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What Doomed El Faro?
Hurricane Joaquin was only the direct cause. The drive for profit sunk El Faro.
Jack Heyman is an activist and former organizer of the Militant-Solidarity Caucus of the National Maritime Union. Now a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, he was an organizer of the 2008 May Day Anti-War West Coast Ports Shutdown.
Hurricane Joaquin was only the direct cause. The drive for profit sunk El Faro.