Brunson was 89.

Brian Balsbaugh, Brunsons agent, posted a statement on Twitter from the family.

It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our father, Doyle Brunson, the statement read. He was a beloved Christian man, husband, father and grandfather. Well have more to say over the coming days as we honor his legacy. Please keep Doyle and our family in your prayers. May he rest in peace.

Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker and also known as Texas Dolly, won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments second only to Phil Hellmuths 16. He also captured world championships in 1976 and 1977 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.

He wrote a book called Super System in 1979, which was one of the first books to delve into poker strategy and created a lasting impact that helped bring many others to the game.

Five-time WSOP winner Scotty Nguyen tweeted that he cant believe this day has come you will always be held high in our hearts, the man, the myth, the legend & THE GODFATHER of poker baby! Mr Brunson, you made poker what it is baby! thank you for what you give to all of us baby! RIP Mr Doyle Brunson THE GODFATHER OF POKER.

His influence carried beyond poker.

This one is a heartbreaker, actor James Woods tweeted. Doyle Brunson, the greatest poker player who ever lived, has cashed in his chips.

Doyle was so kind and helpful to me. He was gracious to my late dear brother and every friend I introduced him to. A gentleman and a genuine legend.

The French luxury jewelry brand said it was working to promote the culture of the Indigenous people and protect the rainforest where they live, in a vast territory straddling Brazil and Venezuela. But the project that the site described protecting the Amazon never took place. And Cartier published the photo without the approval of Yanomami leadership, violating the beliefs of a people who had been living in almost total isolation until they were contacted by outsiders in the 1970s.

Some of the Yanomami and their defenders praise Cartiers promotion of Yanomami causes. However, advertising by one of the worlds biggest jewelers with images of an Indigenous people devastated by illegal gold mining has some complaining of greenwashing, a corporation promoting its own image by supporting a cause.

How can a gold jewelry company, which we, the Yanomami people, are against, use the image of the Yanomami? asked Júnior Hekurari, a member of the Indigenous group and head of the Yanomamis health council.

Disease, killing and prostitution, fueled by the drugs and alcohol imported by thousands of illegal gold miners, have devastated traditional Yanomami life, and 570 Yanomami children died from malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria between 2019 and 2022, according to Brazilian statistics. The poisonous mercury used in illegal mining causes birth defects and ravages ecosystems.

Cartier says it does not buy illegally mined gold, but Yanomami leaders have urged people not to buy gold jewelry at all, regardless of its source, because demand for the precious metal drives gold prices up and draws miners into their territory.

Cartier and other jewelry brands that are part of the Swiss conglomerate Richemont had combined sales of 11 billion euros ($11.7 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, according to its annual report. Some of the pieces advertised on its U.S. website cost as much as $341,000.

Cartiers connection to the roughly 40,000 Yanomami goes back 20 years, primarily through Fondation Cartier, a corporate philanthropy created and funded by the company in 1984.

In the past, few Yanomami or their advocates have publicly criticized Cartier or the foundation, but a growing number have begun expressing concerns.

Cartiers foundation recently sponsored a finely curated exhibit displaying photographs of Yanomami, along with works by Indigenous artists, in an elegant non-profit Manhattan arts center. The exhibit, previously in Paris, was praised by outlets ranging from The New York Times to Luxury Daily, an influential industry publication whose headline read,  Fondation Cartier continues push for indigenous justice through art sponsorship.

Barbara Navarro, a French multimedia artist, saw something very different, as did several other artists, including some Yanomami.

In the multimedia show  Pas de Cartier,  or Not Cartier, in the village of Nemours, France, Navarro and others critique the luxury brand and the devastation caused by illegal miners in an exhibit that includes sculptures and drawings. In one photo montage, a large gold mine surrounded by the Amazon forest is seen next to a Cartier store.

The Yanomami are paying the price with their health and their very lives for our societys relentless avidity for gold, said Navarro. For Cartier, sponsorship of the Yanomami represents an opportunity to burnish their brand.

For many Indigenous groups, a corporation or philanthropy using a photo of them requires formal permission. The photo of the children on the website violated the Yanomamis right to prior, free, and informed consent, according to the Roraima Indigenous Council, a grassroots umbrella organization, citing the International Labour Organizations Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, which Brazil signed.

Hekurari said his people need international cooperation, but his organization would never accept money from a jewelry company.

In his trips along the Yanomami territory, an area the size of Portugal, the Yanomami leader has encountered scores of skeletal children in communities under siege by thousands of illegal miners. In March, his organization, Urihi, launched an online campaign to raise awareness against the gold trade and in a video the Yanomami leader calls on Oscar winners to replace the famous gold-plated statuettes with wooden figures of Omama, a mythical entity.

When someone buys gold in a jewelry store, he is financing more invasions to destroy Indigenous lands, he said. It is not just a matter of extracting gold. It is a matter of reaping lives.

Cartier declined to comment on the Yanomamis appeal for people to stop buying gold jewelry but, when contacted by The Associated Press in late March, Cartier removed the picture and the project description. Funds had been allocated to a forest-preservation project but ended up being used to acquire medical equipment to fight COVID-19 among the Yanomami, the company said. A donation worth $74,200 was made in June 2020.

The inaccurate description was a regrettable oversight on our part, and it was addressed immediately after it was brought to our attention, the company said.

But the problem is bigger than poor image choices, many say. Dário Kopenawa, vice-president of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, said he believes that, anyone who buys a gold ring is part of the crime.

Cartier and its foundation describe their relationship as arms-length. Kopenawa also made a distinction between Cartier and its namesake foundation.

We know that Cartier buys gold all over the world but the foundation is different. It is another coordinator, another branch. It supports the protection of the Yanomami, he said.

In February, Kopenawa even flew to New York to attend Yanomami Struggle Art and Activism in the Amazon, the exhibit sponsored by the Fondation Cartier with photographic portraits of Indigenous people alongside works by Yanomami artists. Kopenawa and other Yanomami participated in the opening ceremony, with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres among the guests.

Fondation Cartier has a collection of nearly 2,000 works at its Paris headquarters. The foundation is run by an independent dedicated team of professionals from the art world in charge of defining and implementing the artistic program, it said.

The foundation is led by Alain Dominique Perrin, a prominent figure in the luxury industry who previously served as Richemonts top executive. In a 2018 interview with French business magazine Entreprendre, he emphasized the corporate value of arts patronage.

Patronage is similar to sponsorship: You help an artist to exhibit, to gain recognition and to develop, but in return, the Fondation receives praise from the press, the media and social networks, which necessarily benefits the company, he said.

The foundation, will become a focal point for the management and the image of the Cartier brand, Richemont wrote in its 1994 annual report, when the headquarters was inaugurated with 12,000 square feet of exhibition space.

French anthropologist Bruce Albert has been engaged with the Yanomami for decades, participating in a campaign in the 1990s that secured the tribes land demarcation. He connected Fondation Cartier with the Yanomami in 2003. That year, Albert curated the first photo and art exhibit about the Yanomami sponsored by the foundation.

In early February, Albert attended the opening ceremony of the New York exhibition after working on it as a paid consultant, together with Kopenawa and Yanomami artists.

Responding to questions in writing, Albert in February praised Fondation Cartier as independent, and said better control from Brazilian authorities would be more efficient than a gold boycott. Still, Albert criticized the use of the image on Cartiers website, saying by email in April that the Yanomami hadnt granted permission for its use, and the jeweler wasnt funding any reforestation projects.

When it comes to acquiring gold, Cartier says the vast majority is purchased recycled and the company conforms to standards of the Responsible Jewelry Council, which describes itself as the worlds leading sustainability standard-setting organization for the jewelry and watch industry.

With gold, however, it is next to impossible to prove provenance, as much illegal material seeps into global supply chains. And Yanomami leaders have made clear that they believe that gold is at the root of the groups troubles.

Is there is a responsibility in the purchase of this gold? Ivo Makuxi, the lawyer from the Indigenous council, asked about Cartiers role in an industry that has hurt the Yanomami. Does the company respect the Indigenous rights?

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This massive investment in American manufacturing is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make sustainability an economic imperative. But we must also work to ensure that dignity and opportunity are fixtures of the changing labor landscape. After all, without an equally significant investment in the workers powering the next generation of green technology infrastructure, our environment, our economy, and our workforce will suffer.

Too often, we mistakenly assume that growing industries and high-demand jobs that benefit the planet will automatically benefit workers as well. But nearly half of the fastest-growing jobs across sectors pay less than the median personal income of $37,522 for workers. Worse, many fall well below a living wage of $24 per hourthe very minimum for improving labor standards. Absent job quality and safeguards that guarantee solid wages, robust benefits, and meaningful bargaining power, these jobs will create an unsustainable cycleattracting new workers but failing to support them for the long term. For workers of color, women, LGBTQ and disabled people, and others who still face discriminatory barriers on the job, additional protections are even more crucial to building an equitable 21st-century workforce.

As it stands, working people are caught between the rapid expansion of green jobs and the halting progress of worker protections in fields from electric vehicle manufacturing to clean energy installation. Recycling workers face some of the highest rates of injury in the U.S., while construction workers lack health insurance at rates three times higher than in other industries. These inequities only increase for immigrant workers, who make up 25% of the construction workforce but earn 26% less than their native-born counterparts.

Meanwhile, employers across industries continue to deny labor a voice at the decision-making table. Historically, industrial jobs were a pathway to the middle class, in large part because they were heavily unionized. This year, however, the percentage of American workers in a union fell to a record lowdespite major labor organizing victories. Without collective bargaining rights, workers face even more barriers to mobility.

In the face of these shortcomings, climate stakeholders and industrial employers have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to collaborate with labor leaders, worker centers, and community groups around a new good jobs framework pioneered by the Families and Workers Fund and signed by more than 100 leaders in business, labor, policy, philanthropy, academia, and workforce development. Ensuring green jobs are good jobs will make our economy and our environment sustainable for people and the planet.

To do so we must ensure workers full participation in the decisions that shape their workplaces and their lives.

First, leaders in the climate and green energy sectors can bridge the longstanding division between industrial policy and labor rights and embrace cross-sector collaboration. That begins with adopting labor standards created by workers themselves, as the city of Austin did for its $7.2 billion Project Connect transit plan. The Better Builder Program, an initiative of the Ford Foundation-backed Worker Defense Project, partnered with businesses and local government to implement new standards focused on living wages, health, and safety training, workers compensation, and on-site monitoring. Now, Austin developers seeking expedited building approvals must be certified to meet their set of job quality criteriaa blueprint other companies and countries should scale.

In addition, we must ensure that new jobsand the economic mobility they promiseare open to all. Recently, Jobs to Move America, a coalition of community, civil rights, labor, and faith groups that the Ford Foundation supports, successfully brokered a Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) with leading electric bus maker New Flyer. The CBA, a mechanism for communities to negotiate directly with developers, guaranteed that 45% of new hires in an Alabama manufacturing plant would come from historically marginalized groups, including Black and Indigenous workers, women, and veterans. This is a landmark win in the deep South, a region where working people experience some of the lowest wages and unionization rates in the country, particularly for workers of color. This progress is emblematic of the growing appetite for economic mobility in the South, and the power of partnerships and creative solutions.  

We must work together across domains and fields in the public sector, private sector, and civil society to forge alliances in recognition of the shared priorities between clean energy, manufacturing, and workers rights. Together, we can invest in emerging sectors and build accountabilityto ensure these historic investments turn green jobs into good jobs.

Federal investments are bending the economy to serve the needs and demands of American workers. Employers, organizers, and climate leaders everywhere must do the samebend the curve toward workers rights and a more just, inclusive, and democratic model of capitalism.

Darren Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation.

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