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On November 6, 2023, several hundred people showed up at the Port of Tacoma in Washington State to block access to a shipping vessel that was scheduled to deliver equipment to the Israeli military. This episode shares an account and analysis of the action published on November 10th as \\u201cShutting Down the Port of Tacoma: Reflections from the Salish Sea.\\u201d Participants review the history of port blockades in the Puget Sound, share their experience at the protest, and seek to offer inspiration for continued transoceanic solidarity. {November 23, 2023}

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• Table of Contents:
  • Introduction {0:36}
  • Escalating Resistance {1:41}
  • Drawing on Decades of Port Blockades {4:03}
  • Gathering at the Port {7:23}
  • Evaluation {11:27}
  • Outro/PSA {17:36}

• This episode offers an audio version of Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma: Reflections from the Salish Sea.

• To read more about this action, see the reportback \\u201cThe Boat That Wasn\\u2019t Blocked\\u201d on Puget Sound Anarchists.

• For background on a previous blockade action in the region, check out Episode 61 on The Olympia Train Blockade of 2017.

• The recent history of port shutdowns in the Northwest includes the Port Militarization Resistance movement blockades of the ports of Olympia and Tacoma to protest against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006\\u20132009; coordination between Occupy/Decolonize Seattle ILWU port workers in Longview that shut down the Port of Seattle among other ports in 2011\\u201312; the Block the Boat action in 2014; the \\u201cShell No\\u201d lockdown in 2015, Shell No. and the Block the Boat delay of an Israeli-operated ship for weeks in 2021.

• Our coverage of the war in Palestine so far includes \\u201cStrategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit From Demands to Direct Action\\u201d - also available as Episode 99 of the Ex-Worker; \\u201cFrom the Galilee to Gaza\\u2014A Voice From Palestine\\u201d \\u2013 also available as Episode 98 \\u2013 and \\u201c\\u201cA Nuclear Superpower and a Dispossessed People\\u201d: An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Escalation in Palestine and Israeli Repression\\u201d. For further background, see \\u201cA Coup d\\u2019\\xc9tat in Israel? The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism\\u201d (March 27, 2023) \\u2013 also available as Episode 92 of the Ex-Worker - \\u201cThe Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report\\u201d (2021), and \\u201cContemporary Israeli Anarchism: A History\\u201d (2013).

• For classic strategic analysis, you can also read more about why we don\\u2019t make demands and what we mean by direct action.