{"id":359324,"date":"2018-05-02T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/organizing-workers-strikes-against-war-and-repression\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:37:55","slug":"organizing-workers-strikes-against-war-and-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/organizing-workers-strikes-against-war-and-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101726\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101726\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-30-at-9.47.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"354\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Port of San Diego | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>Lessons of the 2008\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Longshore Strike Against U.S. Imperialist War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May Day 2018 is the 10th anniversary of the longshore strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which shut down all West Coast ports from the Canadian to the Mexican border to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. The shutdown and protest by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) was a stunning show of labor\u2019s power and a call to action addressed to other unions and anti-war activists and drew much attention and support in the Bay Area and Seattle. It was the first strike action by U.S. workers against a U.S. imperialist war\u00a0in 90 years.<\/p>\n<p>And the effect of the 2008 strike continues to this day. On May Day 2015, ILWU Local 10 shut down the Port of Oakland and marched to Oscar Grant Plaza in front of City Hall demanding \u201cStop Police Terror.\u201d\u00a0Last year the Longshore Caucus with delegates representing\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">29<\/span>\u00a0all\u00a0West Coast ports voted to\u00a0stop work\u00a0every May Day,\u00a0the\u00a0international workers day<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">.<\/span>\u00a0This year the port workers are protesting in particular the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento and Saheem Tindle, gunned down by BART police in West Oakland.Yet, when directed by the highest body in the union\u2019s longshore division to take unified Coast action, the ILWU International officers have not mobilized the membership into action.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, the marquee on the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland proclaimed: \u201cWe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/01\/organizing-workers-strikes-against-war-and-repression\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Port of San Diego | CC BY 2.0 Lessons of the 2008\u00a0Longshore Strike Against U.S. Imperialist War May Day 2018 is the 10th anniversary of the longshore strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which shut down all West Coast ports from the Canadian to the Mexican border to demand the immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}