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Free speech advocates can go Bananas!* after Dole announced Thursday that it is withdrawing its defamation lawsuit against a pair of Swedish filmmakers. The company had filed the suit against Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard and WG Film AB on July 8, 2009 for their negative portrayal of Dole in a documentary film.
Bananas!*, which premiered at the 2009 Las Vegas Film Festival, investigated the alleged health risks of plantation workers in Nicaragua. The film depicts a 2008 lawsuit against Dole by Nicaraguan workers who claimed that exposure to DBCP pesticides made them sterile.
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