Occupy Sandy and the Latino Soul of Activism - ABC News

Occupy Sandy and the Latino Soul of Activism - ABC News: "In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, community-based volunteers led by Occupy Wall Street supporters have emerged to fill the void left by FEMA, and The American Red Cross. In less than a week, the Occupy Sandy grassroots movement has raised more than $264,000 in relief for New York's hardest hit neighborhoods, and established a network of volunteers and materials that is empowering people to rebuild their communities."

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Occupy Sandy Offers Aid to Hurricane Victims - The Local – Fort-Greene Blog - NYTimes.com

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Occupy Sandy Offers Aid to Hurricane Victims - The Local – Fort-Greene Blog - NYTimes.com: "The sanctuary at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew on Clinton Avenue is brimming with donated clothes, children’s books and diapers. The church’s heavy wooden doors are open and the air inside is cool. Volunteers in wool hats and down jackets flit about, chatting with each other as they  assemble care packages with toothbrushes and toothpaste and load cars with cleaning supplies and bottled water to deliver to neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy."

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Occupy Sandy: Hurricane relief being led by Occupy Wall Street.

Occupy Sandy: Hurricane relief being led by Occupy Wall Street.: "... there wasn’t any kind of official decision or declaration that occupiers would now try to help with the hurricane aftermath.  “This is what we do already, “ he explained: Build community, help neighbors, and create a world without the help of finance.  Horst said, “We know capitalism is broken, so we have already been focused on organizing to take care of our own [community] needs.” He sees Occupy Sandy as political ideas executed on a practical level."

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Occupy Sandy Relief | InterOccupy Hub

Occupy Sandy Relief | InterOccupy Hub: "Occupy Sandy is a coordinated relief effort to help distribute resources & volunteers to help neighborhoods and people affected by Hurricane Sandy. We are a coalition of people & organizations who are dedicated to implementing aid and establishing hubs for neighborhood resource distribution. Members of this coalition are from Occupy Wall Street, 350.org, recovers.org and interoccupy.net."

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Free transit in NYC through Friday

Tracking Hurricane Sandy - NY Daily News: "Gov. Cuomo has announced that all subways, NYC buses, LIRR and Metro-North trains will be free through Friday."

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Transit Initiatives Are Giving a Boost to Businesses, a Report Says - NYTimes.com

Transit Initiatives Are Giving a Boost to Businesses, a Report Says - NYTimes.com: "In Brooklyn, where a parking area on Pearl Street was converted into a plaza, retail sales have increased 172 percent for neighboring businesses, compared with 18 percent throughout the borough."

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Is the Governor of New York Building a Bridge to Yesterday?

Cuomo’s Crossing – Next American City: " Nearly 300 public meetings and $88 million later, the state had a pretty good idea of what it needed to do — build a bigger bridge with mass transit facilities. Then, with a short press release and a quick news conference, everything changed."

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NYPD Issues More Tickets to Drinking Pedestrians Than Speeding Drivers | Streetsblog New York City

NYPD Issues More Tickets to Drinking Pedestrians Than Speeding Drivers | Streetsblog New York City: "NYPD issued more summonses for open container violations than for speeding in 2011, one of a number of law enforcement oddities revealed through data issued by police and compiled from court records."

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U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs - Bloomberg

U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs - Bloomberg: "Littlefield also argues that judges in New York routinely side with contractors in disputes with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “In the private sector, if you rob your customer, you will suffer a hit to your reputation and possible losses in the courts,” he said in an interview. “Not so if you rob an agency like the MTA. Then it’s all rights and no responsibilities.”"

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Another good reason why public transit should be fare-free

Harlem teen says she was cuffed, held in MetroCard flap - NY Daily News: "Cops roughed up and handcuffed a Harlem student after mistakenly believing that the 15-year-old was too old to use a student MetroCard, the teen claims.

And now the NYPD has opened an investigation into the allegation, the Daily News has learned.

Alexis Sumpter, 15, wasn’t arrested or given a summons during the July 26 interaction — but she says she was shaken and humiliated by the experience.

“They called me liar,” she remembers. “Then they grabbed me by my arms and flung me up the stairs. I kept saying, I’m only 15 — why are you guys doing this?

“They said they didn’t owe me an explanation,” she said.

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