
the
field,
but
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over
there,
close
to
where
the
problem
is,
isn't
it?
So
that
when
you
pass
by
or
go
there
realize
that
one
is
not
here
to
say
things 
or
to
do
things
that
are
not,
so
that
you
yourselves 
(?)

 
when
a
tractor
goes
by,
or
when
they
throw
large
chemicals.
I
had
once
an
experience
of
a
guy
who
trew
a
chemical
in
a
grape,
true,
and
the
tractor
driver
got
upset
because
something
had
not
given
him
something
for
protection,
true?
Then
he
complained
to
the
parts
and
they
analyzed
that
soil
and
the
doctor
was
not
upset
because
of
the
chemicals,
or 
he
was
upset
because
he
wasn't
well
paid
and
wrote
down
that
they
were
throwing
chemicals,
true,
and
they
analyzed
the
soil
and
said
that 
for
eight
years
the
soil
could
not
be
used
for
harvesting,
it
was
never
known
if
it
was
accumulation
by
the
many
times
that
these
chemicals
were
applied
or
if
they
were
applied
all
at
once.
Thus
I
would
also
ask
that
the
soil
be
monitored
after
these
chemicals
used
to
fatten
the
grape
are
applied
because
these
are
very
strong
chemicals,
just
imagine
give
it
eight
years
that
the
soil
could
not
be
used.
Something
big
must
have
been
there.
And
I
think
that
there
are
many
soils
like
that.
And
that
is
all
that
I
say,
that
you
go
to
the
valley
and
so
you
can
see 
(?)

Note
from
the
translator
The
testimonies
were
translated
trying
to
maintain
the
speaker's
original
style.
In
the
case
of
Mr.

Valenzuela
some
sentences
were
hard
to
understand
even
in
Spanish,
but
the
general
meaning
of
his
statement
can
still
be
followed
in
the
translation.