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    Rally today, Monday Dec. 12 4-6pm

    Dear friends and allies in the struggle for a more just, free, and egalitarian world:
    Come express your solidarity with Occupy Boston, and with the broader Occupy movement, in the wake of the recent eviction of Dewey Square,
    TOMORROW, MONDAY DEC. 12. 4-6pm at City Hall Plaza (by Government Center).
    Bring your thoughts, your signs, your music, your drums.  And your friends.
    From 4-6 there will be a Speak Out, (and drum circle?) open to all.
    Some will express their protest at the Mayor’s eviction and destruction of our encampment at Dewey Square.  (This will include those recently rendered homeless by the raid.)
    Some will testify to the ongoing determination of our movement for global social and economic justice.
    Some will speak in solidarity with the West coast occupiers, workers, and students (among others) who are –even as I write this–upping the ante and building to shut down the 1% controlled ports of the Northwest, from Oakland to Seattle.
    What do you have to say at this key moment in the history of our new movement?  Come and share what you have to say!  And invite others.  Spread the word.
    Around 6pm we will hold a march back into the Financial District, by the recently lost Dewey Square.  Have you seen Dewey since the police raid?

    A Quick Update

    See the  Live Tweet History of the Occupy Boston Raid!!

    Transcript of last night’s General Assembly can be viewed here.

    Please join us at GA tonight, Sunday, at 5pm on the Common. It will be livestreamed and live-tweeted by @DeweyGA (overflow @DeweyGA3).

    Future GAs may take place indoors – help us find a location.

    Stay connected! OB Radio is here.

    Now, more than ever, we are mobilizing — join and volunteer!! Text @occupyboston to the number 235-59 if you’d like to be added to the mass text system. In addition, you can then text your name, number, and email address to be added to a list of volunteers.

    Occupy Boston Radio – LIVE @ 11AM

    Open the OB Radio Player!

    Goooooooood moooorning Boston!

    OB Radio is going live, and we’re bringing you top notch revolutionary and progressive audio. Stay tuned for a complete schedule of all our original programming. If you’re interested in helping out with production or having a show yourself, please contact us on our mailing list at radio@lists.occupyboston.org. You can also at join our working group.

    Here’s the schedule for Monday, December 12th:

    • 11am: OBIT’s Morning Floss
    • 12pm: Occupy Roadmap Pre-Planning
    • 2pm: Working Group Mic-Check
    • 4pm: Be the Revolution (with B the Revolutionary)

    Costs: Occupy vs. Recession

    Cost of policing the Occupy movement in 18 cities: $13 million. Cost of the recession: $30 trillion.

    Occupy Boston Evicted from Dewey Square

    *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, December 10, 2011*

    Contacts: OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com

    Twitter: @OccupyBOS_media

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    OCCUPY BOSTON RAIDED

    On December 10, 2011 at 5 am #OccupyBoston’s Dewey Square encampment was raided by the Boston Police Department and other officials. Thirty-five peaceful protesters were arrested on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway just two days after Mayor Thomas Menino issued a notice of eviction. Eight others were arrested in the streets and sidewalks surrounding Dewey Square and three were detained in South Station. Throughout the two-hour period during which the arrests occurred, #OccupyBoston members remained resolute and nonviolent in the face of a disproportionately large police presence. At least 100 officers were counted inside Dewey Square at 5:30 am, while some estimates place the count at greater than 200.

     

    Credentialed press, citizen journalists, academic researchers, and #OccupyBoston media members were repeatedly corralled and moved to surrounding areas 50 feet away or moreprohibiting many from thoroughly covering the raid. From pointing lights in photographers’ lenses to targeting the two official #OccupyBoston USTREAM live videographers for removal, officials went to great lengths to block media access.

     

    You cannot evict an idea whose time has come.  Boston’s Occupiers will persist in rejecting a world created by and for the 1%. We might have been evicted, but we shall not be moved. We remain invested in the future of our movement. We will continue to challenge Wall Street’s occupation of our government.

     

    We encourage everyone to join in the national conversation that has sustained #OccupyBoston for the past seventy-one days. #OccupyBoston will hold a General Assembly tonight at 7 pm at the bandstand on the Boston Common. We are the 99%, and we are no longer silent.

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    #OccupyBoston is the beginning of an ongoing conversation about fixing our world: reforming Wall Street, removing special interests from government, preserving our civil liberties, and much more. #OccupyBoston is just one of more than 1000 separate Occupy movements in cities across the world and a symbol for “Occupiers” everywhere who support real and lasting change.

     

    Website: www.OccupyBoston.org

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    Occupy Boston Media <Media@occupyboston.org> • <Info@occupyboston.org> • @Occupy_Boston