Anti-Wall Street protesters up and down the West Coast are joining an effort to blockade some of the nation’s busiest ports from Anchorage to San Diego.
Demonstrators are scheduled to gather at 5:30 a.m. to march on the Port of Oakland, which Occupy protesters successfully shut down in November. Marchers expect to descend even earlier on the sprawling port complex spanning Los Angeles and Long Beach as the work day begins. In Portland, Ore., the protest will get under way at 6 a.m.
Occupy groups in Seattle, Tacoma and the Canadian city of Vancouver are also planning blockades.
The protests being billed as action against “Wall Street on the waterfront” are perhaps the Occupy movement’s most dramatic gesture since police raids sent most remaining camps scattering last month. Demonstrators began forming those camps around the country about two months ago to protest what they call corporate greed and economic inequality.
Organizers hope to draw thousands Monday to stand in solidarity with longshoremen and port truckers they say are being exploited.
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Perhaps if the police went in swinging clubs, that would make the protestors think twice about blocking people from doing their work.
Now this is something the DOJ should be getting involved in ,this is restrant of commerce ,this is a federal law violation ,but that only work's for those that are not backed or oked by the WH ,and by all means you must be violent and destructive ,full time unemployed .
They better start putting a rope on these occupy idiots. If and when they get where they think they can shut down anything they want the goverment better p[ut them on hold. These a–holes better get to the voting booth next time and make sure that who they vote for is working for the people and not the wrong creeps.