OCCUPY WALLSTREET!

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For those who want detailed info about 12/12:

The nationally coordinated, brutal police attacks on the Occupy Wall Street Movement were supported by the 1%. We will strike back with our own coordinated attack on the 1% -

The December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown in order to economically disrupt “Wall Street On The Waterfront.”

WHY?

When we say “Wall Street On The Waterfront”, we point particularly to EGT and Goldman Sachs. The West Coast Ports will be blockaded on December 12th in solidarity with Longshoremen and port truckers struggles against EGT and Goldman Sachs.

EGT is an multinational grain exporter consortium. Bunge Ltd is the largest partner in EGT who reported 2.5 billion dollars in profit last year alone and has direct ties to Wall Street and has caused economic despair in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and now the United States.

EGT has been rupturing ILWU jurisdiction in Longview, Washington and bringing in scab labor.

We will blockade all the ports on the West Coast in solidarity with the Longshoremen in Longview in their struggle against EGT.

We are also blockading the ports in solidarity with the struggle of port truckers against Goldman Sachs.

-Goldman Sachs owns a large part of the SSA port terminals and is guilty of facilitating the exploitation of low paid, non-union and short-run, port truck drivers who have struggled for dignified and humane conditions in the workplace for several years now.

These independent truck drivers are majority immigrant workers who are pitted against each other, receive low wages and unreliable hours while Goldman Sachs, the shipping companies, and their underlings reap record profits.

EGT and Goldman Sachs are the 1%. The OWS movement is committed to shutting down the 1% and is using its collective power in to shut down sites of profit.

HOW?

Since the Anti-Apartheid movement, the ILWU has respected and will continue to not cross community picket lines.

The OWS movement will mobilize to the ports and create picket lines at the terminals and gates and will wait until the local arbitrator rules in favor of the Longshore workers not having to cross the lines due to safety regulations.

The Rank-And-File of the ILWU have a long history of promoting social justice issues through shutdowns and not crossing picket lines. The rank and file of the ILWU not only support the occupy movement and December 12th, but are a part of the occupy movement, since they are among all of us who are struggling to take our lives back from the 1%.

The rank-and-file are with us on this.

Occupations up and down the coast will take on the model of the November 2nd blockade of the Port of Oakland during the General Strike. In this instance, 50,000 people marched onto the Port, also in solidarity with the Longshoremens struggle against the EGT, and the Longshoremen did not cross the picket lines.

Important to note:

If there is police violence- or attempts by the police to disrupt the port blockade in any city on the West Coast, the OWS movements in other locations will extend the duration of their blockades in solidarity.

-Participating: Occupy Oakland, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Portland, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle, and Occupy Vancouver.