Thread by @AROCBayArea

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 [...]

in solidarity with our people's struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine."

ILWU Local 10 President Trent Willis, Friday, June 4, 2021:

“Workers’ struggle is worldwide. When the workers of the world figure that out, & realize that we have to band together to make change...

then it’ll be a better world, including for the Palestinian people. Worker power, economic power, is real power—it’s more powerful than those bombs Israel is dropping.”