7 Responses to Sandy Update: FEMA Sending Trailers to Victims; Occupy Sandy Asking Amazon to Waive Shipping Fees for Occupy Sandy Registry Orders

1. marym in IL November 10th, 2012 at 6:44 pm 1

   Some incredible tweets this evening from Red Hook. Check out the photos.

   Libor Von Schönau‏@LiborVonSchonau
   Over40 #NatGuard #NYPD Mayor’s Office,business”leaders”@ #OccupySandy mtng @GREEDKILLS @NaomiAKlein @northaura @Remroum http://yfrog.com/kebxkug

   Libor Von Schönau‏@LiborVonSchonau
   #OccupySandy mtng #transparency @mafathom @DiceyTroop @shawncarrie @shushugah @rdevro @mikeburke999 @billmckibben @350 http://yfrog.com/eswxqexj

   Libor Von Schönau‏@LiborVonSchonau
   #OWS in logistical mtng w/ #NatGuards #NYPD & #Bloomberg’s Office™@MMFlint @NaomiAKlein @350 @sharifkouddous @cyberela http://yfrog.com/kkhrynhnj

   Dicey‏@DiceyTroop
   In Red Hook, @OccupySandy (!) hosts a meeting b/w local leaders, a Mayor’s rep, the Nat’l Guard, & the NYPD. pic.twitter.com/HPQEe4MK

   reformatted link for above tweet:
   http://twitter.com/DiceyTroop/status/267453374373445632/photo/1

   And this: (!)

   Dicey‏@DiceyTroop
   Tonight @OccupySandy’s Red Hook team hosted a meeting where a Mayor’s rep, the Nat’l Guard, & NYPD all got on stack w/ community leaders.

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2. Margaret November 10th, 2012 at 7:15 pm 2

   Let’s hope these trailers don’t have formaldehyde in them.

   I’ll bet they are the same trailers that New Orleans residents were in.

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3. wendydavis November 11th, 2012 at 4:08 am 3

   Thanks for the updates, PW. I keep thinking of how many people didn’t have enough water to flush toilets, too, and hoped they might shift some of the porta-potties to places they’re needed. Even walking down ten flights of stairs to use them would be preferable to what they have, or more accurately, don’t have.

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4. Phoenix Woman November 11th, 2012 at 5:42 am 4

   In response to marym in IL @ 1

   What’s really interesting is how the Occupiers have gone from being jailbait in the eyes of Bloomie and the NYPD to valued partners in rebuilding the community. This passage at the end of the NYT article emphasized this:

   Then one of the hot-line operators rushed into the room. It seemed the Red Cross was sending them — them! — a tractor-trailer full of fresh wool blankets.

   In other words, Occupy is now the main on-the-ground relief effort; the more official outfits are skipping the field work and starting to just funnel things to the Occupiers.

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5. marym in IL November 11th, 2012 at 9:14 am 5

   In response to Phoenix Woman @ 4

   Yes, it’s really something to watch. According to twitter, people from Occupy Boston have collected and sent supplies (including 3 generators), and now the local Red Cross is referring people who want to make in kind donations to them.

   Occupy Boston‏@Occupy_Boston
   #OccupySandyBOS update: the Red Cross is now referring people doing donation drives to us. We need help: drivers with vehicles, especially.

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6. AitchD November 11th, 2012 at 10:21 am 6

   Yesterday (Saturday) at Marshalls in south Charlotte I was checking out (buying a Pyrex microwave-safe storage container), the cashier asked me if I wanted to contribute to the Hurricane Sandy relief fund — I forget if he said ‘Occupy Sandy’ or not. I nodded yes and held up five fingers. The check out lines for the nine registers were long, people were waiting, but the cashier told me he was in Queens last week, described some of the assistance efforts, said he’d brought canned goods with him to contribute. I told him about Occupy Sandy’s use of the bridal registry at Amazon. He said my contribution will double as the Marshalls company will match every contribution.

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7. wendydavis November 11th, 2012 at 1:54 pm 7

   This piece Helen Redmond published at Counterpunch is a few days old, but chronicles a lot going on in Far Rockaway, both the terrible and the almost-sublime. Worth your time.

   For a lot of the NYC hospitals, hell still reigns.

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