Occupy Sandy

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Occupy Sandy is a major case study in networked emergent disaster response. It grew out of Occupy Wall Street networks after Hurricane Sandy and quickly became a decentralized relief formation that used social media, volunteer hubs, and neighborhood relationships to move supplies and people where formal systems were slow or absent [@ambinder2013; @greenfield2013].

Within this school, Occupy Sandy matters because it shows how preexisting movement infrastructure can become disaster infrastructure without first becoming a nonprofit or state contractor. It also shows how digital coordination can expand mutual aid without replacing local judgment and face-to-face trust [@ambinder2013].

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Occupy Sandy