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Surviving Zuccotti Park: How the Protesters Stay Warm, Fed, and Cheery (New York Magazine)

This weekend, after nearly a month of following Occupy Wall Street from a
laptop in the bourgeois comfort of my rent-stabilized Lower East Side studio,
I decided to forsake the plush extravagance of a clean, warm, Pillow Pet-
filled office cubicle to live with the protesters for a day and find out how
they have been able to thrive without shelter or running water. Herewith, the
secrets of survival in Zuccotti Park.

**1. They don't need any money.** Many kids told me they spent their last
dollars getting to New York, but since then, they haven't had to spend a cent
to eat well or acquire basics like a sleeping bag, warm clothes, clean socks
and underwear, primary medical care, and even the occasional shower and good
night's sleep indoors. The protesters have built a very well-run services
infrastructure, aided by countless New Yorkers who are offering food,
supplies, health-care expertise, and the periodic use of their apartments.
Hunky Jewish nerd Michael Glazer (Chicago) and petite, hug-dispensing black
woman Sparrow Kennedy (New York via Detroit) are among the protesters running
the Comfort Station, sort of a freegan's Wal-Mart made up of plastic tubs full
of toiletries ...

New York Magazine