Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL

[lostinblue 1,989]

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.

http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-oakland-calls-total-west-coast-port-shutdow/

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Maybe they should meet the Longshoremen and the Teamsters in a dark alley late at night. It could be arranged with a few phone calls. This is what happens when Oakland (or New Orleans) elects a wimpy mayor.

[dalegg 143]

Alright what's the goal here? They are tired of just being an annoyance so now they want to piss off the other 98%?

[dalegg 143]

Monday is not going to be a good day for this at least in So Cal. There's a cold storm front coming in from Alaska. It's going to be pretty miserable.

[MyLittlePony 340]

If you get lost in Oakland you might not come back out alive and lose your shoes too.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Oakland's mayor Jan Quan helped instigate that Occupation travesty there by supporting it. She even gave Oakland city employees a day off of work so that they could join the protest. This is all the while it was costing tax payers millions of dollars to bring in police from all over California to help control the crowds for weeks on end. Even her police force couldn't believe what she was doing. This is California for you. Shoot a toe off, and then shoot another one off for the fact you weren't smart enough to learn the first time. Jan is tight with governor Jerry Brown who also used to be mayor of Oakland and he's another tool.

Occupy Oakland was fully supported by California lib politicians...the same ones who are looking at a $3.8 billion dollar deficit in 2013 yet they passed a bill supporting in state tuition for illegals. California never seems to learn. They are proud of their homosexual and illegal alien state and local government supported agenda, yet their state is sinking quicker than the Titanic.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/342001-california-ny-raising-taxes-for-social-programsagain/ <---- Here's a thread started this morning on California's woe's and how they propose to fix them. It's pretty obvious by the article in that OP that they still don't have a clue.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Oakland cruisers have nothing to lose. Would never venture there after vacationing in San Fran. Oakland is a WILDCARD, and ground zero for marijuana reform.

Good Luck there!

[Darnell 8,479]

All of West Coast Ports?

Cool - that'll shut down the China Imports for a few weeks. Which is a good thing.

[Darnell 8,479]

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ps - hmmmm - they are counting on UNIONIZED longshoreman to back their play/ploy/plot, as well? Interesting - let's see how it turns out.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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ps - hmmmm - they are counting on UNIONIZED longshoreman to back their play/ploy/plot, as well? Interesting - let's see how it turns out.

Hippies have an inflated sense of their persuasive abilities.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

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ps - hmmmm - they are counting on UNIONIZED longshoreman to back their play/ploy/plot, as well? Interesting - let's see how it turns out.

Pretty much all longshoremen are union, and it's all one big local on the west coast. But I'm pretty sure the longshoremen can't strike without a legit reason due to their contract, so I don't see the longshoremen doing much other than verbally supporting these protesters.