We Are NOT 'Helpless'...Unless We Choose To Be.

"The Red Cross doesn’t accept individual donations of household goods—these things, it says, need to be cleaned, sorted, and repackaged, and all that takes up more time than they’re worth. It asks for financial donations only.

But Occupy, as you would expect, has a different style. For instance: as soon as it was safe to go outside after the storm, first thing Tuesday morning, Michael Premo and a couple of people he knew got in a car and drove over to Red Hook. Premo is a freelance artist who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant and just turned thirty. He was at Zuccotti Park every day last fall, though he never slept there, and after the park encampment was disbanded he kept in touch with the movement. There are big neighborhood assemblies in Sunset Park and Red Hook, smaller ones elsewhere in Brooklyn. Many meet each week, organizing around local issues—rent strikes in Sunset Park, anti-gentrification in Crown Heights.

Premo worked in New Orleans after Katrina, and he had a sense that right after a disaster, a city’s efforts were focussed on search and rescue, rather than on providing supplies. He thought this was a gap that Occupy could fill. He knew some people at Red Hook Initiative, a community center on Hicks Street, so he and his friends drove over there and asked what was needed—food, light, blankets. Food most of all. He and some other people got back in the car and drove to the Rockaways. He isn’t sure when they got there—probably Tuesday evening. Houses were still on fire. They walked around and asked people what they needed most."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/occupy-sandy.html

 

 

Beats:

"Venomous Tongue" - Ghetts (Prod By Delerious)

"Survival" - Lloyd Banks

"Where Did Our Love Go?" - The Supremes

"Ova N Out" - Trademark & Curren$y

"Golden" - Jill Scott

"Hold Your Head Up" - Macklemore

"Crystal Children" - Dot Rotten

 

Slaps:

"Saturday (KWG Broadway Remix)" - Rey Resurreccion

"Wrong Pot To Piss In" - The Goats

"Book Of Rules" - The Heptones

"The Tracks Of My Tears" - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

 

Vocals: 

Omali Yeshitela (African Socialist International), Wells Fargo and The Prison Industry, Sarah Jones (Def Poetry), NW Grand Jury Resistance (Solidarity with Matt, Kteeo, and Maddy), and MORE...!