Posted on 11/20/2011 1:02:41 AM PST by 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.
They need to start Occupy Occupy Wall Street--"We are the 99% of the 99%!"
I thought I sent you the e-mail--no, it had to be moved because too many marchers were also members of the LGBT Flat Feet and Fallen Arches Choir. I'll add you to the mailing list--ping! :P
With such a busy schedule, where is the time to do drugs
and commit child rape?
Gee, this will be interesting given the entire west coast ports are unionized. Let me see, that would pit the Oturd backed OWS with the unions backing Oturd.
Of course, I am sure the union contracts have some clause that makes shipping companiescover 100% of any wage lost due to any event.
That’s a Camp Schedule?
Inspires me to write them a song.
Hello Muddah, and your new Guy,
Here I am at Camp Occupy
Camp is very terrifying, It’s full of garbage that there’s no denying.
I share a tent with Joe Tice. His head is now, full of Lice.
You remember my friend Stew. He’s still trying to find a place to take a poo.
All the Anarchist hate Code Pink, complain too much about the way they stink. And my friend Larry Michaels, reads to us each night from Rules for Radicals.
Now I know how scary this is, But my tent mate has Hepatitis.
You remember my friend Jerry. He’s bent over with a case of Dysentery.
California - the state that committed suicide by liberalism.
It is being organized by the ILWU. They planned it originally for a month ago, but the port threatened to fire all the ILWU members. That’s when the Big Government web site had the video of one of the ILWU members stating that the port shut down was planned to show unity with the protesting ILWU members in Longview, WA, who were in the news recently for union violence.
My husband just brought this home to me, yesterday. He had received it at work. Where did you read it?
The ILWU is an openly communist organization that has a long history of being involved in anti-capitalist and anti-US movements around the world, especially the Hawaiian Separatist movement and the Cuban sugar grower protests that led to the Cuban communist revolution, as well as various Central and South American issues.
You have to ask where is the Department of Homeland Security? Oh yeah they are warning us about exploding Turkeys and targeting anyone that disagrees with the Administration.
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