Occupy Wall Street protesters succeeded in shutting down overnight operations at California’s port of Oakland on Monday night after a day of similar protests in several other U.S. cities.
“I’m just barely getting on my feet again after two years, and now I gotta go a day without pay while somebody else has something to say that I’m not really sure is relevant to the cause,” trucker Chuck Baca told CNN affiliate KGO.
These are children out here, what do they know?” another truck driver fumed while young protesters displayed an Occupy banner on his truck. “I don’t even know what their movement is. All I know is, I’m losing a day’s wage.”
“What happened today is that they at the port didn’t lose any loads. They didn’t lose any money,” said Ron Coleman, 52, a trucker from Reno waiting to pick up an empty container and head east. “The only people who lost money was us.”
Two terminals were shut down at the Port of Portland during the morning, and the small Washington state port of Longview closed when roughly 100 protesters staged a dawn rally. There also were standoffs at ports such as Long Beach and San Diego, but all terminals at those facilities remained open.
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Meaningless trespass and assault against working stiffs is really going to get the fat cats. But this is right out of the “How to be a meaningful person” tract. Jaj48@aol.com
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