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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Media</title>
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		<title>Special Report: A Concrete Plan for Banana Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banana Latin America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, there have been calls for justice on the industrial plantations &#8211; and in the nations that support them &#8211; for banana workers. Progress has been spotty, at best, mostly because of a disconnect between those laborers and consumers of the world&#8217;s most popular fruit. The Banana Land Campaign is a new effort to create that connection, and &#8211; unlike some others &#8211; it offers very concrete steps toward that goal. The Campaign is focusing on Colombia, where Chiquita (and possibly Dole) have made payments to terrorists, and where there&#8217;s a long history of banana-related bloodshed (see earlier posts on that topic.) Here&#8217;s a video from Jason Glaser &#8211; director of an in-progress documentary called &#8220;The Affected&#8221; &#8211; and one of the organizers of the campaign. These are the campaign&#8217;s &#8220;Six Things You Can Do&#8221; to help make the changes that just about anyone who knows banana history need to happen: 1. Sign a petition, here. 2. Write or call Dole and Chiquita&#8217;s (Chiquita doesn&#8217;t provide a email but you can write them on here) Corporate Social Responsibility Departments and ask them to make meaningful compensation to the victims of AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) violence in the [...]]]></description>
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