Tell-A-Friend: Another farm worker just died from heat stroke.

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Dear friend,

I need to share some news with you that breaks my heart. Yesterday another farm worker's life was lost due to heat stroke. Abdon Felix Garcia was the third farm worker heat death in the last 8 weeks and the 12th farm worker heat death since CA Governor Schwarzenegger took office. Then I need to ask for your immediate help to e-mail Gov. Schwarzenegger and California legislatures today and tell them this has to stop now.

Yesterday, 42 year-old farm worker Abdon Felix Garcia--father of three--died after spending the morning and early afternoon working for Sunview Vineyards in Arvin. According to the coroner's office, Felix was returning to Delano in a company vehicle and he became unresponsive. He was taken by ambulance to Delano Regional Medical Center when he later died. The coroner says Felix's body core temperature was measured at 108 degrees just 13 minutes before his death.

The second worker who died was 64 year-old Jose Macarena Hernandez. Tomorrow UFW President Arturo Rodriguez will attend his funeral. Jose died during a record-breaking heat wave on June 20 while harvesting butternut squash in Santa Maria on land owned by Sunrise Growers.  According to news reports, temperatures reached 110 degrees that day.

And then there was the heat death of 17 year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez who died while laboring in the Stockton area grape vines.

Governor Schwarzenegger came to Maria Isabel?s funeral and said he would do everything possible to prevent this from happening again. But with the death of Abdon Felix Garcia and Jose Hernandez--the 11th and 12th farm workers who have died since Governor Schwarzenegger took office--it is clear the state does not have the capacity to protect farm workers. And now as yet another heat wave hits California, we must do everything we can to insure that no more farm workers fall victim to the heat because the laws written to protect them are not enforced.

We are not ready to accept more farm workers dying.  Click below to e-mail California Gov. Schwarzenegger (if you live in California, a cc of your e-mail will also go to your legislators) and tell them enough is enough. It's time to put a law in place that will allow farm workers to protect themselves!To take action go to:

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