Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12

Occupy Oakland ^ | November 19, 2011 | krystof

[2ndDivisionVet]

Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012:

In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation:

Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our Occupy movement.

We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port. Our eyes are on the continued union-busting and attacks on organized labor, in particular the rupture of Longshoremen jurisdiction in Longview Washington by the EGT. Already, Occupy Los Angeles has passed a resolution to carry out a port action on the Port Of Los Angeles on December 12th, to shut down SSA terminals, which are owned by Goldman Sachs.

Occupy Oakland expands this call to the entire West Coast, and calls for continuing solidarity with the Longshoremen in Longview Washington in their ongoing struggle against the EGT. The EGT is an international grain exporter led by Bunge LTD, a company constituted of 1% bankers whose practices have ruined the lives of the working class all over the world, from Argentina to the West Coast of the US. During the November 2nd General Strike, tens of thousands shutdown the Port Of Oakland as a warning shot to EGT to stop its attacks on Longview. Since the EGT has disregarded this message, and continues to attack the Longshoremen at Longview, we will now shut down ports along the entire West Coast.

Participating occupations are asked to ensure that during the port shutdowns the local arbitrator rules in favor of longshoremen not crossing community picket lines in order to avoid recriminations against them. Should there be any retaliation against any workers as a result of their honoring pickets or supporting our port actions, additional solidarity actions should be prepared.

In the event of police repression of any of the mobilizations, shutdown actions may be extended to multiple days.

In Solidarity and Struggle,

Occupy Oakland

-In Oakland: the West Coast Port Shutdown Coordinating Committee will meet on General Assembly days at 5pm before the GA to organize the local shutdown, and to network with other occupations.

[Yaelle]

Every day homeland security is out protecting our ports (LA/Long Beach). These thugs want to play Al Qaeda? Domestic terrorism?

[JennysCool]

You tax your very ample brain WAY too much. It IS all a charade. Has been from the beginning.

[Darkwolf377]

You’re welcome. I post it under “Know Thy Enemy”! :)

[jessduntno]

“That’s a “Free Style” event.”

Good point...although the Defecation Squad and Urine Toss team could be replaced by the Synchronized SF Gay Troupe who would probably enjoy performing some organized laps...

[Darkwolf377]

Well, okay, I’ll put that on the list, but we have GOT to give priority to the “Pretending To Be Hit By Police —Intermediate Class” and “Crying For Mommmy Drama Workshop” so be selective.

[A_perfect_lady]

You are kind. But I mean, not just OWS. I mean from bottom to top, on the left, on the right... rich people who say they agree with OWS (but don’t give their money away), rich corporations who don’t agree, but give millions to politicians who say they support OWS, government officials who say they support OWS but still take billions in election contributions from the corporations, politicians who say they support capitalism but then align with those who don’t, protestors who quit jobs to come protest the lack of jobs... seriously... I don’t understand anyone anymore. I don’t understand the protestors, the government, the corporations... the only people I understand are the ones like me: who just do their job and tend their garden. Everything else is turning into some elaborate dance in a weird shadow theater. And there’s money floating down everywhere, like rain.

[justa-hairyape]

Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th.

Why are all Marxist horrible at math ? Occupy Oakland calls for 0.001 % of the population to shutdown the import infrastructure for 99.999 % of the population.

[kitkat]

“The EGT is an international grain exporter led by Bunge LTD, a company constituted of 1% bankers whose practices have ruined the lives of the working class all over the world, from Argentina to the West Coast of the US.”

Do the OWSERS really expect that NO ONE should build large ships and send products from one country to another? Do they think that THEY should be working (OMG) and planting wheat, etc. instead of occupying their parents’ basements? Okay, in that case, our government should give us back all the property they’ve taken away from our farmers and give the OWSERS jobs tilling the soil, stacking the wheat, paying for the trucks to transport it, and actually performing a JOB (OMG again) instead of filling our country with their filth and disease.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about EGT, but I do know that the occupiers are a group of useful idiots.

[flat]

'Okay well whoever is organizing this is now committing a crime.'

....and THE SONS OF LIBERTY back on December 16, 1773 when they mostly shut down Boston Harbor, heinously dumping perfectly good tea into the Atlantic Ocean? THAT was ok? Is that the conservative testimony du jour ? The Boston t party was the most iconic act of rebellion in American history. Fast forward to today......and you will find that all the fine rebellious lads in the OW crowd are out there marching forward united under the banner of ICONISM. They're longing for group ICONICALITY. To the mind of any right thinking American the situations are perfectly parallel. I, for one, am very surprised no lefy has pointed this out before now. I know this is all true because it came from the mouth of SHELBY, the recently appointed spokespup for the Denver scum. So you can believe it, i believe it, believe you me.

[wita]

And there’s money floating down everywhere, like rain.

Make that worthless money, or soon to be, floating down everywhere, like rain.

[AlexW]

“so they aren’t rebelling against the government, not really. They are rebelling against the wealthy.”
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Yes and no.
Like all Communist, they despise those that have more then they do, but under the Obamination, they are as close as ever to having their Marxist/Leninist society/government.

They have to go lite on the government so as to not bite the hand that will feed them, but they want an all out assault on capitalism.

[mosesdapoet]

Conservative media should get in there and start asking questions .Who are these people ?, if they’re college students, what college ? what’s their subject ? who’s their prof.?..name the names ...if they have signs track the union bug and name shop they were made at. and paid by who ?..

[Brad from Tennessee]

A few weeks ago AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka visited Occupy Wall Street promising to help organize the “political focus” of the human zoo. Since that time “occupiers” have joined unionists in several actions against businesses termed “anti-labor.” As U.S. unions continue to decline in numbers their tactics become more militant and almost nihilistic.

http://tdu.org/node/5128

[ronnie raygun]

Not enough was done the last the last time around to deter this time, besides they are supported and encouraged.

[ballplayer]

The FBI is run By Eric Holder,He will be in the Front of the Protest action Not trying to prevent it and Obama will be cheering him on.
Come on folks get with it,we should all know this by Now!

[crz]

My reply to that would be that there was no USA at that time.

They grasp at straws and lie like hell.

[Sprite518]

The local Field Agents should just go ahead with doing their job.

If they get any type of interference from the Eric Holder, then they should go public with it. Let everyone in the public know that Eric Holder has ordered them to stand down.

[Rocky]

They need a Victims Support Group for those who’ve been victims of crimes at the camp.

[Dallas59]

No Liberation of Transgender/Cross dressing/Marching band Practice?

[RGSpincich]

Thanks for the warning, dirtbags.

Truckers may not be so kind this time around. The independents anyway.