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Israel at the
Port </strong><br>
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<div
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style="color:
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isn't welcome
on our Coast!</strong></span></div>
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style="color:
#800000;"><em><strong>West
Coast Blockade
of the Israeli
Zim Ship</strong></em></span></div>
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of Oakland</strong><br>
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August 16th</strong><br>
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<div><strong
style="color:
#d52c2a;">Meet
at West
Oakland Bart
and march to
Berth 57</strong></div>
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<div
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style="font-size:
10pt; color:
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planning to
participate:
subscribe to
text-alerts
and receive
live updates
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Block the
Boat, <em>t</em></span><em
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"join" to
(510)
346-5951.</em></div>
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#ffffff;"><strong><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
right;"
align="right">STOP
THE SIEGE ON
GAZA!</div>
</strong></span>
<div
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right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>END
THE COLONIAL
OCCUPATION OF
PALESTINE!</strong><br>
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<div
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right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>RIGHT
OF RETURN FOR
ALL
PALESTINIAN
REFUGEES!</strong><br>
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<div
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right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>FREE
ALL POLITICAL
PRISONERS!</strong><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size:
10pt;"><strong>BOYCOTT,
DIVEST,
SANCTION!</strong></span><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
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align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><strong><em>What's
happening?</em></strong></span><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">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.<br>
<br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><strong><em>Call
to Action</em></strong></span><br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">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.<br>
<br>
</div>
<div
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align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><em><strong>Historical
Background</strong></em></span><br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">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!<br>
<br>
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<div
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left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><em><strong>Sustained
BDS in the Bay</strong></em></span><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">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.<br>
<br>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">We
refuse to allow
Israel to
conduct its
business as
usual, here in
the Bay and
everywhere!<br>
<br>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><em>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.</em><br>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#d52c2a;"><strong>From
Seattle to
Oakland to Los
Angeles - turn
the Israeli
ship around!</strong></span><br>
<br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><strong>We
encourage all
of our allies
on the West
Coast to join
us in ensuring
that Zim ships
are not
welcome
anywhere.</strong><br>
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<div style="color:
#d52c2a;
font-size:
11pt;"><span
style="color:
#333333;"><strong>Not
in Palestine</strong></span><br>
</div>
<div style="color:
#d52c2a;
font-size:
11pt;"><span><strong>Not
in the Bay</strong></span><br>
</div>
<div
style="font-size:
11pt;"><span
style="color:
#333333;"><strong>Not
Anywhere</strong></span><br>
</div>
<div style="color:
#d52c2a;"><span
style="font-size:
11pt;"><strong>Stand
Against
Zionism
Everywhere</strong></span><br>
<br>
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<div style="color:
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text-align:
left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;
text-decoration:
underline;"><strong>Endorsed
by:</strong></span><br>
<br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left">American
Friends Service
Committee<br>
American Muslims
for Palestine<br>
ANSWER Coalition<br>
Arab Youth
Organizing (AYO)<br>
AROC: Arab
Resource &
Organizing
Center<br>
ASATA: Alliance
of South Asians
Taking Action<br>
BAYAN-USA<br>
Bay Area Latin
America
Solidarity
Coalition<br>
Black Organizing
Project (BOP)<br>
Black Organizing
Leadership and
Dignity (BOLD)<br>
Catalyst Project<br>
CodePink
Washington<br>
Committee for
Open Discussion
of Zionism
(CODZ)<br>
Communist Party
of San Francisco
<br>
Critical
Resistance - LA<br>
Critical
Resistance -
Oakland<br>
Descoloniza a
Oakland/Decolonize
Oakland <br>
Free Palestine
Movement<br>
Freedom Archives<br>
Friends of Deir
Ibzi'a <br>
Fuerza
Mundial/Pueblos
en Movimiento<br>
General Union of
Palestine
Students - SFSU<br>
Global Women's
Strike<br>
Gray Panthers of
San Francisco<br>
Haiti Action
Committee<br>
International
Action Center<br>
International
Jewish Anti
Zionist Network<br>
International
Socialist
Organization<br>
International
Tribunal of
Conscience for
Camilo<br>
ISM-Nor Cal<br>
Jews for
Palestinian
Right of Return<br>
Justice for
Palestinians<br>
Labor for
Palestine<br>
Lake Merritt
Neighbors
Organized for
Peace<br>
Malcolm X
Grassroots
Movement<br>
Marcha
Patriotica
(Colombia) -
California
chapter<br>
Middle East
Children's
Alliance (MECA)<br>
National Lawyers
Guild SFBA
Chapter<br>
NorCal Friends
of Sabeel<br>
Occupy SF Action
Council <br>
ONYX Organizing
Committee <br>
The
Palestine-Israel
Action Committee<br>
Palestinian
Youth Movement<br>
Queers
Undermining
Israeli Terror<br>
San Francisco
Green Party<br>
Socialist
Organizer<br>
SOUL: School of
Unity and
Liberation<br>
Stanford
Students for
Justice<br>
Students for
Justice in
Palestine - Cal<br>
Totally Radical
Muslims<br>
US Campaign to
End the Israeli
Occupation<br>
US Committee for
the Academic and
Cultural Boycott<br>
US Palestinian
Community
Network<br>
World Can't Wait
Bay Area <br>
Workers World
Party<br>
Xicana
Moratorium<br>
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