What To Do Now

It’s Friday and it’s been a hard week. I’m not asking you read tonight. We don’t all have to be out on the streets in the disaster zone but there’s something each of us can do. It beats waiting for the so-called government to do something.

Here’s reporting from Cindy Milstein on the situation right now:

No sign of tents or Occupy Sandy Relief at Coffey Park in Red Hook, but plenty of signs of suffering: water still being pumped out of buildings, public housing & corner stores with no lights and probably heat, downed trees & debris lingering, toxic smell in air and toxic-looking muck on ground, single Red Cross truck giving out supplies, ConEd & “restoration” workers with masks/gloves on, homemade & bilingual signs about where to get help or when/if school is open, and police. Lots & lots of police — doing nothing (which is maybe preferable to doing something!)

Watch this video by David Borenstein on the situation in the Rockaways and see if you don’t start thinking about Katrina: