Nov. 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
At approximately 5:55 p.m. yesterday, Sean Cormier, 21, of Westport, Kiean Lyons, 17, of Norwood, and Jeffrey Nunes, 17 of Westport, were arrested outside the Burger King at 553 Boylston Street across from Trinity Church in Copley Plaza. A police spokesperson told the Boston Globe the three were masked when “they burst through the front [...]
Nov. 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was released today on personal recognizance after he was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court for indecent assault and battery. The NFL star allegedly groped a woman at Storyville, a Back Bay nightclub, around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Edelman, 25, kept quiet during the short hearing and a [...]
Oct. 31, 2011 6 Comments
Friday, September 30 — After meeting for a few days in encuentro5 (a space in Chinatown for community and progressive groups), the pioneers of Occupy Boston reached consensus to occupy Dewey Square a week earlier than was initially planned. Before setting up tents, they joined a protest of 2000-3000 people organized by Right to the [...]
Oct. 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Rachel McNeill is one of 141 people arrested on October 11 when Occupy Boston briefly expand its encampment. This soft-spoken Wisconsin native is a veteran of the Iraq War who joined the Army Reserve shortly after 9/11. She was 17 years old. McNeill spent a year in Iraq, much of it in the so-called “Sunni [...]
Oct. 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
This week, the fourth since setting up camp on September 30, Occupy Boston has increased its visibility through a series of marches including a trip to Harvard Square (by way of the Head of the Charles Regatta), several hostile visits to FOX News and the home of a Bank of America president, angry protests against [...]
Oct. 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Depending on who is telling the story, last weekend a person either “flashed a knife at” or “pulled a knife on” a group of people at Occupy Boston. Someone felt threatened enough to let the Boston Police know. The accused person was apprehended by police and was reportedly discovered to be carrying a knife and [...]
Oct. 22, 2011 2 Comments
Law enforcement websites and Internet services, including those used by the Boston Police Department came under attack yesterday by members of a hacker group called Anonymous. In a statement released by the group taking credit for the hack, the group claims “solidarity with occupation movement and anti-police brutality protesters.” “In solidarity with the Occupation Movement [...]
Oct. 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
Theo Epstein, the general manager who assembled two World Series championship Boston Red Sox teams, has officially resigned and will depart for the Chicago Cubs, where he has been named president of baseball operations. The move comes after an epic September collapse and one of the most disastrous endings to a season in Boston sports [...]
Oct. 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
Earlier this month, 85 year old Joan Prum took a stroll down “Main Street,” a precarious pathway of pallets and muddy plywood that divides the main area of Occupied Boston into some 40 tents on one side and about 50 on the other. Although 60 or more years the senior of many protestors, Joan, a [...]
Oct. 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
State Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman found dead in the Charles River early this morning. Members of the State Police Underwater Recovery Unit and troopers with Troop H responded to the Harvard Bridge at 6:20 a.m. on an eyewitness report of a woman who had jumped into the water. [...]
Oct. 20, 2011 1 Comment
Photographers encountering Occupy Boston and similar occupations gravitate towards folks dressed or coiffed distinctively. Unusual looking people make photos more interesting. But the truth is, most people in the Occupy Boston community dress pretty boring without much hint of a hippie, hipster, or any of the other cultural stereotypes being associated with the movement. Visually, [...]
Oct. 15, 2011 5 Comments
Editor’s note: Blast writer John Stephen Dwyer has been staying with Occupy Boston protesters since the beginning of the protest. He has been filing longer stories every few days with breaking news when it happens. Two weeks ago, 300 people illegally seized a portion of the Rose Kennedy Greenway and set up tents. The mayor [...]
Oct. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Out of the nearly 300 arrested at Occupy Boston last night for trespassing, unlawful assembly and being in a park after 11 p.m., almost 57 appeared in court today according to the Suffolk County District Attorney. Most of the arrestees accepted the prosecutors’ offer to resolve the cases civilly, but a few refused and opted [...]
Oct. 11, 2011 1 Comment
This is a collection of Blast Magazine photography from the Monday Occupy Boston protests and the police arrest of 129 people who had built a tent city in a second part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway that police had said was off limits.
Oct. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Dozens of the protesters arrested during Occupy Boston’s expansion into a renovated portion of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on Monday will not face criminal charges if they pay a $50 court fee and accept a civil infraction. This was done at Boston Municipal Court this afternoon the request of the prosecutors in the office [...]
Oct. 11, 2011 2 Comments
Yesterday, thousands of people swelled the ranks of Occupy Boston in a march that began at the Boston Common and snaked through various Boston neighborhoods to protest — among other complaints — high unemployment, government malfeasance and corporate greed. Student groups and representatives from local labor unions were well-represented. The throng stopped at several points, [...]
Oct. 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A sluggish storm will bring a chilly rain to many parts of the Northeast through early this week, but hope for rain-weary people is in sight. The jet stream, a river of high winds aloft that steers storms across the country, is positioned well to the north over Canada. [...]
Oct. 1, 2011 1 Comment
A diverse crowd of protestors gathered Friday afternoon on Boston Common and marched to the Bank of America building at 100 Federal Street, across from South Station. Right to the City (RTTC), a group organized in 2007 as a response to the gentrification of low-income urban neighborhoods, seems to have been the primary organizer of [...]
Sept. 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Federal authorities charged an Ashland man with plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with explosives. Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old US citizen, was arrested today. He was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, in this case Al Qaeda, in order [...]
Sept. 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Mercy Medical Center in Springfield was locked down this morning after two bank robbery suspects were seen fleeing toward the hospital’s emergency room, police said. The TD Bank on Chestnut Street was robbed at 10:30 a.m. Two suspects described as black man about 6-feet tall, one wearing a green had and one wearing a blue [...]
