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Ten Percent Go Bananas & Boycott Chiquita Brands « — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:08:41 +0000

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By: Citizens for Boycotting Chiquita by Kyle de Beausset « Dandelion Salad

Citizens for Boycotting Chiquita by Kyle de Beausset « Dandelion Salad — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:42:13 +0000

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NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Citizens for Boycotting Chiquita — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:35 +0000

By: profacero

profacero — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:22:32 +0000

Y’all got to come back and read Part II of this post, it is fascinating!

By: Rebel Girl

Rebel Girl — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:35:20 +0000

who are all these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves…indeed…

By: azgoddess

azgoddess — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:10:40 +0000

ahh the grand old banana….not for me

i prefer the apples gone on trees in yards close-by…

thanks for the great links!

By: profacero

profacero — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:38:57 +0000

There was a great effort to create banana consumers.

And a lot of romanticization of the product and its workers. Belafonte had a somewhat commercialized calypso-style pop song,

Work all night on a drink of rum, stock banana till the morning come, six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch, daylight come and me want go home.

Day-o! Day-o!

Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me banana, daylight come and me want go home.

It was or is piecework, it seems, since the bananas have to be counted.

Here is the song in a rather ambiguous presentation, worthy perhaps of comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWFeDc9xmBw

Here is another presentation, funny, about work in general.

By: Changeseeker

Changeseeker — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:01:14 +0000

I heard somewhere once that Chiquita had to teach folks in the northern hemisphere how to keep bananas, but I’d never seen this song that I recall. So, while they were crushing the workers to produce the product, they were working a whole new set of consumers to buy it. Wonder what films of murdered workers would have done to the market…?

Thanks for the link.