Occupy Sandy: Press Coverage List

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Occupy Sandy's Storm Relief Effort in Rockaway, NY surpassed FEMA & Red Cross in its magnitude, flexibility and mobilization. Its non-governmental community support embodies a hardcore American conservative ideal. Rockaway is a low-income public housing area.

Occupy Sandy teaches and mobilizes everyone who wants to help and it helps everyone who needs help, many of those who are out of the narrow scope of FEMA and Red Cross targets. Occupy Sandy takes full advantage of experiences to sustain the big encampment during OWS's physical occupation.

 
Occupy Sandy Featured On Main Stream Media

 
CNN: Occupy Sandy: Grassroots effort for relief
 
TYT: Occupy Wall Street Steps Up For Sandy Victims: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDkkCTIAvM
 
 
 
 
Other Press coverage:

Slate: Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief?
 
The Nation: Occupy Sandy Efforts Highlight Need for Solidarity, Not Charity
 
 
How Occupy Sandy's Relief Machine Stepped Into the Post-Superstorm Void
 
Salone: A look inside a Rockaway high-rise, neglected after Sandy
 
Huffpost: Occupy Sandy Volunteer Sounds Alarm on 'Humanitarian Crisis,' Near-Complete Absence of Government Aid in Coney Island Projects
 
Occupy Sandy's Spirit of Solidarity Resonates with Latino Values
 
Times: Best of Enemies: Why Occupy Activists Are Working with New York City’s Government
 
Truthdig: After Sandy, It’s Occupy to the Rescue
 
AP: Occupy Sandy: Onetime protesters find new cause (this was adopted by ABC, NBC, and Fox)
 
CNN: An ad-hoc army of volunteers feeds those still-powerless after Sandy
 
FOX: Lend a helping hand: How to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy
 
(The web and alternative media tend to feature Occupy Sandy bigger and better by putting its name in their headlines and spending more if not entire space about it.)
 

How "disaster control" handled the situation

FEMA centers in New York City ‘closed due to weather’
 
Red Cross Sandy response under attack

To Help out or donate, visit the OCCUPY SANDY HOMEPAGE!

 
They use Interoccupy for their volunteer communication: http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/
 
and Amazon Wedding Registry for getting supplied (the same was done in Tohoku Tsunami relief in Japan): http://www.amazon.com/registry/wedding/32TAA123PJR42
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/46/all_neighbors_occupyregistry_2012_11_16_bk.html
 
Documentary Promo: After Sandy in Rockaway, NY: http://vimeo.com/53110831
 
Documentary Promo: We Got This: http://vimeo.com/53155081
 

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