A.F.P provides many of the funds. Look to see who started AFP.

Also where do the busses and the stages and the jumbotrons come from?

The unions are involved with the ows that is for certain and Not Hidden. They would benefit from a stronger middle class.

Most of the local street level stuff has been donated by people that can not participate or has been brought by the occupiers so I have heard. I have not been to one so I dont know first hand.

Also the Tea Party needs a bit of a history lesson or to find a new name. The original Tea Party was about unfair taxes but not about too much it was about too little on the East India Company.