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(11,441 posts)Even the AP, in an article dated YESTERDAY, can't help itself.
Occupy Sandy: Onetime protesters find new cause
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Ultimately, though, the movement collapsed under its leaderless format, and Occupy became largely forgotten. But core members, and a spirit, have persisted and found a new cause in Occupy Sandy.
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In Rockaway Park, Occupier Diego Ibanez, 24, has been sleeping on the freezing floor of a community center down the street from a row of charred buildings destroyed by a fire. "You see a need and you fulfill it," he explained. "There's not a boss to tell you that you can't do this or you can't do that. Zuccotti was one of the best trainings in how to mobilize so quickly."
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"This is young people making history," said Mark Naison, a professor at Fordham University who has been studying Occupy Wall Street. "Young people who are refusing to let people suffer without putting themselves on the line to do something about it."
In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, at the Yana (You are Never Alone) medical clinic, Nastaran Mohit, with Occupy Sandy, right, speaks during an Occupy Sandy coordination meeting in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens in New York. Along with other groups, Occupy Sandy has sprung up in an effort to bring goods and services to people left in need in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/10/3656490/occupy-sandy-onetime-protesters.html#storylink=cpy
It's disturbing how so many on this site can't wrap their brains around "leaderless format." And contrary to popular belief, it's not all white hipsters... a group some DUers bash with impunity. And even if it were, so fucking what? At least they're doing something...