I'd greatly appreciate your suggestions...
Edit to add this!!! 
http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2012/11/part-time-fema-workers-now-eligible-health-care-benefits/59421/?oref=dropdown
And, in true ASAH style, I'd also like to ask if you could tap into me and this project...or anything I tend to work on and invest energy in, as they're really all tied together...to see if you have anything that comes to mind as a suggested way forward, even if it doesn't make sense to the average bear. 
At the link is a post in GD following up on the FEMA petition I created which has close to 105k signatures. In addition to suggestions about whom to next contact about this petition (media, legislators), I'd also love your thoughts about my strong desire to parlay the attention this petition and issue are receiving into a discussion about the need for Universal Healthcare and how I may most effectively do that. I put everything on hold until after the election, and am VERY relieved (as I know many of you are) that, with the re-election of President Obama, we can move forward with these issues. Had Romney won it would have been dead in the water.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021782487
If you would kindly K&R the post in GD, I'd appreciate that as well. 
= new reply since forum marked as read
Part-time emergency employees deployed to assist in Superstorm Sandy relief efforts have won federal health benefits, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday.
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing an interim final rule, obtained by Government Executive, to expand the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to part-time workers with FEMA, known as reservists. The rule takes effect immediately.
The announcement comes after an online petition requesting the benefits received nearly 100,000 signatures in the 10 days since it was launched.
A May Government Accountability Office report found that reservists, who make up 57 percent of FEMA’s workforce, do not receive any federal health benefits. When many of these reservists -- also known as disaster assistance employees -- were deployed in support of Sandy relief, Dena Patrick decided to take action.
The disaster assistance employees serve two-year appointments and are paid only when deployed.
Patrick -- founder of Wishadoo!, a grass-roots community organizing website -- thought FEMA employees who have been on the front lines in areas devastated by Sandy -- knocking on doors, delivering mobile homes and supervising the disbursement of more than $250 million in grants to those affected by the storm -- had earned their benefits and launched a campaign on their behalf.
http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2012/11/part-time-fema-workers-now-eligible-health-care-benefits/59421/?oref=dropdown
And I just LOVE that they referred to Wishadoo! as a "grassroots community organizing website"!!!
I look forward to more GRACE and EASE.
I've never succeeded in finding good contacts for communication with the OWS peeps outside my area.
Do you have suggestions as to how I may reach the Occupy Sandy people for them to -- when anyone there has time -- add suggestions for businesses who have helped their efforts?
I want to help promote such businesses.
http://www.wishadoo.org/blog/125/quot-support-good-business-quot-campaign/
Thanks, FWWM.
Thank you for all the links!
Thank you very much!
I was Googling, trying to find articles touting the efforts of businesses in the aftermath of Sandy, and was pleasantly surprised when I finally stumbled upon something applicable: Turns out it was my message to Interoccupy; they turned it into an article and posted it on their front page last week.
I'll follow up regarding the above. Thanks again!
So I'll repeat it here and thank you again for all the fabulous information!
