11/8 Charleston, SC: After an unrelenting campaign, victory for the Charleston 5 – union dockworkers charged with "inciting to riot" following a January 20, 2000 protest. Negotiated settlement report. When 150 longshore workers, members of the predominantly black ILA local 1422 and its fraternal Local 1771, picketed the loss of their jobs to a non-union stevedore company, they were attacked by 600 riot police in the port of Charleston, SC. The unions and its members were fined $1.5 million dollars, and 5 members were placed under house arrest and faced 5 years in prison. Worldwide demonstrations and port shut-downs had been planned for 11/14 in support of the Charleston 5. Video