Following our victory against the Israeli ZIM ship this morning, the Bay Area is gathering again at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in the Port of Oakland to keep the ship from unloading. As long as the ship is here, we will be as well! #BlockTheBoat#BDS#EndIsraeliApartheid
Picket lines are going strong 20 minutes ahead of the start of the work shift. The Bay Area is in solidarity with Palestine. The Israeli ZIM ship must go! #BlockTheBoat#BDS#EndIsraeliApartheid
VICTORY!!! The ZIM ship is leaving! They know our picket lines are too strong! We aren’t leaving until we are sure they are gone for good! #BlockTheBoat#BDS
“Rank-and-file ILWU Local 10 made clear: no worker solidarity with apartheid Israel!” - Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of @AROCBayArea. #BlockTheBoat#BDS#Oakland
“But know today’s victory we do not take lightly...this is huge. This is huge not just for Oakland. This is huge not just for Palestine. This is huge for all our movements for justice!” - Lara Kiswani, @AROCBayArea. #BlockTheBoat#BDS#EndIsraeliApartheid
Picketers thank @ILWU_10 members for their solidarity while leaving the Port of Oakland victorious. This win was only possible because workers stood together, across borders. #BlockTheBoat#BDS#EndIsraeliApartheid
We blocked ZIM Volans in #Oakland & now it's headed to Vancouver but our comrades are already in place blocking the Northern Julie! #EndIsraeliApartheid
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And in case ZIM forgot, #BlockTheBoat Seattle & Tacoma are ready & waiting to mobilize for #Palestine. ZIM Volans may sail from port to port but there is no safe harbor for zionism out here on the west coast!
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Here is the map of ZIM Volans headed into Puget Sound but Vancouver BC knows ZIM isn't welcome anywhere!
Beautiful statement from PGFTU in Gaza congratulating #BlockTheBoat in #Oakland and calling on dockworkers around the world to act in solidarity as we continue our international week of action against the Israeli apartheid profiteers at #ZIM. #EndIsraeliApartheid
Statement:
Elias Al-Jelda, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in Gaza, June 6, 2021:
"It warms our hearts in the besieged occupied Gaza Strip & the rest of occupied Palestine that our comrades led by AROC [...]
and with the solidarity of our fellow workers in ILWU Local 10, achieved this great #BlockTheBoat victory against ZIM in Oakland. We call upon all dockworkers worldwide to intensify the boycott campaign against ZIM ships and all business profiting from apartheid Israel [...]
Picketers begin arriving at terminal entrances at the Port of Oakland. We will be here until the apartheid-profiting ZIM ship leaves for good! #BlockTheBoat#BDS