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Domande #2: ma veramente fate?

News this morning: "Al Qaeda is arrayed against the Gaddafi regime"

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Manco organization was manipulated by the West!

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La resistenza è inutile

I'll say, But not believe it. Or better believe it, but do not understand completely. Until you get home, not to understand that we are talking about firepower. And you can not just come to understand how a creature so small it can upset your life. I warned you, but I had not given much weight. The fact is that now it is here, as if it had always been. And there you are wondering how you did before, no. Because if you were to fail now would be like losing an arm. He would live the same, but much, much worse.

And while you're there you do filisofiche all these questions, you're missing the days that pass into oblivion. The cliche that you hear repeated all le mamme "vedrai, i giorni voleranno" è sperimentalmente vera. Vorrei però aggiungere una chiosa. I giorni volano quando ci si diverte :)

Sembra fatto apposta, ma oggi compi 6 mesi e 6 giorni. Data la progressione, riuscirò a scrivere di nuovo da queste parti quando compi 9 mesi e 9 giorni???

Intanto, un saluto a tutti i pazientissimi visitatori che comunque sono passati da queste parti anche in questi momenti di inattività!!

Dentini permettendo... spero di raccontarvi qualcosina di questa nuova esperienza asap!

Grazie a tutti

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Consumo critico #10: Chiquita e Dole

Primary Address: Chiquita Brands International, 250 East Fifht Street, 45202 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

In Italy: Chiquita Italy SpA, Via Temple of Heaven 3, 00144 Rome.

E 'in 11 countries, a turnover of over EUR 2.5 billion and employs 37,000 people. Chiquita is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables, known to the world for bananas which is the largest producer and seller (58% of its revenues). Chiquita, Dole, Del Monte can to secure the two thirds of world trade in bananas or more than 4.5 billion € out of a total of 7.2.

The biggest producer of the fruit in question, with 34% of world exports, is Ecuador, followed by Costa Rica (16%) and Colombia (13%) (1998 data). In Nicaragua and Ecuador are the wages lower, from 1.25 to $ 2.50 per day, for work over 14 hours, unpaid overtime and often mandatory. The multinational company is known for attacks environment for the trade union repression and for the mistreatment of laborers, but above all for its aggression in politics because it takes the governments of countries where it has its plantations strictly under control. In 1953, when Jacob Gurme President of Guatemala, decided to launch a land reform which damaged Chiquita, was ordered off a coup that all blame director of Chiquita.

Chiquita requires its workers to spray pesticides unprotected, sometimes without water in order to wash.

In 1995, Chiquita has closed four plantations: according to the local union it was just a choice to weaken the movement of workers, forcing them to abandon the lands where they lived with their family for generations. Banana production is also due to deforestation in Costa Rica and the use of pesticides creates impoverishment of the soil, causing serious damage to river and marine water (source: Equonomia, in June 1999 and September 1999; Altreconomia, October 2000 ).

camapgna After pressure from consumers (launched in 1998 for the centenary in multinational), Chiquita has agreed to engage in compliance with the conventions of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in particular on issues of freedom of association (source : Social Editor and International Union of ) .*

Primary Address: Dole Food Company Inc., 31365 Oak Crest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.

In Italy: Dole Italy SpA, Piazza Annunziata, 72, 16124 Genova.

Multinational food, one of the world's largest producers and distributors of fruit and vegetables fresh and preserved. Controls 25% of the world banana market. Dole owns 92,000 hectares of land of which 60,000 U.S. and 32,000 in the southern countries of the world (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua. Ecuador, Thailand, Philippines and South Africa).

In the family of banana varieties are more resistant varieties and more deboli: quelle per l'esportazione sono le più belle ma sono anche le più deboli e soccombono facilmente all'attacco dei batteri, funghi, vermi, per questo i pesticidi costituiscono dal 50 al 55% del costo totale di produzione e vengono irrorati anche con l'aereo, con conseguenze gravissime sull'ambiente circostante. La maggior parte di questi pesticidi è proibita nei paesi industralizzati, fra questi uno dei più pericolosi è il DBCP (leggete qui che cos'è e i suoi effetti) un potente vermifugo che ha reso sterili 15000 lavoratori costaricani. 

La Dole è stata criticata per la distruzione della foresta pluviale in Honduras e nelle Filippine.

Le banane e gli ananas Dole sono attualmente oggetto di un boicottaggio promosso dai lavoratori della frutta e verdura fresca della California per l'uso dei pesticidi nei paesi in via di sviluppo, per le paghe passe, per la discriminazione delle donne e per le pessime relazioni sindacali negli USA (fonte: Homepage di Boycott! , Homapega di Manitese ).**

Tratto da: Miniguida al consumo critico e al boicottaggio. Realizzata da Movimento Gocce di giustizia. Ed. La Tortuga (ed. 2003).

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* On the site of Chiquita in the " take a look back" for the period 2000-2009 are mentioned:

- 2000: Rainforest Alliance certified 100% ; for companies in Latin America subject to strict environmental and social standards of the Better Banana Project;

- 2002: Admitted to the Ethical Trading Initiative ;

- 2003: Receives the Corporate Conscience Award by Social Accountability International ;

- 2004: Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award per il progetto Nuevo San Juan home-ownership in Honduras.

** Anche sul sito della Dole, nella sezione " principles " (sul sito italiano la pagina è ancora in costruzione) si può trovare una sviolinata di buone intenzioni, premi vinti e altro, il tutto in un'ottica di difesa dei deritti dei lavoratori, dell'ambiente e della salute.

Sta ad ognuno di noi valutarne l'affidabilità. 

Post introduttivo all'argomento consumo critico qui .

Elenco prodotti Chiquita e Dole e altre multinazionali qui .

Atre information can be found on multinational Transnationale .

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Buon compleanno Italia #2

missing a month to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, and there is nothing to argue about whether it is lawful to celebrate or not celebrate ... who says you have to make Italians believe that something interests of the country ... who says that we should not celebrate because ....( but you know what I said ??)... those who argue that we must celebrate the great only to contradict those of the camp and well ... you know ..... what I'm talking about.

tonight but I came to the ear of a minister a sentence that said something like "The Italians must understand the reasons why you should celebrate ...

Question: someone shows these reasons? You know I'm cynical and controversy and I are not good reasons in your mind!

Who can help me? Will I have to write good wishes on March 17!

Come on! Do you have a month's time!