Rooted in Occupy Wall Street, the relief effort showed how mutual aid groups can step up when government aid is lacking.
movement wanted to figure out how to help New Yorkers affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The volunteers set up an online wedding registry to collect supplies. They published a map with locations where people could seek relief. They folded in other New Yorkers from neighborhoods Sandy left unscathed. And they canvassed social media and worked the phones to figure out where to send helping hands.
In this vein, Occupy Sandy and similar projects represent the informal emergency management system, according to Samantha Montano, a disaster researcher and assistant professor in Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s emergency management department. The structure behind this seemingly spontaneous collective was horizontal, without clear leaders. But in many ways, some say, it wasthan official relief organizations, including the Red Cross, FEMA and the National Guard.
Mutual aid volunteers in Brooklyn pick up cardboard boxes from Lowe’s, Dec. 22, 2020. Hiram Alejandro Durán / THE CITY Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz would agree. He was the leader at St. Jacobi Lutheran Church in Sunset Park, one of the main Occupy Sandy distribution hubs and is now a pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, which served recently as a central point for pandemic-relief programs. It’s also more recently welcomed some of the“We know that salvation, so to speak, doesn’t come from the government, and we cannot wait for the government to act,” Ruiz said.
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