{"id":750,"date":"2020-06-19T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:02:02","slug":"workers-of-oakland-longshoremen-to-celebrate-juneteenth-march-to-city-hall-protest-police-brutality-and-systematic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/workers-of-oakland-longshoremen-to-celebrate-juneteenth-march-to-city-hall-protest-police-brutality-and-systematic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers of Oakland Longshoremen to Celebrate Juneteenth, March to City Hall, protest Police Brutality and Systematic Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland<\/b>: There\u2019s a big push to make Juneteenth, to observe every June 19th to celebrate the end of slavery, a national holiday following recent incidents of civil unrest. There will be a number of Juneteenth events in the Bay Area this Friday, but the focal point will be at the Port of Oakland where longshoremen will shut down the port to demand racial equality. For eight hours in the first shift, the cranes and the machinery at all 29 ports on the West Coast will remain silent.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 10,000 workers with the International Longshoremen\u2019s and Warehousemen\u2019s Union (ILWU) will participate in the work stoppage on Juneteeth. They plan to march from the Port of Oakland to city hall to protest police brutality and systemic racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe built this country and we need to be recognised in this country,\u201d said Sean Graham, a member of ILWU Local 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time that labor put it\u2019s labor where its mouth is,\u201d said ILWU Local 10 President Trent Willis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and went info effect, a Union general in Galveston, Texas announced to the people there the end of slavery. That date was June 19th 1865.<\/span><\/p>\n

Willis said more than 150 years later, they are still fighting for equality, \u201cWe\u2019re still not free. If we\u2019re not free to walk the streets without getting killed by law enforcement, then we\u2019re not free. If the wealth gap disproportionately, negatively affects African Americans, then we\u2019re still not free. If we don\u2019t have adequate access to health care, then we are still not free.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tech companies like Twitter and Google recently announced Juneteeth will be a paid holiday. Black leaders pointed out those companies employ very few workers of colour. Reverend Dr. Lawrence VanHook Sr. with Community Christian Church in West Oakland said if companies truly want change, then they need to partner with local organisations to close the digital divide.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Longshore<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack lives matter, and until we not only say that, but until we give equity to Black Lives Matter, we will continue to have the disparities in this country,\u201d said VanHook.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want equity. We want a level playing field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A growing number of companies, including the Golden State Warriors, have announced they will observe Juneteeth and participate in community events on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris tweeted she will introduce a bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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