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DESCRIPTION:     Greetings and Solidarity from Occupy Oakland! We present this call to 
 you because we believe it is time the occupation movement begins to work 
 together to carry through coordinated, pinpointed actions. We want  to 
 disrupt the profits of the 1% and show solidarity with those in the 99% who 
 are under direct attack by corporate tyranny.    Occupations throughout the 
 US have been evicted through nationally coordinated police raids. It is 
 time for us to respond with our own coordinated actions. Our aim is to 
 shutdown the West Coast ports: \n\nOn December 12, the occupy movements in 
 different cities will stage  mass mobilizations to march on the ports, 
 create community pickets, and effectively shutdown the hubs of commerce, in 
 the same fashion that Occupy Oakland shut down the Port of Oakland on 
 November 2nd, the day of our general strike. The Oakland Port Shutdown was 
 a historic and effective action, and the memory of that night on the port 
 lives in the hearts of people across Oakland and around the country. \nThe 
 message to you from Occupy Oakland in the face of police raids and 
 continued disruptions of workers lives by the 1% is the following: The 
 Occupy movement will strike back and rise again! We will blockade all of 
 the West Coast Ports on December 12th in solidarity with longshoremen, port 
 workers and truckers in their struggle against the 1%! Together we are 
 unstoppable! Strike while the iron is hot!\n\n The following is the call 
 for a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade to be carried out by the Occupy 
 movement. It is this call which we wish for other Occupies to endorse and 
 carry out. West Coast Occupations will have full political and material 
 support for each other in whatever ways are necessary before, during, and 
 after the port blockades. This call was passed unanimously at our Occupy 
 Oakland General Assembly on Friday, December 18th.  Proposal for a 
 Coordinated West Coast Port Blockade Passed Unanimously at 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.\n\nParticipating 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.\nShould 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.\nIn the event of 
 police repression of any of the mobilizations, shutdown actions may be 
 extended to multiple days.\nWe ask that you bring our proposal to your next 
 General Assembly, as it is urgent that each Occupy begins to organize and 
 mobilize for this major offensive ASAP. Please let us know if you have 
 questions or need help. Most importantly, please copy us on your support 
 resolutions passed at your GA’s. 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.\n\n   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/22/18700779.php
SUMMARY:West Coast Port Shutdown
LOCATION:West Coast Ports\nOakland:\n3pm meet at 14th and Broadway\n4pm March to 
 Port\n5pm March to Port from West Oakland Bart\n6am plans TBA\nIn the event 
 of repression against any of the port protests, the blockade will continue.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/22/18700779.php
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