giovanni roberto, welcome back to democracy now! great to have you with us. it must be very to be here in new york when this mass protest took place in puerto rico. explain what you are confronting now. we are talking hurricane maria more than six months ago but you had another mass blackout just in the last weeks. giovanni: exactly. we are probably facing a new season of hurricanes, so we have an unstable situation in puerto rico. a lot of people still without energy and basic needs. mutual aidf the center, we are trying to get to haver centers finance, water, to be ready. when we are seeing now is the crisis will increase. gave us a glimpse of what it will look like in the next year years. the: when you mention what board is doing, there has been very little attention here in the u.s. media about the oversight control board, more attention to the impact of the hurricane. but the board is now facing the fact that even the governor of puerto rico and most of the legislature is in open rebellion against its demands. the governor originally was supportive of th

giovanni roberto is director of the center for political development in puerto rico, an umbrella organization that set-up community kitchens after hurricane maria and now has ten mutual aid centers throughout the island. he is on tour now to raise awareness and and meet with members of the puerto rican diaspora. when we were recently in puerto rico, one of the things that we saw in the midst of the devastation is that the mutual aid groups, much more so than fema, were there for the people. the people were depending on. giovanni: and depending on support from the state, which is important to us. people to people support. amy: thank you so much. when we come back, teacher strike in arizona. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now. i'm amy goodman. juan: we now turn to arizona, where schools are closed for a fifth day as thousands of teachers continue to strike demanding better funding for education. crowds of striking teachers dressed in red t-shirts have rallied at the state capitol this week and last to demand a 20 perercent pay raise foror ededucators and decrcreased clas s