Dear All,
For those who are safe and able to help… Passing on this request we received… hope you can help:
The National Guard and FEMA have arrived in Brooklyn but at least in Red Hook did not have anything to distribute to the people. Also, gasoline is very scarce so those of us who wanted to drive out to Brooklyn with supplies could not do so without getting
stuck on the way there.
1. This morning, please help out where you can:
MUTUAL SUPPORT SITES
Red Hook Initiative
767 Hicks St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-858-6782 Phone
718-852-4984 Fax
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Park Slope Armory
361 15th St.
Brooklyn Tech High School
29 Fort Greene Place
BROOKLYN - SUNSET PARK / FAR ROCKAWAY
If you want to volunteer in Sunset Park or Far Rockaway:
Please go to Jacobi Church in Sunset Park 5406 4th Avenue
If you have a cars full of ready to eat food, cleaning supplies, clothes, and/or volunteers, please go straight to Far Rockaway, at the corner of B113 and Rockaway Blvd. Or at the kitchen located at a restaurant called Veggie Island
at 96th Street and Rockaway Boulevard.
You can go starting immediately. If you are going to Far Rockaway - please dress appropriately: warm clothes and boots!
To get the list of needs please visit
www.interoccupy.net/occupysandy/
MEDICS ARE NEEDED IN FAR ROCKAWAY - If you do not have a car, please go to St. Jacobi Church 5406 4th Avenue and catch a ride to Far Rockway to address 112-34 Rockaway Beach Blvd. Contact: Diego at 516 225 7868.
Other Brooklyn Shelters looking for help: http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/brooklyn-hurricane-shelters-need-some-help/
MANHATTAN - CHINATOWN
CAAAV
46 Hester St Frnt A · New York
(212) 473-6485
served more than 500 people yesterday to get their phones charged, to get food and supplies, and most importantly to get INFORMATION.
This is what they need immediately:
1) Donations. Specifically-- food, water, flashlights, batteries (AA, AAA, D). We could use another generator and power outlets for people to charge things.
2) Volunteers. To help with outreach, distribution of supplies, and organizing/moving people. We anticipate more than double the amount of people to come through tomorrow. We're also getting specific requests to check up on seniors
and would like to be able to do that if possible. (Note: If you plan on coming through you will not have much ability to use your cellphone. Maybe texts, but not much else.)
3) Take action. Demand that the leaders of this City take responsibility for Chinatown/Lower East Side and other still impacted communities. Stop putting people over profits. The people of our communities deserve just as much attention
as Wall Street and Times Square.
And of course, we can always use financial donations. Just today alone, CAAAV staff and volunteers used hundreds of dollars of our own money to buy flashlights and batteries. Please consider making a donation at http://www.nycharities.org/donate/c_donate.asp?CharityCode=1838&amount&designategift2.
If you have any questions or want to support, reach out to us at [log in to unmask].
We are trying to get back to people as soon as we can, but we're most likely able to respond after 8pm when we can get to a place with cell service. The best thing you can do is just come down and bring stuff/people with you.
2. Starting Tonight, please call or email the following people to let them know that people in affected areas of NYC are in a desperate situation and have not received government relief, if they do nothing, they can't say they didn't know:
A. President Barack Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Visitor's Office: 202-456-2121
B. Senator Charles Schumer
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/Contact/contact_chuck.cfm
322 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Phone: 202-224-6542
Fax: 202-228-3027
TTD: 202-224-0420
780 Third Avenue
Suite 2301
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-486-4430
Fax: 212-486-7693
TDD: 212-486-7803
C. Governor Mario Cuomo
http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
You may also contact the Governor's office by phone (518) 474-8390
Susan Klitzman MPH DrPH CPH
Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
2180 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10035
212-396-7727
For more information about the CUNY SPH, please visit our website:
http://www.cuny.edu/site/sph.html
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