Reader Writes: Spraying Children With Pesticides

Farmworkers need your assistance. The State Dept of Public Health (DPH) came out with a scathing report a year ago about 226 schools in the Pajaro/Monterey County area in which dangerous fumigants are sprayed within less than 1/4 mile of children’s schools. The vast majority of children at these schools are Latino and many are the children of farmworkers.

I would like to invite you to take action on this civil rights issue. Please sign this petition demanding that they institute a 1 mile buffer zone between schools and spraying + a week’s notice to schools before spraying begins.

Please help protect the children and their teachers.

https://www.change.org/p/institute-a-1-mile-buffer-zone-between-schools-and-spraying-pesicides-and-at-least-a-week-s-notice-to-schools-before-spraying-begins