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ACTION REPORTS

Sir! No Sir! Shown At Active Duty Military Base:

[Outreach To New York Commuter Terminal Troops]
From: Alan S, Military Resistance Organization To: Military Resistance Newsletter Subject: 9/8/11 Outreach To New York Commuter Terminal Troops Date: Sep 9, 2011 This morning I made rounds to the three commuter terminals and found zero troops in two. The third, usually more reliable, found four patrols of 2 soldiers each and 2 isolated troops moving for travel connections. Many of the patrolling National Guard troops knew me either from group outreach or visits such as this one. Consequently, five of the soldiers I approached had already seen (and taken) the lit package (7/11 Traveling Soldiers [see below], IVAW and Military Resistance member letter to the troops, GI Rights pamphlet and intro card [see below] either here or at another location and declined another. Three though had not and received the package plus a Sir! No Sir! DVD each. Interestingly, one of those declining (a sergeant) unwilling to discuss the DVD told me Sir! No Sir! had been shown at his active duty military base.

I asked how this might have happened. He shrugged and said depends on the platoon sergeant. The others whod already received the material were non-committal as well. A final pair was patrolling with rifles, muzzles pointed down. This is a new development Ive seen recently. They were too closely stationed to a police officer to approach.

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ACTION REPORTS WANTED: FROM YOU!

An effective way to encourage others to support members of the armed forces organizing to resist the Imperial war is to report what you do. If youve carried out organized contact with troops on active duty, at base gates, airports, or anywhere else, send a report in to Military Resistance for the Action Reports section. Same for contact with National Guard and/or Reserve components. They dont have to be long. Just clear, and direct action reports about what work was done and how. If there were favorable responses, say so. If there were unfavorable responses or problems, dont leave them out. Reporting what went wrong and/or got screwed up is especially important, so that others may learn from you what to expect, and how to avoid similar problems if possible. If you are not planning or engaging in outreach to the troops, you have nothing to report.

NOTE WELL:
Do not make public any information that could compromise the work. Identifying information locations, personnel will be omitted from the reports. Whether you are serving in the armed forces or not, do not identify members of the armed forces organizing to stop the wars. If accidentally included, that information will not be published. The sole exception: occasions when a member of the armed services explicitly directs identifying information be published in reporting on the action.

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NEED SOME TRUTH? CHECK OUT THE NEW TRAVELING SOLDIER

Click here to download and view a PDF of issue 35: http://www.traveling-soldier.org/ FEATURING: The Pentagon Must Be Shit Worried Knowing These Soldiers Have Minds Of Their Own And No Fear In Expressing Their Opinions http://www.traveling-soldier.org/7.11.action.php

Afghanistan: All My Guys Are Hurt. No One Cares http://www.traveling-soldier.org/7.11.afghanistan.php Americans Dont Support The War On Afghanistan: Lopsided Majority Says Get Out http://www.traveling-soldier.org/7.11.americans.php Telling the truth - about the occupations or the criminals running the government in Washington - is the first reason for Traveling Soldier. But we want to do more than tell the truth; we want to report on the resistance to Imperial wars inside the armed forces. Our goal is for Traveling Soldier to become the thread that ties working-class people inside the armed services together. We want this newsletter to be a weapon to help you organize resistance within the armed forces. If you like what youve read, we hope that youll join with us in building a network of active duty organizers. http://www.traveling-soldier.org/ Traveling Soldier is the publication of the Military Resistance Organization

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Traveling Soldier Is Published By The Military Resistance Organization:
Military Resistance Mission Statement:
1. The mission of Military Resistance is to bring together in one organization members of the armed forces and civilians in order to give aid and comfort to members of the armed forces who are organizing to end the wars of empire in Afghanistan and Iraq. The long term objective is to assist in eliminating all wars of empire by eliminating all empires.

2. Military Resistance does not advocate individual disobedience to orders or desertion from the armed forces. The most effective resistance is organized by members of the armed forces working together. However, Military Resistance respects and will assist in the defense of troops who see individual desertion or refusal of orders as the only course of action open to them for reasons of conscience.

3. Military Resistance stands for the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and other occupation troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Occupied nations have the right to independence and the right to resist Imperial invasion and occupation by force of arms.

4. Efforts to increase democratic rights in every society, organization, movement, and within the armed forces itself will receive encouragement and support. Members of the armed forces, whether those of the United States or any other nation, have the right and duty to act against dictatorships commanding their services, and to assist civilian movements against dictatorship. This applies whether a political dictatorship is imposed by force of arms or a political dictatorship is imposed by those in command of the resources of society using their wealth to purchase the political leadership.

5. Military Resistance uses organizational democracy. This means control of the organization by the membership, through elected delegates to any coordinating bodies that may be formed, whether at local, regional, or national levels. Any member may run for any job in the organization. All persons elected are subject to immediate recall, by majority vote of the membership. Coordinating bodies report their actions, decisions and votes to the membership who elected them, and may be overruled by a majority of the membership.

6. It is not necessary for Military Resistance to be in political agreement with other organizations in order to work together towards specific common objectives. It is productive for organizations working together on common projects to discuss differences about the best way forward for the movement. Debate is necessary to arrive at the best course of action.

Membership Requirements:
7. It is a condition of membership that each member prioritize and participate in organized action to reach out to active duty armed forces, Reserve and/or National Guard units.

8. Military Resistance or individual members may choose to support candidates for elective office who are for immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, but do not support a candidate opposed to immediate, unconditional withdrawal. 9. Members may not be active duty or drilling reserve commissioned officers, or employed in any capacity by any police or intelligence agency, local, state, or national. 10. I understand and am in agreement with the above statement. I pledge to defend my brothers and sisters, and the democratic rights of the citizens of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. ----------------------------(Signed (Date) ----------------------------- (Application taken by) Military Resistance: Contact@militaryproject.org Box 126, 2576 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10025-5657 888-711-2550

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Forward Military Resistance along, or send us the address if you wish and well send it regularly. Whether in Afghanistan, Iraq or stuck on a base in the USA, this is extra important for your service friend, too often cut off from access to encouraging news of growing resistance to the wars and economic injustice, inside the armed services and at home. Send email requests to address up top or write to: The Military Resistance, Box 126, 2576 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10025-5657. Phone: 888.711.2550

IRAQ WAR REPORTS

Resistance Action
Sept 5 (Reuters) & Sep 6, 2011 AP & Sept 7 (Reuters) & Sept 8 (Reuters) & Sept 9 (Reuters)

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of Baghdad Security Operations Commander in Chief, Lieutenant General Ahmed Hashim, wounded three passers-by when it blew up in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Insurgents ambushed and killed eight Iraqi soldiers as they were returning to base after a midnight shift in the west, security officials said Tuesday, and set their vehicle on fire; a sobering reminder of Iraqi security forces vulnerability. An army lieutenant was among those killed and another soldier was wounded in the late Monday night ambush. On Tuesday, Iraqi troops were searching for the insurgents in and around the town of Haditha in the western Anbar province, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. DIWANIYA - Nationalist insurgents using silenced weapons shot and wounded the local governors financial adviser and a tribal chief who was with him late on Tuesday in central Diwaniya, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The adviser later died of his wounds. BAGHDAD - Two Katyusha rockets launched from the Shula district of northwestern Baghdad landed in the capitals heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government offices, an Interior Minister source said. No casualties were reported. DUJAIL - Nationalist insurgents raided the house of a government-backed Sahwa militia leader and killed him in front of his wife in the eastern outskirts of Dujail, 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. DIWANIYA - Nationalist insurgents raided the house of a tribal chief and shot and killed him in eastern Diwaniya, police said. DIWANIYA - Nationalist insurgents shot at a policeman in front of his house and wounded him late on Tuesday in eastern Diwaniya, police said. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb went off while a bomb squad was trying to defuse it, wounding one civilian late on Tuesday in central Kirkuk. MOSUL - A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol, seriously wounding a soldier in western Mosul, a police source in Nineveh province said. MOSUL - Nationalist insurgents opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing one soldier in northern Mosul, a local police source said. MOSUL - A hand grenade thrown at an army checkpoint wounded two soldiers in northern Mosul, a local police source said. BAGHDAD - Nationalist insurgents opened fire on an Iraqi police checkpoint, killing one policeman and wounding two others, in Baghdads southwestern Amil district late on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.

Protesters Chant Anti-Iraqi Government Slogans

Protesters chant anti-Iraqi government slogans at Tahrir Square in Baghdad Sept. 9, 2011, calling on Iraqi authorities to probe the killing of a journalist who criticized the government and helped organizing pro-reform protests. Hadi al-Mehdi, 30, seen in the posters, was shot Thursday in his Baghdad home. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)...

ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT; ALL HOME NOW

U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Chavez, 28, from Sacramento, Calif., center, and Staff Sgt. Michael Snyder, left, 35, from Glendale, Ariz., of D Co., 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, search a Saddam Hussein-era military vehicle graveyard outside Contingency Operating Site Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)...

U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment shield themselves from rotor wash as they use green smoke to mark a landing zone for a Blackhawk helicopter after an operation in Istaqlal, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)...

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Two Foreign Occupation Servicemembers Killed Somewhere Or Other In Afghanistan: Nationality Not Announced
September 8, 2011 Reuters Two foreign servicemembers died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.

Foreign Occupation Servicemember Killed Somewhere Or Other In Afghanistan Friday: Nationality Not Announced
September 9, 2011 Reuters A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.

French Soldier Shot Dead In Northeast Afghanistan

09/08/11 BNO News KABUL : A French paratrooper was shot dead during an operation in northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, the French presidential palace Elysee said in a statement. Elysee said the lieutenant was shot dead by an insurgent during an operation in support of the Afghan army in Kapisa province.

Orlando Soldier Dies In Afghanistan

[Thanks to Sandy Kelson,, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.] September 1, 2011 Internet Broadcasting Systems ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orlando soldier died on Sunday in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense. Pfc. Alberto L. Obod Jr., 26, was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom when he suffered wounds during a vehicle rollover, officials said. Officials said Obod was assigned to the 391st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade and 21st Theater Sustainment Command, Bamberg, Germany. His family members told Local 6 that Obod moved to Orlando from the Phillipines when he was 19 and about two years ago he joined the Army.

His best friend, Michael Dua, said the two went through basic training together and were deployed to Afghanistan together. He said they were roommates. "So he was my Army brother since the beginning. Ever since I knew PFC Obod, I never saw him mad at anything in this world. He made sure that he smiled at everyone he saw, and he was a friend most of all. He was the best friend I ever had, and he was also a great father to his son," Dua said.

Young Owensboro Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

August 27, 2011 Reported by: Kayla Moody; Nexstar Broadcasting Friends and family of a young Owensboro soldier--are mourning his death. The Department of Defense says 21-year-old Brandon Mullins died Thursday in Afghanistan. Mullins graduated from Apollo High School in 2008. Since 2001, thousands of soldiers have died in Afghanistan. But this week one soldiers death is hitting too close to home for many in the Tri-State -- including Corinne Arcuri -Mullins friend. "Im gonna miss him. Hes one of my best friends. Its gonna be hard not having him around," says Arcuri Mullins was killed after his vehicle was attacked with explosives. He leaves behind friends and family--who are in disbelief. "I just never thought that could happen to him. I hear about it happening all the time but not to my friends," says Arcuri. She found out about Mullins death through a friends text. She says she and Mullins regularly wrote throughout his service. "I was at work and I started crying--its just hard to believe," says Arcuri Saturday morning Mullins father posted a note on Facebook about his sons death. He called him a warrior--and said he was deeply troubled by the loss of his son. Mullins was very involved in Owensboros ice hockey program--both as a player and an official. His former coach says Mullins went through a rough patch during his teenage years-and then did a 360 with his life--for the better. "When you work with these kids for years and years, and you see them grow and go from young kids to young men. And you see one getting turned in the right direction-and then you hear something like this. Its very impactful. I thought the world of Brandon and I wish his family the best," says Steve Roberts, President of Owensboro Youth Hockey Association. Roberts says Mullins unbeatable drive made him stick out from the rest. "Never had to ask him to give 110-percent. And he was a leader for the younger kids on the team." A leader, a best friend--and a soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Owensboro Youth Hockey Association released this statement about Brandon Mullins: "The entire Owensboro Youth Hockey Association family is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Brandon Mullins . Our hearts are very heavy today. We offer our deepest condolences to Brandons family and friends. We have many fond memories of Brandon both has a player and an official. Brandon and his familys sacrifice will not be forgotten." -Clint Rowell, OYHA Treasurer.

Soldier Returns: Private Memorial Set For PSHS Graduate

August 20, 2011 By Wayne Towner, The Marietta Times, PARKERSBURG - A Wood County Navy explosives specialist returned home for the final time Friday afternoon, escorted by law enforcement officers, military personnel and members of the West Virginia Patriot Guard. According to Navy public affairs officer Lt. David Bennett, the body of Chief Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Nicholas H. Null, 30, of Washington, W.Va., arrived Friday at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport from Dover Air Force Base, Del. Null was one of 30 U.S. service members killed when a coalition CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan Aug. 6. He will be laid to rest in Parkersburg. About 150 people turned out at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport at 12:55 p.m. for the arrival of the charter plane returning Null to his hometown, among which were nearly 80 members of the Patriot Guard Riders on hand to provide an escort to Sunset Funeral Home in south Parkersburg. Among the first to arrive at the airport Friday afternoon were friends of the Null family, including Ron Sury of Parkersburg and Jim English of Belpre, both Air Force veterans themselves, who brought their motorcycles to join the other riders in the motorcade. Sury said Fridays ceremony was the first such event he had the opportunity to participate in and it had special significance due to his relationship with the family. "Im just a veteran - a disabled vet - myself and Im just out here to show my respects," English said. Steven Truax of Vienna brought his family to the airport to watch the ceremony and "to support a local hero coming home. He gave his most," he said. The crowd at the airports main terminal remained quiet as the casket was unloaded from the charter plane and transferred by a U.S. Navy Honor Guard to a waiting hearse, which drove out the gate and along a flag line of Patriot Guard Riders. The motorcade left the airport with half the riders preceding it and family vehicles and the other half following, along with a police escort, to south Parkersburg. Buddy Palla of Charleston, assistant state captain south of the West Virginia Patriot Guard, was among those helping organize Fridays escort. "We are here to escort Chief

Null to the funeral home," Palla said. He was helping organize about 80 riders who turned out Friday afternoon for the ceremony. Palla has been on more than 130 rides in West Virginia during the last three years and said he was surprised at the turnout since arrangements werent announced until Thursday evening. "We did not get information until last night as to when Chief Null was coming home, so we hit the Internet, hit emails and hit the phone, and were amazed at the turnout we have today on such short notice," Palla said. A private memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Parkersburg South High School, followed by a private ceremony and military funeral at Sunset Memory Gardens on Dupont Road. The route of the motorcade on Sunday from Parkersburg South will follow Blizzard Drive and West Virginia 95 West to Sunset Memory Gardens. Null, a 1999 graduate of Parkersburg South High School, enlisted in the United States Navy in September 2000. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan and won two Bronze Stars, including one with valor. He had been with a SEAL team since January 2009, according to his service record provided by officials. Null is survived by his wife Tanya and three children. In a proclamation issued Friday, the Wood County Commission expressed its sorrow to the family of Null. "The community grieves the loss of one of our own who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. There are no words that can possibly provide solace to the family to ease their pain and suffering. Let it be known, the Wood County Commission and the whole of the county hopes and prays that the family and friends of Nick Null find some small measure of support knowing that our entire community sends its prayers and gratitude for his service. We also share those same sentiments for all who sacrificed for our country and continue to serve in harms way," the proclamation stated. The Governors Office has ordered all flags to be lowered to half-staff from dawn to dusk on Sunday in honor of Null.

POLITICIANS CANT BE COUNTED ON TO HALT THE BLOODSHED THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WARS

MILITARY NEWS
HOW MANY MORE FOR OBAMAS WARS?

The remains of Staff Sgt. Andrew W. Harvell, 26, of Long Beach, Calif., upon arrival at the Joint Forces Training Base, in Los Alamitos, Calif., Sept. 6, 2011. Staff Sgt. Andrew W. Harvell, a Combat Controller, was assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, N.C. He died Aug. 6 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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ANNIVERSARIES

September 9, 1971: Heroic Anniversary

The Attica State Penitentiary Revolt

Carl Bunin Peace History September 3-9 The interracial revolt was led by blacks but featured cooperation between prisoners of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. It was finally brutally suppressed by the state five days later, upon orders from Gov. Nelson Rockefeller who refused to become directly involved. 29 prisoners and 10 guards were shot and killed by attacking state troopers in the bloodiest prison confrontation in U.S. history. The prisoners had been demanding improvements in their living and working conditions at the increasingly overcrowded facility. ************************************** PBS.org/ [Excerpts] On the morning of Monday, September 13, 1971, Governor Nelson Rockefeller arrived at his Fifth Avenue apartment for a meeting with some of his advisors. It had been a tough weekend, but he had finally reached a decision. It was, he told them, a matter of principle. The Attica State Penitentiary - the scene of an inmate uprising just five days earlier was to be retaken by force.

Trouble was in the air in the summer of 1971. The Vietnam war, court-ordered busing of students to integrate schools racially, and student protests had shaken the country. Prisons were seeing a surge in the pressure - both from within and from without prison walls -- to recognize the rights of inmates, fueled in part by racial unrest. In the imposing Attica State Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility 30 miles south of Buffalo, New York, the tension had been particularly palpable for months. Inmates, who were predominantly African American and Puerto Rican, were incensed at the deteriorating living conditions - among them the fact that they were only entitled to one shower a week and one roll of toilet paper a month. Overcrowding had also become a source of resentment in a facility where the capacity limit had been exceeded by almost forty percent. It was this pent-up unrest that prompted one of the guards to forcefully suppress a scuffle between two prisoners on September 9, 1971. The two inmates were taken to isolation cells. Rumors circulated that they would be tortured. Confrontations escalated between the prisoners and the guards. More than one thousand strong, the inmates quickly took control of the prison and set fire to several of its buildings. By the time the state police was summoned and managed to recapture part of the facility that afternoon, the inmates had regrouped in one of the yards and were holding 40 hostages in a ring of wooden benches. Their demands were soon made public: federal takeover of the prison, better conditions, amnesty . and the removal of the prisons superintendent. In their statement, they criticized the unmitigated oppression wrought by the racist administrative network of this prison throughout the year, and the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States. Those words had a troubling ring for Nelson Rockefeller, who in his last years as governor had toughened his stand on crime and political dissent. He believed that the rebellion was led by revolutionaries, and that any sign of compromise would have a domino effect throughout the nation. Having sent one of his closest aides to the scene, he retreated to the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, just a few miles outside of New York City. Four hundred miles upstate, things were quickly heating up. A group of observers had been trying in vain to come up with a compromise package. On Sunday, three days after the outbreak, they issued a statement, calling on Rockefeller to come to the prison to avert a massacre so we can spend time and not lives in an attempt to resolve the issues before us.

The pressure on the governor to come to Attica was mounting, as the inmates and even the Commissioner of Correctional Services, Russell Oswald, urged him to address the situation in person. We must have Rockefeller, said one of the inmates leaders. We got to have Rockefeller here to save our lives and those of his hostages. ... I say his hostages because he created this situation. But Rockefeller wouldnt budge. Saying that his physical presence on the site would not contribute to a peaceful settlement, he vowed to stand fast and rely on his aides on the scene, among them Robert Douglass. In life its not easy to face a hard decision, particularly when human lives are involved, he told Commissioner Oswald, But I think we have to look at these things not only in terms of the immediate but in terms of the larger implication of what we are doing in our society. By Sunday night, hopes for a non-violent compromise solution were wearing thin, and on Monday morning Rockefeller, determined to appear firm, authorized the operation to reclaim the facility. It was 9:46am when a state police helicopter started dropping tear gas over the yard and walkways where the inmates were holding the hostages at knife-point. Gunfire broke out, and within 6 minutes, 2,200 lethal missiles were discharged. The use of shotguns, with their imprecise range, increased the bloodshed. Ten hostages and twenty-nine inmates died - a horrific toll that was especially appalling after it was revealed that all the hostages had died from gunshots inflicted by state troopers and guards. Rockefeller was also spared the sight of the captures grim aftermath. Once the prison was reclaimed, guards, enraged by the events, ordered the inmates to crawl naked into the yard, beating them with clubs as they passed through. One of the leaders, Frank Smith, was stripped naked and forced to lie on a table balancing a football under his chin for hours, threatened with being shot if he let it fall to the ground. The extent of the chaos was not acknowledged by Governor Rockefeller, who said that the state troopers had done a superb job. One year later, an investigative commission would reach a very different conclusion. Its report stated that the operation had been ill-conceived, poorly executed and probably unnecessary, and stressed the fact that Rockefeller should have gone to

Attica, because his responsibilities as the States chief executive made it appropriate that he be present at the scene of the critical decision involving great risk of loss of life. In spite of the public outrage, Nelson Rockefellers hard-line stance in the Attica crisis made him more palatable to the conservatives who were now in control of the Republican Party. He never publicly regretted the way he handled the situation, saying only that he wished he had been more aware of the tremendous need that existed at the Attica facility. Yet the impact of the Attica crisis would be long lasting. In August 2000, almost thirty years after the prisoners revolt, the state of New York paid up to $8 million to the 1,280 men harassed during the attack, after their lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against prison and state officials in 1974. The verdict, however, had little echo within the walls of the Attica Correctional Facility, where overcrowding is still a problem.

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DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

The single largest failure of the anti-war movement at this point is the lack of outreach to the troops. Tim Goodrich, Iraq Veterans Against The War

CLASS WAR REPORTS

Hundreds Of Longshoremen Storm Wash. State Port:

The Workers Overpowered And Held Security Guards, Damaged Railroad Cars, And Dumped Grain
One Sergeant Was Threatened With Baseball Bats And Retreated

Police and union workers clash as union workers block a grain train in Longview, Wash., Sept. 7, 2011 at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Workers block a grain train in Longview, Wash., Sept. 7, 2011. Longshoremen blocked the train as part of an escalating dispute about labor at the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) [Thanks to Sandy Kelson, Veteran and Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.] Sep 8, 2011 AP

LONGVIEW, Wash. Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said. No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor thats staffing a workforce of other laborers. Thursdays violence was first reported by Kelso radio station KLOG. Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday. "Were not surprised," Duscha said. "A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start." One sergeant was threatened with baseball bats and retreated, Duscha said. "One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion." The train was the first grain shipment to arrive at Longview. It arrived Wednesday night after police arrested 19 demonstrators who tried to block the tracks. They were led by ILWU International President Robert McEllrath, who said they would return. The blockade appeared to defy a federal restraining order issued last week against the union after it was accused of assaults and death threats.

Israels Embassy In Cairo Has Been Stormed By Hundreds Of Protesters Who Tore Down One Of The Outer Embassy Walls

Israels Ambassador To Egypt, And Senior Embassy Staff Were Evacuated And Flown Home To Israel
Protesters Then Scaled The Wall Of The Building, Replacing The Israeli Flag With Egyptian And Palestinian Flags
They Are Chanting Slogans Against The Security Forces And The Head Of The Military Interim Ruling Council, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi

10 Sep 2011 Al Jazeera and agencies & BBC Mideast Report & BBC Hamada AbuQamar A building housing Israels embassy in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, has been stormed by hundreds of protesters who tore down one of the outer embassy walls. Protesters demolished the wall, erected to protect the embassy which has become a focus for protests, with makeshift battering rams and hammers on Friday after peaceful demonstrations in Tahrir Square earlier in the day against the countrys military rulers. Some protesters then scaled the wall of the building, replacing the Israeli flag with Egyptian and Palestinian flags.

Others got inside and threw thousands of pieces of paper from upper-floor windows. Reuters news agency quoted an Israeli official in Jerusalem as saying that the documents appeared to be "pamphlets and forms kept at the foyer". Egypts state media said some of the documents were marked confidential. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers backed by armoured cars were rushed to the embassy district and clashed with the protesters, who torched police vehicles and attacked regional police headquarters nearby. An official said that at one point during the night, six Israeli embassy employees had been rescued from the mission by Egyptian commandos. Protesters played cat-and-mouse with police throughout the night, amid clouds of tear gas and smoke from burning tyres. Security forces gradually asserted control and the situation was calm by Saturday morning, although small crowds were still gathered in the area of the embassy, Al Jazeeras Jamal Eshayyal said. The focus of the protest has shifted away from the embassy to a headquarters of the Egyptian security forces, which is next to the embassy. They are chanting slogans against the security forces and the head of the military interim ruling council, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi. The Egyptian health ministry said there had been 1,049 injuries as a result of clashes around the embassy. State television said 46 police officers and security personnel had been injured, and three people are reported dead. The group of about 1,000 people that swarmed the embassy had left a mass rally at nearby Tahrir Square, against the countrys military rulers At the Israeli embassy there is now an Egyptian flag flying instead of the Israeli flag. Hundreds of protesters remain near the embassy, burning tyres in the street. Nora Shalaby, a protester outside Israels embassy, justified the protesters actions. "I think this is the only way we can get our point across. Here we still have lots of tear gas. Theres rubber bullets. Theyre basically attacking us from all sides," she said, referring to government security forces. Al Jazeeras Sherine Tadros said security forces fired live ammunition into the air as protesters attempted to storm the security headquarters, another focal point for demonstrations. "As far as we understand these protesters are unarmed, theyve been there for hours," our correspondent said.

State television quoted an interior ministry official as saying that "foreign hands" were behind the violence. Egypts rulers often blame foreigners for unrest in the country. Yitzhak Levanon, Israels ambassador to Egypt, and senior embassy staff were evacuated and flown home to Israel, Israel Radio said. His family and other embassy staff rushed to Cairo airport and left on a plane for Israel, Egyptian state television and airport officials said. The state television also reported that Levanon met with a general of the ruling militarys Supreme Council of the Armed Forces before his departure, and that the ambassador appeared "anxious and even scared". Levanon had only recently returned to Cairo from a holiday in Israel as protests raged outside the embassy since last month. Last month, Egyptians staged huge protests outside the embassy and called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador over the border deaths of Egyptian policemen killed as Israel hunted a group of attackers. Egypt has asked Israel for an official apology and demanded a probe into the deaths of the five policemen. There has been no apology.

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