Sunday, March 13, 2011

Courthouse Vigil Seeks Justice For Farmworkers

A crowd of about 80 — among them Catholic Bishop Stephen Blaire — gathered at the San Joaquin County Courthouse to call on Superior Court Judge Michael Garrigan to refuse a plea deal for the employers of Vasquez Jimenez, a 17-year-old, pregnant farmworker who collapsed from heatstroke May 14, 2008, in a Farmington vineyard. She died two days later.



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Posted by Jessica Damian

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