@jennyzilliac @dangillmor You can't "#deadname" an #app or #company because unlike an actual person, they have no human rights and deserve no dignity or compassion.

It's perfectly fine to call #Chiquita as #UnitedFruit and "#Meta" as #NSAbook to remind them of the blood on their hands.

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/death-at-pineapple-farms-violence-torture-and-killings-with-impunity-by-del-monte-guards-4282790

Death at pineapple farms
#DelMonte guards kill and #torture with impunity... Echoes of #UnitedFruit

#Capitalism #Capitalist #BananaRepublic #HumanRights #Exploitation

The most famous of these raiders was #EliBlack, who took over #UnitedFruit with this gambit - a company that had a long association with the CIA, who had obligingly toppled democratically elected governments and installed dictators friendly to United's interests (this is where the term "banana republic" comes from).

Eli Black's son is #LeonBlack, a notorious PE predator.

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The Banana #Massacre was a massacre of #UnitedFruit Company workers that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928 in the town of #Ciénaga, #Colombia. A strike began on Nov. 12, 1928, when workers ceased to work demanding dignified working conditions.

After several weeks with no agreement, the conservative government sent the Army against the strikers, resulting in massacre of upto 2,000 people.

#TodayInHistory #Capitalism #SouthAmerica #Chiquita #Politics

Today in Labor History December 5, 1928: The Colombian military slaughtered up to 2,000 people in the Banana Massacre. Workers had been on strike against United Fruit Company since November 12. They were participating in a peaceful demonstration, with their wives and children. The Colombian troops set up machine guns on the rooftops near the demonstration and closed off the access streets so no one could escape. The soldiers threw the dead into mass graves or dumped them in the sea. U.S. officials in Colombia had portrayed the workers as communists and subversives and even threatened to invade if the Colombian government didn’t protect United Fruit’s interests. Gabriel García Márquez depicted the massacre in his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” as did Álvaro Cepeda Samudio in his “La Casa Grande.”

#colombia #strike #union #massacre #garciamarquez #unitedfruit #fiction #historicalfiction @bookstadon