[cloudmountain]

Well, at least Oakland HAS a working port. They had the brains and foresight to containerize way back. The Port of San Francisco had Harry Bridges to stop all progress for the Port, so today all the cargo ships go to Oakland = jobs, jobs and more jobs.
Dutch comfort, I guess, since unions reign there.

[masadaman]

Isn’t it interesting that of all the potential targets in the East Bay Area, the OWS-Oakland crowd chose the Port? Perhaps the same playbook used by Harry Bridges 65 years ago, authored by the ComUSA elites,, is still their bible. After all, in the 30’s and 40’s ports were a bigger deal and airports were few and far between. Otherwise, if savvy, the OWSers would have blocked OAK, Oakland’s busy airport.