This chapter examines the organisational and social dynamics of large-scale protest occupations, focusing on the 2006 encampment in Mexico City. It explores how activists initiated and sustained an extensive occupation, managed logistics and safety, and maintained political engagement over time. Moving beyond conventional analyses of episodic mobilisations, the chapter highlights two often-overlooked aspects: the politics of waiting and the internal division of labour within protest camps. Once established with support from across the country, the camp developed its own rhythm. Alongside debates on electoral legitimacy, it became a social space offering leisure, educational, and cultural activities, especially for working-class participants. These practices reconfigured urban everyday life and fostered enduring solidarities among protesters. Yet beneath its egalitarian ethos, class hierarchies persisted: working-class activists were primarily responsible for maintaining the occupied space, their endurance and capacity to “wait” emerging as central political resources. The analysis underscores how temporal and social arrangements shaped the lived experience and political meaning of the occupation.