Occupy Port blockade

[Badger52]

FULL ARTICLE AT THIS LINK Some extracts:

OAKLAND, Calif. – Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation's busiest ports from Anchorage, Alaska, to San Diego, with the thought that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.

"Taking on and blocking the 1 percent at the port is also taking on the global issue of exploitation by capitalism," said Occupy Oakland blockade organizer Barucha Peller.

(Google her, she's a piece of work.)

Organized labor appears divided over the port shutdown effort. In Oakland, which saw strong union support for the Nov. 2 general strike that culminated in the closing of the port, the city's teachers union is backing Monday's action, while the county's construction workers have come out against the shutdown, saying the port has provided jobs to many unemployed workers and apprentices.

Loose-leaf portfolio vs 3/4" breaker bar...


I wonder if the G will ever come out & mention that they can hold sway over protection of national critical infrastructure, ports being one. Oh... that's right; never mind.

[mark46th]

The logic behind this is utterly stupid.

[BOfH]

Originally Posted by Badger52

(Google her, she's a piece of work.)

Some sites got her middle name down as 'Calamity'...explains a lot, don't it...

[JJ_BPK]

One of the links has an email contact,, that leads to FB

macheteyamor@gmail.com

aka: Carmen Alexi on FB:

This is getting good...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16020r--oM

[JimP]

Yet more of the mental illness that is liberalism.

[alright4u]

In NY they offered those goons over 400 jobs. Only one wanted to work, and; she got a good job.

This crowd wants handouts. They want everything now for doing nothing. They think they want socialism or maybe communism. Their teachers are telling them how evil corporations are as living entities. More progressive BS.

What a bimbo Neil Cavuto had on from that movement. Unreal.

[ChuckG]

It is getting cold at most of these ports and OWS sites. Time to start hosing them down, it might reduce the stench and would work wonders with their morale.

[The Reaper]

I am cool with people protesting peacefully and without disrupting life for pretty much any cause they want.

There are laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces, loitering, urinating/defecating in public, protesting or parading without a permit, etc.

Your rights stop where mine begin.

Why have the authorities not marshalled their forces, including the National Guard, if need be, and thrown every one of the protestors breaking the law into jail, tried, and if convicted, sentenced them for a term commensurate with their crimes?

I doubt that the Tea Party could get away with this.

The Dims know their own, and are protecting them.

TR

Well, after looking at the photo, and several other OWS photos, I must admit that at least they are keeping corporate and/or mom & pop print and sign makers in business. It isn't like they made those signs on posterboard with sharpies! They actually look like signs worthy of appearing in newsprint or even in television! Capitalism at work, whether they realize it or not.

[PedOncoDoc]

Originally Posted by Sarski

Well, after looking at the photo, and several other OWS photos, I must admit that at least they are keeping corporate and/or mom & pop print and sign makers in business. It isn't like they made those signs on posterboard with sharpies! They actually look like signs worthy of appearing in newsprint or even in television! Capitalism at work, whether they realize it or not.

I was in San Diego until early this morning - the Monday morning news showed the protesters using stencils and spraypaint for some of the signs, so it may not be as much of a boost to the printing stores as you thought.

Hopefully the port blockade attempt didn't cause too much of a disruption. The "Occupy" people are not helping their cause with this one IMHO.

Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc

I was in San Diego until early this morning - the Monday morning news showed the protesters using stencils and spraypaint for some of the signs, so it may not be as much of a boost to the printing stores as you thought.

Hopefully the port blockade attempt didn't cause too much of a disruption. The "Occupy" people are not helping their cause with this one IMHO.

Well, sir, they have to buy the paint and stencils from somewhere, unless they were donated, or unless they borrowed money from mom and dad. The point is that someone somewhere actually produced something and worked to do it. Wall Street and Maceys are still operating business as usual. I doubt this will have any prolonged effect on commerce.

v/r
Sarski

EDIT: Where it will have a prolonged effect is in the media. Now reporters and journalists can fill media time and print with these easy to report grand stand events and give less time / space to more worthy events. Also serves to take the eye off of those more worthy events; smoke and mirrors.

v/r

[DesertRat]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

I am cool with people protesting peacefully and without disrupting life for pretty much any cause they want.

There are laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces, loitering, urinating/defecating in public, protesting or parading without a permit, etc.

Your rights stop where mine begin.

Why have the authorities not marshalled their forces, including the National Guard, if need be, and thrown every one of the protestors breaking the law into jail, tried, and if convicted, sentenced them for a term commensurate with their crimes?

I doubt that the Tea Party could get away with this.

The Dims know their own, and are protecting them.

TR

I could not agree more.

[afchic]

They will be the first to start bitching when the costs at Walmart, McD, taco bell, dominoes, dollar general rise. The idiots do not understand the concept of cause and effect.

[scooter]

Costs will rise because of the Greedy, Greedy Corporations....duh

[Dusty]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...quo-may-1.html

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.

Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia.
Protesters march to Wall Street during an ACT-UP and Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York, on April 25, 2012. Photographer: by John Moore/Getty Images
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In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers’ Day. They plan marches from Union Square to Lower Manhattan and a “pop-up occupation” of Bryant Park on Sixth Avenue, across the street from Bank of America’s Corp.’s 55-story tower.

“We call upon people to refrain from shopping, walk out of class, take the day off of work and other creative forms of resistance disrupting the status quo,” organizers said in an April 26 e-mail.

Occupy groups across the U.S. have protested economic disparity, decrying high foreclosure and unemployment rates that hurt average Americans while bankers and financial executives received bonuses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. In the past six months, similar groups, using social media and other tools, have sprung up in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Pooling Resources

The Occupy movement in New York has relied on demonstrations and marches around the city since Nov. 15, when police ousted hundreds of protesters from their headquarters in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, where they had camped since Sept. 17.

Banks have pooled resources and cooperated to gather intelligence after learning of plans to picket 99 institutions and companies, followed by what organizers have described as an 8 p.m. “radical after-party” in an undetermined Financial District location.

“If the banks anticipate outrage from everyday citizens, it’s revealing of their own guilt,” said Shane Patrick, a member of the Occupy Wall Street press team. “If they hadn’t been participating in maneuvers that sent the economy into the ditch, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.”

Police Prepared

New York police can handle picketers, according to Paul Browne, the department’s chief spokesman.

“We’re experienced at accommodating lawful protests and responding appropriately to anyone who engages in unlawful activity, and we’re prepared to do both,” he said in an interview.

About 2,100 Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York have been arrested since the demonstrations began, said Bill Dobbs, a member of the group’s media-relations team.

Organizers describe the May Day events as a coming together of the Occupy movement, with activists also calling for more open immigration laws, expanded labor rights and cheaper financing for higher education. Financial institutions remain a primary target of the protests.

“Four years after the financial crisis, not a single of the too-big-to-fail banks is smaller; in fact, they all continue to grow in size and risk,” the group’s press office said in an April 26 e-mail.

Planning Since January

Five banks -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America, Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) together held $8.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2011, equal to 56 percent of the U.S. economy, compared with 43 percent in 2006, according to central bankers at the Federal Reserve.

Occupy Wall Street began planning for May Day in January, meeting in churches and union halls with a decision-making system that avoids a single leader. Instead, participants rely on group “break-out” sessions in which clusters discuss such tasks as crowd-building, logistics and communications.

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If they're not illegal, why were they arrested?