VOA标准英语2012--Post-Storm, 'Occupy Wall Street' Becomes 'Occupy Sandy'
时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)
Post-Storm, 'Occupy Wall Street' Becomes 'Occupy Sandy'
The scene at St. Jacobi church in Brooklyn is controlled chaos 2: scores of people sorting and distributing tons of aid for relief centers in the hardest-hit parts of New York. Everyone is a volunteer, and all seem to be working at top speed.
It’s part of a city-wide undertaking 3 dubbed 4 Occupy Sandy. What began more than a year ago as the political protest movement Occupy Wall Street is now a massive aid effort for storm victims in New York’s hardest-hit areas, from Staten Island to the Far Rockaways.
Occupy Sandy site coordinator 5 at the church, Pablo Benson, said the aid campaign is just another face of the community organizing that Occupy Wall Street has done since the encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district ended.
“It’s funny, because we’ve been hearing a lot of reports about how Occupy has been dead, and even throughout this period, Occupy has been actively 6 engaging in community organizing,” Benson said.
Locally, he said, Occupy worked to help tenants 7 at a building in the neighborhood around the church mount a rent strike.
“We’ve been doing complex logistics, dealing 8 with social media networks, with inventory 9. We were inundated 10 with donations in terms of food, clothes and money,” he said of the original occupation. “So it’s no coincidence that as soon as this disaster came out, Occupy was ready to handle the flow of donations, of volunteers, and effectively direct them to where their work would be most purposeful.”
Donations and volunteers move nonstop through the church, one of several distribution hubs for the effort. There are clothes, diapers, food, cleaning products, batteries, candles, even generators 11.
Outside, volunteers are assembled into groups for ferrying aid and manpower to Occupy Sandy relief centers in the worst-affected areas. Volunteers’ cars and trucks that have enough gas are loaded up with people and goods for trips out to the storm-struck coastal 12 areas.
As a new storm approached New York Tuesday evening, volunteer cooks stepped up production in the church basement kitchen. They prepare two hot meals daily for storm victims, many of whom are still living in homes that lack power or heat.
One cook wrapped up pans filled with pasta, chicken and tomato sauce. It was going to Coney Island. “Coney Island, where my father was born, where my grandfather had a candy store,” he said. “Hoping to feed some good people out there.”
Many storm victims have complained of a lagging response by established charities and government. Another cook, Mike Birch, said Occupy has a different model: direct action.
“Grassroots, real people power,” he said, stirring a giant pot of chili 13 con 1 carne. “We don’t rely on the Red Cross, or FEMA, or the city.”
He said he took part in the original protests, and has become involved again because of Occupy Sandy.
“The other day I was working in Red Hook,” he added. “A woman was walking down the street with a donation; she had a blanket. Another woman was coming in the other direction, in need. They just looked at each other, like ‘Can I?’ And [the donor] took the blanket out, and handed the blanket to her,” Birch said. “So, that’s the direct action, not bureaucracy. We’re getting right to the people, people in need.”
Benson said the storm relief effort will continue as long as needed. When it is over, he said, New York’s Occupy movement will return to working to build sustainable communities around the city.
- We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
- The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票,协议被通过。
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
- He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
- How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
- During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
- We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
- A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
- Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
- We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。
- We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
- We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The factory's emergency generators were used during the power cut. 工厂应急发电机在停电期间用上了。
- Power can be fed from wind generators into the electricity grid system. 电力可以从风力发电机流入输电网。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。