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#BDS
HAPPENING NOW: A US militarily vessel destined to take military equipment to Israel is currently at the Port of Oakland. Communities currently protesting and we call on everyone to come out to the port to say enough is enough. No more US weapons to Israel for genocide!
We are hearing that a worker ON THE SHIP is refusing to continue on this ship because they do not want to be part of genocide
Our protests from Oakland 2 Tacoma is making an impact and moving people! This worker is going to be let off the ship, so let's be ready to welcome them
Victory in Seattle-Tacoma!
The US military vessel, Cape Orlando was successfully delayed for 8+ hours, and was picketed for 12 hours!
A worker in solidarity on the ship sends a message to us “Keep fighting, unionize, show the great powers of the world that we…”
#BlocktheBoat
BREAKING: The military ship has left the port of Oakland and is heading to Tacoma, WA where organizers are preparing to Block the Boat. Organizers in Oakland protested until the last moment to demand an end to US military aid to Israel.
#ceasefireNow
#blocktheboat
#FreePalestine
WE ARE JAMMING TRAFFIC
SHUT DOWN THE PORT; BLOCK THE BOAT
If you're able, bring your car, we are parking and jamming traffic around 1123 Tacoma Rd.
If you can't, come on foot! The picket is on!
For location:
We’re here for 🚫PORT SHUTDOWN🚫 Thousands in the Bay Area to SHUT DOWN the Port of Oakland. No business as usual while the US funds the genocide in Gaza!
If we succeed, get ready for the afternoon 😏
Picket at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. Logistics:
Historic victory for
#BlockTheBoat
&
#BDS
! After 2 blockades honored by ILWU Local 10, we have successfully turned away the apartheid-profiteering ZIM shipping line from the port of Oakland. The International Week of Action continues to ensure that ZIM is turned away everywhere!
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
10k people marched through
#SanFrancisco
to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and support the Palestinian people in their struggle against apartheid and occupation! Ceasefire now! End US aid to Israel! Stop the war on Gaza!
#FreePalestine
#bds
#gaza
Thank you to
#Richmond
, CA for being the first city in the US to pass a resolution against the
#genocide
of
#Palestinians
. Thank you to the Bay Area for leading the way. It is a duty to fight for freedom. It is a duty to win. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
#CeasefireNOW
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
Over 600 Jewish supporters of Palestine shutdown Oakland Federal Building to demand
#CeasefireNOW
. Our electeds must listen and act. There is no business as usual until they stop this genocide.
#Gaza
#Oakland
#JewishVoiceForPeace
“We have successfully shut down the building. We are going to sit in, until there is a ceasefire or we are arrested.”
Hundreds of Jews in the Bay Area are prepared to get arrested today, tomorrow, & every day till ceasefire.
@JoeBiden
how long can you hold out?
Ceasefire now.
Mural in Mission District of San Francisco painted on Valencia and Liberty on Saturday, when the world rose up for Palestine. Palestinians will return.
#PalestineWillBeFree
Italian workers disrupting international commerce from the apartheid state of Israel. Oakland is prepared to do the same this week when the Zim ship attempts to return after 6 years.
#BlocktheBoat
#BDS
#Palestine
The Israeli Zim ship is scheduled to come back to Oakland this week! It hasn't come since our successful Block the Boat organizing alongside ILWU Local 10 during the 2014 war on Gaza. Text 'BTB' to 181BlockZim (1-812-562-5946) to receive alerts on upcoming mobilizations!
#BDS
Today San Francisco became the largest city in the U.S. to call for an immediate ceasefire! With a super majority vote, San Francisco responded to the calls from tens of thousands of San Franciscans, and joins the majority of people across the world demanding
#CeasefireNOW
Google workers and Bay Area activists are holding a die-in at Google SF to demand the company stop providing Cloud and AI tools toward Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
#NoTechForApartheid
#NoTechForGenocide
EMERGENCY UPDATE: Our
#BlockTheBoat
community protest tonight in
#Seattle
was violently broken up by police. At least 8 of us are in jail. We picketed against an apartheid-profiteering ship that had already been officially asked to leave the port. (1/4)
Still Happening Now! Bay Area Activists protest US militarily vessel destined to take military equipment to Israel which is currently docked at the Port of Oakland. Communities say NO US MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL!
#BlockTheBoat
@MSNBC
@KTVU
@kron4news
@CNN
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
can overcome senseless slaughter and develop a global consciousness for one another’s humanity. I am not special by any means. All of you and I are one…
Within your day to day lives, you can all make the conscious effort to show love to someone you may never know in your own individual ways. We need to love one another again. I love all of you. Love each other. Keep holding this line”
Incredible support from truckers and rank-and-file longshore workers today at the Port of Oakland. Palestinian labor unions called for solidarity and we are answering that call. No one wants ZIM’s apartheid profiteering in the Bay Area!
#BlockTheBoat
#BDS
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
BREAKING: 300+ Californian workers, parents, immigrants and faith leaders are blocking traffic outside
@SenLaphonza
and
@SenAlexPadilla
's offices calling on the Senators to
#StopArmingIsrael
and fund care, not killing 🍉🍉
Our mobilization is working! We're current picketing 6 different gate entrances with over 600 people, and workers are not crossing the pickets. The message is clear: profiteering from Israeli apartheid is not welcome in the Bay Area
#BlocktheBoat
#BDS
#FreePalestine
Barbara Lee Unveils Plan to Cut Up to $350 Billion From Pentagon by closing U.S. military bases overseas, ending ongoing conflicts, scrapping weapons programs, and eliminating President Donald Trump’s Space Force.
We are deeply saddened and dismayed to learn of the recent vandalism of the menorah at Lake Merritt in Oakland. AROC stands in solidarity with our Jewish friends, family, members, and neighbors. (⅕)
Urgent Update 🚨: They have untied the ship again and are trying to leave!
Organizers are out here calling for the workings to stand with the people of Gaza.
#ceasefireNow
#FreePalestine
#blocktheboat
VICTORY!!!
#BlockTheBoat
has stopped the morning shift at the
#Seattle
port! Workers will not be unloading the apartheid profiteering ZIM ship! Stand ready to mobilize for the afternoon shift should they try again!
#BDS
#EndIsraeliApartheid
We shut down the Port of Oakland for Palestine!
“I’ve worked at the port for ten years, + I can say for a fact that there was no business as usual out here today. How could there be in the middle of a genocide?” - Jimmy Salameh, longshoreman w/ILWU Local 10.
#StopArmingIsrael
Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab & Anti-Muslim bigotry is unacceptable & we appeal to our elected leaders regarding to the threat to our safety in light of Islamophobic statements made by JCRC CEO Tyler Gregory referring to our organization as a “pro-terrorist” organization. (1/6)
ZIM IS HERE! TIME TO
#BLOCKTHEBOAT
! Ship scheduled to dock tomorrow morning, June 4. We need you at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland at 6AM to hold the picket and send a message that Israeli apartheid is not welcome here. Accessibility:
#BDS
Yesterday on October 18th, students from across the Bay Area, in a total of over 1700 students walked out their classes to demand an end to the war and genocide in Gaza.
Listen to these Bay Area youth tell you why they stand in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza!
.
@POTUS
could end the genocide in
#Gaza
TODAY. Instead he’s using our tax $$ to pay for it and hosting cocktail parties in the SF Bay Area.
Bay Area has shut down
#BayBridge
demanding
#CeasefireNOW
. There is no business as usual.
Oakland, CA unanimously passes resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Thank you to our representatives for listening and taking action to stand on the right side of history.
#CeasefireNOW
#oakland
#Gaza
Genocide cannot be paused. IT MUST BE STOPPED. The bombing of Gaza and the slaughter of Palestinians has resumed. the ONLY solution is a REAL ceasefire now.
#PermanentCeasefireNow
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
#BlockTheBoat
International Update: The ZIM ship we blocked in Oakland is making its way to Prince Rupert, British Columbia! Thousands have mobilized around the world against Israeli apartheid profiteering; let's keep winning! Are you in our around
#PrinceRupert
: contact us!
#BDS
UPDATE: The
#BlockTheBoat
picket in
#Seattle
is holding the line, despite threats from police. They have a right to protest Israeli apartheid and hold a community picket at the port. Workers are standing by and none have crossed.
#BDS
Over 2500 showed up to
#SanFrancisco
City Hall. Over 7 hours of public comment. ONE speaker opposing
#ceasefire
resolution. Just like the rest of the world, SF stands against genocide. This is common sense. Gaza can’t afford a winter break. Demand our Supervisors take action.
It’s officially after 8AM in Oakland, but no longshore workers have crossed our picket! The apartheid-profiteering ZIM ship remains fully loaded, cranes remain idle. Every minute we keep cargo from being unloaded, ZIM loses money!
#BlockTheBoat
#BDS
#EndIsraeliApartheid
These brutal tactics show the relationship between Zionist attacks in Palestine & police violence in
#Seattle
. Our
#BlocktheBoat
protests show the relationship between international worker solidarity and our movements for justice.
#BDS
#BlockTheBoat
Update: We've declared victory for the morning shift! The terminal has been shut down and workers honored our picket! We need ppl at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland at 4pm for the next shift. Details at
#SanFrancisco
Board of Supervisors are introducing a ceasefire resolution to end the horrific violence in Gaza. Join us at 2pm to speak at public comment and demonstrate the mass support for this common sense resolution impacting the lives of so many residents.
#CeasefireNOW
.
Amazing photos from
#BlockTheBoat
Vancouver where hundreds of community members successfully blocked the port entrance. If you are near Vancouver, sign up for text alerts (833-590-1987) as more ZIM ships are headed your way!
#BDS
#EndIsraeliApartheid
We're here at the Oakland City Council special meeting pushing a resolution in support of a permanent
#ceasefire
Thank you
@carroll_fife
for introducing this critical resolution
Amidst calls to boycott the apartheid-profiteering ZIM shipping company, ZIM backs down and decides not to dock at the Port of Oakland this week. We are monitoring ZIM's moves to ensure it does not return, and will be ready to act if it does.
#BlocktheBoat
#BDS
#GazaUnderAttack
Mandla Mandela, Grandson of Nelson Mandela,
Endorses
#BlocktheBoat
Campaign. Calls on all of civil society, ANC Alliance partner SANCO, CBOs and NGOs to support this campaign and join them to intensify the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
#BDS
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Northern CA District Council stands in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian communities across the world who are fighting for justice. - May 25, 2021
#BlockTheBoat
Urgent Block the Boat Update: After re-routing to LA last week to avoid our protest, the ZIM-operated Volans ship is on its way back and is set to dock in Oakland. According to our monitoring, it will plan to dock either Wednesday, May 26 or Thursday, May 27.
#BlocktheBoat
#BDS
Former Board Member
@avalosSF
to
@sfbos
: "I was sitting where you are sitting, I know how much pressure you are facing! I was offered free trip to Israel, when I requested to include visits to the Palestinian territories, I was denied. Do the right thing, vote for the resolution"
Judge’s remarks: Testimonies the court heard is gut wrenching and the govt doesn’t dispute factually what is happening in Gaza to the people to the population, to the Palestinians. There is now on the record uncontradicted evidence from a scholar from a sociological and
We are leaving West Oakland BART and heading over to Adeline Bridge! Come join us to SHUT DOWN THE PORT
Text “MARCH” to 833-633-0604 for updates. Livestreaming on IG @ AROC_BayArea
“This is our first walkout, but if the civilians of Palestine continue to be bombed, we will continue to speak,” said Yousra, who described herself as Algerian and expressed frustration that the history of Palestine is not taught at her school.