http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2010/6/20/94411/2129/615#c615The Zim ship scheduled to arrive in Oakland is NOT an Israeli ship. It's a British flag ship. And it hasn't even arrived yet (and obviously won't during daylight hours today). Right now, it's heading north off Monterey Bay.
If anybody has been inconvenienced by this, it's the crews and shippers with cargo on the two ships that are now in the Port of Oakland -- namely a Liberian flag and a Chinese flag container ship, which so far as I can tell, have NOTHING to do with what this protest is supposed to be all about.
But I shouldn't be suprised. Just about everything ANSWER does ends up being either totally unproductive or actually counter-productive.
Go ahead, shoot the messenger if the message is not to your taste.
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poster writes:
Here's a link to the schedule for the Zim Shenzhen:
http://www.zim.co.il/VoyageDetails.aspx?id=170&l=4&voyNum=24&vesName=Zim+Shenzhen&vesCode=ZSY&pVoyNum=As you can see, it wasn't even SCHEDULED to dock until 2 pm local time, and as is frequently the case, especially when two ports are relatively close (as is the case with LA and Oakland), it's running a little late.
You can see exactly where ships near many shore areas are at this link, which is produced by volunteers all over the world who automatically monitor and link the ships' AIS (Automatic Identification Signal) transmissions:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?centerx=30¢ery=25&zoom=2&level1=140If you zoom in on the San Francisco Bay area and nearby areas of the Pacific, you can see the ships in that area. Hours after this protest began, when I first noticed this thread, the ship was still in the Pacific, well south of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. In fact, it still hasn't made it quite as far north as San Francisco, and ships slow down once they enter any narrow area, since they've got to pick up a pilot, have a tug or tugs come alongside, get tied up at their berth, clear customs paperwork, etc.
So this great " historic" "success" managed to cost a bunch of longshoremen a day's pay, perhaps delay the loading and unloading of two ships that were already in the Port of Oakland and had nothing to do with this dispute (one was a Chinese vessel and the other a Liberian flag vessel), and the protest will apparently be over before the Zim ship is even ready to begin cargo operations. And finally, the Zim Shenzhen is a British flag ship.
This ridiculousness is as much a "historic" achievement as everything else that is touched by ANSWER, which is so consistently ineffective and counter-productive that I sometimes wonder if its tactics aren't encouraged by the other side simply to discredit progressives.
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