Cain Returns 🍁🇺🇸

On a soybean farm in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, police found 42 people living in slave-like conditions. 28 of them were housed inside a single 70 x 70 building. There were no toilets. There were no showers. The farm was called Fazenda Colorado. It was controlled by a company called Brookfield. A Brazilian labour court ruled against the Brookfield-controlled firm. The ruling was upheld in December 2021. The man who was Vice-Chair of Brookfield at the time is named Mark Carney. A year later, he was promoted to Chair. (𝘏𝑒𝘢𝑑 𝑜𝘧 𝘉𝑜𝘢𝑟𝘥). He is now the Prime Minister of Canada. 🇨🇦 Stay with me. 🇨🇴 In Colombia, another Brookfield owned company — began building a wind farm in the year 2020. The turbines were raised on Wayuu ancestral land. The Associated Press, reporting earlier this year, wrote that the wind farm "looms over the cemetery near Cabo de la Vela." A cemetery. The final resting place for entire generations. Today turbines turn in it's sky. Wayuu Nation eventually blockaded the site. The sign they held read: "Indigenous territory closed for grave human rights violations." 🇺🇸 In the United States, Brookfield operated dams on the Kennebec River in Maine. Conservation groups sued them in 2021, alleging the dams were killing Atlantic salmon from an endangered population. The US federal energy regulator has since required Brookfield to change how those dams operate so that the fish can live. 🇨🇦 And now we come home. Mississauga First Nation — near Lake Huron's north shore, ~2 hours north of Toronto — is suing Brookfield and the Ontario government for $100,000,000. Four dams on the Mississagi River, bought by Brookfield in 2002, that the community says destroyed their fishing sites, flooded their territory, and displaced their people. The First Nation was never consulted before the sale. When the lawsuit was filed, Carney was Vice-Chair of Brookfield Asset Management. The community's lawyer, Kate Kempton, described how they got here, in her own words: "Brookfield shut the door in our face." Four places. Four peoples. One company. One man at the top. 1/3 🧵