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  1. After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
  2. Anger over China's Deadly Workplaces after Warehouse Explosion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A series of chemical explosions on August 12, 2015 at a warehouse in the northern city of Tianjin is shining a spotlight on dangerous workplace conditions and precarious employment relations in China.
  3. Bhopal: The Inside Story
    Carbide Workers Speak Out on the World's Worst Industrial Disaster

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    An account of the disaster in Bhopal, India.
  4. Bhopal's Fight for Memory
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
  5. Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
  6. Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
  7. Fighting for climate justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Climate change is a key factor in oppression of the poor worldwide.
  8. Fire in the dark: the astonishing story of the Courrieres mine disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    One hundred and eight years ago today, on March 10, 1906, an explosion and fire occurred deep underground in a coal mine owned by the Courrières mining company underneath the village of Billy-Montigny in northern France. A total of 1,099 miners died, including many children.
  9. The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
  10. Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
  11. Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
  12. Mastering disaster: How to get the facts to cover humanitarian crises
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In a midst of a humanitarian crisis like the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, information on the disaster pours to and from the media. The situation is in flux and the needs are great, and troubling fragments of news drop in continuously from on-the-ground reports, government briefings, humanitarian responders and social media. It’s often incredibly difficult to answer the basic questions: How many victims? How much destruction? Who will help pay for the emergency response and help with the recovery? Who has already donated money and resources?
  13. Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
    Resource Type: Videotape
    Published: 2017
    Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
  14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
    Utopia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
  15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
  16. A Paradise Built in Hell
    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
  17. Public Safety
    Introduction to the June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    It is becoming increasingly clear that we have been witnessing a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. Politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, have been jettisoning, with little thought or understanding of the consequences, the apparatus previous generations built, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization.
  18. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
  19. The Uses of an Earthquake
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
  20. The War of the World
    Easy Chair

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Solnit reflects on the environmental destruction that the world has been experiencing since the Second World War.

Experts on Disasters in the Sources Directory

  1. World Health Organization

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