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DESCRIPTION:Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid (48 min.) 2010\nBRING YOUR ENTIRE 
 FAMILY TO SEE THIS HISTORIC MILESTONE OF LABOR HISTORY:  THE FIRST TIME 
 AMERICAN WORKERS TOOK LABOR ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL IN ITS ENTIRE 62 YEAR 
 OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE.\n\nIn a historic labor/community protest on June 
 20, 2010, more than five hundred people joined picket lines in the Port of 
 Oakland SSA terminal to call on ILWU Local 10 and ILWU Local 34 members not 
 to cross the picket lines and work the Israeli Zim ship Shenzhen. This was 
 both a protest of the racist Israeli government, a military base for US 
 imperialism to protect US oil profits, and a protest of the military attack 
 by Israel on the aid flotilla going to Gaza on May 31, 2010 when 15 people 
 were killed, 9 bodies being returned to Turkey and 6 believed thrown 
 overboard, and the ongoing blockade of Gaza by Israel.  All of Israel's 
 heinous crimes are paid for with US tax dollars to the tune of $6 billion a 
 year, making Israel the 4th largest military power in the world, while we 
 have no schools, medical care, social services and the like as Israel is 
 part of the US war machine, supported 100% by the entire Democratic and 
 Republican parties at all levels of office.\n\nThe longshore workers 
 refused to cross the picket line and the protesters as a result were 
 successful in stopping the work on the SSA terminal for 24 hours halting 
 the ship's departure until the following day.\n\nThis labor documentary 
 shows the link and continuity of this action with the 1984 apartheid picket 
 of a ship from South Africa. ILWU workers and others make comparison of 
 these pickets and also why they consider Israel an apartheid regime. 
 Footage of this action and the action today provide a striking connection 
 over 26 years. The port boycott picket was also endorsed by the Oakland 
 Education Association OEA and the San Francisco and Alameda Central Labor 
 Councils. Many Bay Area trade unionists, who joined the picket line speak 
 out on this issue and why they have taken a stand.\nProduction of Labor 
 Video Project\nhttp://laborvideo.blip.tv  
 \nhttp://www.laborvideo.org\n\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.indybay.org/international/palestine/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2010/Films.htm\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2010/2010schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/30/18652324.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Film: Labor Strike Against Israeli Apartheid
LOCATION:Little Roxie Theatre - 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 1 block 
 from 16th St BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/30/18652324.php
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