Get ready Los Angeles. Two weeks after their central command post at LA City Hall was dismantled by police, Occupy LA protestors have announced they’ll shut down the Port of Long Beach today. Their aim is to shut down business for the 1% that relies on the port. Did you know that Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Target are already shipping goods through ports in Mexico and bringing these goods into the US via Mexican trucks?
(LATimes)…Protesters from Occupy L.A. and other groups plan to form a picket line at the Port of Long Beach on Monday to try to shut down traffic at at least one shipping terminal. Similar actions are planned at ports up and down the West Coast.
The target of the Long Beach protest is SSA Marine, a shipping company. Occupy L.A. demonstrator Michael Novick said protesters chose SSA Marine because “they embody all the ills of this economic regime we live under.”







