Proposal: Proposal to support the EGT Grain Ship arrival Action
***EGT Grain Ship Arrival – Call to Action by Occupy Longview Washington***
Occupy Longview (Washington) has put out a call to
action to block the EGT grain ship expected to arrive in
Longview mid-January.
There has already been discussion between occupies in various cities
to caravan here to Longview, WA for the purpose of blocking this ship.
We, Occupy Oakland, endorse this call and stand ready to help
with the planning and coordinating to make this action successful.
Occupy Oakland’s port shutdown working group / labor solidarity committee
will continue to meet and will help promote this action through the west
coast network we developed for D12.
We join Longview in calling out to all occupies, from New York City down to
Florida, all the way through to the West Coast, to join us in solidarity.
What Longview needs:
1) Numbers! We need to have a large turn-out. We need your bodies!
2) Media coordination/help
3) Finances/donated funds from larger occupies (for buses, housing
early arrivers, etc.)
4) Suggest a coordinated Inter-Occupy Group/Conference Call(s)
(nationwide) specifically for this action.
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bay dialiectic -> Those votes don’t mean much when it is a yesmen situation. I have personally tried to talk at the GAs about the lack of general support most prooccupy people feel toward these post shutdowns – I was ignored and treat rudely. Please learn from the low turn out of the last shutdown – let’s get back on track and target the problems that are the general OWS grievances. Thank you.
a_small_voice -> thank you for saying what the rest of us are thinking, feeling, and trying to get a word in edgewise to those GAers out there that are taking advantage of the occupy movement for their own activist idealogies.
No. We need to concentrate on other things. Stop it.
Talk about a chicken-shit attack. “A_small_voice” had an opportunity to attend yesterday’s GA and articulate his/her opposition to the proposal to support the EGT grain ship action, but did not do so. The fact that s/he didn’t suggests to me that s/he understood that his/her attack on it could not withstand scrutiny.
It is total BS to attack the supporters of this proposal as “the ones who talk the loudest and fastest” and then fail to show up to present your (presumably quiet and slowly enunciated) criticisms of it when you have the opportunity to so.
In any case, the proposal to support the EGT grain shipment action in Lonview, Washington passed with 98% votes in favor (120-something yays, 2 nays, and 4 abstentions).
predictions:
1. the same people in the movement, the ones who talk the loudest and the fastest, are putting this third proposal in support of longview forth (nov. 2 shut down, and dec. 12th shutdown)
2. they will get their way.
3. they will get even more money to support this action.
i hope i am wrong, but WHAT THE HELL is this hard-on people in the oakland movement have for longview? they are struggling and everything, yes, but what about OAKLAND folks right here?
let’s not forget that $1,000 was proposed (and approved) to support occupations in washington as well.
i am getting kind of pissed off and suspicious about all of these oakland efforts, money, and time being devoted to washington.
and how is this AN EMERGENCY again? twice before the GA was told that decisions needed to be made as “emergencies.” this is bullshit.