Area who may come and those around the US who would like to know this
is happening….
Don’t sleep in, make history!
Join the Labor/Community Picket of an Israeli Ship
Sunday, June 20 5:30 A.M.,
Berth 58, Port of Oakland
Protest Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla!
Boycott Israeli Ships and Goods!
Lift the Blockade NOW – Let Gaza Live!
Bring Down Israel‘s Apartheid Wall!
Unions, labor federations and other organizations around the world have condemned Israel’s
deadly attack against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. Nine
people were killed and dozens seriously injured in the Israeli commando
attack in international waters on ships attempting to bring
humanitarian cargo to the suffering and blockaded people of Gaza. Six
people aboard the ships are still missing and presumed dead.
Israel maintains a deadly blockade
against 1.5 million people in Gaza, with claims ranging from the
control of weapons to achieving demographic superiority in favor of
Israel’s occupation. The construction of the apartheid
wall in the West Bank aims to create Jewish-only colonies on Palestinian
territories. Israel’s
foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, rose to prominence calling for the
expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian people living in the borders of
the Israeli green line.
Israeli Apartheid can fall too !
similar to the Apartheid State of South Africa,
Israel’s best friend
Along with dock workers from Sweden and
Norway, calls from Malaysia, and following previous actions from
liberated South Africa, we will picket the arrival of Israel’s Zim ship
liner. In San Francisco in
1984, a picket line and refusal by dockworkers to unload a ship
carrying South African cargo was a key event in mobilizing the anti-apartheid
movement worldwide. We will
be picketing the Zim ship and asking the workers to do the same with
apartheid Israel.
An Injury to One is an Injury to
All
Israeli apartheid must fall!
We call on everyone who stands for
justice and against occupation and apartheid to join the June 20
picket at the Port of Oakland.
The Israeli Zim Lines ship is
scheduled to dock at Berth 58 on Middle Harbor Rd. in the Port of
Oakland, about a mile from the West Oakland BART station. BART
does not begin running on Sundays until 6:00 a.m.
There is parking available at the BART station and on nearby streets.
Car pooling coordination: 510-282-7032
Details about port action: 415 -821-6545
Updates on the
actions:
http://www.transportworkers.org
Legal Hotline: 415-285-1011
Labor / Community Committee in
Solidarity with the Palestinian People:
Arab American Union
Members Council, ANSWER- Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, Palestine
Youth Network, US Palestine Community Network, Al Awda-
Right to Return Coalition, Arab Youth Organization, MECA-Middle East
Children’s Alliance, SJP-Students for Justice in Palestine,
AROC-Arab Resource and Organizing Center, ISM-International Solidarity
Movement, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, International Socialist
Organization, Peace and Freedom Party – SF, Transport
Workers Solidarity
Committee, Bay Area US Labor Against the War, Bay Area Committee for
Peace and Justice, Barrio Unido, Movement for Unconditional Amnesty for
All Immigrant Workers, National Assembly to End the Iraq and
Afghanistan Wars and Occupation, Friends of Deir Ibzi’a, Socialist
Viewpoint, FMLN in Northern California, San Jose Justice for
Palestinians, Code Pink – SF, World Can’t Wait – SF, International
Action Center, Skyline Against Cuts, Industrial Workers of the World
–SF, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice
Committee, QUIT!-
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, Fred Hirsch, Executive Board
Member of Plumbers & Fitters Local 393, Delegate to the south Bay
AFL-CIO Labor Council, Break the Silence Mural Project, and many labor
activists in the Bay Area.
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To gain insight into
the US-Israeli sadistic policy of siege against the Palestinian people,
below is a list of prohibited items in May 2010:
sage, cardamom,
cumin, coriander, ginger, jam, halva, vinegar, nutmeg, chocolate, fruit
preserves, seeds and nuts, biscuits and sweets, potato chips, gas for
soft drinks, dried fruit, fresh meat, plaster, tar, wood for
construction, cement, iron, glucose, industrial salt,
plastic/glass/metal containers, industrial margarine, tarpaulin sheets
for huts, fabric for clothing, flavor and smell enhancers, fishing
rods, , various fishing nets, buoys, ropes for fishing, nylon nets for
greenhouses, hatcheries and spare parts for hatcheries, spare parts for
tractors, dairies for cowsheds, irrigation pipe systems, ropes to tie
greenhouses, planters for saplings, heaters for chicken farms, musical
instruments, size A4 paper, writing implements, notebooks, newspapers,
toys, razors, sewing machines and spare parts, heaters, horses,
donkeys, goats, cattle, chicks.
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Israeli European
citizens call for school segregation: