DOCKWORKERS WORLDWIDE RESPOND TO NAZI'S MASSACRE & GAZA SIEGE
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Blockade! Dockworkers, Worldwide, Respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege
July 14, 2010
by Michael Leon
Freedom Flotilla: Massacre at Sea
By Greg Dropkin in CounterPunch
Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo, and the Turkish dockworkers union Liman-Is announced their members would refuse to service any Israeli shipping. In South Africa, Durban dockers had already boycotted a Zim Lines ship in response to the invasion of Gaza last year. On the 5th Anniversary of the United Palestinian Call for Boy...