“Vandalism, violence, burning and shutting down the nation’s fifth busiest port weren’t enough for Occupy Oakland. On Friday, the General Assembly for the group voted unanimously for “a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12.”
According to a statement from Occupy Oakland, this move is in “response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation.” “We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port.”
Occupy Los Angeles had already called for action against one shipper at that port, stating, “occupation will take place at at least one facility owned by SSA Marine, a shipping company belonging to Goldman Sachs, (coordinated with a possible port shut down by the port truck drivers).”
I should not this is being coordinated by known extortionists, unions–either pay them a bribe or you may not teach, be a cop, drive a truck for many firms, etc. In the real world this is called extortion–in the perverted world of government, this is called “collective bargaining”. Another example of government corruption.
Occupy Oakland Calls For Shutdown Of ALL West Coast Ports
By Dan Gainor, cnsnews, 11/19/11
Vandalism, violence, burning and shutting down the nation’s fifth busiest port weren’t enough for Occupy Oakland. On Friday, the General Assembly for the group voted unanimously for “a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12.”
According to a statement from Occupy Oakland, this move is in “response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation.” “We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port.”
Occupy Los Angeles had already called for action against one shipper at that port, stating, “occupation will take place at at least one facility owned by SSA Marine, a shipping company belonging to Goldman Sachs, (coordinated with a possible port shut down by the port truck drivers).”
The Occupy Oakland statement also complained about “continued union-busting and attacks on organized labor, in particular the rupture of Longshoremen jurisdiction in Longview Washington.”
Longview has been the site of some nasty union action already. According to the Sept. 8 New York Times, “About 500 longshoremen stormed the new $200 million terminal in Longview before sunrise Thursday, carrying baseball bats, smashing windows, damaging rail cars and dumping tons of grain from the cars, police and company officials said.”
The statement from Occupy Oakland also included multiple threats if their actions were opposed, including extending the shutdown past one day. “Should there be any retaliation against any workers as a result of their honoring pickets or supporting our port actions, additional solidarity actions should be prepared.” And this, “In the event of police repression of any of the mobilizations, shutdown actions may be extended to multiple days.”
The statement was signed “In Solidarity and Struggle.”
So corporate Greed and sending job over sea has nothing to do with our global economic melt down. Do ppl have any clue
December 8, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Government should protect and preserve life, liberty, and property, as well as intervene in the events of force and fraud. (Force, however, is OK when somebody trespasses onto your property and/or initiates violence against you or a loved or defenseless one.)
November 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm
The liberal perfect plan:
1. Dumb down the schools by focusing on socialization instead of education. “Educate” students by convincing them that the government owes them life long financial support.
2. Have low expectations of those who need help, do not expect them to help themselves.
3. Trap the poor in welfare programs (TANF) that have no expectation that the poor will actual do those things they need to do to make their (and their children’s) lives better.
4. Tax the rich (Business owners) so we have fewer rich people and fewer jobs.
5. Encourage the poorly educated well-socialized students to work in the media, thus insuring media support for all of our “programs”.
6. Teach our childern that the US is a greedy self-serving nation.
7. Take control of peoples lives not by force, but by the fact that they cannot survive without the great “government”.
November 23, 2011 at 8:16 am
Wow ! RT hit the nail on the head. That is the liberals plan and they have met most of thier goals.
Maybe it is time to take our schools back and make them educate our childern.
November 23, 2011 at 11:15 am
I hope more people wake up and see that RT is correct. We need to get our schools back to education !
Occupy Education
November 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm