The following is the transcript from the 60 Minutes Show (May 11, 2008) that I mentioned in my last blog piece: Unpeeling Chiquita and Dole. You can also view a video of the show by going to the CBS news website. Below is the transcript printed in its entirety. 60 Minutes The Price [...]
Posts Tagged ‘banana plantations’
The Price of Bananas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana plantations, Chiquita Brands, Colombia, DOLE on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Action Alert: Demand Investigation of Dole Food Company
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana plantations, Colombia, DOLE on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you purchase bananas with a Chiquita or Dole sticker on them, you’re not alone. Nevertheless, or better yet, because we eat these bananas, I’d like to ask you to please read the following letter from an old friend, Bob Perillo, who has spent the past 20 years or so in the struggle for worker [...]
Bananas: How can something so good be so bad?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana industry, banana plantations on May 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bananas. Most of us eat them on a regular basis. But do we take the time to learn where they come from? Who grows them and under what conditions? Are they grown with care for the environment and the health of workers and consumers? Who profits from their sale? I lived in Costa Rica [...]
Beyond Coffee: Fair Trade and Workers’ Rights in a Changing Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana plantations, Fair Trade, free trade agreements, worker rights on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The following article by Stephen Coats, Director of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US Leap), was published in the April 2009 Peacework Magazine, a publication of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). We wish to thank the AFSC, one of our Interfaith partners, for their interest in exploring some of the complexities of [...]
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