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DESCRIPTION: Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!\n\nOccupy Forum 
 is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue\n\non all sides of these 
 critically important issues!\n\n \nOccupyForum presents…\n\n Bread Riots 
 in Cairo and and the\n\nOakland Port Shutdowns:\n\nWhat’s the 
 Connection?\n\n \n\nIn 2008, despite the world’s largest wheat harvest, 
 bread riots broke out in thirty-three countries. In Egypt, the world’s 
 number one importer, global wheat prices rose 130%. The main cause was the 
 financialization of grain markets (similar to the housing boom/bust), 
 driven by speculators like Goldman Sachs.\n\nIn 2011, strikes and protests 
 over bread shortages sparked struggles\n\nthat toppled the Mubarak 
 regime.\n\n \n\nThat same year, Global grain trading consortium EGT (Export 
 Grain Terminal) built a new $200 million grain loading facility in 
 Longview, Washington, to do what Walmart does, but in reverse – deliver 
 grains down supply chains as fast – and cheap – as possible to growing 
 markets in Asia, where diets are increasingly McDonaldized. When EGT broke 
 its agreement to operate with ILWU union labor, the Occupy Movement acted 
 in solidarity. The Port of Oakland shutdown on November 2nd was followed on 
 December 12th by the attempted\n\nshutdown of all West Coast ports.\n\n 
 \n\nGifford Hartman will lead a participatory presentation to look at the 
 commodification of our food – and our lives  – and at possible future 
 Occupy actions against this global trend. Hartman is a historian of social 
 movements who guides the annual LaborFest walking tour to the sites of the 
 1946 Oakland General Strike. He has written extensively about how the 
 current economic crisis is affecting California – and the rising of 
 struggles against it.\n\n \n\n \n\nDonations to OccupyForum to cover our 
 costs\n\nare encouraged; no one turned away!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/16/18738593.php
SUMMARY:Bread Riots in Cairo and and the Oakland Port Shutdowns: What’s the Connection?
LOCATION:GLOBAL EXCHANGE   2017 Mission Street near the 16th Street BART Station\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/16/18738593.php
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