Thursday, November 08, 2012
occupy movement outperforming red cross in hurricane relief?
slate | In Sunset Park, a predominantly Mexican and Chinese neighborhood in
South Brooklyn, St. Jacobi’s Church was one of the go-to hubs for people
who wanted to donate food, clothing, and warm blankets or volunteer
help other New Yorkers who were still suffering in the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy. On Saturday, Ethan Murphy, one of the people heading
the kitchen operation, estimated they would prepare and send out 10,000
meals to people in need. Thousands and thousands of pounds of clothes
were being sorted, labeled, and distributed, and valuable supplies like
heaters and generators were being loaded up in cars to be taken out to
the Rockaways, Staten Island and other places in need. However, this
well-oiled operation wasn’t organized by the Red Cross, New York Cares,
or some other well-established volunteer group. This massive effort was
the handiwork of none other than Occupy Wall Street—the effort is known
as Occupy Sandy.
The scene at St. Jacobis on Saturday was friendly, orderly chaos.
Unlike other shelters that had stopped collecting donations or were
looking for volunteers with special skills such as medical training,
Occupy Sandy was ready to take anyone willing to help. A wide range of
people pitched in, including a few small children making peanut butter
sandwiches, but most volunteers were in their 20s and 30s. A large
basement rec room had become a hive of vegetable chopping and clothes
bagging. They held orientations throughout the day for new volunteers.
One of the orientation leaders, Ian Horst, who has been involved with a
local group called Occupy Sunset Park for the past year, says he was
“totally blown away by the response” and the sheer numbers of people who
showed up and wanted to help. He estimated that he’d given an
orientation to 200 people in the previous hour.
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