Occupy Wall Street Helps Sandy Victims

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Source: Huffington Post

Occupy Wall Street’s 99 percent have begun a coordinated effort to help victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Together with members from 350.org, Recovers.org, and interoccupy.net, the group has begun Occupy Sandy. Members have set up donation drop-off points in multiple boroughs and created localized websites that outline the needs for a given neighborhood, according to interoccupy.net.

OWS is battling obstacles including 600,000 people without power and the death toll of 38 in New York City as of Friday, according to the New York Times.

Occupiers began their efforts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and have moved throughout New York’s five boroughs, thenation.com reports.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/occupy-wall-street-helps-sandy-victims-_n_2060275.html

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Heard on NPR that OWS folks were feeding people on Staten Island. Wow. Talk about walking the walk.

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1. K&R

wonderful news!

[JuveDem]

2. great news

This is the true spirit of the Occupy movement.

[Archae]

3. While Wall Street itself cashes in the victims.

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4. Occupy Cares, Green Peace too!

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8. Occupy Sandy: People-Powered Relief-raised 28,000

Occupy Sandy: People-Powered Relief
Posted 1 day ago on Nov. 1, 2012, 1:38 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Tags: climate, disaster relief, hurricane, nyc, occupy sandy


Occupy Sandy has raised over $28,000 for people-powered disaster relief: click here to donate!

If you are interested in volunteering or donating supplies to the ‘Occupy Sandy’ effort, visit http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/.

Some of the most pressing needs for the effort are:
Volunteers to administer Recovers.org pages and connect needs with offers for help, as well as volunteers with technical expertise (Best done from home)
Volunteers who can be available in the coming weeks to continue cleanup efforts
Pumps and electrical generators for blacked out and flooded homes
Financial contributions to fund distribution efforts

http://occupywallst.org/

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5. Bravo.

[merrily]

6. I love Occupy.

I wish it had begun thirty or forty years ago.

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7. Here's a link if anybody is in a position to donate or get involved

It's pretty slow loading at the moment, but it does come up eventually.

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/

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9. So where's the Tea party? /nt

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10. K&R

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11. du rec nt

[JackRiddler]

12. Reporting from Astoria, Queens...

I didn't go to the Rockaways today but hundreds of people or more largely organized through Occupy did go, delivering food and goods. One of the caravan start points was a library in Astoria. I was there, and saw it jammed with goods from people who came together on less than a day's notice on a call from a couple of Socialist groups and Occupy. At least a hundred people doing this. There was apparently gridlock at the entry points to the Rockaways from all the cars bringing stuff to the drop-off points. Someone who went on to the Rockaways reports to me that the outsiders on the ground delivering and volunteering there were primarily Occupy-organized people - not advertising it, however, as of course they should not under the circumstances.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Citizen journalist Jenna Pope was there today and here's a link to her photos:

http://batmanwi.com/2012/11/03/devastation-in-staten-island/