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The flagpole had become a meeting place for Hurricane Sandy volunteers, and earlier Thursday, it served as a rallying center for people in the hurricane-battered neighborhood to request food, clothing and other necessities. Reed said he learned some elderly people had been stuck on higher floors of their buildings without power or running water, marooned by elevators that weren't working.
"Since then we've been walking up and down stairs, providing care packages of food and flashlights and bottled water," Reed said
"I think the key is connecting people to a tangible thing, because everyone wants to help out," McBride said. "Just telling people to go and do this. And then they'll do it."
More Occupy-organized volunteer operations have been set up in other badly damaged neighborhoods, including Sunset Park, Coney Island and the Rockaways.
Justin Wedes, an Occupy organizer, said the response from the Occupy movement has been "incredible," and Occupy Sandy groups were active in all five boroughs.
"We already have dozens of organizers working in hubs, working out of homes, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers," Wedes said. "We've worked with local community organizations, Recovers.org, and this really shows that communities do band together, reach out, and support each other."
Originally posted by ubeenhad
Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
Originally posted by ubeenhad
Where's the President again? Oh yeah, campaigning in Wisconsin and Nevada.
Romney might be photo-oping, but that's real water he is handing out.edit on 3-11-2012 by GreenGlassDoor because: Didn't mean to put in Texas.
Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
reply to post by FoxStriker
Wait, the title of your post is "Occupy Sandy" puts in work were FEMA doesn't., [sic], so clearly you have a position where FEMA doesn't work! Then you go on about how Romney is wrong to cut an agency that doesn't work.
Which side of the issue are you on?