Splinter, “The Grassroots Movement to Transform Our Broken Disaster Relief System”

It would have been a beautiful autumn day in Oakland, if not for the haze. Standing in a parking lot next to the iconic Lake Merritt, the smoke hung over everything, turning the sky a bluish beige and blurring anything more than a few hundred yards away. A few volunteers and reporters milled about in […]

Newsweek, “Puerto Rican ‘Anarchistic Organizers’ Took Power Into Their Own Hands After Hurricane Maria”

In August, nearly one year after Hurricane Maria wrecked Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and plunged its 3.4 million residents into darkness, island officials heralded a milestone: The lights were back on. The state-owned electric company even tweeted a photo of a smiling family it said was the last to receive power. But Christine Nieves, an […]