Tacoma SDS

AIS is telling us that the USNS Brittin, a large medium speed roll-on, roll-off ship, has arrived this morning at Tacoma and is unloading now.

This is the same ship which dropped off the 3rd/2nd Strykers in November 2007 at Olympia.

We do not know yet which cargo the ship is dropping off, or loading.

We expect this might be the equipment of the 864th Engineers or the 4th/2nd
Stryker Brigade, both back from Iraq.

Monday, April 14, 2008 at 9:00am - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 4:30pm

Tacoma County-City Building
930 Tacoma Avenue South
Tacoma, WA

Contact InfoEmail:
peteryan@cox.net

On March 9, 2007, Peter was part of a crowd of peaceful protestors against the occupation of Iraq, and specifically the shipment of striker vehicles and other weapons from Ft. Lewis, through the Port of Tacoma, to Iraq to precede the troop surge.

We'll be gathering at Tacoma Community College's Building 11 Commons Area on Saturday, March 29th
at 2PM, for a 3 hour meeting to discuss these and any other questions or issues your local Port Militarization Resistance participants may have.

What do you want out of town participants to do when you call them to help you?

What resources will you need from our collective skill set / resource base?

What intelligence do we have?

We'll be setting agenda more specifically when we meet.

For the second time in a week, protesters successfully stopped military equipment from moving out of the Port of Olympia today. A couple of vehicles attempted to leave around 8:30 a.m. but with no
police on scene were stopped by protesters standing across the access road.

"I've talked to them," said Olympia police Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad, referring to officials coordinating the equipment's movement. "They tried. It didn't work so they're just going to hold off."

The News Tribune published an article yesterday saying the bill for the Port of Tacoma police presence totaled $621,489 for the 24/12 -- 12 days 24-hours -- of militarization at the port. The city manager and the mayor are debating who should pay the bill and officials went to D.C. to ask the Department of Defense for assistance.