After a few weeks off of Daily Kos (thanks to a broken camera, quasi-useless computer and broken phone) I am back, armed with a new camera and a new computer, paid for by two weeks of very hard work and a chunk of my savings. And you know what that means! Or not! Pictures from OccupyBoston! Enjoy!
These are from the Occupy the Hood protest against police brutality. Building on left in first picture is BPD HQ.
This is Victoria Block, a local news reporter. She was trying to get people to say they supported Anonymous' hacking and leak of information on the BPD. She failed, spectacularly, I must say. She tried to get me to talk to her on camera, since I doggedly followed her around stomping out her efforts to entrap people with vague language tricks.
And here's a friend I made while annoying Victoria Block. Her sign sums up what Victoria Block was doing quite well.
The crowd for Chomsky:
The man himself (needless to say, I was fairly far back)
Pictures from the night march a few days later (probably my favorite march so far, everyone was in a good mood, even the police were joking around with people, no tension at all):
The Massachusetts State House (Ironically, while the crowd was around the State House, motorcycle cops were blocking the Fox News studios right across the street):
The smiling cop in this picture was hilarious. We were at the President of Bank of America's house, and he (and the other cops) put very little effort into blocking it. In fact, they made absolutely no effort to stop people from ringing the doorbell multiple times! There was another bicycle cop in the back cracking jokes with one of the people holding the Anarchy flags!
Pictures from a rather rainy march on Saturday:
And the snow later that night!
And pictures from the student march today, which had several tense moments with the police:
The police were a bit slow today, and only 2 cops were able to get in front of the crowd as they rushed the Fed:
All in all, it has been a kick ass past 2 weeks. OccupyBoston is easily the most inspiring thing I have ever been a part of. Also, last Monday, I got the chance to finally visit Occupy Wall Street itself, and it gave me inspiration to keep taking pictures and writing about what's going on in Boston. This really is something. We aren't just going away. This isn't just going away. Eric Cantor mentioned income inequality for crying out loud! 3 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined that this could happen, such an amazing, beautiful movement could come out of thin air. To everyone involved in all the OWS movements across the country, and across the world, thank you. And also: Happy one month OccupyBoston! Here's to many more months to come!