Occupy Wall Street is outperforming the Red Cross and FEMA in NY

[icarus]

Occupy Wall Street is outperforming the Red Cross and FEMA in their response to hurricane Sandy. They've been fast, scarily competent, and flexible, and gone to the hardest hit areas FEMA has ignored.

They receive high praise, and in the hard hit areas like Rockaways, volunteers from Occupy are the only help they've seen. Occupy members say that they feel capitalism is broken, and so they've stepped up to attend to community needs.

I'm totally pro-Obama, you know that, but this disaster has disappeared too quickly from the news cycle. From what I've heard, I'm getting the sense that there's too much crowd control going on, and not enough help.

The word is that it's really bad up there. People have lost everything, absolutely everything, and in the rubble -- with no infrastructure even -- must somehow rebuild their lives from scratch.

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[everbright]

Bless the occupy folks, they seem a little overwhelmed, but they're the only folks actually down there working.

[icarus]

Oh wow, have you seen them in action? One of our temple members went up last weekend with a carload of stuff they requested via Twitter.

There's an Amazon wedding registry list they've put together for their work in NY and NJ.

[everbright]

No, sorry, I don't live around there, just from the different new articles it seems like they are the most persistent presence. Thanks for the articles, I hadn't run across this before.