From In These Times, the world continues to protest the Israeli government's attempt to pound a whole people into submission with airstrikes and walls. BBC reports that Israel has carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
One rocket equals three F-16s and 10 Hellfire missiles. Two rockets equals 500 pound bombs. When will you people learn?
Western Australian Dockworker's Union and Swedish Dockworker's Union joining, Unionized Longshoreman of Port Cochin, India...
In These Times:
On June 20, ILWU Local 10 dockworkers in Oakland, Calif., refused to unload an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours. Their protest was supported by more than 800 rallying local activists, the San Francisco Labor Council and the Alameda County Labor Council (the equivalent of local branches of the AFL-CIO).
Workers around the world have been joining the call to blockade Israeli ships from being unloaded, in essence creating their own blockade to protest the blockade of food and humanitarian supplies Israel has placed on Palestinians in the Gaza strip....
Their statement, released after the flotilla massacre that killed nine people earlier this year, said:
Gaza today has become the test of our universal morality and our common humanity. During the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the world was inspired by the brave and principled actions of dockworkers unions who refused to handle South African cargo, contributing significantly to the ultimate fall of apartheid. Today, we call on you, dockworkers unions of the world, to do the same against Israel’s occupation and apartheid.
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