When additional volunteers are needed to get water or prepare food, they'll shout out a call that's echoed around the square.
Despite an all-volunteer, non-hierarchical structure, a seemingly messy but strangely efficient infrastructure has developed. Nowhere is the system more evident than the bustling kitchen in the center of the park.
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