As of June 2012, Occupy Boston had continued to engage in organized meetings, events and actions.[7]
Overviewedit
On October 10, 2011, the Boston demonstrators expanded a tent city onto an additional portion of the Rose Kennedy Greenway; starting around 1:20 AM the following morning, 141 people were arrested by the officers of the Boston Police Special Operations Unit.[8][9][10][11] Most of these cases were dismissed prior to arraignment with the agreement of the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Tents were pitched in the following days, and by October 15 the camp itself had consisted of about 90 tents on either side of a path the protesters named, "Main Street," plus another two dozen or so tents divided up between the "Student Village" area and a strip of lawn the protesters named "Weird Street".[12][13]
A tent library, later named the Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn (A to Z) Library was set up at the Occupy Boston encampment with the mission to "foster inquiry, learning, critical analysis and information-sharing among Occupy Boston occupiers, participants and visitors in order to better understand, challenge and transform interlocking systems of oppression".[14]
By November 17, 2011 a judge issued an order prohibiting the eviction of protesters from Occupy Boston.[18] On December 7, 2011 a Boston judge rescinded the temporary restraining order, allowing Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to remove the protesters from Dewey Square. At 5:00 AM on December 10, 2011, Boston police moved in and raided the Occupation of Dewey Square, with 46 people arrested.[19]
Police officers collected $1.4 million dollars in overtime from the city of Boston.[20]
The Boston Occupier was an independent newspaper that was born out of the Occupy Boston movement. The title was originally The Occupy Boston Globe, but was changed shortly before the first publication in order to avoid association with the Boston Globe.[21]
The newspaper launched in October 2011, with the first issue being released on November 18, 2011 with a run of 25,000 copies.[22] The paper was funded with donations from a Kickstarter campaign, which raised approximately $9,300 in donations.[23][24]
^John Stephen Dwyer, "'Occupy Harvard begins on Harvard Yard", Blast magazine, 10 November 2011.
^Quinn Norton, ""Occupy Harvard's an exclusive affair, but not by choice", Wired, Threat Level blog, 30 November 2011.
^John Stephen Dwyer. "Occupy Boston and Occupy Harvard 'mic check' Newt Gingrich". Blast magazine, 19 November 2011.
^Judge issues order barring Occupy Boston evictions
^Occupy Boston Shutdown Early This Morning, 46 Protesters Arrested [Images] | BostInno
^Police officers collected $1.4 million dollars in overtime from the city of Boston. « CBS Boston
^Annear, Steve (November 17, 2011). "Protesters set to launch Occupy Boston newspaper". Metro Boston. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
^DeCanio, Lisa. "Read All About It: The Boston Occupier, the Newspaper for the Occupy Boston Movement". BostInno. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
^DeCanio, Lisa. "#OccupyBoston Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Occupy Boston Globe". BostInno. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
^Gurley, Gabrielle (30 January 2012). "The Boston Occupier goes old school". CommonWealth. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
Further readingedit
Yount, Scot (October 22, 2011.) "Occupy Boston protesters set sights on Boston Police Department." New England Cable News. Accessed October 2011.
Jess Bidgood. "Boston Police Pass on Evicting Occupy Protesters." New York Times, December 9, 2011
Peter Schworm; John Guilfoil (13 Dec 2011). "Greenway revival: crews begin repairs following damage of Occupy Boston encampment". Boston Globe.
Gabrielle Gurley (30 January 2012). "The Boston Occupier goes old school: Dan Schneider says print editions have more impact". Commonwealth Magazine. Boston, Mass.: MassINC.
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Occupy Boston.
Official website
Occupy Boston Wiki
Boston Occupier
Flickr. Occupy Boston (Sunday, Oct 3, 2011) photos by Massachusetts Cop Block
Flickr. Occupy Boston 10-5-2011 photos by Ethan Long
Flickr. Occupy Boston - Police Raid, Oct. 10, 2011, photos by Paul Weiskel
Flickr. Occupy Boston photos by Sam Marshall
"Occupy" photographs from around the nation Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine – from the Denver Post