Becoming one of “them”

By Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book

So how do you navigate that sense of loss, the trauma of changed expectations, the sense that all the things that you once believed you had a right to are now things you are a supplicant for?

Struggles, new and old, emerge in Sandy’s wake

By Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence

A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City's shores.

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – A long term view

By John P. Bell, Transition Westchester

Recently I been seeing something with my own eyes I haven't seen for thirty years, other than on a television - gas lines.

The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

We called it Sandy, and it came to tell us we should have listened harder when the first, second, and third disasters showed up.

After Sandy, communities mobilize a new kind of disaster relief

By Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence

Meanwhile, a grassroots network of community-run relief stations and free kitchens has sprung up in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The response began small and grew rapidly.