Occupy Sandy

... grew up in a socially conscious household in Philadelphia, but the concept of food activism finally clicked for him after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast in 2012. He was living in Philly at the time and had recently abandoned a bid for Congress. After the storm hit, he joined relief efforts with Occupy Sandy ...

Then four years ago a storm surge from Hurricane Sandy created a breach that opened a passage between the ocean and the bay. ... Consider how quickly Occupy Sandy, as a decentralized network, was able to mobilize local disaster relief efforts compared to traditional and more centralized responses, ...

Occupy Sandy brought 60,000 volunteers together to help clean up areas affected by the hurricane. Their efforts, and the communities' response, provide an example of true resilience—adaptability and self-organization in the face of destruction. However, the response would not have been possible without ...

Tyler Norman was a founding member of the Common Ground Collective, where he spent over a year organizing and learning about "Solidarity Not Charity" in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He has studied, created and shared innovative popular education techniques during nearly 10 years working ...

When a disaster — like Hurricanes Katrina or Sandy — comes along, the poor lose what little they have. The more affluent get government funding to “build back better.” Governments like New York City's are perfectly aware of climate change and its implications. They've developed plans for “greening” their ...

In the Rockaways alone, Next City's Deonna Anderson reports, “Hurricane Sandy destroyed miles of the neighborhood's beachside boardwalk and ... As the New York Times reported two weeks after the storm hit, a group of former Occupy activists dubbed “Occupy Sandy” succeeded in tapping “into an ...

The Working World and Occupy Sandy, a grassroots disaster relief network that formed after the hurricane, started Worker-Owned Rockaway Cooperatives (WORCs) in spring 2013, to assist people in Far Rockaway and the surrounding area with opening cooperative businesses or converting existing ...

“It seems pretty clear that the official stance of the Christie administration on the Bayshore communities is that they're eventually going to have to be abandoned,” Nate Kleinman, a political organizer who worked with Occupy Sandy after the storm, told HuffPost. “They don't want to put any more money in ...

In the immediate aftermath of the storm, Ben McGrath reported from a flooded-out Red Hook, Lizzie Widdicombe told the story of the inferno in Breezy Point, and Larissa MacFarquhar wrote about how the Occupy movement became Occupy Sandy. (You can see more of the stories The New Yorker ...

Though Occupy Sandy had allocated around $150,000 to Sandy relief in the Rockaways, only a small fraction of that amount had actually been disbursed to the Rockaway community by ... The nearly biblical levels of destruction caused by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria are not coincidences.

The aftermath of major storms such as hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which blew through Texas's Gulf Coast and across the Caribbean and up Florida's ... Occupy Sandy tried to convert the relief efforts into political organizing by stressing “solidarity, not charity,” aiming for its work to be “mutual aid” done ...

Flooded homes are shown near Lake Houston following Hurricane Harvey August 30, 2017 in Houston, Texas. ... mutual aid, providing self-defense, medical care and help rebuilding homes; after Sandy, Occupy Sandy won plaudits even from the Department of Homeland Security for its solidarity and relief.

Anyone looking for an easy way to help victims of Tropical Storm Harvey can do so by donating badly needed items through this handy Amazon wish list, which activist Shaun King shared Wednesday. The list was put together by families in Texas and includes items such as clean underwear, tampons, ...

While several nouns have been occupied — from summer camp to health care — it is only with Hurricane Sandy that the times have conspired to deliver an ... OCCUPY SANDY was initially the work of a half-dozen veterans of Zuccotti Park who, on the Tuesday following the storm, made their way to public ...