Stronger Caribbean Together’s webinars and podcasts feature voices from across the Caribbean region, offering insightful perspectives on building resilience against the challenges posed by disaster capitalism – the exploitation of crises and disasters for private profit. Through these thought-provoking exchanges partners share their knowledge, experiences, and success stories, fostering regional solidarity and empowering listeners with valuable insights, best practices, and inspiration for creating a Stronger Caribbean Together.
This podcast features SCT network partners Marcela and Ana Elisa whose organizations in Providencia and Vieques have both experienced the negative effects of disaster capitalism. Marcela and Ana Elisa lead organizations that provide alternative solutions to the problems faced by their communities. They focus on food sovereignty, seed exchange, agricultural training, and creating markets for locally produced goods.
Audio & TranscriptFebruary 27, 2024In this podcast episode we highlight our partner Tet Kole, a Haitian peasant movement which fights for land rights, food sovereignty, and resources for small farmers. They struggle with limited government support and disasters. External aid groups prioritize handouts over helping Haitians grow their own food. Tet Kole seeks training, collaboration, and long-term projects to empower Haitian peasants. Many resources...
Audio & TranscriptSeptember 12, 2023During this discussion, we spoke about how they became familiar with the concept of disaster capitalism, some of the fundamental issues that enable disaster capitalism, and what networks like Stronger Caribbean Together provide to local grassroots mobilizing. Our guests also talk through how we might rethink the language and meaning of development in the Caribbean.
Audio & TranscriptJuly 3, 2023
Comparing Providencia, Colombia before and after Hurricane Iota, highlighting the traditional local agriculture and cultural values of the Raizal, who also present their example of seed custodianship to their brothers and sisters in the Greater Caribbean.
Brief presentation on the Recipes for Resilience project and the power of food culture to bring people together in the face of challenges and was a vessel through which enslaved people stayed connected to their African roots.
This webinar brought leaders from Caribbean communities together to discuss strategies of community organization and mobilization, to combat the dispossession of land and other forms of disaster capitalism.
Introduction to the Land Trust instrument which informal settlment communities adjacent to Caño Martín Peña, Puerto Rico have used to protect themselves from displacement and safeguard their environment.
Addressing the topics of hunger, covid 19, resistance and farmer based solutions. stories knowledge and visions from 5 female food organizers in the Caribbean.
Presentations by community organizers activists who are fighting for a better and a more just way in Jamaica, Colombia, Belize, Puerto Rico, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Newsy and Bellingcat dig into a luxury development in which foreign developers have been given a 99 year-lease to create hundreds of deluxe private homes and a golf course in a vulnerable environment.
Hugh Johnson, a farmer on the Bernard Lodge property, discusses the Jamaican government's decision to displace farmers in favour of home construction without consultation.
The people of Barbuda have been able to protect their island because land ownership does not exist there. Since 2017, the government of Antigua and Barbuda has been trying to change the law despite community pushback.
Stories of Barbudans and their homeland described as one of the most at risk Islands in the world, the challenges they continue to face and overcome and the courage and resilience
Showcasing stories of Caribbean organizations at the foreground of the struggle against disaster capitalism in the Caribbean. Our network of participants in the Greater Caribbean region connect, learn, share their hands on responses to the impacts of the twin threats of the climate crisis and disaster capitalism in our region.
Bernard Lodge Farmers Group
WAVE (Progressive Reform Movement)
Tèt Kole
Global Challenges Research Fund
Open Society Foundations
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In the tumultuous aftermath of disasters, it is easy to feel isolated and alone, but you are not.
We, a network of Caribbean-wide community organizers who stand in solidarity with those affected the twin threats of the climate crises and disaster capitalism, a phenomenon that exacerbates the suffering of vulnerable communities.
We want you to know that your stories matter. We are here to listen, to support, and to amplify your voices.
We believe that together, we can challenge the forces of disaster capitalism and advocate for more sustainable, inclusive and equitable decision-making.
Join us in solidarity. Share your experiences and let’s build strong communities that thrive together.
As the wider world braces for the climate change, Caribbean communities are already struggling with its effects. Small local communities, small scale farmers and coastal communities are disproportionately affected. Political decisions, power dynamics and laws often compound the catastrophes and silence bottom up solutions.
There are ways in which you can help.