{"id":9371,"date":"2015-01-03T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2015-01-03T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:02:36","slug":"did-the-red-cross-let-its-fear-of-the-occupy-movement-interfere-with-its-disaster-relief-jesse-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/01\/did-the-red-cross-let-its-fear-of-the-occupy-movement-interfere-with-its-disaster-relief-jesse-walker.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Did the Red Cross Let Its Fear of the Occupy Movement Interfere with Its Disaster Relief?&#8221;: Jesse Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at Reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you paid attention to Superstorm Sandy in 2012, you probably know that some of the centralized institutions charged with disaster relief, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/waste-bureaucracy-and-pr-stunts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Red Cross<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/hurricane-sandy-a-tale-of-two-headlines\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> FEMA<\/a>, performed very poorly. You may also have heard about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/thank-goodness-the-feds-are-subsidizing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Occupy Sandy<\/a>, an Occupy Wall Street spinoff devoted to helping people after the storm; by all accounts it performed very well. The latter group\u2019s effectiveness was <a href=\"http:\/\/homelandsecurity.org\/Docs\/The%20Resilient%20Social%20Network.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> recognized<\/a> even by the Department of Homeland Security, an organization not ordinarily inclined to look kindly on the Occupy movement. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Leahy denies that there \u201cexplicit injunction\u201d not to work with Occupy Sandy. Those three anonymous sources seem to disagree. ProPublica also interviewed several Occupiers who \u201csay the Red Cross did not take their calls in the early days and weeks after the storm hit.\u201d One of them reports that a Red Cross worker said \u201cthey couldn\u2019t be seen working with us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/did-the-red-cross-let-its-fear-of-the-oc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at Reason: If you paid attention to Superstorm Sandy in 2012, you probably know that some of the centralized institutions charged with disaster relief, such as the Red Cross and FEMA, performed very poorly. You may also have heard about\u00a0Occupy Sandy, an Occupy Wall Street spinoff devoted to helping people after the storm; by all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,163,98],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jesse-walker","tag-radix-malorum-est-cupiditas","tag-the-little-platoons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Did the Red Cross Let Its Fear of the Occupy Movement Interfere with Its Disaster Relief?&quot;: Jesse Walker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"at Reason: If you paid attention to Superstorm Sandy in 2012, you probably know that some of the centralized institutions charged with disaster 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