[Debate] Fwd : Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12

[Jai Sen]

Tuesday, November 22 2011



OCCUPY !





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

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



“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.”



             Thanks, Andrej.



             JS



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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andrej  Grubacic <balkanozapatista at gmail.com>
> Date: November 22 2011 12:24:27 am GMT+05:30
> Subject: [seizing_the_means_building_the_power] Occupy Oakland Calls  
> for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12
>
>
Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12
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.
>
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