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DESCRIPTION:Voice of Witness presents their latest book "Mi María: Surviving the 
 Storm", an account of Puerto Rico’s devastating Hurricane María told by 
 first-person narrators. \n\nCo-hosts: Voice of Witness & San Francisco 
 Public Library\n\nFeb 18, 2022 @ 12:00 PM PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://sfpl-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uc8Wfqs3Szq-7kTqy9Qm_A\n\nMore 
 info: 
 https://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/18/panel-voice-witness-mi-maria-surviving-storm\n\n\nOn 
 September 20, 2017, Hurricane María pummeled Puerto Rico for over thirty 
 hours. As brutal as the storm was, the real catastrophe was yet to come. 
 Lack of government support left many in the archipelago without 
 electricity, clean drinking water, food and medical care for months. Years 
 later, Puerto Rico is still recovering.\n\nMi María: Surviving the Storm 
 brings together seventeen stories of perseverance and community that ask 
 what it means to be a US citizen in a colonial context, how communities 
 come together in the wake of disaster and how precarity is exacerbated for 
 those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.\n\nEdited by Ricia Anne 
 Chansky, professor of literature in the Department of English at the 
 University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and Marci Denesiuk, writer and an 
 adjunct professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto 
 Rico at Mayagüez.\n\n\nABOUT: Voice of Witness 
 (VOW)\n\nhttps://voiceofwitness.org/\n\nVoice of Witness (VOW) is an 
 award-winning nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices 
 of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice.\n\nVOW’s work 
 is driven by the transformative power of the story, and by a strong belief 
 that an understanding of systemic injustice is incomplete without deep 
 listening and learning from people with firsthand experience.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/10/18847257.php
SUMMARY:"Mi María": First Hand Accounts of Surviving Puerto Rico’s Devastating Hurricane
LOCATION:Online event via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/10/18847257.php
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