#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPGregAbbott #PhenomnEnvironmentalSocialAndCorporateGovernanceESG #PhenomnClimateChangeCrisis

#MagazineUSRollingStoneAntoniaJuhasz "This is life in 'Cancer Alley,' an 85-mile stretch along the banks of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where industry leaders like ExxonMobil, Koch, and Shell operate about 150 fossil fuel and petrochemical facilities. Seven of the 10 census tracts with the highest cancer risk in the nation are found here. The exceptionally elevated toxic air emissions released by the industry are linked to a host of ailments, from cancer to cardiovascular and respiratory disease to reproductive and developmental disorders. And in St. James, toxic facilities are increasingly concentrated in areas with the highest percentage of black and poor residents." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/louisiana-cancer-alley-getting-more-toxic-905534/ #ToponymAmericaNorthUSLouisianaStJamesParish #BrandExxonMobil #BrandKochIndustries #BrandRoyalDutchShellPlc #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilPetrochemicals #ConditionCancer #LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions #ConditionDiseaseCardiovascular #ConditionDisorderReproductive #ConditionDisorderDevelopmental #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMississippiRiverCancerAlley https://dabrownstein.com/2013/12/04/mapping-the-cancer-corridor-along-louisianas-gulf-coast/

#WebsiteVisionProjectLesStone "In Louisiana, stretching 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, there lays one of the most polluted areas of the United States. Because of the dense cluster of oil refineries, petro-chemical plants and other chemical industries, this area is known as Cancer Alley. Designated as an enterprise zone, loose oversight has enabled industry to release into the environment extremely toxic materials. Recent studies have found that the entire population of this region has been exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals and very little is being done to clean up the mess. Cancer and respiratory problems are widespread. Greenpeace has labeled Cancer Alley a Global Toxic Hotspot." ^[pdf]

#BrandMarathonPetroleumCorporation "Oil spill contained at Marathon Galveston Bay in Texas City" https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/environment/article/Oil-spill-contained-at-Marathon-Galveston-Bay-in-16513390.php #ToponymAmericaNorthUSTexasGalvestonBay

#BrandKochIndustries #HandleTwitterAFPMissouri i.e. #BrandKochFoundationAmericansForProsperityAFP https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/americans-for-prosperity/news?id=D000024046

#HandleTwitterRareCamellia #WebsiteJeffcoPatriots #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMaryElizabethColeman ^[Wikipedia] #LegislationUS2023MissouriSenateBillSB81 ^[Government] #OrgUSStateMOGovMissouriGeneralAssemblyAKAMOLeg ^[Wikipedia]

#AdvocacyUSRightForAmericaSergioGor #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLaurenBoebert #LegislationUS2010CitizensUnited ^[Government] #IRLBusinesspersonRobertMercer #BrandKochIndustries #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking #BrandDisney #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating

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Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostBenTerris and #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostMarianneLeVine "Since 2022, Gor has owned a house in Florida in driving distance to Mar-a-Lago. It was prime real estate for Gor, who was able to use his connection to Trump and various fellow club members to fundraise for a super PAC called Right for America, to support the 2024 campaign. Some members of Trump's inner circle thought the operation was a play for money and influence, and a possible distraction from established fundraising operations. Some of these people griped anonymously to the Daily Beast at the time, bestowing Gor with the 'Patio Panhandler' nickname and accusing him of only being in the game to enrich himself." https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/12/sergio-gor-trump-transition-personnel-office-hiring-white-house/ #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFlorida #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFloridaPalmBeachMarALago #OrgUSPoliticalActionCommitteePAC #WebsiteTheDailyBeast #PhenomnDeprivationBeggarPanhandler

#IRLLawyerGlennKirschner #IRLBusinesspersonErikPrince

#HandleTwitterTentoads4truth #BrandKochIndustries #AdvocacyUSTheAtlasSocietyTAS ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPBRPartidoLiberalPLJairBolsonaro #OrgUSThePublicAccountabilityInitiativePAILittleSis ^{[networks of influence]} #ToponymAmericaSouthLatin

#EDUUSGeorgeWashingtonUniversityJonathanTurley #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPBetsyDeVos ? #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT

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Context https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/koch-brothers-education_n_5587577 And #AdvocacyUSRethinkingSchools "In its materials for teachers and students, the BRI cherry-picks the Constitution, history, and current events to hammer home its libertarian message that the owners of private property should be free to manage their wealth as they see fit. As one lesson insists: 'The Founders considered industry and property rights critical to the happiness of society.' This message--that individual owners of property are the source of social good, their property sacred, and government the source of danger--is woven through the entire Koch curriculum, sometimes with sophistication, other times in caricature. For example, in one 'click-and-explore' activity at the BRI website, showing the many ways that government can oppress individuals--'Life Without the Bill of Rights?'--a cartoon character pops up with a dialogue bubble reading 'The gov't took my home!' An illustration shows his home demolished." https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-koch-brothers-sneak-into-school/ #BrandKochFoundationBillOfRightsInstituteBRI ^{[MediaBiasFact-Checked] [DeSmog]} #BrandKochIndustries ^[Wikipedia] #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch and #BrandKochIndustriesDavidKoch #BrandKochFoundationYouthEntrepreneursYE #BrandKochIndustriesLizKoch

#TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #BrandDrSeuss #1953_TheSneetches #TauntGaslighting #LiteralFieldEconomicsCurrencyPetroYuan #BrandKochIndustries

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Context response to #VlogTheJoyfulWarriorTiffany #AdvocacyUSMomsForLibertyTinaDescovich #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary The Billionaires Bankrolling The US (and Australian) Right: ^[Folksonomy] According to: #AdvocacyUSPENAmerica / https://pen.org/stop-woke-act-fits-disturbing-pattern-education-culture-war/ #AdvocacyUSMomsForLiberty: "declared that it would pay a 'CRT bounty' of US$500 for any tips leading to a successful suit against a school" ^[tweet]

#ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #AdvocacyUSDonorsTrust ^[Wikipedia] And #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch ^{[SourceWatch]}

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Addendum #WebsiteHuffPostMollyRedden "Trump appointed Mizelle to the federal bench in late 2020 over objections from the American Bar Association that she had not been practicing law long enough to be qualified. A search of her other rulings found she had never previously applied corpus linguistics. Neither Mizelle nor the Judicial Education Institute responded to requests for comment. In response to the new disclosure, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who chairs the subcommittee on federal courts and oversight, called for more disclosure surrounding when judges attend ideological educational retreats. 'The multi-pronged billionaire-funded scheme to influence the judiciary includes flying amenable judges to luxury resorts to bathe them in the latest fantastical right-wing legal theories,' he said in a statement to HuffPost. 'At the very least, the public ought to know when judges are attending lavish 'seminars' promoting the agenda of partisan special interests. The Judicial Conference should take a close look at tightening its rules to ensure transparency around such junkets.' Legal corpus linguistics is not inherently ideological. Nevertheless, as the right-wing legal movement increasingly insists that courts must interpret the law based on 'history and tradition,' conservatives have seized on corpus linguistics as a useful source of legitimacy. 'History,' as described by the conservatives who dominate the federal courts these days, has an uncanny way of mirroring the political beliefs of the modern GOP on issues like gun laws, school prayer, organized labor and abortion rights. Corpus linguistics, the thinking goes, with its air of big data, offers a potential retort to the accusations that judges are simply cherry-picking their view of the past. But skeptics argue that it's just as easy for an ideologically motivated judge to cherry-pick results from a search engine. 'A lot of what legal corpus work tends to do is allow you to pick and choose your history,' Anya Bernstein, a professor studying legal interpretation at the University of Connecticut School of Law who has written critically of legal corpus linguistics, told HuffPost in March. 'You pick and choose your corpus, you pick and choose what you're putting into the software, you pick and choose your results.'" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa #LiteralVaccineMandate #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLJudgeKathrynKimballMizelle #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaWestTheGreenbrier #WebsiteCorpusOfHistoricalAmericanEnglishCOHA #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguisticsLegal #AdvocacyUSJudicialEducationInstitute #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguistics #EDUUSUniversityOfConnecticutAnyaBernstein #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking

#BrandDrSeuss #1953_TheSneetches #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives

#HandleTwitterCassandraAKACassyWearsHeels #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPBetsyDeVos #BrandKochIndustries #MetaphorDarkMoney #OrgUSFedGovInternalRevenueServiceIRS #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP

"Again, as was eloquently and forcefully said by Daniel Webster in the U. S. Senate in 1834: 'The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just division of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretense of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority and give many positive and many qualified rights. In other words, they must be subject to rule and regulation. This is the very essence of free political institutions. The spirit of liberty is, indeed, a bold and fearless spirit; but it is also a sharp-sighted spirit: it is a cautious, sagacious, discriminating, far-seeing intelligence; it is jealous of encroachment, jealous of power, jealous of man. It demands checks; it seeks for guards; it insists on securities; it entrenches itself behind strong defenses, and fortifies itself with all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion. It does not trust the amiable weaknesses of human nature, and, therefore, it will not permit power to overstep its prescribed limits, though benevolence, good intent, and patriotic purpose come along with it. Neither does it satisfy itself with flashy and temporary resistance to illegal authority. Far otherwise. It seeks for duration and permanence; it looks before and after; and, building on the experience of ages which are past, it labors diligently for the benefit of ages to" #IRLHistoricalFigureDanielWebster ^[Wikipedia] #1834_ #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDespotism #PoliticsGovernmentLimited #CatchcryBigGovernment #PoliticsGovernanceMonarchy #PoliticsRepublic #PhenomnIntelligenceSagacious #PoliticsRuleOfLaw #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #PowerControlRegulation

#IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany #OrgClassifPPUSDixiecrat #TauntBigOil #BrandKochIndustries

#MagazineUSBarrons #BrandBlackRockLaurenceFink

#OrgClassifPPUSLibertarianPartyJustinAmas #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPBetsyDeVos #AdvocacyUSFederalistSocietyFedSoc #BrandKochIndustries #MetaphorDarkMoney #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms

#HandleTwitterBakerStreetHerald #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartySheldonWhitehouse ^[Wikipedia] #OrgUSRedesignYourThinking #AdvocacyUSFederalistSocietyFedSoc #BrandKochIndustries #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPBetsyDeVos #OrgUKShakespearesGlobe #PhenomnBrexit #OrgSyndicateAccordBeltAndRoadInitiativeBRI #IRLBusinesspersonErikPrince #IRLBusinesspersonRobertMercer #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPaulManafort #IRLLawyerAlanDershowitz #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicismOpusDei #ToponymRussia #OrgRUGazprom #OrgRURosneft i.e. "Russiais top oil producer Rosneft" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-rosneft-lawyers-idUSKCN0I105O20141012 #OrgRUPJSCLukoilOilCompany #CatchcryFollowTheMoney #MetaphorDeceitDisingenuousGrift

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMitchMcConnell #PhenomnRealityTV

#IRLCommentatorDaveRubin ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJQhVosLRA&t=49s #AdvocacyUSTheCiceroInstituteJoeLonsdale ^[Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologies ^[Wikipedia]

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Context #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundationSupremeTransparency "Founded by Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir with billionaire Peter Thiel, the Cicero Institute is one of the main right-wing think tanks promoting state-level bans on 'unauthorized street camping,' otherwise known as sleeping in public while unhoused. Lonsdale and one of Cicero's senior advisors suggested on Lonsdale's podcast that the public should return to calling homeless people as 'vagrants,' 'bums,' and 'tramps.'" ^{[networks of influence]} #PhenomnVentureCapitalVC #PhenomnPolicymakingPoliticalAdvocacyLobbyingThinkTankPressureGroup #PhenomnDeprivationUnhoused #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #BrandKochIndustries

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#AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRCInfluenceWatch "Take Back the Court Foundation) is a left-of-center advocacy group which aims to add seats to the United States Supreme Court once Democrats gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to effectively nullify Republican Supreme Court appointments." ^{[networks of influence]} #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundation #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUS #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSFedGovCongressHouseOfRepresentatives ^[Wikipedia] #OrgUSFedGovCongressSenate ^[Wikipedia] #NMUKBBC #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSBrettKavanaugh #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSAmyBarrett #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSClarenceThomas #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSJohnRoberts #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSSamuelAlito https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33103973

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#WebsiteDeSmog "As part of the conservative campaign to 'Defund the left' the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting liberal causes." #AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRC ^[Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationWillaJohnson ^[DeSmog] #AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch "Defund the left is a term used in America to describe efforts by conservative activists to eliminate government financial support for non-profit groups deemed to be 'liberal'. While initially coined in response to Reagan government proposals to curtail funding of non-profits, it has subsequently been more loosely used to describe a range of other administrative measures aimed at silencing advocacy groups." ^{[SourceWatch]} #PleaDefundTheLeft

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Supplementary #IRLComedianStewartLee "Good Law Project recently announced it is launching legal action regarding NHS England's use of patient data. But on 22 December, Good Law Project claimed it received leaked emails showing that a PR company called Topham Guerin was planning to discredit them, on behalf of Palantir, which wants that NHS data. Good Law Project believes social media influencers have been asked by Topham Guerin what their 'fee expectation' would be for sending two tweets criticising Good Law Project, while taking care not to mention Topham Guerin or link to Palantir. But if I was Topham Geurin, and I wanted to make Jolyon Maugham mad, I would try to get him to believe Palantir was paying for social media influencers to attack him. Is this deep-vein psyops stuff, or me overthinking everything? Topham Guerin's speciality is 'shitty memes'. 'Sometimes shitty memes are effective,' declared co-founder Sean Topham of content so deliberately unsophisticated it appears, in contrast to the slick memes of 'the elite', trustworthy. Those experts! With their lighting!! And their fonts!!!" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/31/topple-tory-dark-lords-palantir-nhs-data-good-law-project-topham-guerin #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #IRLEntrepreneurNathanGettings #BrandPalantirTechnologiesStephenCohen ^[Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologiesAlexanderKarp #BrandTophamGuerinTGSeanTopham & #BrandTophamGuerinTGBenGuerin #AdvocacyUKGoodLawProjectJolyonMaugham #MetaphorWarfarePsychologicalOperationsPSYOP #PhenomnCommunicationsMarketingInfluencer #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS And https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianDanMilmo "Palantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is the favourite to win a £360m contract for the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP). Covering everything from individual patients' data to vaccination programmes, waiting lists and medical trials, the FDP will aggregate data from multiple sources and different formats on to a single platform. ... The ambitious scope of the platform has alarmed campaign groups, who fear for patient confidentiality, privacy and data security, but the identity of the frontrunner has also caused concern. US-based Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's few high-profile Donald Trump supporters. The $15.6bn (£12.7bn) company has been criticised for its work with the US immigration agency, as well as its intelligence service and defence contracts. It already works closely with NHS England by providing software that processes data for a variety of purposes including take-up of Covid-19 vaccines and managing the post-pandemic bounce back in elective care (surgery or treatment booked in advance). But the prospect of it setting up an overarching data platform for NHS England has alarmed Foxglove, a UK legal campaign group that focuses on accountability in the technology industry. Foxglove's concerns, and those of similar organisations, centre on two aspects: the safety of patient data, and the nature of the company that will set up the data framework and seek to exploit it. ... The head of Palantir's London office is Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley and nephew of the late former president of Formula One's governing body, Max Mosley, who became a privacy campaigner later in life. Speaking to the Sunday Times in 2020, Louis Mosley said Palantir's origins were as a defender of personal privacy. 'Palantir was actually started to guard against government overreach into personal privacy. Much of the software we've built is to prove those kinds of protections.'" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/21/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs #IRLAuthorJRRTolkien #1954_TheLordOfTheRings #BrandTechNHSFederatedDataPlatformNHSFDP ^[Wikipedia] #LiteralHealthcare #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #PhenomnPrivacyConfidentiality #ConditionVirusCOVID19 #AdvocacyUKFoxgloveLegal https://www.foxglove.org.uk/who-we-are/ ^[pdf] #JournalBritishMedicalJournalBMJ 'A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England', BMJ 2023; 383 (Published 29 November 2023). ^{[academic source]} #PhenomnAccountability #TauntBigTech #BrandPalantirTechnologiesLouisMosley #OrgFRFederationInternationaleDeLAutomobileFIAFormulaOneF1MaxMosley ^[Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJimWaterson https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/24/max-mosley-f1-racing-driver-fia-president-privacy-campaigner-dies-aged-81 #PhenomnPrivacyCampaigner #2020_ #PowerControlOverreach #PhenomnPersonal #IRLHistoricalFigureOswaldMosley ^[Wikipedia]

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#OrgClassifPPUKLabourDawnButler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dq-Al1SQ8 #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMattHancock #ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicTestAndTrace

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Addendum #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight

#NMUKBBCJonSopel #BrandKochIndustries #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP #LiteralFieldEconomicsCurrencyPetroYuan #PhenomnBrexit #OrgSyndicateAccordBeltAndRoadInitiativeBRI

#NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostAaronHalegua and #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostJeromeCohen https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/23/forgotten-victims-chinas-belt-road-initiative/ #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCPXiJinping

"bilateral agreements with more than 100 countries to enhance 'connectivity' by building infrastructure projects and deepening economic ties. In the run-up to the event, many critics have highlighted the projects' negative impacts on host countries, such as debt traps, land seizures, corruption and environmental degradation. Some have pointed out the difficulties of establishing fair methods for resolving the many disputes that are arising between China and its new partners. A few have criticized the failure of certain projects to create adequate jobs for locals. But one group of victims is often overlooked: the Chinese workers dispatched overseas to build these projects. If discussed at all, these migrant workers are generally demonized as the infantry 'invading' the host country and 'stealing' local jobs. In reality, they are extremely vulnerable to exploitation by their employers, sometimes even more so than their local co-workers. The International Labor Organization reports that there are 14.2 million people in forced-labor situations worldwide and that indebted migrant workers are particularly vulnerable. Overseas Chinese workers are no exception. The recent federal criminal conviction of a Chinese construction firm executive for subjecting workers in New York to forced labor is a case in point. According to trial testimony, prior to leaving China, the workers signed contracts promising to not interact with locals, to not leave their residence without permission and to return to China after completing their multi-year assignment -- at which point the bulk of their salary would be paid. Each worker was required to post a security deposit of more than $20,000 [USD] to guarantee his compliance. Once in New York, workers' passports were seized and they were required to work long hours and live in unsafe conditions. Fear of losing their security deposit and not collecting their earned wages essentially handcuffed them from escaping this exploitation." #OrgIntlUNInternationalLabourOrganization #PowerControlForcedLabour