Occupy Boston
Part of the Occupy movement
People gathered near Boston's Dewey Square during Occupy Boston on October 3, 2011
Date	September 30, 2011 (2011-09-30) – December 10, 2011 (2011-12-10)[1] (70-1/2 days)
Location	Boston, Massachusetts 42°21′10″N 71°03′20″W / 42.3528°N 71.0555°W / 42.3528; -71.0555
Caused by	Economic Inequality, Democracy, Racism, Sexism, inter alia
Goals	Freedom, social justice, democracy, building a beloved community
Methods	Demonstration, occupation, protest, street protesters, Civil Disobedience, Direct Action
Status	Occupation ended
Arrests and injuries
Injuries	0
Arrested	186

Occupy Boston was a collective of protesters that settled on September 30, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts, on Dewey Square in the Financial District opposite the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.^[2][3][4][5] It is related to the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011.^[6]

As of June 2012, Occupy Boston had continued to engage in organized meetings, events and actions.^[7]

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]

Members of Occupy Boston marched with students at Harvard University on November 9, 2011, to create the Occupy Harvard in Harvard Yard.^[15] The two groups later collaborated to interrupt a Newt Gingrich speech at Harvard on November 18.^[16][17]

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

Circulation	25,000
Website	bostonoccupier.com

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]

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  October 3, 2011
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  Sign tent, October 3, 2011
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  Atlantic Ave., October 3, 2011
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  October 6, 2011
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  Media tent, October 10, 2011
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  October 10, 2011
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  October 10, 2011
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  October 30, 2011

Related portals:

• 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.

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
• WGBH. "WGBH Occupy Boston Coverage". Boston.