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Best Of Enemies: Why Occupy Activists Are Working With NYC's Government

Best Of Enemies: Why Occupy Is Working With NYC's Government
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Organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers, medical supplies are readied on a table in the school gymnasium at the St. Camillus Roman Catholic Church in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Sunday, Nov.11, 2012, almost two weeks in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Two hundred people were lined up at a hurricane relief center in a park in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood Sunday morning when three volunteers hoisted the banners of two enemy camps that had come together in an uneasy collaboration: the Occupy movement and the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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