[IsraelTimes] For second time in six weeks, demonstrators prevent unloading of Zim vessel at Port of Oakland
Officials say a group of pro-Paleostinian protesters on Saturday were again blocking an Israeli-owned commercial ship from unloading its cargo at a port in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union front man Craig Merrilees says longshore workers did not unload cargo from the Zim Shanghai docked at the Port of Oakland on Saturday morning because of safety concerns raised by the presence of police and protesters.
Steve Zeltzer, a front man for the Stop Zim Action Committee, says about 200 protesters planned to demonstrate again during the longshore workers' evening shift.
The protesters are demonstrating in response to recent Israeli military action in the Gazoo Strip.
Last month, protesters blocked cargo from unloading off the Zim Piraeus for nearly five days before the ship apparently departed to Los Angeles with a partial load. |