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Occupy Boston
By adamg - 12/10/11 - 8:26 am
Arrest at Occupy Boston this morning. Photo by Mystery Pill.
Boston Police busted up the Dewey Square encampment early this morning, arresting more than 40 protesters. Chris Faraone at the Phoenix livetweeted it all; the Globe has more. Faraone has more. Scott Eisen posted photos.
Ed Davis watches as police remove tents. Photo by Mystery Pill.
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By adamg - 12/8/11 - 6:26 pm
Dewey Square tonight. Photo copyright Richard BeaubienArrests made around 3 a.m. when two people refused to leave tent they had pitched in the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Otherwise, police let Occupiers dance the night away.
Experimental realtime coverage from last night below. It may take a moment or two for the feed to show up:
By adamg - 12/7/11 - 3:59 pm
Occupy Boston tweets the judge who'd issued a temporary restraining order against any police moves to oust the occupiers from Dewey Square has lifted the ban, ruling the city can now carry out the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy's request to get them off its land. The Globe tweets City Hall says there are no immediate plans for eviction.
By adamg - 12/5/11 - 2:23 pm
BPD Supt. William Evans surrounded and mic checked by Occupy Boston.
A pickup truck delivered a $1,350 winterized, fireproof tent to Occupy Boston today. And about 20 minutes later, picked it up again.
Protesters had decided, before the tent arrived, they would not fight, as they had a few days earlier for a sink, but would instead accede to the city demand, to show the hypocrisy of officials who say the encampment is unsafe but won't let the occupiers take major steps to increase safety. City officials say the tent is large enough that it would require a permit, but that they're not going to allow it in even if Occupy Boston applied for one.
By adamg - 12/3/11 - 5:12 pm
The Occupants plan to bring in a "fire safe, military style tent" on Monday, of the sort the city says is a "permanent" building structure that simply will not be tolerated, you know, like sinks.
By adamg - 12/3/11 - 12:07 pm
The Nation spends some time at the encampment, reports on the struggle between the occupants of "Weird Street" and the rest of the encampment.
By adamg - 12/2/11 - 11:34 am
A man charged with attacking a Boston cop during last night's sink battle at Occupy Boston was arrested in Framingham in October on charges he and another man robbed a guy answering an online ad for a $150 session with a prostitute, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office confirms.
Glen Williams, 25, of Quincy, was arrested last night on a charge of assault and battery on a public employee when police arrived en masse around 9 p.m. to confiscate a sink donated to Occupy Boston for dish washing. Most of the 100 or so protesters demonstrated peacefully.
By adamg - 12/1/11 - 1:27 pm
WBUR reports a Suffolk Superior Court extended a temporary restraining order letting Occupy Boston stay in Dewey Square at least until she issues a final order on Dec. 15.
By adamg - 11/28/11 - 10:19 am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a guy they say threatened a man at the South Station bus terminal with a knife around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
According to a Transit Police report, the man was waiting for his girlfriend:
When she arrived, he noticed a Hispanic male "checking her out" and making sexually suggestive comments to her like, "hey mommy are you free". According to the victim, the suspect walked up to him and asked if she was his girl or was she working. he took offense to the comment and told the suspect that she was his wife to be and he should leave them alone.
By adamg - 11/25/11 - 1:22 pm
A Framingham woman charged with punching and spitting at police officers investigating a possible domestic-violence situation at the Occupy Boston encampment was ordered to stay away from Dewey Square - and anything else having to do with Occupy Boston - while charges remain pending against her, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 11/20/11 - 4:23 pm
Mike Ball considers the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy's newfound reasons for wanting Occupy Boston off its land and finds them lacking:
The Greenway Conservancy folk apparently stifled their Brahmin impulse until they popped. They saw the courts refuse to clear Occupy's camp and the mayor deciding to hang back. At least Menino has the political savvy to understand the peril of smothering protest in the town that fomented the American Revolution.
By adamg - 11/18/11 - 7:33 pm
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy now wants the city to broom Occupy Boston from Dewey Square.
After much thought and discussion, we have come to the conclusion that, as fiduciaries for public use of the Greenway, we must request that you enforce our regulations and remove the occupiers from the Greenway.
By adamg - 11/17/11 - 9:44 pm
Occupy Boston and union members did not shut down the Charlestown Bridge tonight, unless you count the roughly two minutes police closed it to let the protesters march from Commercial Street onto Causeway Street.
Before the bulk of Occupy Boston came down Commercial Street (once again failing to lob even token protests at Romney headquarters), a bagpiper joined the hardhats and service workers who held protest signs where Commercial turns onto the bridge in advance of the rally.
By adamg - 11/17/11 - 8:00 am
Unemployed construction workers, other union members and Occupy Boston plan a march around 4:30 from Dewey Square to the decaying Charlestown Bridge today to press for repairs, as part of a day of Jobs Not Cuts protests at decrepit bridges across the country.
The last time Occupy Boston tried to march on the bridge, Boston Police shut the span down rather than let them on.
By adamg - 11/15/11 - 5:32 pm
I only stumbled upon the tail end of his visit, when he'd already put his Yankees cap back on for the trip back to New York and briefly talked to a media throng. When he first arrived, he donned Phoenix writer Chris Faraone's Sox hat.
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