BOSTON/Boston Common - On the surface it may look as though Boston Occupiers have been in a lull since being removed from their Dewey Square encampment last December. In reality, activists have allied with groups supporting families facing eviction, marched in solidarity with anti-racism protesters, and traveled throughout the U.S. to participate in peace and economic democracy actions.

But the local movement's momentum - both in media coverage and public support - has eroded somewhat as occupiers have dispersed.

Friday evening, about 75 stalwart activists took part in an Occupy Boston assembly in front of the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common.

BOSTON/Copley Square - Over 40 Occupy Boston activists held a rally in Copley Square in solidarity with the No NATO protests in Chicago on Sunday. Several attendees spoke on themes ranging from government repression of dissent to the need to support the Montreal student strike that has been going on for the last several weeks. There was a light police presence, no incidents and no arrests.

BOSTON/Government Center - Following a march from Copley Square, over 100 activists from Occupy Boston, Boston May Day Committee, Student Anarchist Federation, and several other progressive organizations held a traditional May Day rally at Boston City Hall Plaza on Tuesday at lunchtime. Many attendees then proceded to an immigrant march from East Boston to Everett later the same afternoon.

Cambridge, Mass. - Activists with #OccupyBoston and associated groups in surrounding cities and towns served by the MBTA transit system are mobilizing their supporters to oppose extensive cuts in services and large fare increases on the trains and buses of the "T."

Cambridge, Mass - The National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts Chapter and its Mass Defense Committee have been providing critical legal assistance to New England protest movements for many years. For the past three months, members of the Guild served as legal observers at the #OccupyBoston encampment in Dewey Square, Boston and argued before a Suffolk Superior Court Judge that pro-democracy demonstrators had a first amendment right to use a small portion of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway as a "free speech zone."

The following is a transcript of the Open Media Boston audio recording of a 6 a.m. press conference called by the Boston Police Department on December 10, 2011 on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Congress St. to discuss their destruction of the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square on orders from Mayor Thomas Menino. Boston Police Department Superintendent William Evans spoke on behalf of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis - who did not attend.

BOSTON/Dewey Square - The Occupy Boston encampment in Dewey Square was completely destroyed starting at 4:58 a.m. this morning in a major operation by the Boston Police Department - working together the Boston Parks Department, other city agencies, and representatives of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.

After a relatively quiet night - marred at about 4 a.m. by an assault on Occupy Boston spokesperson Robin Jacks by a man who rushed into the camp, called Jacks and all women present “prostitutes”, punched her in the face, stole her iPhone, was tackled by a Boston Police officer and arrested while Jacks phone was recovered by fellow occupiers - about 150 occupiers and supporters were settling down to what they hoped would be an uneventful day.

BOSTON/Dewey Square - Midnight came and went with no evidence that Mayor Menino would make good on his threatened eviction of #OccupyBoston protesters from their Dewey Square encampment this morning.

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.

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.