What happened to Occupy Boston?

Five years ago, on September 30, "Occupy Boston" first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be darlings of left-leaning media and left-leaning office holders until the lawless occupation of public space was finally dismantled. Today, remarkably, the Occupy movement is a fast fading memory, its professed "cause" aimless and irrelevant. What happened? The so-called "contagious protest," better known nationally as Occupy Wall Street (eventually spreading to eighty-two co

Five years ago, on September 30, "Occupy Boston" first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be darlings of left-leaning media and left-leaning office holders until the lawless occupation of public space was finally dismantled. Today, remarkably, the Occupy movement is a fast fading memory, its professed "cause" aimless and irrelevant. What happened? The so-called "contagious protest," better known nationally as Occupy Wall Street (eventually spreading to eighty-two co…