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“Program service accomplishments - public health & corporate/government accountability "in 2018, gap continued to regularly receive and assess cases for representation that could bring transparency and accountability to government, corporations, and other institutions. "we continued our investigation of cases on behalf of whistleblowers at wells fargo, j. P. Morgan and deutsche bank, as well as investigated issues related to bank fraud and investment securities. "throughout 2018, gap continued to represent whistleblowers from the financial crash of 2008 on their sec claims and in depositions on investor suits. "gap continued to report to the media and documentarians about the failure of the department of justice to prosecute banks and their executives for bank fraud and misrepresentations to investors on questionable securities. "gap continued the fiscal sponsorship of bank whistleblowers united (bwu) -- a program comprised of prominent wall street whistleblowers who identified high-level wrongdoing by the nation's largest financial institutions and the federal government. Bwu develops strategic actions to curb the financial sector's corrupting influence on politics and government regulators, as well as provide a methodology to restore the rule of law to wall street, and end too-big-to-fail. "gap's food integrity campaign (fic) continued to represent and empower food integrity whistleblowers and citizen activists, as well as protect the rights of those who speak out against inhumane handling of animals raised for food production, adulterated food, and other practices that compromise food integrity. "fic continued its campaign against the usda's controversial pilot "himp" program to increase line speeds and reduce federal meat inspectors at pork processing plants. With the assistance of usda meat inspector whistleblowers and their evidence, we continued to work with allies and the media to demonstrate that himp poses significant threats to the environment, places public health at risk, adds to the suffering of animals, and threatens the safety of workers who are already routinely exploited. To this end, we produced an interactive online game that illustrated the corporate relationship between president trump and himp pork. This ambitious campaign strategically educated and empowered players to take action to stop the himp rule. Released in march 2018, our press release was picked up by several online media sources. Two of those publications, vice and eater, posted glowing write-ups and embedded the game into their own websites. Those two publications alone reached over 4 million game viewers. "in 2018, gap continued to advance our investigative efforts by conducting on-sight and in-person interviews with usda meat inspectors from around the country. As part of the expansion of our investigative efforts, we also garnered significant public attention for our ongoing investigation uncovering massive corruption at a major turkey plant. In this case we monitored meat inspector complaints about the misuse of anti-microbial chemicals, including peracetic acid, and continued to work with numerous whistleblowers. "fic continued to help lead the effort against ag-gag anti-whistleblower policies, as well as fighting against laws that criminalize whistleblowing by prohibiting the shooting of video at agricultural processing facilities. Working with our allies and coalition members we fought these laws in north carolina, utah, and arkansas. "in 2018 gap's food integrity campaign was regularly quoted in print and online outlets, such as the washington post, the intercept and mother jones.”

“Program service accomplishments - environment & energy "in the previous year, we advanced the strategic position of gap's climate science & policy watch (cspw) program and had a significant impact through our fight against the climate change denial machine across multiple strategic fronts. In 2018, as a result of these efforts -- and in particular via the posting of research intensive features investigating these issues, the dramatic increase of climate change impacts, and the dangers of fossil extraction processes -- the cspw site attracted a monthly average audience of at least 30,000 readers, including: reporters; government officials; congressional offices; scientists; educators; activists; and others both nationally and internationally. "in 2018 we expanded our network with our allies and continued to actively work to protect science from political interference. For example, as a member of the protecting science coalition -- a group of over twenty organizations who collaborate to protect government science from mal- intended anti-science operatives -- we contributed heavily to a major report: protecting science at federal agencies: how congress can help. We provided the report to key members of congress. "in 2018 gap continued our ongoing investigation into exxonmobil through the review of all 10-k forms the company has submitted to the sec since 1993 (the farthest back these forms are publically available) in an effort to better understand how the oil giant has addressed the climate change threat. Cspw plans to publish a white paper with the results of this investigation in 2019. "cspw's investigative team continued to identify and interview experts and scientists who may be aware of oil and coal industry efforts to intimidate them into silence, misconstrue their findings and/or bury their research results. "in 2018, gap continued our investigation into the devastating long-term effects on human health and the gulf of mexico ecosystem stemming from the widespread use of the dispersant corexit in response to the 2010 bp deepwater horizon oil spill. Over 40 whistleblowers have now come forward to gap disclosing disturbing environmental and public health threats in the gulf region. We continued to work with these whistleblowers and our national coalition members to develop strategies in our efforts to ban the future use of corexit as a dispersant.”

“Program service accomplishments - international "gap continued raising critical international concerns involving asylum, whistleblower witness protection, and the creation of a public interest defense through our work with the whistleblowing international network (win), which gap helped establish in 2014. "gap's work through the getulio p. Carvalho fellowship has produced: academic papers about whistleblowers and racial discrimination at international organizations; a handbook for whistleblower protection at these same organizations; case studies of retaliation against un human rights whistleblowers; and an in-depth accounting of corruption schemes involving a repressive regime and energy production. Gap's 2018 carvalho fellow, anna levy, focused her research on issues surrounding anti- retaliation work in humanitarian organizations. Ms. Levy's research is anticipated to be published in 2019. "gap's international experts continued to conduct trainings for prosecutors, judges, and other government officials in multiple countries. To this end, gap's experts played a leading role in the drafting of the european whistleblower protection directive, which helped lead to a positive vote of the legal affairs committee (juri) of the european parliament in favor of the directive. The directive would create legally binding free speech protections for whistleblowers in all european union member states. Among the advancements within the directive, one of the most notable was the extension of whistleblower protections to journalists - a progressive move that would surpass whistleblower protections in most developed countries, including the usa.”

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