\r\n\tSan Francisco Bay Area activists have not allowed a vessel from Israel’s largest shipping company to unload in the Oakland Port for four consecutive mornings in a partial protest move against the Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza.
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\r\n\tOn Tuesday, 19 August, at 6:45am, activists declared yet another victory against the Zim Line, which has been trying to make its way into Oakland since Saturday, 16 August.
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\r\n\tLara Kiswani, the executive director of the local Arab Resource and Organizing Center, told The Electronic Intifada that they are now waiting to hear if the Zim Line will leave the Port of Oakland today with the cargo it brought.
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\r\n\t“If not,” Kiswani wrote in an email, “we will continue to mobilize until it does.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tOrganizers had initially planned a one-day action for 16 August, delaying the weekly, Saturday-scheduled offloading of the Zim ship by just one full work day.
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\r\n\tSaturday’s success was seamless: the Zim Pireaus avoided the Oakland Port completely, preferring to remain at sea south of Oakland rather than meet the thousands of protesters who had descended onto the docks.
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\r\n\tBut, fueled off the initial triumph, activists returned to Berth 57 at the Oakland Port the next evening, on Sunday, 17 August.
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\r\n\tAt 5pm Sunday, activists released an urgent call for supporters to convene at the port.
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\r\n\tWithin thirty minutes of the call, hundreds of people returned to the docks.
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\r\n\tWorkers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) - Local 10 honored the picket line, and refused to unload the ship.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-08-20 14:33:12","content_date_finish":"2014-08-20 14:33:12","content_date_register":"2014-08-20 14:33:12","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"123078","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2459687578","attach_date_register":"2014-08-20 14:33:19","attach_id":"121893","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"108","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 15:00:34","attach_title":"Israeli ship is blocked from unloading for 4 straight days","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]