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Parents, students and advocates press Pajaro Valley Unified over pesticide drift and a blocked speaker
Summary
Dozens of speakers urged the district to address pesticide spraying near schools and criticized the district’s decision to block hunger-strike organizer Omar Die9guez from speaking in classrooms; speakers cited air-monitoring figures and called for organic buffers and fuller disclosure.
Dozens of community members urged the Pajaro Valley Unified School District on Oct. 8 to act on pesticide drift they said imperils students and staff, and dozens criticized the district for preventing activist Omar Die9guez from presenting in classrooms.
At the boards public-comment period, speakers repeatedly described older and recent air-monitoring data for fumigants near schools and accused the district of "censorship" when it blocked Die9guez, who conducted a hunger strike earlier this year, from classroom presentations. Frank Wolsfeld, who said he lives in Aptos, cited Office of Environmental…
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