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News Coverage
- 08/01/2013 US News & World Report: Cantaloupes Sent To Representatives Who Voted Against Deferment
- 07/29/2013 NBC Latino: DREAMer who delivered cantaloupes to King: Shame he is “criminalizing an entire community” (includes video)
- 07/29/2013 USA Today: Farmers, laborers caught in middle of migrant debate
- 07/29/2013 San Francisco Chronicle: White House: California could lose farms without immigration reform
- 07/28/2013 BAkersfield Californian: A tale of two congressmen
- 07/25/2013 Huffington Post: Dreamers Deliver Cantaloupes To Steve King To Protest His Comments Against Immigrants
- 07/22/2013 Washington Post: Rep. Luis Gutiérrez explains how immigration reform gets out of the House
- 07/15/2013 KCET (CA): California Farm Workers Seek Pesticide Protection
- 07/15/2013 The Hill: Protecting farmworkers from toxic pesticide exposure
- 07/10/2013 Visalia Times-Delta (CA): Heat may not have killed Richgrove farm worker
- 07/10/2013 KGET-TV 17 (CA): Workers can file complaints with CAL/OSHA anonymously
- 07/09/2013 Bakersfield Californian: State shuts down owner of field where farmworker died
- 07/09/2013 Fresno Bee (CA): Field worker’s suspected heat-related death closes South Valley farm
- 07/09/2013 KBAK-TV (CBS) (CA): Cal-OSHA investigating farmworker death
- 07/09/2013 KBAK-TV (CBS) (CA): Cal-OSHA shuts down farm operator in heat death case
- 07/09/2013 KSEE-TV 24 (CA): Cal-OSHA Shuts Down Valley Farm Following Farm Worker’s Death
- 07/08/2013 KGET-TV 17 (CA): What are worker’s rights when it’s hot outside?
- 07/08/2013 Sacramento Bee (CA): Central Valley farmworkers still vulnerable to heat-related illnesses, study finds
- 07/08/2013 Bakersfield Californian: UFW calls for ‘aggressive’ heat-illness enforcement
- 07/06/2013 NBC News — KGET-TV (CA): Central Valley farm worker dies while working in fields
- 07/06/2013 Daily Democrat (CA): Heat deaths of farm worker investigated
- 07/05/2013 Fresno Bee (CA): Farmworker dies harvesting watermelons near Coalinga
- 07/05/2013 The Tribune (CA): Calif. officials probe deaths of farmworker, construction worker as possibly heat-related
- 07/02/2013 Fresno Business Journal (CA): Costa, supporters urge cooperation on immigration bill
- 07/02/2013 KMJ Now (CA): UFW Call on Costa, Valadao