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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.〔"(Occupy Boston Takes Over Dewey Square )." Boston Globe, October 3, 2011〕〔"Boston protesters: End corporate control of govt." Associated Press/Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2011〕〔John Stephen Dwyer "(Who is occupying Boston, and why? ) Blast Magazine, October 5, 2011〕〔Andrew Tran. "(At Boston's Dewey Square, a protest of varied voices )." Boston Globe, October 4, 2011〕 It is related to the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011.〔(Occupy Boston )〕 As of June 2012, Occupy Boston had continued to engage in organized meetings, events and actions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Occupy Boston: Calendar )〕 ==Overview== 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.〔"(More than 100 arrested in Occupy Boston protests )." Boston Globe, 2011-10-11〕〔J. David Goodman. "(Video Shows Protesters Arrested in Boston and Washington )." New York Times, October 11, 2011〕〔John Stephen Dwyer. "(141 arrested in Occupy Boston protest ) Blast Magazine, October 11, 2011〕〔"(Occupy Wall Street: 100 arrests at Boston protest )." BBC News, October 11, 2011〕 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".〔John Stephen Dwyer. "(Entrenched in Occupy Boston at the end of week two ), Blast Magazine, October 15, 2011〕〔(Hard Times at Occupy Boston | The Nation )〕 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".〔 http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde_to_Howard_Zinn_Library_(A_to_Z) 〕 Members of Occupy Boston marched with students at Harvard University on November 9, 2011, to found Occupy Harvard in Harvard Yard.〔John Stephen Dwyer, "'(Occupy Harvard begins on Harvard Yard )", ''Blast'' magazine, 10 November 2011.〕 The two groups later collaborated to interrupt a Newt Gingrich speech at Harvard on November 18.〔Quinn Norton, ""(Occupy Harvard's an exclusive affair, but not by choice )", ''Wired'', Threat Level blog, 30 November 2011.〕〔John Stephen Dwyer. "(Occupy Boston and Occupy Harvard 'mic check' Newt Gingrich )". ''Blast'' magazine, 19 November 2011.〕 By November 17, 2011 a judge issued an order prohibiting the eviction of protesters from Occupy Boston.〔(Judge issues order barring Occupy Boston evictions )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Occupy Boston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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