Beautiful vid...must watch!!! Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - BDS San Francisco Bay Area shared a link. The Bay Area held down the longest blockade of an Israeli ship in history!! We blocked the boat...and we will continue to fight until Israeli Apartheid falls. Zionist ZIM, Seattle, Tacoma and Long Beach are ready for you. August 20, 2014 Longest Blockade of Israeli Ship in History ZIM ship turned away from SSA in Oakland! For four days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the SSA. And today, we salute the rank and file workers of ILWU local 10 for standing with us against Israeli Apartheid by honoring our pickets and letting the ship go from the SSA terminal yesterday afternoon! Saturday we mobilized thousands of our community to show the world that Oakland does not welcome racism, apartheid or Zionism, from Ferguson to Palestine. We flooded the streets and marched towards the Port only to discover that the ZIM ship decided to stay at Sea rather than dock and be confronted by the power of our numbers. The ship attempted to dock and unload on Sunday, but within a half hour’s time hundreds of us organized community pickets requesting that workers to stand with us on the side of justice and not unload the Apartheid ship. And as ILWU rank and file always have, and as they did during South African Apartheid, they demonstrated their solidarity with the global fight against oppression and honored our picket. The following Monday and Tuesday saw both an organized call to action as well as autonomous protests determined to keep the ship from being unloaded. These efforts coupled with worker solidarity continued the success of the weekend’s total blockade of the ZIM ship. Tuesday we declared a historic victory for Palestine as Oakland held down the longest blockade of an Israeli ship. Not only did we block the boat, but we also showed the world that racist exclusionary state of Apartheid Israel has no place on our port, and will soon find that it has no place on any port on the West Coast. After being blocked from unloading at the SSA Terminal, the ZIM ship was forced to leave and unload at another Terminal where it was met with protests by autonomous activists. This even further delayed the unloading of the ship. From the use of tear gas to the training of police by Israeli military, Oakland feels firsthand the brutality of Israeli war-making. And Palestine knows too well the role the US plays in facilitating the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian people. From the policing and militarization of our local communities perfected with Israeli tactics of repression to the billions that the US provides Apartheid Israel, the connections are clear and are made for us. And over the last four days we showed the world that we stand shoulder to shoulder from Palestine to Oakland to Ferguson as we struggle bring down every wall, every Apartheid system and every racist state. Palestine will be free. Block the Boat was organized by a coalition of autonomous activists and the following organizations: AF3IRM Al-Awda New York All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) American Friends Service Committee American Muslims for Palestine ANSWER Coalition APEN: Asian Pacific Environmental Network 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 Ibzia 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/Workers 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 Cant Wait Bay Area Workers World Party Xicana Moratorium
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:22:56 +0000
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