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DESCRIPTION:INTERNATIONAL BOLSHEVIK TENDENCY FORUM\n\nThe 1984 Anti-Apartheid Longshore 
 Boycott\n\n\n\nSaturday, December 13, 2014 - 7pm\nLa Peña Cultural 
 Center\n3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California 
 94705\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nJack Heyman, boycott support organizer, later 
 ILWU Local 10 Exec. Board member (retired)\n\nHoward Keylor, co-leader of 
 boycott, longtime ILWU Local 10 Exec. Board member (retired)\n\n\n\nFor 
 eleven days in November-December 1984, a ship full of cargo from South 
 Africa sat and rusted in San Francisco harbor as 300 longshoremen refused 
 to touch the apartheid freight on board. \n\nThis dramatic act of militant 
 labor solidarity by members of Local 10 of the International Longshore and 
 Warehouse Union (ILWU) with the embattled black masses of South Africa sent 
 a powerful message that reverberated world-wide. The longshore action was 
 actively supported throughout by hundreds who rallied at the gates of Pier 
 80 to show their solidarity.\n\nThe 1984 Bay Area boycott originated with a 
 motion put forward at a Local 10 Executive Board meeting by International 
 Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) supporter Howard Keylor. Jack Heyman, who later 
 became a leading militant in Local 10, played an important role in 
 organizing support for the unionists. \n\nThe success of the 1984 
 anti-apartheid boycott helped lay the basis for subsequent political labor 
 actions such as: \n\n- The 1986 community-labor blockade of the Nedlloyd 
 Kembla at Pier 80 by the Campaign Against Apartheid and the IBT\n\n- The 
 1999 shutdown of all ports on the U.S. West Coast in support of Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal \n\n- The 2008 one-day West Coast strike against the occupation 
 of Iraq\n\n- The 2010 Bay Area port shutdown to protest the murder of Oscar 
 Grant by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle\n\n- Occupy Oakland's 
 November 2011 “General Strike” and the December 2011 Port Shutdown\n\n- 
 The recent blockades of Israeli ZIM Line vessels in defense of the 
 Palestinian people by Block the Boat and the Stop ZIM Action 
 Committee\n\nCome celebrate and learn about how this historic political 
 strike was organized from two ILWU militants who played instrumental roles 
 in an action which Nelson Mandela hailed as having “established [the 
 ILWU] as the frontline of the anti-apartheid movement.”\n\n\nOrganized by 
 the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)\n\n\nFor more information: 
 \nwww.bolshevik.org\nfacebook.com/Bolsheviks\ntwitter.com/ibt1917\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/05/18765094.php
SUMMARY:FORUM: 30th Anniversary '84 Anti-Apartheid Longshore Boycott
LOCATION:Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 7pm\nLa Peña Cultural Center\n3105 Shattuck 
 Ave, Berkeley, California 94705\n(two blocks from Ashby BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/05/18765094.php
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