BOSTON/Copley Square - #OccupyBoston held a citywide day of action in a dozen locations around the city on Saturday - culminating in a 300 person afternoon rally at Copley Square.

Cambridge, Mass. - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed a rally of 75 Occupy Harvard protestors and supporters on Monday near the Science Center at Harvard University - just outside Harvard Yard, which has been locked down to the public and press since the Occupy Harvard movement was launched on November 9th.

BOSTON/Dewey Square - Two incidents early this week suggest that the Boston Police Department is preventing activists from winterizing their encampment as the weather grows colder. The apparent police embargo on winter tents and insulation materials may have led at least one police officer to infringe on constitutionally-protected rights in his zeal to enforce it.

Clark Stoekley, a New York artist and activist who delivered donated cots and camping supplies to the #OccupyBoston and Occupy Harvard encampments over the weekend, said he was awakened at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning by an attempted police search of his truck, without a warrant. The truck was parked at the corner of Pearl and Purchase Streets in Boston’s Chinatown.

BOSTON - Members of the Occupy Boston group came out in force on Tuesday to march in protest to New York police clearing their sister camp at Wall Street. A banner carried by leaders of some 200 marchers read: "11/15 at 2 a.m. without notice, NYPD raided OWS!"

The march followed a course from Dewey Square up to the Commons and the Massachusetts Statehouse, over to Government Center plaza, straight through the food court of Quincy Market and back to the greenway. Along the route, tourists and bystanders took video, wait staff crowded pub doorways to see the spectacle and police patiently kept pace on the sidelines. Marchers chanted slogans like, “Hey Menino you should know: Hell no, we won’t go!” as they walked past diners who took little notice through windows of eateries like Emmets Pub. If the disruption annoyed or disgusted anyone, they only said so privately.

Cambridge, Mass. - Many of the sights and sounds of the growing social, political, and economic protest launched by activists in New York City nearly two months ago and known as the "Occupy Movement" were on display in Harvard Square Wednesday night. This included several time consuming but extremely egalitarian tactical discussions by hundreds of Harvard students and community members blocked by University police from entering Harvard Yard to set up tents and begin an encampment similar to Occupy Boston in Dewey Square and many others around the country.

Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard University's main quad - the famed Harvard Yard, bounded by Mass Ave., Peabody St., Cambridge St., Broadway and Quincy St. - was locked down in response to Harvard students, staff and faculty calling the first general assembly of Occupy Harvard this evening. All visitors without a Harvard affiliation - including members of the press - are being stopped at the five open gates of the walled complex by a combination of private security guards, Harvard University Police and Cambridge Police. Some Harvard students, including residents of dorms on the yard, have also been prevented from entering the yard seemingly at random throughout the evening.

When it became evident that outside supporters would not be allowed to enter the Yard shortly after the scheduled 7 p.m. start time of the general assembly, the initial Occupy Harvard participants exited Johnston Gate and blocked Mass. Ave. briefly before being joined by some of the over 100 Harvard union employees from SEIU Local 615 and UNITEHERE Local 26, and proceeding on an unscripted march up Mass. Ave. to the nearby Harvard University Law School quad - where there was no significant police presence.

BOSTON/Dorchester - Over 50 members of Occupy UMass Boston - one of the many informal campus chapters of the Occupy movement that have sprung up around the United States - held a protest outside the inauguration of UMass president Robert Caret at the JFK Library on Tuesday. The students, staff and faculty present demanded a rollback of skyrocketing tuition and fees, a democratic process to replace the current UMass Boston strategic plan, and an end to the "corporatization and privatization" of public higher education in the Commonwealth.

BOSTON/State House - Physician and environmental activist Jill Stein of Lexington announced her candidacy for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket at a press conference outside the State House on Monday. Best known as the 2002 Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate, Stein hopes to win her national party's nomination and be a progressive voice for working families in the 2012 election.

BOSTON/Roxbury – Over 400 Roxbury residents, activists, students, #OccupyBoston activists and supporters from around Boston assembled at Dudley Square for the first Community Speak Out/Rally on Friday. Jamarhl Crawford, editor of The Blackstonian, and Cornell Mills organized the Speak Out - which featured speakers ranging from Denise Williams, whose two nephews were murdered while returning from a family barbecue on July 4, 2011, to community organizer, educator and longtime political activist Mel King. The Speak Out was followed by a National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality on Saturday, October 22nd. The next Speak Out is slated to be held next Friday, October 28th.

BOSTON/East Boston - Nearly 100 people crowded into East Boston’s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Tuesday night, lending their voices to the growing cacophony of the underemployed, disenfranchised, uninsured and overworked who say they are part of the 99 percent.

Just over a week since meeting with Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo and the Council’s Committee on Labor, Youth Affairs and Human Rights - who called upon the Massachusetts Port Authority to establish a living wage for contract workers - Service Employees International Union Local 615, the North Shore Labor Council, OccupyBoston activists and a number of community organizations mobilized workers to share stories about threats from employers and unfair penalties doled out by managers.