by Pachuco
Sunday, Apr. 02, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Is a shut down of the LA Harbor possible?
The port truckers will be demonstrating and marching in Wilmington near the L.A. Harbor on May Day - 2006.
Efforts should be joined with the port trucker L.A. Harbor demonstration since that will involve actually shutting down the Los Angeles Harbor.
The "marches and speeches and then go home" model of demonstrating is good but actually shutting down the Los Angles Harbor is a whole other dimension - it is a dimension that many cannot even conceptualize since it has been so long ago in American history that those tactics have been used.
The port truckers are virtually all Chicano and/or Latino and are a high percentage immigrants as well. Of course, they are also all workers. Will the middle class and "liberal" groups support the port truckers as they attempt to hold a General Strike and close the Los Angeles Harbor.
www.cirnow.org/content/en/caworkersday_050106.htm