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Boston police warn Occupy protesters they’re trespassing; deadline is set for midnight

The world waits to see what will happen at midnight tonight, as Occupy Boston is evicted from Dewey Square in Boston by Mayor Thomas Menino. The moment has been creeping up on the occupiers ever so steadily since a week or two ago. After Occupy LA and Occupy Philadelphia were cleared, it was evident the city would be moving the occupiers out as soon as they could.
I spent about a week there covering the camp. I delivered supplies to the camp, which was made possible by Firedoglake’s Occupy Supply campaign. I also was there for a day before Occupy Wall Street first was threatened with eviction in October. I had the chance to meet some fine occupiers and take in the truly remarkable spirit of the community that sprouted in Dewey Square. This is Occupy Boston’s moment though. The world is watching them tonight. I am at home blogging away madly. And I will be live blogging like I have been live blogging the Occupy movement since Day One. But, they should have their message, their words amplified tonight.
Here is the statementposted on the Occupy Boston website:


This morning, Mayor Menino issued a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston to leave the Greenway. The articulated threat of eviction is a clear and present danger to the community we have built over the past ten weeks. We came to Dewey Square to practice true democracy and give visibility to injustice; we came to see if we could not–in providing for basic needs–maintain a standing indictment against their enforced deprivation within our broader community. With this commitment came hard evidence of economic suffering, evidence that we present at the doorstep of the Federal Reserve along with our democracy, our songs and our chants that echo daily through the financial canyon. Today, the city threatens that community. It threatens the library, where we hold our classes and discuss ideas. It threatens our food tent, which has served thousands of people many more thousands of meals. It threatens our medical tent, which has provided treatment and care to the sick and to the injured. Not only these, it threatens the lives of those of us who have no place else to go. The city has cited concern for our safety as the reason for forcing us back into the streets. But make no mistake; the city’s concern for our safety will disperse when we do. We have therefore taken steps to ensure the safety of the infrastructure we have built, and to protect the most vulnerable among us in the event of the eviction. We are taking down the food tent, the medical tent, packing up our logistics supplies for safe-keeping and working with social service providers and other allies to secure shelter for our brothers and sisters most likely to experience homelessness if and when the city throws away their tents. We take action–today and always–in the name of economic and political justice, freedom of expression and our entire community.


The statement indicates much of the camp has been willfully dismantled. The most vulnerable of the population that have been taken care of by the Occupy Boston community over the past months are being moved out. Those remaining are those that have the fortitude and courage to stand their ground and send a message with their bodies that they believe what they have been doing—occupying—is speech that should be protected under the First Amendment.
I want to call attention to an individual I had the privilege of meeting at Occupy Boston, whom Firedoglake donated money to so he could construct “tiny, tiny homes” for the camp. This person is Sage Radachowsky, a research technician at Harvard. He and occupiers had been working with an MIT professor and some students from Harvard and MIT to develop solutions to help Occupy Boston last through winter. The working group was about to make “tiny, tiny homes” like the one Radachowsky has been living in for weeks now.

 

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Comment by robert alpert on December 15, 2011 at 5:02pm

how  the hell  does someone  sign  up  for this!!  

anyway   chomsky   is someone  we  do not need --there  are  smart  folks  who have  actually walked the  walk--Howard   Zinn did  in  SNCC  and  for God's  sake  Arthur  Scargill in the UK  could  give  major  help  Fred  Hampton  could  oh  sorry   I  forgot  he's  dead!

Comment by robert alpert on December 15, 2011 at 4:13pm

i  was  at  dewey  square when it got  busted  around  5  am --some one  my age  being outy there  for  six  nights does not  speak well  of me  I'd say  40  maybe  50  people  got  busted  I  got home woke up  sick as a dog--as  busts  go it  was mild oakland  busts  now and  when I lived there in  '68  were  something  quite different I  am having  real issues with  occ  boston--and the other  day  I  was  in cambridge mass ave occupy harvard yard  was going on--lot of  dope--from what I  could  tell  (cops  were not letting anyone in --there  was a black woman  on  Mass  ave  looked like she  was  dying (a paramedic  told me it  was  probably HIV)--the  GA has  to change  there ARE   people who  are more important to listen to than others--that is  not  anti-democratic  just common  sense --God   I  wish I  could reach  Bob Moses!!

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