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August 20, 2014<br>
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white;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Longest Blockade
of Israeli Ship in History</b></span></p>
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white;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: #222222;">ZIM
ship turned away from SSA in Oakland!</span></p>
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black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
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<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>For four
days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked
the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the SSA. And
today, we salute the rank and file workers of ILWU local
10 for standing with us against Israeli Apartheid by
honoring our pickets and letting the ship go from the SSA
terminal yesterday afternoon!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Saturday
we mobilized thousands of our community to show the world
that Oakland does not welcome racism, apartheid or
Zionism, from Ferguson to Palestine. We flooded the
streets and marched towards the Port only to discover that
the ZIM ship decided to stay at Sea rather than dock and
be confronted by the power of our numbers. The ship
attempted to dock and unload on Sunday, but within a half
hour's time hundreds of us organized community pickets
requesting that workers to stand with us on the side of
justice and not unload the Apartheid ship. And as ILWU
rank and file always have, and as they did during South
African Apartheid, they demonstrated their solidarity with
the global fight against oppression and honored our
picket. The following Monday and Tuesday saw both an
organized call to action as well as autonomous protests
determined to keep the ship from being unloaded. These
efforts coupled with worker solidarity continued the
success of the weekend's total blockade of the ZIM ship.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Tuesday
we declared a historic victory for Palestine as <strong><i><a
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href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001U6OZwdZCmMJh8BQByDruFm2u2n5pJkJGsRbgbDRjCAzSDp8_gZBlIuMkzAdS8tsiPaGN3dhPWB9FL4tlg6Ra5lfP3d5Tv8wm0Gc-J0Y0ADwDAt7xFmSydPYLR5MGBdtnJjx8w5MbIKbSLOhHII4NXymHGdcQ8uG6Rc5quhwbOFMcdOH4VjZK3G31-niX-FQEM0tiaXg0JVGlw3DeloQUCiggkyrRDcOI&c=ERmURcvAdnG5x1RgG2w1YLje8LfN3_cJd-D1FEx50dS8gEvTTc3bxg==&ch=CLh2hibm8TY9zKfcjaVePDdl3AQFEjZwwQBWh1ijKvvFBGwC80khgQ=="
linktype="1" target="_blank">Oakland held down the
longest blockade of an Israeli ship</a></i></strong>.
Not only did we block the boat, but we also showed the
world that racist exclusionary state of Apartheid Israel
has no place on our port, and will soon find that it has
no place on any port on the West Coast. After being
blocked from unloading at the SSA Terminal, the ZIM ship
was forced to leave and unload at another Terminal where
it was met with protests by autonomous activists. This
even further delayed the unloading of the ship.</span></p>
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black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>From the
use of tear gas to the training of police by Israeli
military, Oakland feels firsthand the brutality of Israeli
war-making. And Palestine knows too well the role the US
plays in facilitating the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the
indigenous Palestinian people. From the policing and
militarization of our local communities perfected with
Israeli tactics of repression to the billions that the US
provides Apartheid Israel, the connections are clear and
are made for us. And over the last four days we showed
the world that we stand shoulder to shoulder from
Palestine to Oakland to Ferguson as we struggle bring down
every wall, every Apartheid system and every racist
state. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><b><i>Palestine
will be free. </i></b></span></p>
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black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline; background-color:
white;">Block the Boat was organized by a coalition of
autonomous activists and the following organizations:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>AF3IRM</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Al-Awda
New York</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>All
African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>American
Friends Service Committee</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>American
Muslims for Palestine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>ANSWER
Coalition</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>APEN:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Arab
Youth Organizing (AYO)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>AROC:
Arab Resource & Organizing Center</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>ASATA:
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Bay Area
Women in Black</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>BAYAN-USA</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Bay Area
CodePink</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Bay Area
Latin America Solidarity Coalition</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Berkeley
Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice
Committee </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Black
Organizing Project (BOP)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Black
Organizing Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Black
Workers For Justice</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Catalyst
Project</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>CodePink
Washington</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Committee
for Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Communist
Party of San Francisco </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Critical
Resistance - LA</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Critical
Resistance - Oakland</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Critical
Resistance - Portland</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Descoloniza
a Oakland/Decolonize Oakland </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Free
Palestine Movement</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Freedom
Archives</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Friends
of Deir Ibzi'a </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Fuerza
Mundial/Pueblos en Movimiento</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>General
Union of Palestine Students - SFSU</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Global
Women's Strike</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Gray
Panthers of San Francisco</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Green
Party of Alameda County</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Haiti
Action Committee</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>International
Action Center</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>International
Jewish Anti Zionist Network</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>International
Solidarity Movement - West Bank/Gaza</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>International
Socialist Organization</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>International
Tribunal of Conscience for Camilo</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>ISM-Nor
Cal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>IWW Bay
Area Branch</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Jewish
Against Genocide</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Jews for
Palestinian Right of Return</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Justice
for Palestinians</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>La Voz
de l@s trabajadores/Worker's Voice</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Labor
for Palestine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Lake
Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Malcolm
X Grassroots Movement</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Marcha
Patriotica (Colombia) - California chapter</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Middle
East Children's Alliance (MECA)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Movement
Generation </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>National
Lawyers Guild SFBA Chapter</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Noam
Chomsky</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>NorCal
Friends of Sabeel</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Occupy
SF Action Council </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>ONYX
Organizing Committee </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>The
Palestine-Israel Action Committee</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Palestine
General Federation of Trade Unions</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Palestinian
Youth Movement</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Queers
Undermining Israeli Terror</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Samidoun
Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>San
Francisco Green Party</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>School
of the Americas Watch East Bay</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Socialist
Alternative - Bay Area Branch</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Socialist
Organizer</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>SOUL:
School of Unity and Liberation</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Southern
Anti-Racism Network</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Stanford
Students for Justice</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Stop the
War Machine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Students
for Justice in Palestine - Cal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Totally
Radical Muslims</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>UAW
Local 2865 (Academic Student Workers at the University of
California)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>US
Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>US
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>US
Palestinian Community Network</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; color:
black; text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Veterans
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<div class="date">August 20, 2014</div>
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<p><strong><em>by Malaika H Kambon</em></strong></p>
<p><em>“You may take the last strip of my land,</em><br>
<em>Feed my youth to prison cells.</em><br>
<em>You may plunder my heritage.</em><br>
<em>You may burn my books, my poems</em><br>
<em>Or feed my flesh to the dogs.</em><br>
<em>You may spread a web of terror </em><br>
<em>On the roofs of my village,</em><br>
<em>O enemy of the sun</em><br>
<em>But </em><br>
<em>I shall not compromise </em><br>
<em>and to the last pulse in my veins</em><br>
<em>I shall resist.”<br>
</em>– Samih Al Qasim in “Enemy of the Sun,” poetry of
Palestinian resistance</p>
<p><em>“The colonization of America in the 16<sup>th</sup> century
remains the worst case of ethnocide ever recorded in human
history… Dear citizens, the roots of terrorism lie there! There,
in the heart of slavery.”</em> – Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide</p>
<p>Beginning Saturday, Aug. 16, dock workers at the Port of Oakland
honored the picket lines of thousands of people over a period of
four days – and many months of organizing in solidarity with the
people of Palestine – to block Israeli apartheid by preventing the
docking and unloading of the Zim Pireaus liner anywhere on the
West Coast.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Aug. 19, the Zim Pireus left the Port of Oakland with
its cargo untouched, unloaded, unremarked and unwanted. The latest
word, however, is that the Israeli “Zim ship” cleared the Golden
Gate but made a U-turn and is headed back to Oakland’s Berth 22.
So are the activists.</p>
<p>If this subterfuge fails, several activists, including the
Electronic Intifada, who are tracking the Zim’s faltering attempts
to find a port from which to unload, the Zim will be on its way to
Los Angeles, where it will doubtlessly receive the same
“Unwelcome, go home” signals.</p>
<p>For four days Oakland forced yet another apartheid copycat to
berth somewhere else. As did the international community led by
the ILWU to South African apartheid, so does the international
community to Israeli apartheid. The historic victories continue.</p>
<p>Israeli apartheid is being dismantled and crushed – one port at a
time.</p>
<p>Palestine – just like Afrikan people in Haiti and the world over,
just like all struggling people – will fight to the bitter end to
be free!</p>
<p>On Saturday, speakers from the Arab Resource and Organizing
Center (AROC) and the Arab Youth Organization (AYO) said so. As
did Clarence Thomas, past secretary-treasurer of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10; Pierre Labossiere,
co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee; and Lil De Consuelo,
born in Puerto Rico and a volunteer for the Middle East Children’s
Alliance (MECA), to name a very few.</p>
<p>Several more speakers from many organizations agreed that
international solidarity has a true face, and it isn’t the face of
the U.S. and Israeli governments. The connections were made from
Ferguson to the Gaza Strip: Crimes against humanity will not be
tolerated.</p>
<p>National Lawyers Guild attorney Marjorie Cohn states in her
article, “<a
href="http://jurist.org/forum/2014/08/marjorie-cohn-israel-crimes.php">US
Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes
Against Humanity</a>”: “By sending vast amounts of military aid
to Israel, members of the U.S. Congress, President George W. Bush,
President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have
aided and abetted the commission of war crimes, genocide and
crimes against humanity by Israeli officials and commanders in
Gaza. An individual can be convicted of a war crime, genocide or a
<a
href="http://www.icc-cpl.int/nr/rdonlyres/ea9aeff7-5752-4f84-be94-0a655eb30e16/0/rome_statute_english.pdf">crime
against humanity</a> in the International Criminal Court (ICC)
if he or she ‘aids, abets or otherwise assists’ in the commission
or attempted commission of the crime, ‘including providing the
means for its commission.’”</p>
<p>Well, court is now in session.</p>
<p>Organizers tracked the <a
href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-123.1425/centery:36.64083/zoom:8/mmsi:477634800">Zim
Piraeus</a>, according to activist Mohamed Shehk, speaking with
The Electronic Intifada, and realized that the boat was still at
sea. It missed its scheduled 9 p.m. docking Aug. 15. It missed its
3 a.m. docking scheduled on Aug. 16. And it definitely wasn’t in
evidence at Berth 57 at 3 p.m. on the same day.</p>
<p>The boat had been blocked. It had no place to go and nothing to
do but to circle around in the Pacific Ocean all day long on
Saturday.</p>
<p>It wanted no part of the 2,000 people who were standing at the
entrance of Berth 57 at the Port of Oakland. Israel – like France
so long ago in Haiti, like apartheid South Africa – wanted no part
of the people’s court.</p>
<p>And more people were coming.</p>
<p>People came from as far away as Portland, Oregon, and Puerto
Rico.</p>
<p>Students came from every college and university. Workers,
community members and activists came, as did mothers, fathers and
families with babies in strollers to make the historic two-mile
march from Oakland’s West Oakland BART station to Berth 57 at the
Port of Oakland.</p>
<p>Chanting “Block the boat, block, block the boat,” and “Hands up,
don’t shoot,” in solidarity with Palestinian people and with
African people in Ferguson, Missouri, fighting for justice for
Mike Brown, murdered by police as he raised his hands and cried
out in vain, “Don’t shoot,” the march in Oakland was met by a
significant police presence at Berth 57.</p>
<p>The same genocidal U.S.-Israeli mentality that trained police
terrorists in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the world tried to
export more of their terrorism at the docks in Oakland.</p>
<p>Just as Kenneth Wade Harding was assassinated by police and bled
out after being shot for not having a $2 train fare, Mike Brown
was gunned down for walking in the roadway with his friend, just
as 400 Palestinian children have been brutally murdered and 2,500
injured with assault rifles, bombs and 155-millimeter artillery,
Haitian children are being killed in their homes and during
demonstrations, and Israeli trained police “occupy” Ferguson,
Missouri, as they do Oakland, San Francisco, New York and all over
the U.S.</p>
<p>Undaunted, international solidarity prevented Zim Integrated
Shipping Services from exporting more of their apartheid, more of
their genocide, more of their crimes against humanity. On this
day, using the Port of Oakland as a stepping-stone to further war
and injustice wasn’t happening.</p>
<p>They were shut down. Their boat was not only blocked but was
turned away. The message being sent is clear: Neither enslavement
nor occupation can cause freedom to lose its focus, nor eliminate
peoples of resistance.</p>
<p>Apartheid was sunk yet again at the docks of the Port of Oakland.</p>
<p><em>“Si yo tire sou nou, yo pran, si yo pa tire sou nou, yo
pran.” (“If they shoot at us they are doomed, and if they don’t
shoot at us they are doomed. They cannot win.”)</em> – Chant of
the people of Bel Air, Haiti, on March 4, 2005, taking to the
streets just a few days after, in plain sight of U.N. troops and
the international media, the official Haitian police killed, beat
and tear-gassed unarmed demonstrators</p>
<p>The power of the people prevailed.</p>
<p>All power to the people!</p>
<p><em>Malaika H Kambon is a freelance photojournalist and the 2011
winner of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association Luci S.
Williams Houston Scholarship in Photojournalism. She also won
the AAU state and national championship in Tae Kwon Do from
2007-2010. She can be reached at </em><a
href="mailto:kambonrb@pacbell.net"><em>kambonrb@pacbell.net</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<h2><strong>For global action now: Stop the Israeli massacre in
Gaza!</strong></h2>
<p><strong><em>Statement of the Transport Workers Solidarity
Committee</em></strong></p>
<p>As the Zionist genocidal war against the Palestinian people
continues unabated, workers around the world are stunned by the
death and destruction rained down on Gaza. Transport workers,
because of our key position in the global economy, have the power
to stop the wheels of the Israeli war machine, the power to stop
it dead in its tracks.</p>
<p>In 2009, dockworkers in Durban, South Africa, refused to unload
the Israeli ship Johanna Russ to protest what they called
“apartheid Israel’s massacres in Gaza.” The South African
Transport and Allied Workers Union then called on other unions to
follow their exemplary solidarity action with the oppressed
Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Then, dockworkers in Oakland, California, of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) honored a mass picket line of
1,200 port demonstrators against a Zim Lines ship protesting the
Israeli army’s killing of humanitarian aid workers on the Freedom
Flotilla to Gaza. In 1984, ILWU had boycotted a South African
apartheid ship.</p>
<p>Saturday, Aug. 16, the date of the latest protest against an
Israeli Zim Lines ship in the Port of Oakland, also commemorates
the Tripartite South African government killing of 34 striking
miners. Known as the Marikana Massacre, it has become a seminal
event in the history of South African working class struggles.</p>
<p>The Palestinian General Confederation of Trade Unions has
appealed to workers the world over to refuse to handle Israeli
goods. The TWSC supports the action begun on Aug. 16 in solidarity
with Palestinians and striking South African workers.</p>
<p>We call on the community to picket Israeli ships, planes and Zim
Lines offices. If we can stop the Israeli capitalists’ profits,
even for a day, we send a powerful message to the racist Zionist
regime that we will not oil their bloody war machine. An injury to
one is an injury to all!</p>
<p><em>The Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, led by Jack
Heyman, chair, Brian Lewis, secretary, Robert Irminger,
treasurer, and Steve Zeltzer, publicity director, can be reached
at </em><a href="mailto:transportsolidarity@yahoo.com"><em>transportsolidarity@yahoo.com</em></a><em>.
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