Occupy Protesters Join to Shut Down Major Western Ports, Targeting Goldman Sachs

www.democracynow.org - The Occupy Wall Street movement moved from the streets to the docks on Monday with a series of actions along the West Coast, including San Diego, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Portland, Tacoma, Longview, Seattle, Bellingham, Anchorage and Vancouver. Many actions led to confrontations with police, resulting in scores of arrests, and in some cases, the use of pepper spray and flash grenades on demonstrators. Several ports were forced to temporarily cease operations, with terminals in Portland and Seattle completely shut down. In Oakland, an evening march to the port was led by Scott Olsen, the Marine Corps veteran struck in the head in October allegedly by a police projectile. For more, Democracy Now! speaks with Jorge Gonzalez of Iraq Veterans Against the War. "I see the struggle that's going on with the port workers and the truck drivers down in Seattle and across the West Coast," Gonzalez says, who was pepper-sprayed on Monday while taking part in the Seattle protest. "They deal with the same issues like mental health, homelessness. Veterans, they see themselves connected with all these issues." Also interviewed is Anthony Leviege, a dockworker at the Oakland port and member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

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[Panaceamedia]

@DavidLister6000 Idiot. Many truck drivers and port workers supported this, including written letters in solidarity. Do you research before you spew? Continue sucking the status quo's dick you coward. See how well that turns out for your children's future, liberty, happiness, and well being.

[rolovolo]

don't shut down the ports,

shut down the banks

shut down the FED

[DavidLister6000]

@antilibercrat ...yea, the ports are never shut down. I had a relative that worked at GM...the line never stops.

[DavidLister6000]

@St3v3Patrio7 "Savagely brutalized" is a gross exaggeration to say the least.

[St3v3Patrio7]

@DavidLister6000 They have been savagely brutalized in manner that emulates the worst of third world despots.

No, they haven't been sniped. Protesters do not need to be shot at to display an indomitable will or courage. Tyson Heder. You lose.

Is that what you're advocating? Shooting to quell the first amendment of assembly?

[antilibercrat]

I wonder how the labor unions feel about the OccuPoop protestors shutting down union jobs at these ports? When OccuPoop protestors attempt to shut down Amerian ports then this becomes a national security issue. Where is Homeland Security and the FBI in all of this? All Apple products, iphones, ipads, itouch, Macs, all come from China. How would Steve Jobs feel about these OccuPoop protestors attempting to stop the flow of Apple products?

[antilibercrat]

I thought dock workers had a tough as nails reputaion. How could they alow a few OccuPoop protestors put them out of work?

[DavidLister6000]

@Panaceamedia See, suckling tits now, I think you have some repressed issues.

And no, no balls, because the protesters here aren't going to get sniped as they are in Syria.

And yes, my office is in lower Manhattan and I walk by Zuccotti park every week, I'm very glad my tax dollars went to kicking out the lazy, hippie, socialist, Marxists out...

[Panaceamedia]

@DavidLister6000 Nope, not a liberal. Wrong again. Yup, you are a coward because you probably only fight easy fights and rather suckle the tit of the government/corporations even while they commit proven treasonous acts.

It takes balls to go out there and protest against people with weapons and power. You insult people trying to make a positive difference online "in your office". Sounds like a wimp to me.

[DavidLister6000]

@Panaceamedia Coward? Sucking dick? Ah, must be a liberal....good luck with your chanting and blocking of traffic, I'll watch from my office in lower Manhattan.

[DavidLister6000]

...another fail by OWS. Nice to know your blocking those 99%ers from getting to work. Smart thinking. I know if I had good there, anyone arrested, I would file suit for interference with trade and commerce.