Going Bananas

Alexa Hyland is a reporter for the L.A. Business Journal. She recently wrote about the controversial documentary film Bananas*, which reveals the mistreatment of workers by Dole in Nicaragua. According to the piece, the lawyer who represented the workers in a lawsuit against Dole, fraudulently recruited men for the case against the food giant. The lawyer, Juan Dominguez, is known in L.A. for his "Accidentes" bus ads. Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten premiered the film at the LA Film Festival.

The Big Push by Cal Green & His Orchestra