Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

Our elected officials are attempting to interfere with #BlockTheBoat and SPD is getting ready to mobilize. Here’s you need you to do right now. Call these 6 numbers and leave a voicemail telling our elected not to interfere. And then you grab 3 of your friends and tell them to leave 6 voicemails too. We need to fill these voicemails TONIGHT. Here’s a script you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yQlSgH4Bu-C5EJb8LJU842jt3CT62Se8tPkMwkAj0L8/edit

The Consulate General of Israel based in San Francisco, which oversees the Pacific Northwest, is pressuring Seattle public officials to have ILWU Local 19 unload its apartheid-stained cargo - after workers have honored community pickets preventing Israeli ZIM Shipping Co. from unloading.

Elected Seattle officials must answer to us, not Israel. We demand Seattle officials not give into the apartheid regime by forcing workers to unload the ship.

Please also sign this petition organized by Falastiniyat and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) that

• Calls on our Elected Officials and Seattle Port Commissioners to stand in solidarity with community members’ first amendment rights, and the autonomy of port workers to decide how and when they can safely do business.

• Demands that our elected officials uphold the port terminal’s decision to ask the ZIM vessel to leave the Port of Seattle and ILWU Local 19’s decision to not order workers to unload the ship, as the #BlockTheBoat demonstration has created a health and safety violation.

• Calls on the City of Seattle, the Port Authority, and all other public agencies to respect the rights of community members to engage in #BlockTheBoat pickets and Seattle community members’ First Amendment right to protest Israeli apartheid.

In solidarity,

Seattle DSA's Anti-War Caucus