Occupy Leads Relief Efforts In Powerless Red Hook

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1. That is heartbreaking. Those poor people.

“I can’t take this no more,” said Alisa Pizarro on Friday, wiping tears from her eyes. The lead community organizer at Red Hook Initiative Center on Hicks Street, which has become a hub for relief efforts, she is also a resident. “It’s too much. We have no light. We have no water. We have nothing. I’ve been washing with a little bottle of water. You hear stories about people looting other people’s apartments. I have pepper spray in one hand and a flashlight in the other. I don’t want to go through another night.”

It makes me cry and I am so glad and grateful to OWS for thinking of the most needy people.

I hope they get the power back soon. Is there such a thing as a giant generator would provide them with power? If so I'm sure people would donate money to get one there if they asked.

So many people are going to be in need for a long time.