WEDNESDAY, APRIL 08, 2009

Watch New Video on Banana Workers! (April 8, 2009)

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A group of students at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania calling themselves "Hear Out Yellow," or HOY for short, traveled to Nicaragua, and with a grant from Projects for Peace Davis Foundation, produced a moving short documentary on the issue of the Nicaraguan banana workers who have been make ill by the pesticide Nemagon.  The film is now posted on YouTube divided into two parts.  To learn more about the students' project visit here.

To view the video, go here.

To learn more about the issues surrounding the Nicaraguan banana workers, visit here.

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