On Monday, the UN voted unanimously to extend the security mission in Haiti for another year. Dahoud André, a Haitian community activist based in New York and a member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti contextualizes this latest development inside of what he describes as a decades long political operation to exert control over over Haiti by the U.S.

It is well documented that coastal black communities have historically recovered poorly after hurricanes, and FEMA announced a 7 billion dollar shortfall in hurricane relief this year as big swaths of the south are being devastated by Hurricane Helene. Adam Mahoney, the climate and environment reporter at Capital B compares the magnitude of devastation caused by of Hurricane Helene to the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.

Shiva Rajbhandari, a student organizer in North Carolina and a spokesperson for Sunrise Movement faults the climate crisis that fuels these hurricanes on the fossil fuel industry. He recently returned from Tampa Bay, Florida where he supported mutual aid efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is multi-hyphenated Hawaii based musician, sound engineer and filmmaker Randy DeVol.

Check out Randy DeVol’s website at randydevol.com

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