<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For OCCUPYMendocino FRIENDS ––<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A report from the Northeast SANDY scene:<br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-disaster-relief-group/58702/">http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-disaster-relief-group/58702/</a> </div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here's an illuminating aspect of this accounting: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> ". . . <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">one contingent that has been making itself known throughout the many poor neighborhoods affected by the storm: <b>Occupy Wall Street</b>. Volunteers organized by the movement under the moniker <b>Occupy Sandy</b> arrived on bicycles, asking if they could set up a kitchen on R.H.I.'s premises.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">They threw it together and started putting up hot meals right away . . . </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">As Chloe Cockburn, a civil rights lawyer with ties to Occupy, put it: 'What we build last fall in Zuccotti Park has been put to use and come alive here.' "</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: pre; "> </span>Thanks to Lisa Colvin for spotting this report.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><img id="a34daa93-ae39-4748-b517-ca4e28e6745c" height="87" width="144" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9176CB51-AABC-4C97-A9C8-138E9A2A2A58"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; "> </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; "><p style="font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p></span><br><br><div><br></div>
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