Coordinated Port Blockade Actions & Schedules

Get plugged in to your local occupy participating in the coordinated shut down!  The following ports are scheduled to be shut down on 12/12/11:

Port of Anchorage

Website(s): occupyanchorage.org
Facebook: Like Page, Event Page
Twitter: twitter.com/OccupyAnchorage
Other Info: Presently planned as a symbolic action.

Occupy the Anchorage Port Rally at 1pm outside at Town Square Park.

March at 1:30pm to outside the Anchorage Port.

Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach

Website(s): occupylosangeles.org
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter: twitter.com/occupyla
Other Info: Meet at 5:00am

Harry Bridges Park
1126 Queens Hwy
Long Beach

Occupy Los Angeles and Long Beach will carry out a port action, "Occupy the Ports/A Day without Goldman Sachs," on December 12 as part of the Dec. 12 day of action, Boycott and March previously adopted by the GA. The occupation will take place at at least one facility owned by SSA Marine, a shipping company belonging to Goldman Sachs, (coordinated with a possible port shut down by the port truck drivers) as a build up towards a General Strike on May 1, 2012.

 

Port of Longview

Website(s): occupycowlitz.org
Facebook: Community Page
Twitter:
Other Info: Meet at Ozzie's car wash at corner of Industrial Way and Oregon Way (lots of parking) at 5:30 am, march accross to west Port Way and east Port Way.

 

Port of Maui

Website(s): occupymaui.org
Facebook:
Twitter:
Other Info: Community Picket at the Port, ILWU local union members will not be crossing picket lines.

Port Hueneme

Website(s): occupy805
                 occupyoxnard.org
                 occupysb.org
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter: twitter.com/occupyoxnard
Other Info: Occupy 805 GA is a regional GA that includes Santa Barbara, Ventura, Oxnard,
Camarillo, and Thousand Oaks

Meet at 6:00am Port of Hueneme, CA, Main Civilian Gate.  A Community picket line, Occupy SB is organizing carpools leaving the morning of 12.12.11. Bring water, food, signs & sweaters.

Port of Oakland

Website(s): westcoastportshutdown.org
                 occupyoakland.org
Facebook: Event Page, Like Page
Twitter: twitter.com/occupytheport
Other Info: Sign Up For The 6AM Port Blockade
                 Map of the Port of Oakland

Organizing meetings are every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 P.M. PST in Oscar Grant Plaza in front of City Hall in Downtown Oakland

Action Schedule:

  • 5:30am March to Port from W. Oakland BART
  • 3pm meet at 14th & Broadway
  • 4pm March to Port
  • 5pm March to Port from West Oakland Bart

Port of Portland

Website(s): occupyportland.org
                 shutdowntheport.com
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter:
Other Info: To get text message updates, text @december12 to 23559

Port of San Diego

Website(s): occupysandiego.org
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter: twitter.com/occupysd
Other Info: Meet at 6:00am
Chicano Park
National Avenue
San Diego, CA 92113

Action Schedule:

  • 6AM Chicano Park, March to Port
  • 9AM Cesar Chavez Park, All-day Party and Actions aka Fiesta Popular
  • 3PM Rally at the Barrio Logan Trolley Stop, March to the Port
  • 5PM until LATE ~ Rally and Marches and Dinner in Cesar Chavez Park

Port of Seattle                    

Website(s): occupyseattle.org
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter:
Other Info: March from Westlake Park at 1pm to the Port of Seattle!

Schedule of Events

Press Release on Seattle Port Shutdown Logistics

Port of Tacoma

Website(s): occupytacoma.org
Facebook:
Twitter:
Other Info: Occupy Tacoma in Solidarity with all West Coast Port Shutdowns Informational Picket in support of longshoreman and truckers.  Meet at 11:00am at Occupation Park and 12:00pm at the Port of Tacoma Road and 509 Overpass.

Port of Vancouver, BC

Website(s): occupyvancouver.com
Facebook: Event Page
Twitter:
Other Info: Meet at Callister Park (Renfrew & Hastings, East Vancouver) at noon to block the New Brighton Port entrance for a 12-hour West Coast Coordinated Port Shutdown. Statement from Occupy Vancouver

  

Get the word out!  Tell everyone you know that this is happeneing. If there is no port near you consider doing a solidarity march or organizing a strike.  Some solidarity actions are already being planned. Or go help blockade a nearby port.

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