The Battle For Paradise

Posted on 11 July 2017 by Naomi Klein

Fearless necessary reporting Klein exposes the battle of utopias that is currently unfolding in storm ravaged Puerto Rico a battle that pits a pitilessly neoliberal plutocratic paradise against a community movement with Puerto Rican sovereignty at its center Junot Diaz We are in a fight for our lives Hurricanes Irma and Maria unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto RicoIn the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation s radical, resilient vision for a just recovery All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island For information, visit Klein is an award winning journalist, syndicated columnist, documentary filmmaker and author of the international bestsellers No Logo Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, This Changes Everything Capitalism vs the Climate, and No Is Not Enough Fearless necessary reporting Klein exposes the battle of utopias that is currently unfolding in storm ravaged Puerto Rico a battle that pits a pitilessly neoliberal plutocratic paradise against a community movement with Puerto Rican sovereignty at its center Junot Diaz We are in a fight for our lives Hurricanes Irma and Maria unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for Carmen Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico A gripping and timely account of classic shock doctrine being perpetrated in Puerto Rico Naomi Klein chronicles the extraordinary grassroots resistance by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island s financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington s imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S colony Juan Gonzalez, co host of Democracy Now and author of Harvest of Empire A History of Latinos in America Like so many of my generation, I ve been a reader of Naomi Klein s since the late 1990s, always finding something to learn from her rigorous reporting and thoughtful analysis There s no one better to tell the story of Hurricane Maria and its global significance than Naomi In the face of speculation, exploitation, and climate crisis, this book calls on us to recognize Puerto Rico s struggle for democracy, justice, and human life itself, as our own Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, Spain Best Read The Battle For Paradise [ author ] Naomi Klein [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Read this book now It s only 80 pages long Shock Doctrine is probably the most important book of the last decade and Naomi Klein one of the most important journalists This essay documents the shock doctrine unfolding in Puerto Rico...Naomi Klein s The Battle for Paradise Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists is an excellent, in depth, and short introduction to Puerto Rico s plight after Hurricane Maria It outlines in quick and direct language how the US s colonialist policies and parasitic history with Puerto Rico set it up for disaster Klein outlines the ways that after the disaster, the government and cryptocurrency bigwig...Buy this for the cause it supports It s basically an extended interview but it is crucial in presenting an alternative view on the current state of affairs in Puerto Rico.Naomi Klein is one of the few writers that consistently make me cry with both sadness and hope in one text The Battle For Paradise is no different An extremely compelling case for decentralisation that everyone needs to readHurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September of 2017.And despite Puerto Rico s status as a territory of the United States, the US government has done embarrassingly little to assist the American citizens of this beautiful island.While the absence of US assistance has been bad enough, there is amalicious contingent at work Naomi Klein takes aim ...I ll take Klein s journalism over her polemical side in a heartbeat.Great contrast between two utopian projects in Puerto Rico One is community based, working on building a decentralized solar power grid and switching to sustainable, longterm agriculture The other is insidious, hoping to attract high net worth individ...Amidst the destruction, Klein finds pockets of hope throughout the many communities she visited in January 2018 After being invited by a PARes a group of university professors defending public education to talk about her work on disaster capitalism, she writes about the ways Puerto Ricans have self organized to help each other out after Maria.In the small mountain city of Adjuntas lies Casa Pueblo, the community and ecology center that shone a light in the city for days Literally and metaphori Amidst the destruction, Klein finds pockets of hope throughout the many communities she visited in January 2018 After being invited by a PARes a group of university professors defending public education to talk about her work on disaster capitalism, she writes about the ways Puerto Ricans have self organized to help each other out after Maria.In the small mountain city of Adjuntas lies Casa Pueblo, the community and ecology center that shone a light in the city for days Literally and metaphorically It became the community s only source of power, its solar panels in tact after the storm Its community managed plantation also survived, and it was able to sustain its radio station which became the only source of information down power lines and knocked out cell towers.What Klein illustrates are different versions of utopia for the Borinquen, one that begs the question of for whom is Puerto Rico really for At a time when the island is at its m...This book hasVidal information the one that has 400 pages I was I in tune am a history graduate from Boston that lived in NY and decided to live in Puerto Rico.I lived their raising a family and still own my property I face Hurricane Hugo.and that was no joke I relocated to Florida 3 years before Maria She has penetrated the colonial plague that has and is destroying the progress to cultivate the island It was colonial policies to destroy most of the crops to make the islanders self r This book hasVidal information the one that has 400 pages I was I in tune am a history graduate from Boston that lived in NY and decided to live in Puerto Rico.I lived their raising a family and still own my property I face Hurricane Hugo.and that was no joke I relocated to Florida 3 years before Maria She has penetrated the colonial plague that has and is destroying the progress to cultivate the island It was colonial policies to destroy mo...Read this to get a good snippet of what s going on in PR and to get really madThis book should really be read by everyone.

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11 July 2017

Naomi Klein