I heard part of a report about this today on my local public radio station while I was out running errands; not sure if it was part of an NPR broadcast or not.
I gather that the Occupiers have to pay some fees for site use, rent port-a-potties and other common facilities, and other things, and I think they are sharing food and other resources.
The report I heard sounded like it was describing how a bureaucracy was springing up already within the movement, or at least within individual local instances of the movement, including or especially concerning decisions about money. I think (and I’m not sure because, as usual, I came in somewhere in the middle) the speaker was a leader in one of the California “Occupy” groups. He was describing the hoops they had to go through to transfer some of their received donations to another group that had less; it might have been L.A. to Oakland. The reporter was commenting on the irony of how complex systems for financial accountability and roadblocks to use of funds have come into place so quickly within this movement.
But (because I didn’t hear the beginning) I’m not 100% sure this is what it was about at all. I’ve just been checking this afternoon’s programming for the period while I was out, and I didn’t find the story.