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DESCRIPTION:Rally In Solidarity With Global Port Actions Against Genocide, Wars & 
 Attacks On Working Class\nFriday, October 30, 2026\n12:00 Noon\nAt: Oakland 
 Shoreline Park\n32777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland, CA 94607\n\nOn October 30, 
 dockworkers in over 50 ports around the world will be shutting down the 
 ports to demand and end to genocide, war and attacks on the working class 
 and immigrants in their countries and around the world.\nThe growing mass 
 protests in Europe against the conditions of students and the call for a 
 general strike in France on November 5 is what is growing worldwide.\nThe 
 threat of fascism and ICE gestapo attacks on immigrants and workers must be 
 met with a national general strike in the United States as well to 
 implement demands that will defend workers.\nA national united front 
 working class has been formed to fight for action throughout the US on 
 October 30th.\n\nThe demands of this UF are:\n1. Stop the genocide, no arms 
 or aid for Israel\n2. End US wars and occupations, dismantle the war 
 machine\n3. Take back what the billionaires have stolen - No more 
 bailouts\n4. Abolish ICE - Equal rights for all who live here - end all 
 deportations\n5. Universal healthcare\n6. Free education, transportation, 
 housing and free clean, sustainable energy FOR ALL\n7. Sustainable, 
 socially productive, rewarding, unionized jobs with just wages. Twenty 
 hours for forty hours pay.\n8. Workers’ control of AI; No more data 
 centers; Strict environmental restrictions on data centers, 
 protections\nagainst AI mass surveillance.\n9. Recognize port truckers as 
 employees, with the right to organize & strike.\nSOLIDARITY HAS NO 
 BORDERS!\nEndorsed by:United Front Committee For A Labor Party, National 
 Action Coalition, Luxemburgist\nNetwork, Stand Up For Democracy, Freedom 
 Socialist Party, Socialist Horizon, Freedom Mavericks\nLabor For Palestine 
 has endorsed the international day of action.\nFor info: 
 labormedia1@gmail.com, 415-867-0628\n\n10/30 Global Day Of Action To Stop 
 Wars, Genocide, Militarization Of Ports, Defend Workers Rights & 
 Lives\n"All actions will be united as part of a common international 
 struggle to stop wars, genocide and the militarisation of ports at a 
 critical moment in history, while defending workers’ rights and fighting 
 for better working 
 conditions.”\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Db5JMY6MnVU/?igsh=cGJvN3U0ODJ4dmpl\n\n30 
 OCTOBER 2026 – 2nd INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION OF DOCKWORKERS\n\nNo 
 sacrifice for the profits and wars of the 
 imperialists!\nhttps://www.wftucentral.org/30-october-2026-2nd-international-day-of-action-of-dockworkers/\n\n21 
 Sep 2026\n\nby WFTU HQ\n\n30 OCTOBER 2026\n\n2nd INTERNATIONAL DAY OF 
 ACTION OF DOCKWORKERS\n\nNo sacrifice for the profits and wars of the 
 imperialists!\n\nThe World Federation of Trade Unions issues a militant, 
 class-oriented and internationalist call to its member organisations and 
 trade unions around the world to make the 2nd International Day of Action 
 of Dockworkers, on 30 October 2026, their own cause and support it.\n\nThe 
 mobilisation is taking place at a critical time, as military conflicts are 
 spreading and war fronts are dangerously expanding and becoming 
 interconnected, from Ukraine to the Middle East. The murderous state of 
 Israel, with the support of the USA, the European Union and NATO, continues 
 its crime against the Palestinian people and escalates its military 
 aggression against Iran and Lebanon, increasing the danger of an even 
 broader conflict.\n\nBehind the various pretexts lies the conflict among 
 powerful capitalist states, and the confrontation between the Euro-Atlantic 
 bloc of the USA – NATO – EU and other imperialist centres over markets, 
 energy, raw materials, trade routes and control of strategic 
 infrastructure.\n\nImperialist wars are not a departure from the 
 “normal” functioning of the capitalist system. They are the 
 continuation of exploitation and competition by other means. Billions are 
 being spent on armaments and the war economy, while wages are squeezed, 
 social spending is cut, healthcare and education are commodified, and 
 exploitation reaches extreme levels, with exhausting schedules, including 
 13-hour working days and work seven days a week.\n\nThe peoples have 
 nothing to gain from wars and the antagonisms of the imperialists. They are 
 called upon to pay for profits, wars and the consequences of a new 
 capitalist economic crisis, to sacrifice themselves for interests that are 
 alien to their own, while business groups claim ever larger shares of the 
 spoils.\n\n\n\nPorts, railways, airports and transport infrastructure as a 
 whole are being turned into critical hubs for the movement of weapons, 
 ammunition, military equipment and troops. Workers are being pressured to 
 become cogs in the war machine and accomplices in crimes against the 
 peoples.\n\n\n\nDockworkers have already proved that, through organisation, 
 collective struggle and coordinated internationalist action, they can 
 prevent ports from being turned into staging grounds for war. They can 
 block the cargoes of death that fuel the Israeli state’s slaughter of the 
 Palestinian people and the spread of war throughout the Middle 
 East.\n\n\n\nOn 6 February 2026, strike action was held in 20 ports across 
 7 countries. In May, in Istanbul, trade union organisations from 35 ports 
 formed a coordination network, which now encompasses more than 40 ports 
 across the Mediterranean and Europe, with the participation of 
 organisations from France, Greece, the Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco and 
 Italy, under the slogan: “Dockworkers Do Not Work for War”.\n\n\n\nOn 
 30 October, trade unions will hold new militant actions and strikes. The 
 common framework “Ports for Peace – Jobs with Dignity” links the 
 struggle against imperialist war with the fight for Collective Labour 
 Agreements, wage increases, stable employment, shorter working hours and 
 substantive health and safety measures.\n\n\n\nIt is also linked to 
 opposition to privatisations, subcontracted and temporary employment, and 
 the use of automation and artificial intelligence to eliminate jobs and 
 intensify exploitation. Technological and scientific progress must serve to 
 reduce working time and improve workers’ lives, not the profitability of 
 the monopolies.\n\n\n\nThe experience of dockworkers has wider significance 
 for workers in the metal industry and shipyards, railways, energy, 
 telecommunications, transport and logistics. These sectors connect ports, 
 industrial zones and military infrastructure and can play a decisive role 
 in the common struggle against imperialist war and exploitation.\n\n\n\n30 
 October can mark a major new step in the international militant 
 coordination of the working class. From port to port, in every workplace 
 and sector, from country to country, workers are sending the message that 
 they will not choose between the camps of their exploiters, will not become 
 cogs in their war machine, and will not sacrifice their lives and rights 
 for the profits of the monopolies.\n\n\n\nNo sacrifice for the profits and 
 wars of the imperialists!\n\n\n\nLong live the internationalist solidarity 
 of the working class!\n\nResolution Passed ILWU 2026 Pensioners 
 Conference\nSupport the October 30 Mediterranean Port Actions\n \nWhereas: 
 The ILWU and the PCPA have a proud, longstanding history and tradition of 
 support for the cause of Peace, an end to all war, and 
 militarization,and\n \nWhereas: Workers and their families the world over 
 deserve to live in peace with a future that offers the ability to thrive 
 and prosper with pride and dignity, and\n \nWhereas: Workers in 30 
 Mediterranean Ports have designated a day of Strikes, October 30th, against 
 continued support for war and genocide upon the People of Palestine, 
 and\n \nWhereas: Dockworkers in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, 
 Morocco, and Italy are calling for an International Day of Solidarity 
 against the continuing slaughter and Genocide of Palestinian Women, 
 children, and non-combatants, and\n \nWhereas: The ILWU in 1938 blocked 
 the shipping of scrap iron to Japan, aware that this very same scrap could 
 come back to the United States in the form of war with 
 bombs,\n \nTherefore be it resolved: That the PCPA joins the Ports of the 
 Mediterranean Sea in their call to end the Genocide imposed on the people 
 of Palestine by the state of Israel, and\n \nBe it further resolved: That 
 the PCPA invites the ILWU to join in this call to action in support of a 
 future for the Palestinian people that guarantees a future free from war 
 and oppression by the state of Israel.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/10/25/18889670.php
SUMMARY:Rally In Solidarity With Global Port Actions Against Genocide, Wars & Attacks On Workers
LOCATION:Oakland Shoreline Park\n32777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland, CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/10/25/18889670.php
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