Tacoma SDS

Tacoma cops arrested Joe LaSac and his camera just after midnight, August 5th 2008 with a charge of criminal trespassing. Jail support bailed Joe out of jail just before 5am Tuesday morning. Joe was arrested while retreating form a parking lot onto the sidewalk at the Port of Tacoma where Tacoma police were threatening protesters with laser pointer equipped tasers.

His arraignment is this Friday at 1:30 pm.

Rally at Port of Tacoma - Monday 8pm

Rally against port shipments and against police response

Forrest Student was tased and arrested at around 7pm at the Port of Tacoma. He is being taken to Pierce County Jail # 253-798-4590. He needs immediate medical attention, vegan food, and is allergic to soy. Please call ASAP!

Save the Date!

Unity Rally to Demilitarize Our Ports and Communities

Saturday, August 9th

4 pm - Tacoma Rally Check www.olypmr.org for location

5 pm - Coffee Klatch to follow

The Port of Tacoma is being used as a revolving door to send equipment to continue the occupation of Iraq. We say, “No to Continued War Occupation!”

The rally is an effort to build coalitions between existing organizations supporting GI Resistance, Anti-Recruitment, Port Demilitarization and War Resistance. Your involvement is important!

Two activists, K-Tee-O (Katherine Olejnik) and Kelly Beckham, were arrested for crossing a police line at the Port of Tacoma late Thursday night. Both women were thrown to the ground and treated roughly. K-Tee-O was pulled across the line by her hair. They are being held at Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, each on two charges.

Meeting on De-militarizing Port Wednesday 6 PM in Tacoma
Gather at 6 PM
621 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (whole thing for mapquest)
Tacoma
#253-572-5176 Pitch-Pipe

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.

Incidentally, while filming at the Port of Tacoma for the video project on union busting, I noticed several dozen large tanks beyond the shipping terminals, bound for departure.

It caught me off-guard when I noticed tanks at the port, since I was only interested in filming smoke stacks and gas formations for the union-busting video. Yet it is known that the military keeps their presence hidden from the public eye by shipping destructive materials as clandestinely as possible. The less visible, the less public outrage.

TACOMA - on Thursday February 21st a picket line was staged at the Port of Tacoma APM terminal to push the administration of Maersk, the largest ship supply vessel in the world with its North American headquarters in Tacoma, and Securitas, its contracted security department, to free its workers from strict union controls which led to a union organizer's firing earlier in the month.