Seattle Announces Port Shutdown Logistics

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 08:18
Blockade the Seattle port: March at 1, Rallies at 3 and 6. 

At 1 PM on December 12th, Occupy Seattle will join the rest of the West Coast Occupy movement in a mass march to the Seattle port with the intention of shutting it down through a mass community picket/blockade.

Later, there will be two rallies near the port at 3pm and 6pm at the Spokane Street fishing area, just to the east of the Spokane St. bridge, near the intersection of SW Spokane St & SW Manning St. under the West Seattle bridge.

Come to the Spokane St. fishing area anytime after 3pm and Occupy Seattle members will meet you there to show you where to find the port picket lines.

The 125 bus goes to the Spokane St. fishing area from downtown and from West Seattle; get off at Chelan Ave. SW and SW Spokane St. and walk east along the Alki bike path.

Why we are protesting:

  • Against Gov. Gregoire's devastating budget cuts.  It's not too late to stop these cuts that target working class people, people with disabilities, and people of color.  The 1% controls the politicians.  Let them know that if they cut us, we will cut their profits by shutting down Wall Street on the waterfront.

  • No union-busting! Solidarity with immigrant port truckers battling Goldman Sachs in LA.

  • We support the Longview, WA Longshoremen in their struggle against multinational grain cartel EGT.

  • Against police repression and evictions of occupations. Occupy everything!

Occupy Seattle’s General Assembly voted unanimously to endorse the call to action put out by Occupy Oakland. Port blockades are planned in San Diego, LA, Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Tacoma, and Seattle.

For more details on why we are occupying,  see http://occupyseattle.org/blog/2011-11-29/west-coast-port-shutdown-december-12th 

Please print out this flyer and post it in your workplace, school, or neighborhood: http://tidesofflame.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/wcpsbw.pdf

Invite your friends on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/318022101544266/

We are raising funds to rent busses to help make it more possible for people of all (dis)abilities and ages to attend. If you’d like to support,  any donation would be greatly appreciated: https://www.wepay.com/donate/42135

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