where are the T-P 1%'ers?
Occupy Wall Street, of all things, has re-emerged as a vital presence in this grim scene. The Rockaways' depressed main artery is dotted with bright spots: volunteer stations manned by Occupy volunteers, whose Occupy Sandy organization has filled the holes that government agencies and charity organizations have been unable to in some parts of New York City.Nearly every day since the aftermath of the storm began, Occupy Sandy has been at St. Gertrude's Church and a few other spots in the area, delivering supplies in a van adorned with "99%" stickers, giving out food and clothing, and organizing canvassers to go to people's houses and offer help.
there's a big difference in claiming and doing
St. Gertrude's, on Beach 37th Street, bustled on Sunday afternoon. Volunteers stood next to clothing, food, and other supply stations, while others fanned out across the neighborhood on bikes or on foot in the neighborhood. A steady stream of people from the neighborhood gathered to collect supplies; some spontaneously thanked this reporter, assuming she was one of the volunteers.
"Yesterday, people were crying and saying 'God bless you,'" said a volunteer who gave her name as Denelle, who had been working in the Rockaways for the past few days. "Today it got a little crazy." She said that the demand for services was high, and grew higher farther into Far Rockaway.
"Further down there's less of a presence," she said, referring to FEMA and city government agencies. "We were doing some guerrilla volunteering, you know, just four of us in the car, down at Beach 8th Street. And the police said, you shouldn't be here, it's not safe for you."
After months of failed attempts at a revival, interspersed with long periods of basically nothing, Occupy has found a crisis that is a surprising match for the capacities it developed as a flexible and sometimes amorphous focus movement and builder of tent cities, seeking at times to speak for the poor with no clear mandate from its would-be constituents.
this my friends is not feigned caring with store bought and distributed to those who appear to be contributing except they're not you are trying to buy the love. Romney the not so good businessman when it comes to real peopleand not empty suits like him
