Occupy Shut Down (Wall Street On The Waterfront) National Lawyers Guild (415) 285-1011

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Occupy In Depth Report – November 2011

Here is November’s in depth report including information on bank quarterly gains and new fees, national foreclosures, a Haliburton contingency plan, Senate Bill 1867, immigration reform, and an exclusive interview with political analyst Pablo Rodriguez.
Occupy In Depth Report by Occupy America
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posted on: December 8, 2011 11:08 pm nikkig

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http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/occupy-oakland-west-coast-port-shutdown
Excerpt:
Will Occupy Shut Down All West Coast Ports?
—By Gavin Aronsen
Sat Dec. 10, 2011 3:00 AM PST

Around nine o'clock on the night of November 2, after more than 10,000 people marched to the Port of Oakland in support of Occupy Oakland's call for a general strike, an independent arbitrator declared the port unsafe for its workers, effectively securing its closure for the rest of the night. This Monday, Occupy Oakland will try to best its 12-hour port shutdown with a more ambitious West Coast "port blockade" joined by more than a dozen occupations from Anchorage to San Diego.
westcoastportshutdown.org
Occupy Oakland's renewed call to shut down the "Wall Street on the waterfront" was sparked in large part by the October firing of 26 port truckers in Los Angeles and Long Beach who wore Teamster T-shirts to work in defiance of their anti-union employer, the Australian-owned Toll Group. Monday's protests are also being billed as a protest against port terminals run by the Goldman Sachs-owned Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) and a show of solidarity with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's rank-and-file—particularly in Longview, Washington, where the union is engaged in a contract fight with Export Grain Terminal, a subsidiary of the agribusiness giant Bunge.

http://occupysf.org/
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National Lawyers Guild Phone Number: (415) 285-1011     (write it on your arm)
Occupy Oakland Medic Dispatch Number: (510) 712-8129
Call 911 first for life-threatening medical emergencies,  then call the Medic Dispatch.
Mobility assistance:    buses and cars at West Oakland BART will transport those  requiring mobility assistance.  To volunteer with your car, show up at West Oakland BART and check in with people organizing transit.
Bring snacks and plenty of water!

http://www.sgagroup.com/tjs.htm
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Six months later he purchased California's largest independent stevedoring company, Crescent Wharf and Warehouse Company in May of 1983. Forming Stevedoring Services of America in 1984, Stewart had control of every port on the west coast of the US from Anchorage, Alaska to San Diego, California with sales topping $200 million. Adding the purchase of Indies Terminal in Los Angeles harbor a year later, Stevedoring Services of America's west coast market share had increased from 2.7% when he started with the company in 1967, to 42% of total market share out of the west coast with revenues of $320 million by 1989 when he left the industry.

http://www.carlyle.com/Fund/Real%20Assets/Global_Infrastructure_Buyout/Carlyle%20Infrastructure%20Partners/item10102.html
Excerpt:
Qube Logistics
Sydney , Australia
Carlyle Infrastructure Partners
Acquired: April 2011
Status: Current
Qube operates in three divisions covering Automotive, Bulk and General Stevedoring, Landside Logistics and Strategic Development Assets through brands that are well recognized and respected in the markets in which they operate. These businesses provide a broad range of logistics services nationally, focused on the movement of imported and exported products.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=30614961
Excerpt:
Company Overview
As of August 30, 2011, Qube Logistics has changed its line of business. Qube Logistics is an open ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Kaplan Funds Management Pty Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Australia. It invests in the stocks of companies operating across infrastructure, utilities and logistics sectors. The fund also makes its investments in the unlisted infrastructure and utilities investments. Qube Logistics is domiciled in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevedore
Excerpt:
Stevedore, dockworker, docker, dock labourer, wharfie and longshoreman can have various waterfront-related meanings concerning loading and unloading ships, according to place and country.

http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/09/10/outhouses-and-injustices-australia%E2%80%99s-toll-group-degrades-america%E2%80%99s-truck-drivers/
Excerpt:
Outhouses and Injustices: Australia’s Toll Group Degrades America’s Truck Drivers
September 10, 2011
The ugly laws that relegated black Americans to second-class citizens for nearly a century in the post-slavery South were struck down over 45 years ago. Appallingly, that hasn’t stopped the Australian-based corporation that currently handles cargo for popular apparel and athletic brands Guess? and Under Armour from conducting business practices in Southern California that smack of Jim Crow.
Just as African-Americans were forced to use separate, inferior public restrooms and drinking fountains, Toll Group, a global transportation and logistics powerhouse, explicitly bars its truck drivers from using the clean and stocked indoor facilities; these roughly 75 men and women who haul imports for the fashion and footwear retail customers must share a trio of foul-smelling, unsanitary port-a-potties that lack running water outside in the company yard. Every Toll Group employee and manager is also free to use the break room during rest and meal periods, except the mostly Latino-American workers whose job it is to haul giant containers from port terminals to local warehouses.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_19209683
Excerpt:
Truck drivers picket port company Toll Group
By Art Marroquin Staff Writer
Posted: 10/27/2011 05:40:02 PM PDT
Updated: 10/27/2011 06:13:10 PM PDT
Port Teamsters hold a rally outside of Toll Group offices in San Pedro. Truckers seeking better wages and working conditions marched to the front gate to deliver petitions. (Robert Casillas / Staff Photographer)
Drivers employed by San Pedro-based Toll Group held a march Thursday, claiming they are underpaid, forced to use unsanitary restrooms and were intimidated by a "union-buster" hired by the trucking company. During the rally, workers were blocked from presenting their managers with a petition signed by more than 1,000 Harbor Area residents, urging Toll Group to provide better working conditions for the company's 75 drivers who are regularly dispatched to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. So far, 62 drivers have signed a petition stating that they want to unionize, said Xiomara Perez of Lakewood, who has worked nearly three years for Toll Group. "We are organizing for better work conditions because our restrooms are so dirty, there's no place to take a lunch or rest and we want to stop the intimidation," Perez said. "They tell us that if we don't like the company, then we should leave ... but I know my rights and I should be respected." Managers at Toll Group's office in San Pedro referred calls to the company's U.S. headquarters in Carteret, N.J. Executives at the company's New Jersey office declined to comment. - Art Marroquin

http://www.mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/?page=3
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http://www.mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/new-york-attorney-general-eliot-spitzer-kaplan-brokers-plead-guilty-to-late-trad/
Excerpt:
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer: Kaplan Brokers Plead Guilty To Late Trading - AG, SEC Continue Coordination Of Mutual Fund Industry Probe
Date 11/01/2005
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said today that two executives of a Florida-based investment company have pleaded guilty to state criminal charges in connection with the ongoing investigation of illegal trading practices in the mutual fund industry. In a related development, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a civil action against the pair.
According to the attorney general's criminal charges and the SEC findings, the two employees of Kaplan & Company Securities engaged in illegal late trading of mutual funds on behalf of Kaplan and specific hedge fund clients. 
http://www.kaplanfunds.com.au/
Excerpt:
Kaplan Funds Management Pty Limited
Kaplan Funds Management commenced managing funds in May 1998 with an absolute return philosophy. Products include investment trusts for the professional investor market and charities, an equities pooled super trust and discrete equity mandates for corporate clients. Kaplan's management style has appealed to charities and foundations and defined pension funds seeking low volatility and consistent returns.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/12/06/2640010/police-arrest-9-occupy-san-diego.html
Excerpt:
Tuesday, Dec. 06, 2011 | 04:37 PM Modified Tue, Dec 06, 2011 04:37 PM
SAN DIEGO -- Police have arrested nine anti-Wall Street protesters in downtown San Diego, including one who scrambled up a tree. Occupy San Diego said in a statement Tuesday that the protesters were watching a DVD of Michael Moore's "Capitalism-A Love Story" when the officers raided their demonstration. Police spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown says most of the nine arrested at 2 a.m. Monday violated illegal lodging laws that prevent them from setting up tents or sleeping in the city's Civic Center Plaza. One has been charged with obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties, and the man who climbed up the tree was charged with vandalism for breaking branches. Demonstrators say more than 100 people have been arrested since the protest began Oct. 14.

Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' - Pilots on Food Stamps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQJx3L_CDQ

http://westcoastportshutdown.org/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/dec/12/occupy-west-coast-ports-shut-down
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Port of Oakland Port Blockade 12/12/11 Important Information

Submitted by admin on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 16:58

Action Schedule:

• Meet between 5:00-5:15pm at W. Oakland BART (try to be on time, things will be moving very quickly)
• 5:30am March to Port from W. Oakland BART
• 3pm meet at 14th & Broadway
• 4pm March to Port
• 5pm March to Port from West Oakland Bart

Text 'bayaction' to 41411 for updates
@occupytheport on twitter for updates
Hastag for all actions is #D12
NLG Bay Area Legal Number (best to write this on your arm): (415) - 285 -1011
Occupy Oakland Medic Dispatch Number: (510) 712-8129
(If this is a life-threatening medical emergency, call 911 FIRST, then call the Medic Dispatch)
Map of the Port of Oakland
Alternate Routes to West Oakland BART
There will be busses and cars at West Oakland to transport those who can't walk and to transport people quickly. We can always use more cars and bikes so if you have one show up at West Oakland Bart and check in with people organizing transit.
Things to bring Monday:
Please bring lots of food and water. The logistics and kitchen teams have been hard at work but food and water may run out or not reach your area of the port. We want you to stand strong so bring a backpack with supplies for yourself and others. Print out some maps of the port http://www.portofoakland.com/pdf/mari_map.pdf and charge your phone.
Things to bring for others:
The committee tasked with supplies has a lot but can always use more. To lend bike trailers and portopotties and give food and water please bring them to the West Oakland BART in the morning. Also email events@occupyoakland.org, there will be a food/supplies depot set up near the port. Other things that are useful to the logistics team for the port shutdown: Bullhorns and batteries for them, drivers with cars and trucks, people with bikes, people who show up early to help get us set up.
For all other actions on D12, check out the resources on the Coordinated Actions and Schedules page!

• Read more about Port of Oakland Port Blockade 12/12/11 Important Information

More of Hawai'i Standing in Solidarity With West Coast Port Shutdown!

Submitted by admin on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 11:39

UPDATE: Occupy Maui, Occupy Honolulu, and Occupy Hilo are participating in direct action blockades of their ports tomorrow.  The local ILWU leadership has agreed that union members will not cross picket lines, and rank-and-file are on board.  This is an immense statement, as over 70% of Hawai'ian food and material resources are imported to the remote island-chain state, and underscores to the people's desire for a re-emergence of self-sustainable agriculture and goods production on the islands.
Occupy Hilo (Big Island of Hawaii) will be standing in solidarity with the West Coast Port Shutdown at Hilo Terminal from 12p-3p on Monday 12/12. Occupy Waimea and Occupy Kona will also be waving signs and standing in solidarity with the port shutdown on Monday.
This joins Occupy Maui's call for solidarity a few days ago!

• Read more about More of Hawai'i Standing in Solidarity With West Coast Port Shutdown!

Tokyo General Union Supports West Coast Port Shutdown

Submitted by admin on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 10:34

Dear Sisters and Brothers,
   

    Tokyo General Union supports the upcoming West Coast Port Shutdown and the Occupy Movement.  We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters taking such a courageous step to end this economic system that brings untold riches to the 1% at the expense of the 99%.     We are the largest foreigner-led multinational union in Japan. We know that only through international unity and thoroughgoing democracy can we bring about real change in our world.
    Let's not just reach across national borders.  Let's crush all borders and all matter of people or thing that dares divide workers and other citizens anywhere in the world. Let's not talk their talk. Let's change the perspective and parameters of the debate.  Let's muster the courage to question the tenets of our social contract, like the need for notions such as nation, corporations, and money.
Your movement occupies the streets, the parks, the ports and indeed our hearts.   We stand with you.

Tel 090-9363-6580

Fax 050-3488-6734

全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン(略称: 『東ゼン』)

執行委員長 ルイス・カーレット

Tokyo General Union Executive President Louis Carlet tokyogeneralunion.org

Occupy San Luis Obispo, CA
http://occupyslo.org/

Monday, December 12

3:00pm

 Solidarity March to San Luis Pier

Tuesday, December 13

9:00am

 Public Comment to the County Board of Supervisors

5:30pm

 Working Group meetings at the Courthouse

Wednesday, December 14

6:00pm

 Food Not Bombs & Discussion Forum

Thursday, December 15

5:30pm

 Silent March at Farmers Mkt -- Meet at SLO County Courthouse

WhenThu, December 15, 5:30pm – 6:30pm

WhereSLO County Courthouse (map)

more details»  copy to my calendar

Saturday, December 17