At the Occupy Boston website you can find a press release about tonight’s situation, and their strategy. The main point: Everyone who can, come join them ASAP!
In Boston, the occupation demonstrators had been somewhat successful holding down the first park they chose. Tonight, they have tried to expand to another park. The Boston Police are making threats and ultimatums for them to leave the second park.
There is a pretty good story at the local Patch website, HERE and excerpted below:
(excerpt from) Malden Patch
Boston PD to Protestors: Leave by Midnight
10/10/2011
Police will forcefully vacate both ‘Occupy Boston’ camps if activists do not leave a second encampment, a spokesman said…
LAST UPDATE—10:05 P.M. ON MONDAY
Activists participating in the ‘Occupy Boston’ protests downtown have been issued an ultimatum by Mayor Tom Menino: return to your original occupation in Dewey Square, or face eviction by the police.
The group, which seemed to originally have the tacit blessing of city hall, expanded it’s encampment in the downtown financial district across from South Station into a newer park, just a block north from the original location, between Congress Street and Pearl Street on the Rose Kennedy Greenway…
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