A few days ago I saw posts on Facebook that a community run relief hub at 489 Midland Avenue in Staten Island is being evicted by the city, with an ask to call the Public Advocate's office. The next day, I received an email forwarded to me from a friend who knows I know people…
A few weeks ago, my husband and music partner James Harrell and myself performed some of our music at The Park Slope Armory in Brooklyn. The Armory had been transformed into an evacuation shelter for senior citizens evacuated from the Rockaways during Hurricane Sandy. The Armory was literally packed with seniors and it took so…
People everywhere were stunned to read and see the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the Connecticut shoreline, New York and New Jersey. With the devastation occurring in an area so close to my home, I had the opportunity to donate time and energy as well as make a financial donation. On November 17, I joined…
As a born and raised New Yorker I've always deeply identified with the City. As an accidental environmental activist and broadcaster I always fear for our planet and all her inhabitants. Twenty years ago I helped to promote The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, a paper that told us "No more than one or a…
Nov 29th I embarked on my adventure to the East Coast to volunteer for victims of the storm called Sandy that was devastating to this part of our country! I sat in the dark for 3 days in Lorain, Ohio back in October, 2012—believe it or not—as a result of the very same storm that…
I had just gotten on to my bunk bed, pulled up my blanket up to my head. Too frightened to sleep, I carefully pulled the covers off me and looked out the window. I saw the floating water, rising. I froze. I was too scared to speak/sleep. I sat down. Shivering, I got down from…
We first met Turner in the People’s Pantry, a community relief center in Toms River, New Jersey. Housed in a cavernous 20,000 square-foot storefront in a suburban shopping plaza on Fischer Boulevard, the Pantry has become a permanent fixture of the community. Like many other middle-class residents in limbo, Turner first came to the Pantry…
