http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/maria?source=webLast week we told you about the tragic death of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez. She died due to heat stroke while laboring in a Stockton area vineyard.
Maria Isabel, who was two months pregnant, was working for Merced Farm Labor in a vineyard owned by West Coast Grape Farming. Her body temperature was 108.4 degrees when she was finally taken to a hospital nearly two hours after she collapsed. (Click to read Maria's story.)
To date no one from the companies involved has had the decency to express condolences to Maria's family--not the farm labor contractor, not the company who owns the field where Maria labored, nor the wine distributor. There have been no letters, no one showed up at the funeral--nothing.
Please help us show Maria's family--including her grieving mother--the support from the community at large. Help us show her the impact Maria’s life and death had on strangers she never knew, people whose paths never crossed hers.
Please write a condolence note to Maria’s mother and family--a line or two will do--although you are welcome to write more. Help us show Maria’s mother that thousands of people recognize the value of Maria's life.
We will be printing out these letters and giving them to Maria’s grieving mother.
Please tell her you care.
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To the family of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
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This sad story was posted last week.