September 22, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

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Thousands of volunteers work with professionals to remove debris of buildings collapsed by the powerful quake that hit Mexico September 19. Periodic raised fists signaled the need for silence—of people and machines—so that sounds from survivors still buried in the rubble could be heard.   Photo: AP

We need you. Send correspondence to revcom.us on what you know or can learn about what is happening in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other places hit by earthquakes and hurricanes.

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What is happening? How are people affected? How bad is the situation? What are people doing? What are authorities doing? What are medical professionals and others doing? How much are people’s needs being met? How much are they not being met? How much are people coming together in creative new ways to deal with this, and how much are people caught up in harmful ways? What changes are people going through?

In these recent natural disasters, there has been immense tragedy, real heroism on the part of ordinary people, and real crime on the part of those who rule. It is horrific to see the effects of storms and earthquakes, which are part of the experience of living on our planet. It is criminal the ways these effects are dealt with, or not dealt with, by the ruling authorities, especially of the U.S. And the heroism is real, as we see people in Mexico, in Houston, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean, immediately struggle to organize themselves and work furiously to rescue people and bring needed resources. And some people have done backward things.

We and our readers need to know what we confront in this world, in order to act on it, in order to change it. And if some people are beginning to contrast the madness of the world today with the vision of a whole other way the world and people could be, in the New Communism of Bob Avakian, and the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, learning about a revolutionary society that could qualitatively meet the largest needs of humanity—we need to know of that, too.

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