Update III: At least 16 tents up in Harvard Yard.

Update II: large and spirited crowd of students attempted to storm the Science Center gate, line of police in normal street uniforms blocked path, then what looked like a pushing match from where I stood between police trying to close double gates and students pushing to keep it open. At one point crowd shouting "SHAME SHAME" arrests I think.

Slogans:

NOT JUST FOR THE RICH AND WHITE, EDUCATION IS A RIGHT!

MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION, NOT FOR BANKS AND CORPORATIONS!

WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

Saw 3 or 4 cars of Cambridge police pulling up fast, 4 to a car. Fox local soundtruck on scene.

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As of 8:20 EDT. Action started today 7pm in front of John Harvard statue. Harvard Yard sealed off to non-Harvard students, campus police checking IDs at north gate.

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Going there to have a look now...

Update: Wow! There seem to be around 1,000 people gathered on the lawn taking turns speaking through the human microphone, and they ALL look to be students, law school, grad school. Clean-cut, backpacks, "studenty-looking." Around the edges some of the janitorial/labor staff of the school, speaking Spanish, with small banners. Talk of civil disobedience. Campus police swarming the Science Center gate nearby, but only a few at the edges of the law school crowd. Going back. This could be an interesting night.

Another event was taking place in the Science Center Courtyard, something festive with a live Mariachi band. Here were Harvard student having a pushing contest with the police to open the gates to Harvard Yard, and Mexican Revolutionary music playing in the background. Once I saw the pieces all at once the effect was quite surreal.