Feeding the masses, fueling a movement

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People work in an outdoor kitchen for Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park.

'Occupy Wall Street' kitchen is heart of encampment
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44921688/ns/us_news-life/
Seventy-year-old Phyllis Coelho plunged her blue gloved hands into a plastic sink of gray soapy water and spent an afternoon last week cheerfully washing dishes "to support the revolution." The retired social worker had traveled from Belfast, Maine, the day before with her 78-year-old friend and fellow dishwasher, Jane Sanford.

They headed directly to the protest at Zuccotti Park because, they said, it was time to "show up."

At a table behind her, Nan Terrie, an 18-year-old law student from Orlando, Fla., was furiously chopping carrots and onions even as she juggled cell phone calls from people wanting to donate food, and handed hastily scribbled "to do" lists for other volunteers. Anj Ferrara, a 24-year-old artist, was tearing open some of the 40 boxed pizzas that had just arrived. And Tom Hintze, a 24-year-old bike tour guide, was trying to figure out the logistics of getting a truck and driver to pick up massive trays of pulled pork that someone wanted to send from Brooklyn.

The makeshift "kitchen" in the center of the park is the ever-evolving heart of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, managing to feed thousands daily even as it scrambles to figure out how to deal with an endless flow of donations.

[monmouth]

1. Heroes, each and every one...n/t

[tama]

2. Kitchen is the heart

[starroute]

3. From each acccording to his ability, to each according to his need

Isn't it nice to see it in action.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. It's quite real, despite the endless lies of the exploiter class

They pretend that to pillage is the essence of the human. Not so, we say. Not so.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. K&R, with gratitude. n/t