Полиција Бостона срушила шаторски логор „окупатора“
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11.12.2011, 15:33
Полиција Бостона је срушила логор покрета „Окупирај Уол стрит“. Крајем септембра у том логору је живело више од 150 демонстраната који се боре против банкара и власти, против, како кажу, „финансијског тероризма“. Тако је Бостон постао последњи амерички град у којем је срушен логор демонстраната. Протестна акција „Окупирај Уол стрит“ почела је у Њујорку 17. септембра и проширила се на крупне градове САД, а такође на градове Европе.
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e daju se freedom fightersi .. i rebelsi ... Sad krecu na zauzimanje americkih luka ...
Occupy protesters march on West Coast ports
By Mike Pearson, CNN
December 12, 2011 -- Updated 1550 GMT (2350 HKT)
(CNN) -- Protesters chanting, "Whose port? Our port!" marched on ports in Oakland and Long Beach in California on Monday, part of a planned effort to shut down shipping facilities along the West Coast.
Police in Long Beach lined up to prevent protesters from continuing their march, warning them to move out of the road to a designated protest zone or face arrest. At least one protester was taken into custody during a confrontation as police tried to push protesters back.
Demonstrators in Long Beach and Oakland claimed on Twitter to have effectively shut the ports down. Their claims could not be immediately verified.
Protesters affiliated with the nationwide "Occupy" movement hoped to shut down ports from San Diego to Alaska on Monday in an effort to "disrupt the economic machine that benefits the wealthiest individuals and corporations," according to organizers.
In addition to Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego protesters planned to shut down ports in Portland, Oregon; Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, Vancouver, British Columbia and Anchorage, Alaska, according to the Occupy the Ports website.
Protesters are also planning to demonstrate at the port in Houston, while Salt Lake City demonstrators are also organizing to disrupt operations of a Walmart distribution facility.
The demonstrations are part of a nationwide day of protest called in the aftermath of efforts by cities across the country, including New York, Boston and Oakland, to clear demonstrators from encampments they had set up in public parks and other locations.
Protesters at the scene said they planned to hold the port for 24 hours or longer if police respond violently to their blockade, according to video broadcast live on the Internet by protesters.
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"We are occupying the ports as part of a day of action, boycott and march for full legalization and good jobs for all to draw attention to and protest the criminal system of concentrated wealth that depends on local and global exploitation of working people, and the denial of workers' rights to organize for decent pay, working conditions and benefits, in disregard for the environment and the health and safety of surrounding communities," organizers said on their website.
Protesters are focusing on terminals owned by SSA Marine, a company they say is owned by the investment firm Goldman Sachs that exemplifies corporate greed and is anti-union.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Workers, which represents 15,000 dock workers, has distanced itself from the effort.
In a letter to members sent last month, union president Robert McEllrath said the organization shares Occupy protesters concerns about what they consider corporate abuses, but said the union was not sanctioning any shutdown.
Protest organizers said on their website that they were acting independent of organized labor only because the unions are "constrained under reactionary, anti-union federal legislation."
Some port workers are also against the planned blockade.
"I'm just barely getting on my feet again after two years, and now I gotta go a day without pay while somebody else has something to say that I'm not really sure is relevant to the cause," trucker Chuck Baca told CNN affiliate KGO.
Port officials say shutting down their facilities will only cost workers and their communities wages and tax revenue.
Port of San Diego board chairman Scott Peters issued an open letter to the community on Sunday asking that protesters not disrupt work.
"The Port of San Diego is made up of working people with families who serve the public each day by helping to bring in goods that are important to the people of the San Diego region," Peters wrote.
"They are the 99 percent, the gardeners, the maintenance workers, the dock workers, the Harbor Police officers, the office workers, the environmental workers -- all working to improve the quality of life in San Diego Bay and on its surrounding lands," he said. "It is these people who would be hurt by a blockade of our Port."
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