So apparently tonight Occupy Boston, Occupy San Francisco, and Occupy Seattle (possibly others as well) are all being raided by the riot police in a governmental effort to suppress the momentum of the now international protest (In case you haven't heard, Occupy London and Occupy Dublin are now in full effect, and other cities are expected to get involved this week). According to several amateur accounts, the media was ordered off the protest sites before the riot police intervened, so that little information could get spread about the probable police brutality that is undoubtedly manifesting as I write this. Apparently, this is also a federally (or perhaps state-controlled) coordinated attack that even goes against the orders of Seattle's and San Fran's respected mayors, so basically shit is getting majorly fucked.
I'd recommend trying to do some research on what's going on now - it's difficult with no mainstream media attention (hence why this is going on in the middle of the night), but here's a good link with some external sources and plenty of probably-legitimate first hand accounts:
EDIT: here's a picture of Boston as of midnight: http://i.imgur.com/tZGNh.jpg
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