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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. 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.
  3. Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
    Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
  4. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
  5. Flooding
    Canada Water Book

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  6. The Heat Is On
    The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
  7. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
    Resource Type: Database
    Published: 2005
    The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
  8. Hurricane Hazel
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  9. Hurricane Hazel
    Canada's Storm of the Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2006
  13. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  14. Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
    Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
  15. 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'.
  16. A Tale of Two Islands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
  17. When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
    Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.


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