Occupy Sandy

<div>aha 619 sparked by occupy sandy<div>
</div><div>the right claims to want to empower the INDIV (does not believe that society or any collective exists) by starting a biz, but regs get in way [vulnerable to pyramid scheme [extract savings and social network, ie their savings] to feed to scammer 1% grifter.</div><div>
</div><div>the left literally wants to empower the infiv to build their neighborhood; sandy tool libtary and train to deal w/ mold</div><div>
</div><div>gov't is for what we need to do together.</div></div><div>
<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy</a></div><div>
</div><div>Occupy Sandy is an organized relief effort created to assist the victims of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy" title="Hurricane Sandy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hurricane Sandy</a> in the northeastern United States. Like other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy Movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy Movement</a> offshoots, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Our_Homes" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy Our Homes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy Our Homes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy University</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_the_SEC" title="Occupy the SEC" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy the SEC</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Jubilee" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolling Jubilee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rolling Jubilee</a>, Occupy Sandy is made up of former and present <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Occupy Wall Street" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy Wall Street</a> protesters, other members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Occupy movement</a>, and former non-Occupy volunteers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-NYT-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The effort has worked in partnership with many local community organizations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New York City</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New Jersey</a> and has focused on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid(organization_theory)" title="Mutual aid (organization theory)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mutual aid</a> in affected communities rather than charity, and long-term rebuilding for more robust, sustainable neighborhoods.</div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Background_and_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Background and history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Organization</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Sandy_aid_distribution_hubs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Sandy aid distribution hubs</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Online_collaboration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Online collaboration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Long-term_mutual_aid_projects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Long-term mutual aid projects</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#Mold_removal_and_remediation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Mold removal and remediation</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Background and history</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Occupy Wall Street" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Occupy Wall Street</a></div>The Occupy Wall Street organization and the Occupy movement in general began in New York's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccotti_Park" title="Zuccotti Park" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zuccotti Park</a> in 2011, where a number of protesters grouped together to change "the public discourse about economic inequality" and created the idea of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_the_99%25" title="We are the 99%" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1%'ers versus the 99%'ers</a>. After the breakup of the group in the park and elsewhere, the Occupy movement has focused on "more intellectual, less visible projects, like Occupy Farms, fighting debt and theorizing on banking".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-NYT-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The movement's connections and "altruistic drive" has led to them being somewhat more effective in the Hurricane Sandy relief movement than "larger, more established charity groups".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-NYT-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>The coordinators of the Occupy Sandy relief effort have been working in conjunction with supply distributors, such as the Red Cross and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency" title="Federal Emergency Management Agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Federal Emergency Management Agency</a>, while relying on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="National Guard of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Guard</a> for security. There has also been some collaboration with the office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg" title="Michael Bloomberg" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Bloomberg</a>, New York City Mayor, and the rest of the New York City government, though past interactions between Occupy Wall Street members and the city government has caused the Occupy Sandy relationship to be "tenuous".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Organization</h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Sandy aid distribution hubs</h3>As the storm was still making landfall an email was sent the Occupy Faith Email Listserve requesting locations for possible disaster response & resource distribution locations.After the destruction resulting from Hurricane Sandy, members of Occupy Sandy set up two distribution sites in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brooklyn</a> at the borough's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St.Luke_and_St.Matthew(Brooklyn,New_York)" title="Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Brooklyn, New York)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St.Jacobi_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran Church (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran Church</a> for New Yorkers to collect clothes, blankets and food.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a>The initial "Occupy motor pool" ride share was formed to help get members more readily into the areas affected by the storm at Jacobi Church. These members include "construction teams and medical committees", as well as weather being forecast by an Occupy weatherman.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-NYT-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The effort has since spread to several more distribution hubs that filter received aid to the worst of the affected areas, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island" title="Coney Island" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Coney Island</a>, Staten Island, Rockaways (Queens), Sheepshead Bay (Brooklyn), and the Jersey shore.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>The Sandy Aid distribution Hub nicknamed 520 Clinton located in Clinton Hill's Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew being the largest of locations mobilized for the effort demonstrated many of the Occupy Mutual Aid values and projects side by side that were once on display at Zuccotti Park in 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> The church was set a blaze by unknown individuals on Christmas even causing extensive fire & smoke damage.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> With the forced closure of the location all Sandy Aid operations moved to the affected areas, effectively decentralizing the efforts.Occupy Sandy only operated their own hubs, and actively supported and cultivated the creation of neighbor-run locations. Midland Avenue Neighborhood Relief & Cedar Grove Community Hub were both run by longtime New York residents and provided 24-hour support through the first winter post-Sandy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Online collaboration</h3>Occupy Sandy's online presence is coordinated through a website organized and run by members of InterOccupy and OWS Tech Ops. Social networking sites, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Twitter</a>, have been used extensively by Occupy Sandy members to inform others involved in the relief effort and elsewhere on what supplies and assistance are needed in which parts of the affected areas.After comparison of websites, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_registry" class="mw-redirect" title="Wedding registry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">wedding registry</a> was created on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Amazon.com</a> to list items and materials needed in the relief effort, allowing people in the US and the rest of the world to donate goods. As of January 25, 2013, more than $717,900 has been spent on the items in the registry. Amazon.com has not been cooperative with Occupy Sandy to give the group for specific details about the numbers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>A local business registry was created modeling similar concepts to the Amazon relief item registry but putting 100% of the funds raised for needed tools, materials and goods directly in the hands of locally owned businesses in the areas hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. The items purchased from the Occupy Sandy Local Business Registry were delivered directly from local stores to affected neighbors through the Staten Island Tool Lending Library.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Long-term mutual aid projects</h3>From its start mutual aid principles were worked into the volunteer skill share orientations<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> and in the participation of its members with the affected communities encouraged the creation of small projects, co-ops, and neighbor-led efforts.Placing a focus on individuals becoming empowered, Occupy Sandy was able to encourage a culture of innovation & social business incubation in the hardest hit areas. The Brooklyn, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side" title="Lower East Side" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lower East Side</a>, Rockaways and the Staten Island Long Term Recovery Organizations all were facilitated by Occupy volunteers using NY General Assembly-style meeting tools including the Occupy hand signals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Their work through the Occupy Sandy Project Spokes Council provided large grants using a participatory budgeting frame work to the affected communities and fostered grassroots micro local projects such as Respond & Rebuild, Staten Island Tool Library, The People's Recovery Summit, Feeding Families Community Garden, Midland Avenue Neighborhood Relief, The May Edwards Chinn Memorial Food Pantry & Clinic, Hart & Soul and a citywide network of home cooks to supply the support hubs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Mold removal and remediation</h3>Due to the unique circumstances of the combination of ocean tidal surge during Sandy and the type of low income <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow" title="Bungalow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bungalow</a> homes affected, extensive education and community outreach had to be done about proper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_remediation" class="mw-redirect" title="Mold remediation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">mold remediation</a>. Canvasing, mold skill shares, volunteer mold removal was offered as a first response by Occupy Sandy. Without any national certification, education, or accurate information available Occupy Sandy coordinators had to become <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-taught" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-taught" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">self-taught</a> experts in the subject.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupy_Sandy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bill de Blasio (November 21, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://advocate.nyc.gov/news/2012-11-21/giving-thanks-heroes-hurricane-sandy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Giving Thanks to the Heroes of Hurricane Sandy"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Advocate_For_The_City_Of_New_York&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Public Advocate For The City Of New York (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Advocate For The City Of New York</a>. Retrieved February 6, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Public+Advocate+For+The+City+Of+New+York&rft.atitle=Giving+Thanks+to+the+Heroes+of+Hurricane+Sandy&rft.date=2012-11-21&rft.au=Bill+de+Blasio&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fadvocate.nyc.gov%2Fnews%2F2012-11-21%2Fgiving-thanks-heroes-hurricane-sandy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-NYT-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-NYT_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-NYT_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">b</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-NYT_2-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-NYT_2-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">d</a> <cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alan Feuer (November 9, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-short-occupy-sandy-was-there.html?pagewanted=all&r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Occupy Sandy: A Movement Moves to Relief"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a>. Retrieved November 10,2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Occupy+Sandy%3A+A+Movement+Moves+to+Relief&rft.date=2012-11-09&rft.au=Alan+Feuer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F11%2F11%2Fnyregion%2Fwhere-fema-fell-short-occupy-sandy-was-there.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall%26_r%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Meghan Barr (November 10, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/occupy-sandy-onetime-protesters-find-17685552#.UJ4ZVcVfDSg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Occupy Sandy: Onetime Protesters Find New Cause"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News" title="ABC News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ABC News</a>. Retrieved November 13,2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=ABC+News&rft.atitle=Occupy+Sandy%3A+Onetime+Protesters+Find+New+Cause&rft.date=2012-11-10&rft.au=Meghan+Barr&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2FwireStory%2Foccupy-sandy-onetime-protesters-find-17685552%23.UJ4ZVcVfDSg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jared Malsin (November 13, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nation.time.com/2012/11/13/best-of-enemies-why-occupy-activists-are-working-with-new-york-citys-government/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Best of Enemies: Why Occupy Activists Are Working with New York City's Government"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Time</a>. 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Retrieved 18 October 2017 – via Slate.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Occupy+Sandy+Church+Damaged+In+Suspicious+Fire&rft.date=2012-12-25&rft.aulast=Ohlheiser&rft.aufirst=Abby&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fblogs%2Fthe_slatest%2F2012%2F12%2F25%2Foccupy_sandy_fire_church_of_st_luke_and_st_matthew_damaged_in_apparent_arson.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171019112344/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130426/new-dorp-beach/staten-island-residents-rally-save-sandy-relief-hub" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Staten Island Residents Rally to Save Sandy Relief Hub"</a>. DNAinfo New York. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130426/new-dorp-beach/staten-island-residents-rally-save-sandy-relief-hub" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">the original</a> on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=DNAinfo+New+York&rft.atitle=Staten+Island+Residents+Rally+to+Save+Sandy+Relief+Hub&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnainfo.com%2Fnew-york%2F20130426%2Fnew-dorp-beach%2Fstaten-island-residents-rally-save-sandy-relief-hub&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Matt Heindl (January 25, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://razorfishbuzzcut.tumblr.com/post/41564190632/occupy-sandys-happy-hackers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Occupy Sandy's Happy Hackers"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Razorfish_Social_Media_Blog&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Razorfish Social Media Blog (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Razorfish Social Media Blog</a>. Retrieved February 6, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Razorfish+Social+Media+Blog&rft.atitle=Occupy+Sandy%E2%80%99s+Happy+Hackers&rft.date=2013-01-25&rft.au=Matt+Heindl&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frazorfishbuzzcut.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F41564190632%2Foccupy-sandys-happy-hackers&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-11" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Andrea (December 17, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.occuworld.org/news/103379" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Donate to Sandy Survivors & Support Local Businesses via Occupy Sandy Local Business Registry"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OccuWorld_Global_Occupy_News&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OccuWorld Global Occupy News (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">OccuWorld Global Occupy News</a>. 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Retrieved 18 October 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=What+Happened+to+the+Money+That+Occupy+Sandy+Raised%3F&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.motherjones.com%2Fenvironment%2F2013%2F06%2Foccupy-sandy-once-welcomed-now-questioned&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupy+Sandy" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Sandy#cite_ref-15" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lawrence, Stratton. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/seemingly-abandoned-by-the-us-government-the-people-of-hurricane-sandy-ravaged-staten-island-turn-to-the-occupy-movement/Content?oid=4561632" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Abandoned by the U.S. government, hurricane-ravaged Staten Island turns to the Occupy movement"</a>. Charleston City Paper. 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</div><div>24 min</div><div><a href="https://vimeo.com/54432527">https://vimeo.com/54432527</a></div><div>
</div><div>Josh Fox:  trailer <a href="https://vimeo.com/54402289">https://vimeo.com/54402289</a></div><div>
</div><div>Survivor story of rescue: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RQDUXq6keU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RQDUXq6keU</a></div><div>
</div><div>one year after: 2013</div><div>
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</div><div>mutual aid.</div><div>
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</div><div>video too</div><div>This guest post for The World At 1°C remembers and explores Occupy Sandy as an exemplary community response to climate disasters. We hope this piece offers some practicality and hope as communities around the world recover from quakes, fires, and floods. The post was written by Lucas Burdick, a small-time freelance writer and professional volunteer. You can sign up <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/czZ28OFYwWc2JrX73" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">here</a> for monthly bulletins plus exclusive climate justice content direct to your inbox.<h3 id="7e6a" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3 graf--subtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 30px; letter-spacing: -0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Climate Crisis Requires Mutual Aid, Not Charity</h3>If you want to rejuvenate your faith in frontline organizing, chase a hurricane and spend some weeks helping to rebuild homes and communities. Our newsfeeds, racing from travesty to travesty, spotlighting catastrophes and one-off heroism, can turn our attention away from hopeful stories of sustained, collective triumphs over ongoing crises. As Hurricane Harvey peters out, Irma wrecks Florida and leaves the Caribbean ravished, as Katia pumbles Mexico, as Jose looms, and as floods continue to ravage the Indian subcontinent, we may need stories that remind us that “disasters, in returning their sufferers to public and collective life,” diminish the privatization and isolation of our lives, as Rebecca Solnit wrote in A Paradise Built in Hell. The so many ecological catastrophes filling the air maybe make all the more vital lessons and histories of communities rising from debris.Occupy Sandy was the fourth hurricane relief effort I witnessed first-hand; it impressed me more than the courageous, heart-filled community efforts I volunteered for after Katrina. As a week-long volunteer at Occupy Sandy, I spent a few days shadowing someone we’ll call Starling, Occupy’s coordinator for Red Hook, Starling’s Brooklyn Bay neighborhood, across the water from OWS’ Zuccotti Park.Once, in the middle of her morning orientation for volunteers, Starling’s phone rang. “I have to take this, be right back,” she said to the sixty of us gathered outside a storage silo. When she returned minutes later, Starling announced, “That was the Red Cross. They wanted to know where Occupy Sandy has gone door-to-door, and where they should go. The Red Cross just called us, again, asking us what people need.” It had been six weeks since Sandy ravaged New York. Starling had been coordinating Occupy Sandy’s door-to-door support in Red Hook since the waters cleared. The training Starling was running when the Red Cross called was for volunteers going to check in on families and businesses.That is the first lesson learned after any climate disaster: people and organizations there before the storm always become the first responders and last line of community support. Immediately <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-short-occupy-sandy-was-there.html?mcubz=3" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">after Sandy, charities “turned away potential volunteers in droves.”</a>  NGOs and state agencies often arrive late and take off too soon. Funds dry up as concern and media attention die down. Not based in any community, they do not face Day Zero. Concerned elsewhere long before Year One starts, the big names and agencies assist clean-up, but not resiliency. Giving to front-line-led organizations isn’t only the hip thing to do, but how to support efforts that matter most.[pix]One often sung virtue of Occupy Sandy was the bounty of supplies collected and, literally, given away. The Red Cross only accepts cash donations, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/occupy-sandy" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">refusing household goods, which they claim </a>“need to be cleaned, sorted, and repackaged, and all that takes up more time than they’re worth.” Household goods, food, and water are worth more than anything else after a crisis; many people need them across tundras of a disaster. As I saw in Red Hook, and <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/disturbing-things-about-the-red-crosss-sandy-relief-efforts" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">as ProPublica later reported on in-depth</a>, charity organizations did not begin assisting Sandy’s most impacted communities until weeks after the storm. The scope of what charity organizations provided NYC — shelters, caseworkers, meals, roving emergency vehicles — crucially helped thousands of people, but didn’t suffice, wasn’t always accessible, and wasn’t very responsive.Occupy organized droves of volunteers, starting Week One, within areas most ravaged, by helping communities lead their own relief projects. “It’s crazy,” an Occupier in the Rockaways told reporters, “For a long time, we were the only people out here doing relief work.” But “we” were anyone who wanted to help. Volunteers from away worked side by side with locals who had lost everything. Businesses trucked in bottled water, cases of food. Occupy coordinated these diverse efforts largely by foregoing bureaucratic structures and instead delegating authority and responsibility, drawing on people power, not paid staff (a second lesson). Communities not only managed their own supplies and services but also provided spaces — school gyms, warehouses, churches — where Occupy setup pop-up distributions centers. Scattered across NY and NJ, supply centers were almost as orderly as supermarkets. Every item was inspected and sorted. Aisles were stocked with clothes, food, bottled water, baby supplies, hygiene products, medical supplies, furniture, batteries. And everything was for free.Occupy Sandy provided another basic need often unmet after climate disasters: housing. Alongside this resurgence of Occupy, other networks of free association — Craigslist, Airbnb, CouchSurfers — became instant focal points of free support. While shelters provided large public spaces, households allowed people greater privacy and stability. Also, individual houses, apartments, and flats were not only housing but the homes of people from diverse communities. They were also homes near where people lived, worked, and went to school. Decentralized networks more easily branch out to meet localized needs, a third lesson learned.Care for people with physical and mental disabilities, needs often undervalued by society, and sometimes overlooked by movements, was not ignored by Occupy Sandy. If organizers did not plan for caring for people with those additional needs, responding to them may have also come through localizing services, working with a range of volunteers, and sending volunteers door-to-door. Truth Out reported on how <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/12749-sandys-secret-survivors-old-disabled-and-invisible-in-the-rockaways" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">Occupy volunteers in the Rockaways</a> heard by word of mouth of a seven-story apartment building with no power, heating, or water where many elderly people had stayed to ride out Sandy, subsisting for days on what they had at home. Neither FEMA nor the NY Housing Authority had ventured out to help. When would help have come if not for Occupy volunteers? In addition to distribution centers, Occupy Sandy set up clinics. Not only did lay people go around communities with food and blankets; doctors, therapists, homeopathic practitioners, social workers, and medical students also stepped up to serve.If Occupy Wall Street was criticized for idealistic ineffectiveness, Occupy Sandy was championed for its concrete practicality. Praise came not only from the media, but also the City, the National Guard, and (quietly) <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1357203/the-resilient-social-network.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">the Department of Homeland Security</a> — all representatives of the State that failed people after the superstorm. Occupy Sandy’s efforts were novel and needed, but was born out of the inadequate ways society generally manages disasters. Every level of civil society fell far short of providing what Occupy Sandy couldn’t: the millions of dollars needed to repair infrastructure, revitalize neighborhoods, restore lives and livelihoods. Less widespread but also less acknowledged than <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/09/hurricanekatrina.usa4" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">the devastation and gentrification of largely black Parishes after Hurricane Katrina</a>, Hurricane Sandy made for 2012’s <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/299289-hurricane-sandy-forced-third-most-people-from-homes-worldwide-in-2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">third largest “displacement event.”</a> Even in the world’s wealthiest country, people remain far from home, in crippling debt, or even homeless years and decades after a major hurricane.That spells out a fourth lesson: community responses to climate disasters, and climate catastrophes generally, must be understood in the context of the failures of the Nation State. This is all the more painfully obvious outside of the US. The Red Cross received half a billion dollars in donations after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. ProPublica reporters found that “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">after five years the Red Cross’ legacy in Haiti is not new roads</a>, or schools, or hundreds of new homes. It’s difficult to know where all the money went.” The Red Cross claims it has housed over 130,000 people; journalists found a total of six permanent homes. The UN also infamously delayed and <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490468640/u-n-admits-role-in-haiti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">then botched</a> their aid efforts during this same humanitarian crisis. US aid and loans to anyone, anywhere always has strings attached.Occupy Sandy did not save the day. But Occupy did save countless people hungry nights, desperate days, panicked sweats over finding places for the kids to sleep, cold conversations about next month’s rent. It brought people together. That work is now being carried on in Houston by groups like <a href="http://tejasbarrios.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">TEJAS</a>,<a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/09/07/antifa-and-leftists-organize-mutual-aid-and-rescue-networks-in-houston_partner/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);"> Bayou Action Street Health</a>, <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/undocumentedsurvivorsofhurricaneharvey-918716" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">Harvey Relief for Undocumented Folks,</a>and <a href="https://anothergulf.com/a-just-harvey-recovery/#LOCAL_FRONTLINE_INFO" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);">many others</a>. Community relief projects illustrate all that we can do despite not being saviors here to save people, much less single-handed messiahs for anything as big as the planet. Every community relief reiterates how we can change lives and push against power anywhere, in the face of any crisis, without expecting a new world tomorrow.Mutual aid, not charity: the singular message of Occupy Sandy, its first word and final lesson for the world. Starling would have us yell it. “Mutual Aid!” she’d call. “Not Charity!” we’d echo. It was more than a nice lefty slogan. Instead it thoughtfully reframed ways we talk about ourselves and others. Every volunteer was given a mini-lesson on mutual aid, an old anarchist notion that people with similar struggles can support one another through mutuality and service. Think Alcoholics Anonymous — or the Global Campaign for Climate Justice. As a volunteer you were asked to see the hurricane as something that could happen to anyone, could happen to you; to see people you help in life not as victims you’ve saved, but people like you — someone you should care for as you would want others to take care of you. (As Homeland Security concluded) you don’t need to be an anarchist to see the vitality of promoting a spirit of service over a culture of saviors. What is mutual aid if not an empathetic elaboration of the Golden Rule?I’ll never forget something Starling repeated two or three times a day in her orientations for volunteers. “This is Week Six. Everyone has been going through hard times for a month and a half. We’re tired. We don’t necessarily want to tell you our sob stories. We just want to be treated with dignity and for you to do what you’re asked.” You could see from people’s faces that that wasn’t what everyone wanted to hear. But reminding us of realities lived, calling us back to emotional awareness of what people were going through, became part of the mission and ethos. We were among the Unconsoled, those for whom Arundhati Roy dedicated her latest novel. (“I think the world is unconsoled right now,” she tells interviewers.) From Brooklyn to the Jersey Shore, volunteering or washed out of our homes, from here or from away, everyone present was there to give empathy and human understanding as best we could, however limited or socially constricted. We were providing mutual aid, not charity. We were all the 99%.<div>
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</a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OoKDjpPUlXwJ:www.truth-out.org/news/item/22880-occupy-sandy-and-the-future-of-socialism+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">...Solidarity, Not Charity</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">What made the Red Cross's failures stand out even more than normal during Sandy was an alternative to rigid, corporate charity that emerged during the recovery. Occupy Sandy, an organization run by Occupy Wall Street volunteers, was operating alongside the Red Cross and winning numerous accolades from citizens and <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/12/01/video_bloomberg_praises_occupy_sand.php" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">unlikely politicians</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">What made Occupy Sandy so effective was that its relationship with victims was based on the very characteristic that saw criticism leveled at it throughout the occupation of Zucotti Park - horizontalism. At lightning-quick orientations, organizers drilled into volunteers' heads that they must remain cognizant of victims' needs - you don't know what they need more than they do, they said, unless you can provide an expert opinion they are clearly lacking. Don't make any promises, they added, but focus on listening and offering what you can. It's why Occupy volunteers, including this author, were helping St. Margaret Mary's church clean up prior donations instead of offering soup to no one in particular - an Occupy expedition had set out to Staten Island the day before and asked around to see if the movement, based in Brooklyn, could be useful. Occupy organizers were not just there to dump help they deemed appropriate and then go on their merry ways; they first sought to learn how to be of long-term help, and then sought the requisite personnel and materiel.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">Occupy Sandy did have obvious shortcomings. "Occupy," Pinto noted a week after the storm, "is not equipped to restore power to the pitch-black streets and stairwells of Red Hook and the Rockaways. Occupiers don't have heavy machinery or any sort of emergency-response expertise. They've never done this before." But this observation, if anything, was only made because Occupy was putting itself out there in the void left by establishment relief machines.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">Insufficient though it may have been in the aftermath of a gargantuan storm, the help and solidarity were deeply appreciated. Jeff Vielandi - with Dalton, co-owner of a home cleaned by Occupy volunteers - expressed to Pinto what the organization meant to him.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">"Whatever I lost here, I gained more than I lost," he said, as Pinto described it, "choking back tears."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">...But even then, I found that the Occupy mantra made a positive impact. While it might be difficult to quantify in an empirical sense, being seen and heard offered victims emotional relief in some cases, real material relief or some peace of mind in others; or, at the very least, information they required to recover on their own terms. Aid recipients I met and helped included: a Rockaways woman who asked for photographs of water damage (and later received them via email); her neighbor who wanted to borrow a cellphone to find an elusive FEMA official; a woman from Boston who had called Occupy Sandy, asking for help locating her missing aunt on that street; a woman at a Midland Beach gathering who, upon approach, asked for construction materials and cleaning supplies; and elderly residents in the same neighborhood who were grateful after being given a small parcel of the latter. The magnitude of all these random acts of solidarity might have been relatively miniscule, but they were all needed - something that can't be said for traditional charities' help.And they can be easily scaled. In <a href="http://occupydatanyc.org/2013/03/05/occupy-sandy-data-highlights-and-preliminary-findings/%20" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">February 2013</a>, the group claimed to have filled 27,000 meal requests and reported assisting 3,400 residents with medical help, financial assistance, repairs and basic supplies with a mere <a href="http://occupysandy.net/funds/" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">$1.34 million</a> - roughly 1 percent of the entire Red Cross payroll and less than the sum of three Red Cross executives' salaries in <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2012/530/196/2012-530196605-09096e54-9.pdf" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">2012</a>. It's not hard to imagine that an Occupy-inspired relief organization could learn from Sandy and help a greater number of people should another storm strike New York in the near future.Nor has it taken the threat of another storm to begin the scaling and organizing. Occupy Sandy-inspired groups are attempting to come full circle, back to their Occupy Wall Street roots. Their efforts aren't without controversy. On April 30, 2013, The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/nyregion/occupy-movements-changing-focus-causes-rift.html?pagewanted=all&r=0" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">New York Times</a> report on Occupy Sandy noted that some volunteers and aid recipients appeared uncomfortable with the group's "political action classes." But without offering an Agitation 101, without organization, long-lasting relief is unobtainable. It's no coincidence that the Rockaways, Staten Island and Red Hook are still hurting while lower Manhattan - also one of the hardest hit parts of the city - was up and running at near full strength in a matter of weeks.In a bid to strengthen communities for the next onslaught, be it natural or manmade, organizers have reported undertaking <a href="http://occupysandy.net/projects/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none; text-decoration: none;">a number of initiatives</a>. One group in the Rockaways has laid the groundwork to <a href="http://occupysandy.net/?projects=worker-owned-rockaway-cooperatives-w-o-r-cs" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">develop five worker-owned businesses</a> - a construction company, a bakery, a health food store, an entertainment collective and a restaurant. Another is using <a href="http://occupysandy.net/?projects=flo-solutions" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none; text-decoration: none;">open-source methodology</a> in a bid to help local relief groups record and document best recovery practices. Another has reported <a href="http://occupysandy.net/?projects=cross-rockaway-incubation-team" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none; text-decoration: none;">using leftover funds for participatory budgeting</a>. They might be scattershot - infinitesimally minuscule in the grand scheme of things - but these projects, if completed, could have impacts far beyond the neighborhoods where they're located, if only through reports of the deeds.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">Survival of the Collectivist<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">Lasting relief certainly won't be delivered by the Red Cross, if its connections are any indication. The organization's social network is riddled with multinational corporations embracing the reckless parasitism that softened up certain neighborhoods for Sandy's wrath in the first place. The <a href="http://www.redcross.org/supporters/corporate-foundations/a-special-thanks" target="blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">record of corporations </a>who gave more than $1 million after the storm contains some of the most shameful megabanks, arms contractors and oil companies - Bank of America, Boeing, Chevrolet, Citigroup, Con Agra, Exxon Mobil, J.P. Morgan Chase, Northrop Grumman, Target, University of Phoenix, Walmart, and Wells Fargo are among the most recognizable of the worst offenders.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" em="em" important="important" padding-bottom="padding-bottom">These ventures abhor resilience, and not in a Schumpertarian "Creative Destruction" way. Elites have required a permanently dispossessed untouchable caste ready to rent its labor for crumbs since the inception of capitalism - when enclosure movements in Europe forced people off common lands. As early-industrial era English economist Arthur Young said in 1771, "everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious." He was only one of many early capitalist thinkers who advocated for indigence as an engine of industrial progress. Michael Perelman documented many more examples of this in his book The Invention of Capitalism. As <a href="http://exiledonline.com/recovered-economic-history-everyone-but-an-idiot-knows-that-the-lower-classes-must-be-kept-poor-or-they-will-never-be-industrious/%20" target="_blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Yasha Levine described in a review</a>, Adam Smith himself estimated that "a factory-peasant would have to toil for more than three days to buy a pair of commercially produced shoes. Or they could make their own traditional brogues using their own leather in a matter of hours, and spend the rest of the time getting wasted on ale. It's really not much of a choice, is it?" Thus was the free market built upon coercion....<a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OoKDjpPUlXwJ:www.truth-out.org/news/item/22880-occupy-sandy-and-the-future-of-socialism+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></div></div></div></div>