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Monday, December 12, 2011

West Coast port shutdown today!


OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation's busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.

The protesters are targeting the locations because they believe American ports have become "economic engines for the elite." They are most upset by two West Coast companies – giant West Coast port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT – that they believe epitomize the big corporations that make up the "1 percent."

Read the story: Huffington Post



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