Trouble #7: Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
It’s now been twelve years since Hurricane Katrina smashed through the levees of New Orleans, completely inundating the Lower Ninth Ward and... Read Full Article
It’s now been twelve years since Hurricane Katrina smashed through the levees of New Orleans, completely inundating the Lower Ninth Ward and... Read Full Article
We catch up once again with anti-capitalist theorist and author of Decolonizing Dialectics, George Ciccariello-Maher of Drexel University, to speak on the phenomena... Read Full Article
Listen and Download Here In this edition of The Solecast I speak with Frank Lopez about his recent trip to Puerto Rico. We... Read Full Article
While Trump gave himself a score of 10 for the disastrous relief efforts by the US government in Puerto Rico, punks, artists,... Read Full Article
Members of the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief collective, went to Puerto Rico, to help distribute food and water and to provide medical... Read Full Article
As the days grind up in number, creating time and distance from the thrashing winds and surging inundation of the deluge of... Read Full Article
Climate Chaos is happening. Adaptation and preparation are essential. Grassroots disaster response will be more and more necessary as we see more catastrophes... Read Full Article
Listen and Download Here I’d like to share a Final Straw Radio mini-episode, a conversation with Emilio of the currently unofficial Sonoma County... Read Full Article
In this episode, we caught up with Franklin Lopez of Sub.Media, a native of Puerto Rico, to discuss his recent trip to... Read Full Article
Listen and Download Here First this week, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr Kihana Mariah Ross, who is the daughter in... Read Full Article
Several police vehicles, an armored tactical vehicle, and law enforcement personnel including swat team pointed their guns at relief workers while surrounding... Read Full Article
We drove through neighborhoods in the mountains with local residents and our comrades from Guaynabo, delivered food, cases of water, water purification... Read Full Article
A land abandoned is one in which no one has come to respond. That’s not the case in Puerto Rico. Thousands of... Read Full Article
On this day, we must remember that for some communities, disasters have been unfolding for centuries, depriving people of life and liberty... Read Full Article
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is organizing response teams to continually travel to Puerto Rico and surrounding areas to assist with rebuilding sustainable, modular... Read Full Article
Our weeks, like our hearts, have been so full lately. As the phases of relief and recovery transition rapidly, we are reminded... Read Full Article
The mass shooting in Las Vegas was horrific and a tragic loss of human life. Our hearts go out to those who... Read Full Article
Two strong earthquakes battered Mexico this September. The first, with a magnitude of 8.1 degrees, hit the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca... Read Full Article
The situation in Puerto Rico is one of disaster – and things are only looking worse. Already, it has been over 7 days since... Read Full Article
In exceptional times, phenomena that are normally considered marginal become essential and delineate the common of an epoch. We are living in... Read Full Article
On the 32nd anniversary of the earthquake of 1985, again the government and political class have shown their inability to respond, and... Read Full Article
The following is a report back for a relief trip to the Florida Keys made possible by the work of numerous folks... Read Full Article
To the people of Mexico To the Indigenous Governing Council To the National Indigenous Congress To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation... Read Full Article
On Tuesday, September 19, a powerful earthquake struck central Mexico. With a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale and the epicenter... Read Full Article
Recently we spoke with Dezeray about her organizing with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) in the weeks since Hurricane Irma and how... Read Full Article
Thankfully, Tampa did not get “punched in the face” as much as anticipated. Still, if you are in the Tampa Bay area... Read Full Article