Since Occupy Wall Streetlaunched over a year ago, many people (myself included, to some degree) have spent a lot of time wringing their hands and wondering, “What is OWS going to do?” Well, this month, in addition to the incredible Superstorm Sandy relief efforts they continue to coordinate,...
It’s worse that you think in New York. Much, much worse. On Saturday, when I got to the Rockaways, a peninsula community in Queens near JFK Airport, my stomach dropped. I had heard about the flooding, and seen the fires in Breezy Point on TV. But...
Everyone knows by now that social media is important to the work that they’re doing, whether that’s creating a great product or saving the world. But many people are lost past knowing how to tweet or how to set up a Facebook page. Why, exactly, is this...