The Fight Against ZIM From Durban, South Africa To The Docks of Oakland & West Coast

Since 2010, there have been actions in solidarity with the workers and people of Palestine. The latest action was on June 4, 2021, and the picket successfully stop the Israeli ZIM ship Volans from being unloaded and loading. it was also met with pickets in Seattle, Prince Rupert and supporters in Vancouver. This was a West Coast action of labor solidarity.

South African workers as well are not newcomers to action against Zim Lines. In February 2009, SATAWU members in Durban refused to offload a Zim Lines ship in protest against the 2008-2009 Israeli attack on Gaza.

We will show video from the ILWU actions in 2010, 2014 and the most recent action on June 4, 2021.

Initial Speakers: 
David Hemson, South African Durban Dockworker Organizer & Labor Researcher
Gabriel Prawl, ILWU Local 52 Past President &Chair of Seattle API Chapter
Peter Cole, professor of history at Western Illinois University, & author of Dockworker Power – Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 Retired

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