As volunteers helped clean up the kitchen, an elderly neighbor arrived to quietly plug in his oxygen machine and have a chat with friends.Watching this mass meeting segue seamlessly into a party, I was reminded of Yarimar Bonilla’s observation that amid Puerto Rico’s epidemic of despair, “the people who seem to be doing the best are those who are helping others, those who are involved in community efforts.” That was certainly true here. The secretary of education, meanwhile, had been forced to scale back the number of planned public school closures. He was famous for first pointing a radio telescope at another star for indications of friendly aliens, then for an equation, still in use today, that tries to predict how many of “them” are out there.On Nov. 16, 1974, Dr. Drake beamed the equivalent of a 20-trillion-watt message toward M13, a cloud of about 300,000 stars some 25,000 light-years from Earth, as part of a celebration of an upgrade to the antenna.The message consisted of 1,679 zeros and ones. Actually, we have a problem that you can help us with. It stands to reason that the best cure for helplessness is … helping, being a participant, rather than a spectator, in the recovery of your home, community, and land.This is why the shock doctrine, as a political strategy, is more than just cynical and opportunist — “it’s cruel,” as Mónica Flores said to me through tears. No one was hurt.Arecibo’s director, Francisco Córdova of the University of Central Florida, and Ramon Lugo, director of the university’s Florida Space Institute and principal investigator for the observatory, reported in a Zoom news conference a few days later that nobody knew yet why the cable, which was more than three inches thick, had snapped. … That’s what we are trying to create.”The grassroots groups here in Mariana are entirely unconvinced that becoming a fly-in bedroom community for tax-dodging plutocrats represents any kind of serious economic development strategy.
It glowed like a beacon in the terrifying darkness.The pink house was Casa Pueblo, a community and ecology center with deep roots in this part of the island. There were the Vieques — more than two-thirds of which used to be a U.S. Navy facility where Marines practiced ground warfare and completed their gun training — was a testing ground for everything from Agent Orange to depleted uranium to napalm. Whoever’s solar panels survive the next storm would, like Casa Pueblo, be up and running the next day. I spoke with Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, who was also in Puerto Rico as part of the climate justice brigades. One month after Maria, she tweeted that New Orleans should be a “point of reference,” and “we should not underestimate the damage or the opportunity to create new, better schools.”Central to a shock doctrine strategy is speed — pushing a flurry of radical changes through so quickly it’s virtually impossible to keep up. As a result, it was built to be both a telescope and a planetary radar.One of its directors over the years was astronomer Frank Drake. Because in a future that is sure to include more weather shocks, getting energy from sources that don’t require sprawling transportation networks is just common sense. Private telephone companies have provided poor service in many parts of the archipelago, and a water and sewage system sale in the ’90s proved so economically and environmentally Even so, the governor’s pitch has proved persuasive for some because privatization is not presented as one possible solution to a dire humanitarian crisis, but as the only one. And ironically, this is in part thanks to Maria. The business Esj Towers Hotel is a great place to stay in Isla Verde district in a reasonable distance from Carolina Public Beach. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, right, visits a school with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, left, and Puerto Rico Secretary of Education Julia Keleher, center, on Nov. 8, 2017.The day before I walked through that portal in Orocovis, Gov. At some Puerto Rican wind farms, turbine blades snapped off in Maria’s high winds (seemingly because they were improperly positioned), just as some poorly secured solar panels took flight. Like Casa Pueblo, in the myriad dysfunctions and injustices the storm so vividly exposed, they see an opportunity to tackle the root causes that turned a weather disaster into a human catastrophe. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas.Arturo Massol-Deyá, a bearded biologist and president of Casa Pueblo’s board of directors, took me on a brief tour of the facility: the radio station, a solar-powered cinema opened since the storm, a butterfly garden, a store selling local crafts and their wildly popular brand of coffee. They also learned very quickly about a few things that worked surprisingly well. By giving the fiscal board the power to reject decisions made by Puerto Rico’s elected territorial representatives, they were now losing the weak rights they had won, marking a return to unmasked colonial rule.Unsurprisingly, the fiscal control board promptly placed Puerto Rico on an even more wrenching austerity diet.
It glowed like a beacon in the terrifying darkness.The pink house was Casa Pueblo, a community and ecology center with deep roots in this part of the island. There were the Vieques — more than two-thirds of which used to be a U.S. Navy facility where Marines practiced ground warfare and completed their gun training — was a testing ground for everything from Agent Orange to depleted uranium to napalm. Whoever’s solar panels survive the next storm would, like Casa Pueblo, be up and running the next day. I spoke with Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, who was also in Puerto Rico as part of the climate justice brigades. One month after Maria, she tweeted that New Orleans should be a “point of reference,” and “we should not underestimate the damage or the opportunity to create new, better schools.”Central to a shock doctrine strategy is speed — pushing a flurry of radical changes through so quickly it’s virtually impossible to keep up. As a result, it was built to be both a telescope and a planetary radar.One of its directors over the years was astronomer Frank Drake. Because in a future that is sure to include more weather shocks, getting energy from sources that don’t require sprawling transportation networks is just common sense. Private telephone companies have provided poor service in many parts of the archipelago, and a water and sewage system sale in the ’90s proved so economically and environmentally Even so, the governor’s pitch has proved persuasive for some because privatization is not presented as one possible solution to a dire humanitarian crisis, but as the only one. And ironically, this is in part thanks to Maria. The business Esj Towers Hotel is a great place to stay in Isla Verde district in a reasonable distance from Carolina Public Beach. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, right, visits a school with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, left, and Puerto Rico Secretary of Education Julia Keleher, center, on Nov. 8, 2017.The day before I walked through that portal in Orocovis, Gov. At some Puerto Rican wind farms, turbine blades snapped off in Maria’s high winds (seemingly because they were improperly positioned), just as some poorly secured solar panels took flight. Like Casa Pueblo, in the myriad dysfunctions and injustices the storm so vividly exposed, they see an opportunity to tackle the root causes that turned a weather disaster into a human catastrophe. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas.Arturo Massol-Deyá, a bearded biologist and president of Casa Pueblo’s board of directors, took me on a brief tour of the facility: the radio station, a solar-powered cinema opened since the storm, a butterfly garden, a store selling local crafts and their wildly popular brand of coffee. They also learned very quickly about a few things that worked surprisingly well. By giving the fiscal board the power to reject decisions made by Puerto Rico’s elected territorial representatives, they were now losing the weak rights they had won, marking a return to unmasked colonial rule.Unsurprisingly, the fiscal control board promptly placed Puerto Rico on an even more wrenching austerity diet.