MikeDunnAuthor , 15 days ago to random

United Fruit, still at it after all these years:

*Police murders of striking United Fruit workers at New Orleans port June 11, 1913
*CIA orchestrated coup in Guatemala, 1954, leading to decades of Genocide against Mayan people, all on behalf of United Fruit
*Death squad murders in Columbia, on behalf of Chiquita (which used to be called United Fruit)

https://earthrights.org/media_release/colombian-victims-win-historic-verdict-over-chiquita-jury-finds-banana-company-liable-for-financing-death-squads/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #colombia #DeathSquads #union #strike #IWW #chiquita #unitedfruit #cia #police

Lilmikesf , 16 days ago to random

#Florida jury awards $38.3 million to families of eight #Colombians killed by #DeathSquads hired by #Chiquita banana ( formerly known as United Fruit Company and an #AgriBiz long embedded in #SouthAmerica's political #tyranny ). The plaintiffs' #ClosingArgument of six week trial given by Jack Scarola , an attorney who aided victims of Jeffrey #Epstein.

https://www.law.com/international-edition/2024/06/10/us-jury-finds-chiquita-liable-for-colombia-terror-deaths

rbreich , 3 months ago to random

Trump wants to cut Social Security so he can give another giant tax cut to the rich.

Biden wants to save Social Security by having the rich — who have become far richer over the past several decades — pay more Social Security taxes.

The contrast couldn’t be more important.

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

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