Highlights of the #D12 West Coast Port Shutdown. Posted 2 years ago on Dec. 12, 2011, 12:36 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Note: The following highlights are not comprehensive. For a full list of participating Occupations and more solidarity actions across the world, see West Coast Port Shutdown. Oakland 6:46pm PST: From @OccupyOakland: At least 8000 people at the Port of Oakland right now, Please come down and party with us! We will be having a GA soon at Hanjin Terminal (zone 4) to discuss extending the blockade in light of police violence and the 3AM shift. 6:22pm PST: Over 5,000 people attended a General Assembly and gathered to shut down the port. According to Occupy Oakland, the work shift has been moved to 3AM.2:20pm PST: From @OccupyOakland: "Please come to the rally at OGP today at 3PM and march to the port at 4 and 5.
Houston 3:30pm CST: At least 8 people have been arrested, as HPD continued to use tents to cover protesters to hide their actions. Bellingham, WA Los Angeles / Port of Long Beach Seattle / Longview San Diego Portland Denver. An Open Letter from America's Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports. We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores. We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people.
Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. Today’s demonstrations will impact us. We love being behind the wheel. There is so much at stake in our industry. Why? Occupy 2.0 #D17. Posted 2 years ago on Dec. 12, 2011, 8:19 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Join artists, musicians, and local community members for an all-day performance event in support of Occupy Wall Street and the occupation of space and reclaiming of the commons. Freedom of expression and the right to assemble are sacred human freedoms.
Through bold, courageous actions, Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope, revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced. To Occupy is to embody the spirit of liberation that we wish to manifest in our society. On Saturday, December 17th – the 3 month anniversary of the birth of this movement, we will gather to celebrate Occupy Wall Street and to occupy space together. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th at 12PM DUARTE SQ. Faced with evictions, occupy movement protesters look to new tactics. As the Occupy movement heads into the cold winter months, the movement is counting on ingenuity, good luck and — in one case — the federal courts to keep it mobilized outside financial districts and city halls across the United States.
The greatest challenge to date are the evictions by city governments that complain that overnight camping in city parks violates curfew laws and threatens public health and safety. Occupy movements in several major cities — Chicago, Portland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles — were disrupted by police action and now mobilize largely during daytime hours or through marches designed around specific issues special to each city. Protesters in all these cities argue the evictions violate free speech rights and that the use of curfew laws is hollow considering they are rarely enforced, especially before the Occupy movement became a mobilized presence on the streets.
Russian protesters film UFO over Moscow. With Occupy Denver protester Corey Donahue, nothing is ever easy - Page 1 - News. The last time Corey Donahue landed in jail, it took his friends four days to decide to bail him out. Given the number of times they've had to make this decision over the two months and two weeks of Occupy Denver's brief life downtown — four, to be exact — it should be easy by now. But with Donahue, nothing ever is. Occupy Denver's loudest and most well-documented protester is a tattooed former MMA fighter, an outspoken marijuana activist, a vehement anarchist, the Don Quixote of the local occupation (if Quixote's windmills were state troopers) and the single biggest drain on its legal funds to date.
Donahue has been arrested four times in two months, for eight charges in all, ranging from unlawful conduct on state property to inciting a riot to unlawful sexual contact. These come at the tail end of a criminal record that includes 21 total charges, starting when he was nineteen and continuing through his ripe and raucous late twenties. "His actions speak for themselves. Anthony Camera. #OccupyDenver: Protesters Plan Walmart Disruption In Solidarity With Shut Down Of West Coast Ports. Occupy Denver is planning a rally to disrupt the large Walmart Distribution Center in Loveland on Monday. The rally is intended to show solidarity and support for the simultaneous protests planned to shut down West Coast ports from San Diego to Alaska coordinated by other occupy movements, according to CNN. In a press release, Occupy Denver had this to say about the Walmart rally: On 12/12 Occupy Denver will be rallying at the Walmart Distribution Center, 7500 Crossroads Boulevard, Loveland, Colorado, in order to illustrate the problems with a globalization solely based on the interests of multi-national corporations and total disregard for human values or human beings. 7News reports that six protesters were arrested at today's "Occupy Walmart" shut down.
Occupy Denver made a statement on their Facebook page saying that there were about 12 arrests as of 2 p.m. for getting into the roadway and jaywalking, but some were released quickly and re-joined the protest. Loading Slideshow. Occupy Wall Street marches in Lower Manhattan | 7online. Eyewitness News NEW YORK (WABC) -- Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to World Financial Center, where some entered the Winter Gardens. An unknown number of protesters entered the Winter Gardens, part of a Battery Park City facility, just before 10 a.m. The protesters started marching from Zuccotti Park hours earlier, and they were expected to head to Goldman Sachs headquarters. They instead turned left and headed south to the World Financial Center. Nearly the entire World Financial Center complex is owned by Brookfield Properties, which also owns Zuccotti Park.
(Copyright ©2014 WABC-TV/DT. Get more New York News » Tags: new york city, occupy wall street, new york news. Occupy Wall Street protesters target West Coast ports | Staff report. Click to enlarge AP file photo Occupy Oakland protesters on bicycles block truck traffic in front of the American President Lines at the Port of Oakland on Nov. 2 in Oakland. Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to shut down ports up and down the West Coast on Monday in a bid to gum up the engines of global commerce. Protest groups in cities such as Oakland; Los Angeles; San Diego; Portland, Ore.; Tacoma, Wash.; Seattle; Anchorage; and Vancouver plan to blockade their local ports. Organizers say the shutdowns are meant to highlight what they see as abuses inflicted by wealthy companies taking place well beyond Wall Street itself.
They also hope to show that Occupy activists can still muster a major national protest despite the scattering of their camps by police raids. The Port of Oakland has taken out ads urging residents not to support the shutdown, which port officials said would steer traffic to other ports and hinder job-creation initiatives.
Palace: Protesters merely copying Occupy Wall Street movement. Secretary Edwin Lacierda INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Apparently, Malacañang thinks they are just copycats. A Palace official on Sunday said the government had been tolerant of the militant groups that had tried but failed to occupy Mendiola in an effort to reprise the Occupy protests in the United States and other parts of the world. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the groups were merely causing trouble and provoking the police, who had “exercised a wide berth of tolerance” for them the past week.
Over government radio dzRB, Lacierda said a number of policemen were hurt during the dispersal of the protesters. A number of protesters were hurt, too, as gleaned from reports and television footage. “Admittedly, they are raising issues that are not what the Occupy Wall Street protesters (are pushing for). The Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was started by young people in protest of the greed of major banks and multinational corporations.
Occupy Portland: Port of Portland targeted by demonstrators this morning. View full sizeRandy Rasmussen/The OregonianOccupy Portland demonstrators march toward the Port of Portland this morning. Protesters say they're targeting Wall Street on the Waterfront, and that the ports are an engine of wealth for country's richest 1 percent. View full sizeRandy Rasmussen/The OregonianOccupy Portland demonstrators march toward the Port of Portland this morning. Protesters say they're targeting Wall Street on the Waterfront, and that the ports are an engine of wealth for country's richest 1 percent. A couple hundred Occupy Portland protesters are rallying this morning at the entrances to terminals 5 and 6 of the Port of Portland in what appears to be a largely peaceful demonstration. Demonstrators marched from North Portland's Kelly Point Park to the marine terminals, split into two groups and rallied at the entrances to terminals 5 and 6.
The gates to the terminals are closed and blocked by police wearing riot gear. Portland police Lt. -- The Oregonian. Welfare in the City – an update from Occupy London Stock Exchange. In light of recent sensationalist stories in the media sparked by the publication of the City of London Corporation’s legal bundle detailing a naturally one sided picture of the camp at St Paul’s Churchyard, Occupy London wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on its welfare initiative. Occupy London welcomes volunteers, particularly those with expertise and professional training, to get involved in its welfare initiative and is also currently looking to upgrade its facilities.
To get involved, email: welfareolsx@gmail.com or leave a message for Welfare at the Information Tent or attend the Welfare working group meetings: 6pm every Monday evening, downstairs at Ye Olde London, Ludgate Hill. A comprehensive update is detailed below. “It comes as no surprise that the media will engage in a smear campaign against the Occupy London camp at St Paul’s. (Needle bins at St Paul’s camp to beat junkie health hazard, Evening Standard, 23 November). In the call out Occupy London stated: Occupy the London Stock Exchange. Occupy aims to shut down West Coast ports - live coverage | World news.
10.15am ET, 7.15am PDT: Thousands of protesters are expected to join in a shutdown of America's west coast ports, with some picket lines already in place in California. Occupations from Oakland, LA, San Diego, Tacoma, Seattle and more have united in a bid to stop all port activity on America's west coast, in support of the International Longshore Workers Union's (ILWU) battle with EGT in Longview, Washington. Protesters will march to port terminals and create picket lines in the same way Occupy Oakland did last month, when their general strike shut down the port of Oakland. With pickets in place, local ILWU arbitrators are then expected to rule that longshore workers should not cross the lines for safety reasons, closing the ports.
"The West Coast ports will be blockaded on December 12th in solidarity with longshoremen and port truckers struggles against EGT and Goldman Sachs," the west coast port shutdown website says. It's the second time they've done it. Arbitration has confirmed!