Occupy response to hurricane

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"Since then we've been walking up and down stairs, providing care packages of food and flashlights and bottled water," Reed said.

Reed and others have been volunteering in Red Hook since Sandy hit, mostly organized via "Occupy Sandy," a now burgeoning offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, websites like Recovers.org, a social hub for organizing volunteers online, and word of mouth.

Occupy Sandy volunteers aim to help smaller communities, where government relief organizations may not have arrived, Reed said.

"Occupy has gone from general protest work to now direct community support," Reed said. "What we're trying to do is build communities, not just charity."