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A new consciousness, based on “autogestión” (self-reliance), has taken hold in Puerto Rico, where grass-roots movements are looking not just to rebuild, but to shape a more resilient future.
Rómulo Burgos Jr. Ortiz, a former electrician with the public power company, now belongs to a group of neighbors seeking to form a cooperative to install solar panels on rooftops and set up their own energy microgrid.
Within days of the hurricane, a dozen members of Agua, Sol y Sereno (Water, Sun and Evening Mist), an arts group known for its stilt-walkers and life-size puppets, fanned out to shelters around the island.
They had lost everything, and they were in shock, but they started smiling. We laughed together, and we cried together.
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Yareli Manning (right) owns the gourmet food truck The Meatball Company and her sister, Xoimar (left), operates Yummy Dumplings. They joined the post-hurricane food-relief efforts lead by chef José Andrés- a fleet of 10 sturdy kitchens on wheels.
José Andrés told us, ‘We’re going to give out a million meals.’ I thought, ‘This guy is crazy!
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Elena Biamón sees an opportunity to advance agroecological farming — sustainable, ecologically sound crops that currently are just a fraction of the local output.
The prominent painter and graphic artist Antonio “Toño” Martorell chose to commemorate the dead — 2,975 fatalities, according to researchers at George Washington University — in the powerful exhibit “In Memoriam.”
The first step to make a change is to confront reality. We are becoming more aware that we have to solve our own problems. People here are responding.
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