<div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; ">i agree with matt </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; ">that the Port of Oakland is a symbolic intersection of global trade and the socio-economic impacts on local inequalities.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; ">labor struggles with the Port of Oakland go back a long way. in addition to the race to the bottom clip i sent below about the truck drivers - these two documentaries about the Longshormen (</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; ">http://blip.tv/laborvideo/ilwu-struggles-1984-2010-the-struggle-continues-4814570) (</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; ">http://vimeo.com/17907393) </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; ">cover these developments over the last 30 years. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 12px;">to answer jehan's question more directly though - my beef is not necessarily with the Port of Oakland management nor any particular person or part of their corporation. i think that global economic and political conditions have led its management to -become increasingly privatized, to adopt a model driven primarily by multi-national corporation interests, and to cloak business interests behind federal homeland security funding - all of which accentuate the asymmetric benefits of international trade for the 1% at the expense of the 99%.</span></span></span></div><div><font color="#222222" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">oakland as a significant port of entry for the globalized economy is not just symbolic - it is supported by the f</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">acts & figures (</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(47, 0, 172); "><a href="http://www.portofoakland.com/maritime/factsfig.asp">http://www.portofoakland.com/maritime/factsfig.asp</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">) on the Port of Oakland website -- over 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent cargo units (TEUs) went in and out of Oakland last year; </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">35.5% of which was machinery and electrical equipment; and </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">58.9% of which was trade with Asia (http://www.worldportsource.com/trade/exports/value/USA_CA_Port_of_Oakland_231.php). </span>Admittedly, I’m not sure exactly what all that means and quite honestly, and couldn’t wrap my head around it anyhow. but for those who dig this stuff, there is a treasure trove of opportunity for crowd-sourced number-crunching about the worldwide port industry at the american association of port authorities (AAPA) (<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(47, 0, 172); "><a href="http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=900">http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=900</a></span>)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); font-size: 12px;">On Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Matthew Senate wrote:</span></div></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><div><div><div>An article like this: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/12/BAJK1MBE5E.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/12/BAJK1MBE5E.DTL</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>versus this: <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/10/18698661.php">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/10/18698661.php</a><br><br>points out the importance of the port, as symbol, as physical, as economic hub, as a place of labor, in this multi-facted and complex discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>it seems ripe for critical commentary no matter how you slice it.</div><div><br><div>On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jehan Tremback <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jehan.tremback@gmail.com" target="_blank">jehan.tremback@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Do you have beef with the port and its management? In what areas of port administration do you feel they have been falling short?</div>
<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span><font color="#888888">-Jehan</font></span><div><div><br>
<br><div>On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Senate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattsenate@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>Try <a href="http://domai.nr/" target="_blank">http://domai.nr/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good show, happy to get involved, pinging people about content.</div>
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<br></div><div>// Matt<div><div><br><br><div>On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Eddan Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank">eddan@oaklandlocal.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<span style="text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; float: none; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "></span>i ended up
getting both. note that the official website of the Port of Oakland
<i>is</i> <a href="http://portofoakland.com" target="_blank">portofoakland.com</a> and is therefore not available.<br>
<br>
the idea would be to virtually siege the <a href="http://portofoakland.com" target="_blank">portofoakland.com</a> page with
a multitude of similar domains which could all mirror one
"<a href="http://ThePortOfOakland.com">ThePortOfOakland.com</a>" page. journalists and netizens interested in
a multitude of perspectives should be confused enough to make it
there, but a prominent disclosure about there being no affiliation
with the Port of Oakland should be made clear once they arrive.
additionally, changes in font and color that also walk this
tightrope may best accomplish the intent of the project. <br>
<br>
which is, from my perspective: freedom of expression online must
enable the virtual equivalent of picket signs and boycott rallies -
making sure that the general public has an opportunity to learn
about the hidden aspects of the things they take for granted to
which they would otherwise not be exposed. <br>
DDoS attacks, in contrast, are the equivalent of trashing the place,
as far as i'm concerned.<br>
<br>
if you are interested in contributing $9.49 to this effort, please
considering registering a similar domain, and make sure you do it
through <a href="http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net" target="_blank">http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net</a>, utilizing the
ProtectMyPrivacy service. [for some ideas, you can consult godaddy's
useful automated suggestions
(<a href="http://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=54814" target="_blank">http://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=54814</a>)]<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
-eddan</font></span><div><div><br>
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On 4/26/12 2:43 PM, Marc Juul wrote:
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From: Marc Juul <a href="mailto:juul@labitat.dk" target="_blank"><juul@labitat.dk></a>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [sudoroom] <a href="http://theportofoakland.com" target="_blank">theportofoakland.com</a> or <a href="http://port-of-oakland.com" target="_blank">port-of-oakland.com</a>?
To: Eddan Katz <a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank"><eddan@oaklandlocal.com></a>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Eddan Katz <a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank"><eddan@oaklandlocal.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>i am planning on buying one of these two domain names for a critical parody
website of <a href="http://portofoakland.com" target="_blank">portofoakland.com</a>.
<a href="http://theportofoakland.com" target="_blank">theportofoakland.com</a> or <a href="http://port-of-oakland.com" target="_blank">port-of-oakland.com</a>?
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</div></blockquote><pre><a href="http://portofoakland.com" target="_blank">portofoakland.com</a> gets my vote! (though what about .org or .net ?)
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<pre>along the lines of the yes men's hacktivist campaigns against the WTO
(<a href="http://www.gatt.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gatt.org/</a>) & the US Chamber of Commerce
(<a href="http://yeslab.org/article/will-real-chamber-commerce-please-stand" target="_blank">http://yeslab.org/article/will-real-chamber-commerce-please-stand</a>), this
type of online intervention relies on the fair use doctrine that is a
defense to trademark infringement as an alternative to Anonymous DDoS
attacks. given the mainstream media reporting on previous strikes in
oakland, this site could also be a resource for journalists willing to go
beyond copying the port of oakland press release.
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</div></blockquote><pre>Awesome! I'm in.
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<pre>would anyone be interested in working on a project putting up a website that
looks similar to, but clearly different than <a href="http://portofoakland.com" target="_blank">portofoakland.com</a> and
writing/soliciting articles from occupy/labor-related groups & initiatives?
</pre>
</div></blockquote><pre>Yes, I will assist. I can do the tech things related to this, but my
design-foo is not that great and my knowledge of goings-on related
to the port of Oakland are lacking.
--
Marc Juul
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