ACTION
ALERT UPDATE from USPCN: Our organizing is working! Ship delayed.
Come out to West Oakland BART station at 3 PM Saturday, NOT 5 AM.
Bring your friends and family to this historic action! "With
community backing, the International Longshoremen Workers Union
refused to handle cargo from South African ships in the 1980s,
spurring an international boycott that helped end the apartheid
regime in South Africa,” says Monadel Herzallah of the US
Palestinian Community Network. “We hope that this action and many
others like it will encourage organized labor to join the global BDS
movement to end Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
USPCN strongly
encourages the broadest possible mobilization and support for this
critically important action in Oakland! For those who cannot make it,
please see below for events in other cities:
Stop Israel at the
Port
Zionism isn't
welcome on our Coast!
West Coast Blockade
of the Israeli Zim Ship
Port of Oakland
Saturday, August
16th
3 PM (TIME
CHANGE)
Meet at West Oakland
Bart and march to Berth 57
Participants:Those
planning to participate: subscribe to text-alerts and receive live
updates about the 8/16 Block the Boat, text "join" to
(510) 346-5951.
Livestream:
KFPA will be
livestreaming the action at www.kpfa.org/kpfa-live-stream-channel.
Also follow
@BlocktheBoat for live tweets.
Volunteers and
Support: Fill out form to volunteer with transportation assistance.
Email info @ araborganizing.org to support with food donations.
Contact AROC to pick up posters and postcards for outreach.
Donations: Donate
here to help with event costs.
STOP THE SIEGE ON
GAZA!
END THE COLONIAL
OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!
RIGHT OF RETURN
FOR ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
FREE ALL
POLITICAL PRISONERS!
BOYCOTT, DIVEST,
SANCTION!
Global Statements
-
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions - Gaza
Strip
- Palestinian and South African Trade Unions
- Labor for Palestine
- Congress of South African Trade Unions
- National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa
- Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
- UNITE, British Trade Union
- Palestinian and South African Trade Unions
- Labor for Palestine
- Congress of South African Trade Unions
- National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa
- Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
- UNITE, British Trade Union
Other cities'
actions:
New York, NY, US
Saturday, August 16
1:00 PM
Israeli Consulate
(Block the Boat Solidarity)
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/429725363832321/
Miami, FL, US
Saturday, August 16
5:00 PM
Torch of Friendship
(Block the Boat Solidarity)
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/316267675214918/
Chicago, IL, US
Saturday, August 16
11:00 AM
North Avenue Beach
Bridge
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/937841456231113/
Los Angeles, CA, US
Saturday, August 16
1:00 PM
Hollywood and Vine
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1482387852007381
Seattle, WA, US
Saturday, August 16
12:00 PM
Westlake Center
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/665212870225672/
Hamtramck, MI, US
Saturday, August 16
12:00 PM
Caniff St and Joseph
Campau
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/457504094391468/
Tacoma, WA, US
(Block the Boat)
Wednesday, August 20
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/678819478876975/
Seattle, WA, US
(Block the Boat)
Friday, August 22
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/678819478876975/
What's happening?
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.
Call to Action
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.
Historical
Background
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!
Sustained BDS in
the Bay
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.
We refuse to allow
Israel to conduct its business as usual, here in the Bay and
everywhere!
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.
From Seattle to
Oakland to Los Angeles - turn the Israeli ship around!
Not in Palestine
Not in the Bay
Not Anywhere
Stand Against
Zionism Everywhere
Endorsed by:
AF3IRM
Al-Awda New York
All African People’s
Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)
American Friends
Service Committee
American Muslims for
Palestine
ANSWER Coalition
Arab Youth
Organizing (AYO)
AROC: Arab Resource
& Organizing Center
ASATA: Alliance of
South Asians Taking Action
Bay Area Women in
Black
BAYAN-USA
Bay Area CodePink
Bay Area Latin
America Solidarity Coalition
Berkeley Fellowship
of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Black Organizing
Project (BOP)
Black Organizing
Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)
Black Workers For
Justice
B.U.W (BLOOK UNITY
WORKERS ): PALISTINIAN INDEPANDENCE TRADEUNION ORGENIZATION IN
WESTBANK AND GAZZA AND JEROZALIM
Catalyst Project
CodePink Washington
Committee for Open
Discussion of Zionism (CODZ)
Communist Party of
San Francisco
Critical Resistance
– LA
Critical Resistance
– Oakland
Critical Resistance
– Portland
Descoloniza a
Oakland/Decolonize Oakland
Free Palestine
Movement
Freedom Archives
Friends of Deir
Ibzi’a
Fuerza
Mundial/Pueblos en Movimiento
General Union of
Palestine Students – SFSU
Global Women’s
Strike
Gray Panthers of San
Francisco
Green Party of
Alameda County
Haiti Action
Committee
International Action
Center
International Jewish
Anti Zionist Network
International
Solidarity Movement – West Bank/Gaza
International
Socialist Organization
International
Tribunal of Conscience for Camilo
ISM-Nor Cal
IWW Bay Area Branch
Jewish Against
Genocide
Jews for Palestinian
Right of Return
Justice for
Palestinians
La Voz de l@s
trabajadores/Worker’s Voice
Labor for Palestine
Lake Merritt
Neighbors Organized for Peace
Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement
Marcha Patriotica
(Colombia) – California chapter
Middle East
Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Movement Generation
National Lawyers
Guild SFBA Chapter
Noam Chomsky
NorCal Friends of
Sabeel
Occupy SF Action
Council
ONYX Organizing
Committee
The Palestine-Israel
Action Committee
Palestine General
Federation of Trade Unions
Palestinian Youth
Movement
Queers Undermining
Israeli Terror
Samidoun Palestinian
Prisoner Solidarity Network
San Francisco Green
Party
School of the
Americas Watch East Bay
Socialist
Alternative – Bay Area Branch
Socialist Organizer
SOUL: School of
Unity and Liberation
Southern Anti-Racism
Network
Stanford Students
for Justice
Students for Justice
in Palestine – Cal
Totally Radical
Muslims
UAW Local 2865
(Academic Student Workers at the University of California)
US Campaign to End
the Israeli Occupation
US Campaign for the
Academic and Cultural Boycott
US Palestinian
Community Network
Veterans For Peace
Chapter 69
World Can’t Wait
Bay Area
Workers World Party
Xicana Moratorium
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