BANANA LINK – THE NORWICH ORGANISATION DEFENDING BANANA WORKERS’ RIGHTS

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged activism, advocacy, Africa, agriculture, agrochemicals, Banana Link, bananas, Cameroon, Compagnie Fruitière, costa rica, education, environment, featured, Freedom and fairness for Fyffes workers, fruit, gender equity, ghana, health, Honduras, International Union of Foodworkers, Latin America, living wage, maternity rights, norwich, trade unions, worker solidarity, workers rights, World Banana Forum.

By Paul Lievens, Banana Link Communications Officer

Bananas have been part of our diet for thousands of years, and are the most popular fruit in the world, with over 100 billion bananas eaten around the world every year. In the UK, each of us eats on average around 10 kg, or 100 bananas, per year. Grown across the tropical regions of the world, banana export production provides an essential source of income for hundreds of thousands of rural households in developing countries. However, many of the plantation workers who produce our bananas fail to earn a living wage and do not have their labour rights respected, while the intensive use of agrochemicals harms the health of workers and the surrounding environment.

I’M A FEMINIST, BUT

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged ableism, feminism, gender equality, gender equity, intersectional feminism, intersectionality, misandry, misogyny, suffragettes, white feminism.

by Alice Thomson

I’ve known a few women who’ve said, “I would never get married. I wouldn’t be a good feminist if I did.” What does it mean to be a ‘good feminist?’ Do we even want to be feminists, especially when feminists are frequently derided as man-haters? How did it come to this? I always thought feminism was about gender equality. From an uneducated standpoint I understood it to be a movement designed to create equal opportunities for women within work, politics, home and social life, but it seems to have become so much more than this. Feminism means different things to different people. I’m no expert on the subject, but I’d like to think I am a feminist even though I’ve never read a book on the matter. So I decided to try and educate myself – and here is what I understand:

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BANANA LINK – THE NORWICH ORGANISATION DEFENDING BANANA WORKERS’ RIGHTS

I’M A FEMINIST, BUT

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