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POLICE IN BOSTON arrested over 50 protesters at the Occupy Boston  movement for allegedly trespassing when moving to a second site  overnight from their original encampment on the city’s Dewey Square.
Hundreds  of students took to the streets yesterday in support of the movement,  calling on the government to “Fund education, not corporations”.
The Boston Phoenix  reports that a group of US war veterans who had joined the movement  complained of police brutality when being moved from the demonstrations  later yesterday. The Phoenix posted this video of the unrest last night:
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The  leaderless movement inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings and calling  for “democracy not corporatocracy” has been spreading from its New York  base near Wall Street to other US cities, with similar demonstrations  taking place in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Honolulu and  Washington DC.
An Irish demonstration mirroring the US movement  has entered its fourth consecutive day today and is based outside the  Central Bank on Dublin’s Dame Street.
Four weeks into the Occupy  Wall Street protests in New York and the costs of policing the  demonstrations are adding up for the NYPD.
The police force has  already spent $1.9 million, much of which went on overtime pay, in  patrolling the area around Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, where  hundreds of people have based their protest camp.
New York City  Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who last week called on city agencies to cut  their budgets, said yesterday that “the bottom line is that people want  to express themselves, and as long as they obey the laws, we allow them  to”.
The NYPD has also been accused of police brutality in coping  with the demonstrations, and recently launched an internal investigation  into into an incident in which an officer pepper-sprayed female  protesters apparently without provocation.
The movement has so far generated the support of filmmaker Michael Moore, philosopher and critical theorist 
Slavoj Zizek, Kanye West, Russell Simmons and the Reverend Al Sharpton.
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators say they are not planning to pack up any time soon and are in for the long haul.