Tues. D18: Occupy Port Newark - Solidarity w Bangladesh Workers - Against WALMART - #BlockTheBoat / Also Charleston

OCCUPY PORT NEWARK - TUES MORNING

Please consider your participation this Tuesday morning. 

This is historic!

While this is not and legally cannot be an ILA- union initiated mobilization, it is supported by ILA rank-and-file leaders in solidarity with the Bangladeshi workers who lost their lives last month in the tragic fire, exploited with slave wages by Walmart and other corporate retail giants.

Please help spread the word, especially among NJ activists. Thanks, Sara

 

NEWARK ACTION

http://hereweprotest.com/2012/12/14/d18-occupy-the-port-blocktheboatthe-port-of-newark-is-a-major-entryway/
#D18 - Occupy The Port - #BlockTheBoat

The Port of Newark is a major entryway for 1% profits: cargo ships carrying goods from factories overseas dock and are unloaded before the goods are sent out to rail transfer stations, warehouses, and onto trucks before we find them on the shelves at the stores.

Walmart garments are coming in next week from Bangladesh where 112 workers burned to death in a factory fire. Walmart will profit off of the garments these workers died to make.

Unless we block the boat.

Meet at 6 AM on Tuesday Dec 18 at Canal and Broadway in Manhattan.

Or in NJ -

If you’re not taking the bus, the staging ground location will be:

IKEA parking lot in Elizabeth, NJ at 7  am (exit 13 on NJ turnpike). Timing is critical.

Spread the word.

FB INVITE: http://www.facebook.com/events/456899241034741/

VIDEO: "So we all may survive" - Bangladeshi garment workers react to factory fire that killed 128 workers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZYh1ssgKo&feature=youtu.be

"Occupy sets up barricade to shut down Port Of Seattle": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMynLiPiAU

"Never shall we give up demands for punishment for those responsible for the tragedy," one Bangladeshi garment worker said. Via The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/27/bangladesh-factory-fire-started-believe

CHARLESTON ACTION

Don't Wear Death, Demonstrate

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/14/1169823/-Don-t-Wear-Death-Demonstrate#

by wjhamilton29464Follow

• Charleston, SC- The Maersk Carolina a ship loaded with clothing made by the 128 people burned alive the Bangladesh garment factory fire is expected to dock at the Wando Containership terminal in Mount Pleasant, SC sometime Thursday, December 20th. This clothing is bound for US retailers such as Walmart. A protest is being organized.
  
  You may track the ship at http://www.marinetraffic.com/... online.
  
  Actions in Charleston will be listed on the Corporate Action Network
  http://www.corporateactionnetwork.org/...
  
  Petigru Free Speech Defense in Charleston, SC will be assisting the activists with their legal issues here, but isn’t directing the protest effort. Updates on their involvement and related information can be found on their facebook page at
  http://www.facebook.com/...
  
  Bringing such goods into our harbor during a season dedicated to the ideal of ‘Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men’ for the purpose of selling them to unsuspecting customers offends every standard of human decency. Human rights activists from around the Southeastern US will be converging on Charleston to raise awareness with demonstrations and protest, part of an international effort in ten counties. Walmart should at least be required to tag this clothing so customers can make a deliberate decision to wear the clothing which caused 128 people to be burned alive.
  The decision to land these goods here in Charleston is cruel and ironic because it takes place in a harbor which was once the nation’s largest landing port for slaves, but is now a progressive city charged by art and culture moving forward towards a more equal and inclusive society, an exception in a the rigidly red state of South Carolina.
  
  Finally, these goods made by laborers being paid twenty-eight cents an hour arrive at a state pocked with darkened, empty textile mills resulting from the offshoring of over 92,753 thousand textile jobs in the Palmetto State. SC textile employment declined 68.2% from 1990 to 2005.
  In the dead and dying towns surrounding those now empty and silent mills, the Merry main streets of Christmas are only history now. Desperate consumers troubled by those memories are driven to the edge of town to the low prices of Walmart, stuffed with cheap goods made overseas, knowing their purchases there complete the global circle of destruction which crushed their town. For some of those once proud textile workers, the final, insult is a poorly paid, party time irregular hours Walmart job of their own because all the other jobs are gone.
  
  Exact plans for the demonstrations and protests in Charleston, which will follow an earlier effort when the ship arrives in the Port of Newark, are evolving now.