NEW YORK – Occupy Wall Street, the movement formed in 2011 in reaction to the financial crisis, has started up again – this time as grassroots support to help New Yorkers affected by superstorm Sandy.
Occupy members are working across New York City, providing hot meals, blankets and medicine to victims of the storm, which hit the United States two weeks ago.
Just a day after the storm passed, activists had created its neighbourhood headquarters in the St Jacobi Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
Organizers have been using social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to get the word out.
They’ve also created a wedding registry list on Amazon.com, where people from all over the world can donate essentials to those in need – and have them shipped directly to Brooklyn’s Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew.
Donations – from canned soup to dog food to duvets – have arrived by the truckload and are stocked in several church basements.
Created as part of an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to the protest movement that started in September 2011 in the wake of the world financial crisis.
The protest movement’s slogan, “We are the 99%,” refers to the income disparity between the wealthiest one per cent and the rest of the population.
– With files from The Canadian Press
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