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  • Opinion from Community Voices

    Santa Cruz County should not be using a pesticide banned in 34 countries — that is environmental racism

    Farmworkers and advocates showed up at a hearing in Sacramento on Jan. 18 to push for stronger regulation of 1,3-D
    Opinion from Community Voices

    Santa Cruz County should not be using a pesticide banned in 34 countries — that is environmental racism

    By Erika Alfaro

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    Erika Alfaro, a Santa Cruz resident and pediatric nurse case manager, was one of dozens from across California who...

  • Community Voices

    Listen to voices you rarely hear: the mothers who pick your strawberries. They say their kids are paying the price for our bounty.

    Pesticides in the fields
    Community Voices

    Listen to voices you rarely hear: the mothers who pick your strawberries. They say their kids are paying the price for our bounty.

    By Jody K. Biehl, Kevin Painchaud

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    Lookout spoke to five Watsonville berry pickers, all of them mothers, about the effect working around pesticides has had...

  • Opinion from Community Voices

    Healthy soil, healthy people, carbon storage ... the reasons to ditch pesticides are endless

    Retired teacher Woody Rehanek speaks as farmworkers and their children look on.
    Opinion from Community Voices

    Healthy soil, healthy people, carbon storage ... the reasons to ditch pesticides are endless

    By Woody Rehanek

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    Pesticide application needs to stop in the Pajaro Valley. It’s not only harming people, it is also damaging our soil and...

  • Opinion from Community Voices

    Our farmworkers are being sexually assaulted and poisoned on the job. Why aren’t we helping them?

    Workers in the fields in Watsonville
    Opinion from Community Voices

    Our farmworkers are being sexually assaulted and poisoned on the job. Why aren’t we helping them?

    By Ann Aurelia López

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    Thousands of female farmworkers are regularly being assaulted, groped and raped in Santa Cruz County fields, without...

  • Opinion from Community Voices

    Ag companies regularly spray my neighborhood with pesticides; it’s time to make them stop

    The Salsipuedes Creek levee near Kathryn Mizuno's Watsonville home.
    Opinion from Community Voices

    Ag companies regularly spray my neighborhood with pesticides; it’s time to make them stop

    By Kathryn Mizuno

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    Retired Watsonville teacher Kathryn Mizuno wants agricultural giants like Driscoll’s to be more accountable for the sort...

  • Editorials

    A Lookout View: It’s 2022; we need to stop spraying pesticides around our children and schools

    Blackberries at Reiter Nugent Ranch near a playground at MacQuiddy Elementary.
    Editorials

    A Lookout View: It’s 2022; we need to stop spraying pesticides around our children and schools

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    Editorial: Would residents of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley or Aptos allow pesticides to be sprayed next to their kids’...

  • Watsonville

    Lookout Update: Pressure mounts on pesticides near schools — especially those on Pajaro Valley outskirts

    Retired teacher Woody Rehanek speaks as farmworkers and their children look on.
    Watsonville

    Lookout Update: Pressure mounts on pesticides near schools — especially those on Pajaro Valley outskirts

    By Mark Conley

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    The Watsonville City Council has put further action on pesticides on its upcoming agenda, even as concerned local groups...

  • Civic Life

    Organic’s big South County moment: Might school-zone pesticide switch provide momentum for change?

    Field workers weed kale at Lakeside Organic fields off Holohan Road in Watsonville.
    Civic Life

    Organic’s big South County moment: Might school-zone pesticide switch provide momentum for change?

    By Mark Conley

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    Longtime UC Santa Cruz researcher Joji Muramoto is the first organic soil specialist employed by the University of...

  • Civic Life

    Pressure building on pesticides, Driscoll’s says it will consider organic-only by schools

    Blackberries at Reiter Nugent Ranch near a playground at MacQuiddy Elementary.
    Civic Life

    Pressure building on pesticides, Driscoll’s says it will consider organic-only by schools

    By Mark Conley

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    A new advocacy group’s campaign to educate the public about the dangers of pesticides sprayed near neighborhoods with...

  • Coast Life

    ‘What would we do without these people?’ A Q&A with ‘furious’ farmworker advocate Ann Lopez

    Ann Lopez made farmworkers her calling 25 years ago.
    Coast Life

    ‘What would we do without these people?’ A Q&A with ‘furious’ farmworker advocate Ann Lopez

    By Mark Conley

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    When she turned from biologist to sociologist and human rights advocate 25 years ago, Ann Lopez realized how dire the...

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