inside this package was a cease and desist letter from a law firm representing dold food company claimed that facts in my film were based on a fraud. that the banana workers were lying. maybe i am. deaf but all i said was going on here we're not out to get them. human being or a convinced that this was a misunderstanding stopped us and then they see the film everything will fall into place. when the cease and desist letter came in from dole i was also mentioned and i guess in some way i was kind of flattered it was like wow ok nice i'm on the rich the radar for dollar it's really nice to see but. my wife really sort of like you know brought me back to reality and said you know this is quite serious you know we could lose the house we could lot of things could happen doe decided to go after everybody so they could stop the film and so in doing so they threatened everybody threatened me they threatened los angeles film festival by going to all of the major sponsors including the l.a. times and i think it was important that we all had a united front. as we started to step towards you know t

inside this package was a cease and desist letter from a law firm representing dold food company claimed that facts in my film were based on a fraud. that the banana workers were lying. i said what's going on here we're not out to get them to get. him in the story convinced that this was a misunderstanding. as they see the film everything will fall into place. when the cease and desist letter came in from dole i was also mentioned and i guess in some way i was kind of flattered it was like wow ok nice i'm on the rich on the radar for a dollar it's really nice to see but. my wife really sort of looked you know brought me back to reality and said you know this is quite serious you know we could lose the house we could lot of things could happen doe decided to go after everybody so they could stop the film and so in doing so they threatened everybody threatened me they threatened los angeles film festival by going to all of the major sponsors including the l.a. times and i think it was important that we all had a united front. as we started to step towards you know the film screening at the

inside this package was a cease and desist letter from a law firm representing dold food company claimed that facts in my film were based on a fraud. that the banana workers were lying. i didn't buy the. i said what's going on here we're not out to get. him and the story convinced that this was a misunderstanding. as they see the film everything will fall into place. when the cease and desist letter came in from dole i was also mentioned and i guess in some way i was kind of flattered it was like wow ok nice i'm on the rich the radar for a dollar it's really nice to see but. my wife really sort of looked you know brought me back to reality and said you know this is quite serious you know we could lose the house we could lot of things could happen doe decided to go after everybody so they could stop the film and so in doing so they threatened everybody threatened me they threatened los angeles film festival by going to all of the major sponsors including the l.a. times and i think it was important that we all had a united front. as we started to step towards you know the film screening at

inside this package was a cease and desist letter from a law firm representing dold food company claimed that facts in my film were based on a fraud. that the banana workers were lying. they could be deaf but all i said was going on here we're not out to get. him and the story convinced that this was a misunderstanding. as they see the film everything will fall into place. when the cease and desist letter came in from dole i was also mentioned and i guess in some way i was kind of flattered it was like wow ok nice i'm on the rich on the radar for a dollar it's really nice to see but. my wife really sort of like you know brought me back to reality and said you know this is quite serious you know we could lose the house we could lot of things could happen doe decided to go after everybody so they could stop the film and so in doing so they threatened everybody threatened me they threatened los angeles film festival by going to all of the major sponsors including the l.a. times and i think it was important that we all had united front. as we started to step towards you know the film screeni

we decided to fight back countersue dold and file a motion arguing that dole and used the weight of a lawsuit. to suppress our freedom of speech. and now we want the judge to rule in our favor as soon as possible. just a few days later i found a blog on the internet and it was a local blogger who had followed our case and he was writing about what happened when he ordered food cited at a hamburger restaurant. i run a blog not for profit i don't have any commercial sponsors but. i'm interested in politics that's all. about the time when there was such a hoopla about bananas his friend and i were out shopping like the nerds we make if we went to all these electronics in computer stores somebody then we decided to go get something to eat. and settled on a max. swedish in the neighborhood is a good to. i went for fruit salad instead of fries. and when they handed it to me i noticed the dome logo. and my gut reaction was what the hell. i told the girl at the counter i don't know what this. i took a picture of it when i got back home i wrote to max hamburgers. asking them why with a clear c

from los angeles it's a journalist who wants to comment on a lawsuit being brought against me from dold dole foods is suing us. filmmaker for wanting to show a fraudulent documentary slamming the company. based filmmaker frederick is being sued by a dollar the company claims the film is a fraud. we are suing. because we. produce the riches are clearly you know this much are you against the company and against our employees. it's three different lawsuits they're seeing me frederick and. the way they doing this what exactly is their strategy are we really the. us. or do they have a hidden agenda i mean. we've become a part of our own film. trays a trial and now the same forces are directed against us. have you considered accommodating them in any way with the film there is nothing to accommodate their demands include stopping the film shutting down the websites i won't discuss this issue in public in the future. shoulders we worked around the clock twenty four seventh's and we have no time to engage in new film projects. luckily we have a us insurance policy covering us against lawsuits a

november two thousand and seven the jury in the los angeles court delivered a groundbreaking verdict dold was found liable for malice and misconduct. my hope was to distort would bring about better conditions for the fall workers to produce by us today for dole however.

. >> thank you senator ayotte and for your own advocacy as well as our thanks to senator dold for his long-standing advocacy in this regard. so we appreciate you coming before the committee to express his sentiments. >> thank you chairman moonves ranking member corker and i'm deeply honored to be here as well with my colleague senator mark kirk. >> which we will turn to next. welcome to the committee a friend, a colleague senator curt i know that senator durbin wants to be recognized and welcome his colleague from illinois. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i will be very brief. the history of the united states senate and congress are written about the year 2013. there were high points and low points but one of the highest points was january 3 of this year because it was on january 3 when our colleague mark kirk returned to the united states senate determined to climb those 45 steps in the senate. he had endured a life-threatening stroke, three brain surgeries, hundreds of hours of rehabilitation but he was coming back to his job in washington. for all of the negative and partisan

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