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  • Opinion from Community Voices

    California is its own sort of slave state — we need to enact farmworker rights now

    Workers in the fields in Watsonville
    Opinion from Community Voices

    California is its own sort of slave state — we need to enact farmworker rights now

    By Ann Aurelia López

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    Ann Lopez, the executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families, believes California farmworkers “make up a...

  • Opinion from Community Voices

    Why won’t our state pesticide regulators keep us safe from Telone? Why won’t they follow the science?

    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

    Why won’t our state pesticide regulators keep us safe from Telone? Why won’t they follow the science?

    By Yanely Martinez

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    Farmworker activist and organizer Yanely Martinez says the Department of Pesticide Regulation is “environmentally...

  • Watsonville

    Watsonville City Council adopts resolution supporting transition to organic farming

    A group called CORA led a gathering in early September to raise awareness that harmful pesticides are being used next to MacQuiddy Elementary.
    Watsonville

    Watsonville City Council adopts resolution supporting transition to organic farming

    By Hillary Ojeda

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    Watsonville city council members unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night encouraging the transition to organic...

  • Watsonville

    Watsonville City Council supports organic conversion from pesticides near area schools

    A farmworker who spoke during a city council meeting about the impact of pesticides on his family holds his son.
    Watsonville

    Watsonville City Council supports organic conversion from pesticides near area schools

    By Hillary Ojeda

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    “I’ll be a supportive voice wherever you might need,” council member Maria Orozco told a crowd supporting the conversion...

  • 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’...

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