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<div><span
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#ff0000;">U</span><span
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#ff0000;">RGENT
UPDATE:</span></div>
</strong></div>
<div
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11pt; color:
#260000;
text-align:
left;"
align="left"><strong>Our
organizing is
working! The
Zim ship has
been delayed
and is
scheduled to
arrive in the
afternoon
shift. </strong></div>
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</strong></div>
<div
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#800000;
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left;"
align="left"><span
style="text-decoration:
underline;"><strong>MEET
AT WEST
OAKLAND BART @
<span
style="font-size:
14pt;">3pm</span>
NOT 5am</strong></span></div>
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12pt; color:
#800000;
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left;"
align="left"><b><br>
</b></div>
<div
style="font-size:
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#000000;
text-align:
left;"
align="left"><b>Come
louder and
stronger! </b></div>
<div
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#800000;
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left;"
align="left"><strong
style="color:
#000000;
font-size:
11pt;"> </strong></div>
<div
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11pt;
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left; color:
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align="left"><span><strong>Zionism
isn't welcome
on our Coast!</strong></span></div>
<div
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left; color:
#000000;"
align="left"><b>Stop
Israel at the
Port!</b></div>
<div
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align="left"><span><em><strong>West
Coast Blockade
of the Israeli
Zim Ship</strong></em></span></div>
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left; color:
#000000;"
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#000000;
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left;"
align="left"><strong>Port
of Oakland</strong><br>
</div>
<div
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12pt; color:
#000000;
text-align:
left;"
align="left"><strong>Saturday,
August 16th</strong><br>
</div>
<div
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left; color:
#000000;"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:
12pt;"><strong>3pm</strong></span></div>
<div style="color:
#000000;
text-align:
left; font-size:
9pt;"
align="left">
<div><strong>Meet
at West
Oakland Bart
and march to
Berth 57</strong></div>
</div>
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left;"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:
10pt; color:
#d52c2a;"><br>
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font-size:
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planning to
participate:
subscribe to
text-alerts and
receive live
updates about
the 8/16 Block
the Boat, <strong
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background-color:
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!important;"><em
style="font-size:
8pt; color:
#000000;">t</em><em
style="font-size:
8pt; color:
#000000;">ext
"join" to
(510)
346-5951. </em></div>
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style="font-size:
9pt;">Livestream: </span></div>
</b>
<div
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style="color:
#000000;
font-size:
8pt;
background-color:
transparent;">KFPA
will be
livestreaming
the action at </span><a
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style="color:
#000000;
font-size:
8pt;
background-color:
transparent;">Also
follow
@BlocktheBoat
for live
tweets.</span></div>
</span></div>
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</i></b></span></div>
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font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Volunteers
and Support:</strong></span>
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target="_blank">Fill
out form</a> to
volunteer with
transportation
assistance. Email
info @
araborganizing.org
to support with
food donations.
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to pick up posters
and postcards for
outreach.</div>
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here</a> to help
with event costs.
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<span
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10pt;"><strong>
<div><span
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#ffffff;"><strong><br>
</strong></span></div>
<div
style="text-align:
right;"
align="right">STOP
THE SIEGE ON
GAZA!</div>
</strong></span>
<div
style="text-align:
right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>END
THE COLONIAL
OCCUPATION OF
PALESTINE!</strong><br>
</div>
<div
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right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>RIGHT
OF RETURN FOR
ALL
PALESTINIAN
REFUGEES!</strong><br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
right;
font-size:
10pt;"
align="right"><strong>FREE
ALL POLITICAL
PRISONERS!</strong><br>
</div>
<div
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right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size:
10pt;"><strong>BOYCOTT,
DIVEST,
SANCTION!</strong></span><br>
<br>
</div>
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10pt; color:
#800000;"
align="left"><strong>Global
Statements</strong></div>
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General
Federation of
Trade Unions -
Gaza Strip</a></div>
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#d52c2a;"
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and South
African Trade
Unions</a></div>
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for Palestine</a></span></div>
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of South African
Trade Unions</a></div>
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Union of Metal
Workers of South
Africa</a></div>
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#d52c2a;"
align="left">- <a
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Workers
Solidarity
Committee</a></div>
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<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><strong><em>What's
happening?</em></strong></span><br>
</div>
<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:
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align="left"><a
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target="_blank">Palestine
is calling us
to action!
Palestinians
laborers,
Palestinian
General
Federation
Trade Union
(PGFTU)</a>,
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
style="text-align:
left;"
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>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
left;"
align="left"><span
style="color:
#800000;"><em><strong>Sustained
BDS in the Bay</strong></em></span><br>
</div>
<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>
</div>
<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>
</div>
<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>
<br>
</div>
<div
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align="left"><span
style="color:
#d52c2a;"><strong>From
Seattle to
Oakland to Los
Angeles - turn
the Israeli
ship around!</strong></span><br>
</div>
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Beach Block
the Boat
Action</a></span></div>
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and Seattle
Block the Boat
Action</a></div>
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York Block the
Boat Action</a></div>
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<div
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11pt;"><span
style="color:
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in Palestine</strong></span><br>
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<div
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11pt;"><span><strong>Not
in the Bay</strong></span><br>
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<div
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style="color:
#333333;"><strong>Not
Anywhere</strong></span><br>
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<div
style="color:
#d52c2a;"><span
style="font-size:
11pt;"><strong>Stand
Against
Zionism
Everywhere</strong></span><br>
<br>
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style="color:
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underline;"><strong>Endorsed
by:</strong></span><br>
<br>
</div>
<div
style="text-align:
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align="left">AF3IRM<br>
Al-Awda New
York<br>
All African
People's
Revolutionary
Party (AAPRP)<br>
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>
Bay Area Women
in Black<br>
BAYAN-USA<br>
Bay Area
CodePink<br>
Bay Area Latin
America
Solidarity
Coalition<br>
Berkeley
Fellowship of
Unitarian
Universalists
Social Justice
Committee <br>
Black
Organizing
Project (BOP)<br>
Black
Organizing
Leadership and
Dignity (BOLD)<br>
Black Workers
For Justice<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>
Critical
Resistance -
Portland<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>
Green Party of
Alameda County<br>
Haiti Action
Committee<br>
International
Action Center<br>
International
Jewish Anti
Zionist
Network<br>
International
Solidarity
Movement -
West Bank/Gaza<br>
International
Socialist
Organization<br>
International
Tribunal of
Conscience for
Camilo<br>
ISM-Nor Cal<br>
IWW Bay Area
Branch<br>
Jewish Against
Genocide<br>
Jews for
Palestinian
Right of
Return<br>
Justice for
Palestinians<br>
La Voz de l@s
trabajadores/Worker's
Voice<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>
Movement
Generation <br>
National
Lawyers Guild
SFBA Chapter<br>
Noam Chomsky<br>
NorCal Friends
of Sabeel<br>
Occupy SF
Action Council
<br>
ONYX
Organizing
Committee <br>
The
Palestine-Israel
Action
Committee<br>
Palestine
General
Federation of
Trade Unions<br>
Palestinian
Youth Movement<br>
Queers
Undermining
Israeli Terror<br>
Samidoun
Palestinian
Prisoner
Solidarity
Network<br>
San Francisco
Green Party<br>
School of the
Americas Watch
East Bay<br>
Socialist
Alternative -
Bay Area
Branch<br>
Socialist
Organizer<br>
SOUL: School
of Unity and
Liberation<br>
Southern
Anti-Racism
Network<br>
Stanford
Students for
Justice<br>
Stop the War
Machine<br>
Students for
Justice in
Palestine -
Cal<br>
Totally
Radical
Muslims<br>
UAW Local 2865
(Academic
Student
Workers at the
University of
California)<br>
US Campaign to
End the
Israeli
Occupation<br>
US Campaign
for the
Academic and
Cultural
Boycott<br>
US Palestinian
Community
Network<br>
Veterans For
Peace Chapter
69 <br>
World Can't
Wait Bay Area
<br>
Workers World
Party<br>
Xicana
Moratorium<br>
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