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Businesses have installed planters and other noisemaking devices to make staying in front of a storefront inconvenient.

That opened the door to a boom in cotton production, but many more workers would be needed to harvest the crop—a need that planters filled with a massive expansion of slavery.

In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.

It favors planters with significant Malaysian upstream operations, as they benefit from strong sensitivity to crude palm oil prices, while facing limited risk of land confiscation.

One of their “light touch” moves included removing planters in the sunken garden area out front so more people can eventually sit out there once the planned restaurant goes in, Herzog said.