AUDIO: A Hunger Strike to End Pesticides Near #Watsonville Schools
Topics include: role Driscoll’s has played in local community, history of #pesticides & farmworkers; + farmworker family currently suffering from #cancer. #Driscoll's = world's largest berry company.
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Omar Dieguez shares updates on day 11 of a 30-day hunger strike against pesticides in the Pajaro Valley.
Reporting by Nik Altenberg at Santa Cruz Local
#BoycottDriscolls 🚫🍓 #Watsonville #SantaCruz #Strawberries #Driscolls #DriscollsBerries

PV4ESJ: "We are calling on our communities near and far to stand in solidarity with the #PajaroValley community and the brave hunger strikers led by Omar Dieguez and CORA. Pledge to #BoycottDriscolls berries until they stop spraying harmful and cancer-causing pesticides near our schools and homes!"

11 days into a 30-day hunger strike, Omar Dieguez said he was having trouble concentrating & small tasks were making him tired. He said he had lost 12 pounds.
But even though he’s starting to feel the effects, he said “I’m in it for the 30 days.” #BoycottDriscolls
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Watsonville activist Omar Dieguez and a group of community leaders announced a hunger strike and started the movement with a protest outside of Driscoll’s headquarters Tuesday in Watsonville.

“For too long, you have poisoned our community w/ toxic pesticides that harm our farmworkers, our immigrant & Indigenous families, our youth, and all of #PajaroValley. You are contaminating our water, our land, our oceans, & the very air we breathe.” #BoycottDriscolls
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"Agricultural workers in #Watsonville and #Salinas have been on strike for several days, claiming that their demands are not being considered by farming companies. [...] sometimes #pesticides are sprayed in the rows even while they are working."
#BoycottDriscolls 🚫🍓
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Today we honor the birthday of revolutionary leader and activist Fred Hampton. 🤎

We are reminded that many of the issues he fought against, systemic racism, economic inequality, and state violence, still oppress daily.

To honor him is to help others and to be unapologetically revolutionary.

Today, 4pm, Watsonville, CA: Community Leaders to Launch Hunger Strike in Front of #Driscoll’s

Strike to call on corporate leaders to stop toxic #pesticides & go organic near schools & homes in #Watsonville & #PajaroValley.

🚫🍓 #BoycottDriscolls

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