Almost from the moment Hurricane Sandy struck New York, an ad hoc offshoot of Occupy Wall Street set to work collecting food and clothing for victims of the storm and sending volunteers to hard-hit areas like Red Hook, Brooklyn, and the Rockaways in Queens to clean out flooded basements and to repair damaged houses.
Now, in what may be the quickest turnaround for a movie in recent memory, the group, Occupy Sandy, will show a documentary Wednesday about its efforts and the contention that the storm was tied to climate change and the fossil fuel industry. In classic Occupy fashion, the screening will not be in a traditional theater, but rather on the side of a yet-to-be-disclosed building in the East Village.
The screening of the film, “Occupy Sandy: A Human Response to the New Realities of Climate Change†(see trailer above or click here), will be at 6:30 p.m.
The filmmaker, Josh Fox, whose movie “Gasland†explored the controversy over the oil- and natural gas-drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will be on hand as the new film is projected into the dark of night by Occupy Wall Street's mobile art van known as the Illuminator. Several victims of the storm who received assistance from Occupy Sandy are expected to attend.
To be notified of the screening's location, text the phrase “@climatecrime†to 23559 or the follow the hashtag #climatecrime on Twitter.
