The workers rebuilding communities after natural disasters | Saket Soni

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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As climate change leads to more and more natural disasters, a group of workers is showing up at one site after another to rebuild and repair. Labor organizer Saket Soni tells the stories of Resilience Force — the group of mostly immigrant workers restoring homes after hurricanes, floods and fires — and describes the unexpected bonds developing between the residents whose lives have been turned upside down and the laborers helping put things back together.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.2	As climate change has led to more and more natural disasters, a group of workers have shown
0:21.6	up from one site to another to rebuild and repair.
0:26.0	Labor organizer Socket Sony works with them, and in his 2023 talk from Ted Democracy,
0:32.0	he shares what we can learn from these crucial laborers who are rebuilding
0:35.8	homes even as they're dislocated from their own.
0:39.4	We'll dive into this talk right after a break.
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0:54.0	And now our TED Talk of the day.
0:57.5	My name is Saket Soni and I'm a labor organizer who spends most of his time in disaster zones.
1:05.0	How many of you have been through a hurricane flood or fire?
1:09.0	When that happens, thousands of families lose their homes overnight.
1:14.8	I represent the workers who come in and rebuild them.
1:19.1	Now, we're living through a time when all of us in some way or the other experiencing a loss of home.
1:26.4	Some because of escalating climate disasters, but also just as much because of economic upheaval
1:32.4	or the pandemic or war racial violence
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