How Bay Area activists blocked the boat
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BDS can work!
It is a sign of a welcome burgeoning of international solidarity that dockworkers in the Port of Oakland took the action described in the article below.
It is also a result of patient work in the area since 2010.
Solidarity doesn’t just happen. It needs to be built over time.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Thu 10 Jun 2021. Read the original here.
‘One can’t underestimate the significance of this victory’: How Bay Area activists Blocked the Boat
“It shows what’s possible through BDS work when you can actually disrupt international commerce and build worker and community solidarity”: AROC’s Lara Kiswani discusses the successful effort to prevent the ZIM Volans cargo ship from offloading at the Port of Oakland.
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Well done, right-thinking free citizens of the United States of America.
The biased and politicised English police prevent this sort of action.
The English Labour Party would have suspended us for being ‘antisemitic.’
Our Labour Party leadership is against free expression, sides with Colonial Zionism and is against doing anything to help the oppressed Palestinians
Very informative article about workers’s solidarity with the plight of Palestinians who live under occupation. Nothing about this in the news. It ‘s so important to disseminate information like this so that support can bring hope for the BDS to grow. It’s what worked for the ending of apartheid in South Africa.
See this follow up story a few days later from Canada: Protesters prevent Israeli container ship from docking in Prince Rupert