Meditations in an Emergency is an independent publication by Rebecca Solnit.
Rebecca Solnit is a brilliant, thoughtful writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.
Her book A Paradise Built in Hell focuses on five disasters and their social aftermath, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She describes social action and altruism in response to these disasters, providing evidence that mutual aid and cooperation are a typical human response to disasters and the breakdown of official authority.
She usually publishes something at Meditations in an Emergency two or three times a week.
