It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by PsykoOps
Another "peacefull" protest? The moment they block anyone or anything they are not using 1st amendment rights anymore. Maybe they just want another photo-op of being arrested.
source(www.guardian.co.uk...
TextUS Occupy: officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave 20 Nov 2011: YouTube footage from University of California, Davis protest sparks investigation as Occupy protests spread across the state
source(www.dailykos.com...:-The-Word-is-Going-Out-Shut-Down-the-West-Coast-Ports-12-12
TextMore participating Occupation movements listed on the shutdown website include Occupy Berkeley Occupy Humbolt Occupy Merced Occupy Oxnard Occupy Sacramento Occupy Santa Barbara.
Originally posted by diamondsmith
reply to post by Daedal
more to come
source(www.dailykos.com...:-The-Word-is-Going-Out-Shut-Down-the-West-Coast-Ports-12-12
TextMore participating Occupation movements listed on the shutdown website include Occupy Berkeley Occupy Humbolt Occupy Merced Occupy Oxnard Occupy Sacramento Occupy Santa Barbara.
“Intelligence suggests that urban explorers are holding a discussion at the Sun Street squat. This may lead to an increase in urban exploration activity at abandoned or high profile sites in the capital.” The Occupy movement is listed alongside threats posed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), Al Qaeda and Belarusian terrorists.
apparently the anarchy loving Occupy movement didn’t clear all of this with the heads of the unions theey are supposed to be in solidarity with. A Portland Trubune article headlined Unions: We don’t support Occupy port shutdown and subtitled Longshoremen say they will not participate in planned Dec. 12 West Coast protest appears to lay out a case for conflict between Occupy and the ILWU.
“We support the goals of the Occupy protesters but we are not supportive or participating in the shutdown of the West Coast ports,” says Jeff Smith, president of the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union Local 8. The union represents workers who load and unload ships at the port, and also move freight in and out of it.
And the same article later quotes ILWU Local 8 president Smith saying succinctly…
“This is a third-party strike. We have to go to work,” says Smith.
t seems that the #Occupy movement forgot that the Union likes doing things the way it likes doing things. The Tribune article quotes a statement from ILWU President Robert McEllarth saying…
“Only ILWU members or their elected representatives can authorize job actions on behalf of the union, and any decisions made by groups outside of the union’s democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent.”