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Zim Ship Arrival Delayed: NOT 5am But 3pm Go to Block the Boat Facebook for Updates

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Date:
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Time:
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
March to Oakland Dock

Meet at:

West Oakland BART Station
451 7th Street, Oakland, California 94607

URGENT: Ship is delayed!! Our organizing is working!
Come out to West Oakland Bart tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm NOT 5am!
Bring more people! Come louder and stronger and let's stop Israel at the Port of Oakland! Zionism isn't welcome in our town!

Participants: Those planning to participate: subscribe to text-alerts and receive live updates about the 8/16 Block the Boat,
text "join" to (510) 346-5951.

Livestream: KFPA will be livestreaming the action at http://www.kpfa.org/kpfa-live-stream-channel.

Also follow @BlocktheBoat for live tweets.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1447374682195857/



Stop Israel at the Port
Zionism isn't welcome on our Coast!

West Coast Blockade of the Israeli Zim Ship

Port of Oakland
Saturday, August 16th
3pm – meet at West Oakland Bart and march to Berth 57

STOP THE SIEGE ON GAZA!
END THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!
RIGHT OF RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
BOYCOTT, DIVEST, SANCTION!

Block the Boat for Gaza has text alert system. If you are planning on going to the action in Oakland on Saturday 08/16, please text the word 'Join' to 510-346-5951 for important updates in real time.

What’s happening?
The world has watched in horror as Israel has continued to bombard and devastate Gaza. Millions around the globe have come out in support of the Palestinian people and against the Zionist regime, holding massive marches, demonstrations, and actions. Here in the Bay, San Francisco witnessed some of the biggest mobilizations in recent years, with a series of marches, each bringing out thousands of people. It’s time to step it up.

Call to Action
Palestine is calling us to action! Palestinians laborers, Palestinian General Federation Trade Union (PGFTU), have called on workers around the world to refuse to handle Israel goods. Palestinians throughout Gaza, the West Bank and 1948 Palestine have demonstrated their unity in the struggle against Apartheid Israel and have taken to the streets in the tens of thousands, bravely facing Israeli military armed with US made weapons to call on the international community to stand with them as they resist Zionism throughout all of historic Palestine. We will be answering this call by organizing community pickets at the Port of Oakland, asking the longshoreman to honor this request and to stand with the people of Palestine as they have done in the past.

Historical Background
During apartheid in South Africa, ILWU workers made history when they refused to unload South African cargo in San Francisco in 1984. This action was a major catalyst for international anti-apartheid solidarity and struggle worldwide. In 2010, after a Turkish flotilla, the Mavi Marmara, was attacked by Israel for attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, we built on ILWU’s history and successfully blocked the Israeli Zim ship from being unloaded at the Port of Oakland — the first time in US history an Israeli ship was blocked. We will be continuing this legacy by organizing to block the Israeli ship once again. And just as apartheid fell in South Africa, so too it will fall in Israel!

Sustained BDS in the Bay
If there is one thing that the latest Israeli attacks show, it’s the power of Palestinian resilience. The resistance in Gaza is still alive and thriving, despite Israel’s ongoing attempts to destroy it. But we should always remember that the Palestinian resistance did not begin with Israel’s latest bombardment, nor did it begin during the last bombardment. It has been going on since 1948, since Israel came into existence. And it will not cease until Israeli apartheid falls.

We refuse to allow Israel to conduct its business as usual, here in the Bay and everywhere!

Every Saturday, the Israeli owned Zim shipping line docks and unloads its cargo at the Port of Oakland. Let this action be the beginning of a sustained campaign to stop the Israeli ship from ever unloading in our town.

From Seattle to Oakland to Los Angeles – turn the Israeli ship around!

We encourage all of our allies on the West Coast to join us in ensuring that Zim ships are not welcome anywhere.

Long Beach:
https://www.facebook.com/events/435461866594072/

Tacoma and Seattle:
https://www.facebook.com/events/678819478876975/

New York:
https://www.facebook.com/events/429725363832321/

Miami:
https://www.facebook.com/events/316267675214918/

Not in Palestine

Not in the Bay

Not Anywhere

Stand Against Zionism Everywhere

Endorsed by:

AF3IRM
Al-Awda New York
All African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)
American Friends Service Committee
American Muslims for Palestine
ANSWER Coalition
Arab Youth Organizing (AYO)
AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
ASATA: Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
Bay Area Women in Black
BAYAN-USA
Bay Area CodePink
Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Black Organizing Project (BOP)
Black Organizing Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)
Black Workers For Justice
Catalyst Project
CodePink Washington
Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ)
Communist Party of San Francisco
Critical Resistance - LA
Critical Resistance - Oakland
Critical Resistance - Portland
Descoloniza a Oakland/Decolonize Oakland
Free Palestine Movement
Freedom Archives
Friends of Deir Ibzi'a
Fuerza Mundial/Pueblos en Movimiento
General Union of Palestine Students – SFSU
Global Women’s Strike
Gray Panthers of San Francisco
Green Party of Alameda County
Haiti Action Committee
International Action Center
International Jewish Anti Zionist Network
International Solidarity Movement - West Bank/Gaza
International Socialist Organization
International Tribunal of Conscience for Camilo
ISM-Nor Cal
IWW Bay Area Branch
Jewish Against Genocide
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Justice for Palestinians
La Voz de l@s trabajadores/Worker's Voice
Labor for Palestine
Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Marcha Patriotica (Colombia) - California chapter
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Movement Generation
National Lawyers Guild SFBA Chapter
Noam Chomsky
NorCal Friends of Sabeel
Occupy SF Action Council
ONYX Organizing Committee
The Palestine-Israel Action Committee
Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions
Palestinian Youth Movement
Queers Undermining Israeli Terror
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
San Francisco Green Party
School of the Americas Watch East Bay
Socialist Alternative - Bay Area Branch
Socialist Organizer
SOUL: School of Unity and Liberation
Southern Anti-Racism Network
Stanford Students for Justice
Stop the War Machine
Students for Justice in Palestine – Cal
Totally Radical Muslims
UAW Local 2865 (Academic Student Workers at the University of California)
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott
US Palestinian Community Network
Veterans For Peace Chapter 69
World Can't Wait Bay Area
Workers World Party
Xicana Moratorium

For more info: info [at] araborganizing.org | 415-861-7444
Follow us on twitter for announcements and updates on Saturday's action! @BlockTheBoatct
Added to the calendar on Fri, Aug 15, 2014 9:46PM
§In Support of Gaza - Zim Ships Out of Our Port
by Anita Wills
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Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
2777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland, California 94607

Protest and Rally at Middle Harbor Park across from the Port of Oakland. We will be sending a Message to the Zim Ship Lines (Israeli), to stop the attacks on Gaza. The event will include a speak out from members of the community. We are continuing the Block the Boat Action that took place on August 2nd.

Comments (Hide Comments)
The link suggests it is every Saturday in August, or both the 9th and the 16th
by StopTheBoat
According to this Facebook page, it looks like it's now been changed to 3:00 pm?:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1447374682195857/?source=1
by are we still on for 3?
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The boat has docked, according to the ship tracker app. Is there any point in coming at 3?
by k
Yes! The point is to block the transfer of goods off the boat and out of the port!
by Bob "O"-Town
Ever Lasting is a Taiwanese ship. Zim leases space on it, but it's not operated by Israelis. Will the the ILWU shift refuse to unload it?
by picketer
The best strategy is let the ship dock, then prevent the unloading. That's because it costs the ship money to just sit at the dock. A dock is a very expensive "parking space." A ship is always under huge pressure to get out as soon as it can. So, this is where they are most vulnerable.
by Stop US/Israeli War Crimes
Over 500 people blocked the boat. See photos and description at
https://twitter.com/hashtag/blocktheboat
NOT ONE NICKEL, NOT ONE DIME, STOP US/ISRAELI WAR CRIMES!
by Not what i heard
I was told by numerous people that there was just a march and rally at the SSA Terminals but there wasn't a Community picket because the Zims line ship is still in the Bay and hasn't docked yet .
So what exactly are you talking about ?
by Not what i heard
PS To continue - I understand that the Zims ship will finally be docking tomorrow but unless there is a Community picket for ILWU 10 and 34 members to honor, it will be unloaded. But no such picket is planned ?
Wasn't the goal not just to keep the ship in the Bay but to least prevent it's loading and unloading for a day ?
by mr
A TV station said a hundred people marched in support of Gaza. The Contra Costa Times said 500. Actually it was a lot more. Some people estimated as many as 3,000.
by Empathetic Warrior for Justice
How many ILWU longshoremen were part of the blocking action? And if you shut the port, how many other ships were also stopped?

And will the next shift of longshoremen also honor the community picket lines when the ship comes in tomorrow morning?

SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA! WE'RE WINNING THE BATTLE FOR HEARTS & MINDS. THANK YOU ILWU, YOU ARE MY HEROES!

by Stop US/Israeli War Crimes
More good coverage on the SF Bay Area's Block The Boat effort:
1. Mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/demonstrators-temporarily-blocking.html
Bay Area demonstrators succeed, if only temporarily, in ‘Blocking the Boat for Gaza’
By Henry Norr on August 17, 2014

2. British Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/israeli-ship-remains-at-sea-thousands-protesters-gather
"Israeli ship remains at sea as thousands of protesters gather in Oakland"
By Rebecca Bowe 8/17/14
by repost
'The Israeli ship Zim Piraeus finally docked at the SSA terminal in the Port of Oakland this afternoon. An impromptu picket line formed at the gates this evening, and longshore workers refused to cross it. They have gone home for the night, and have said that if there's a picket line again tomorrow, they will honor it. Rumor has it that there's even a possibility that if the ship is not worked tomorrow morning it may simply leave.'
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