The morning of April 7, 2003 in the Port of Oakland

FIFTY NINE PERSONS were injured on April 7, 2003 when police attacked peaceful protesters, longshoremen, legal observers and newspersons in the Port of Oakland. Five weeks later, several hundred protesters returned to the Port for a successful demonstration in defense of our endangered First Amendment right to picket at the docks. This right was reaffirmed the following year with another demonstration in the Port on the anniversary of the attack.

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REPORTS from 2003 & 2004 at the PORT of OAKLAND
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"THERE'S NOTHING like making the list of the world's worst government violence against activists. The Oakland Police Department earned that distinction for its assault on peaceful anti-war demonstrators at the port …"
--from the Oakland Tribune, 4/6/2004, after the U.N. Commission on Human Rights report came out.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0406-13.htm

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The UNITED NATIONS Commission on Human Rights report published in 2004 includes a summary of the April 7, 2003 police attack on protesters at the Port of Oakland.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/03/16760741.php

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Police Violence Shocks Activists, Others at Port of Oakland Protest
San Jose Mercury News
Monday, April 7, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-07.htm

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GETTING SHOT ON THE DOCKS
Remarks to the Oakland City Council by Scott Fleming
May 3, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/fleming05032003.html

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WILLOW ROSENTHAL'S INJURY
The Daily Californian
Monday, May 5, 2003

Oakland resident Willow Rosenthal, 31, said she underwent surgery Wednesday to remove three to four inches of dead skin from her right calf caused by a nonlethal projectile.
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=11464

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RETURN TO THE DOCKS
San Francisco Bay Guardian
May 21, 2003

JUST A MONTH after the April 7 Oakland police debacle that left dozens of peaceful protesters with welts the size of golf balls, hundreds of antiwar activists and concerned residents returned to the Port of Oakland May 12 to stand up to police brutality and to affirm the constitutionally protected rights of free speech and assembly.
http://www.sfbg.com/37/34/news_war.html

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THE ATTACK & THE RESPONSE
--A detailed account of the five weeks from April 7th to May 12th of 2003
by Daniel Borgström
http://www.intergate.com/~daniel41/whoseport/index.html

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PORT of PARANOIA
Paranoid Port officials pondered their worst-case-scenario nightmares and wound up equating demonstrations to nuclear explosions. They shared their finest thoughts on Port security with a reporter from the Oakland Tribune (6/29/2003). Truly a bizarre story.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/28/18384849.php

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On the first anniversary: returning to picket at the docks in 2004
http://www.intergate.com/~daniel41/2004/04/remember-shots-return-to-docks.html

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The ending of the case against the Oakland 25 at a hearing on April 22nd, 2004.
http://www.intergate.com/~daniel41/2004/04/unexpected-ending-of-case-against.html

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TRUCKERS STRIKE
For 8 days in May 2004, Truckers closed the Port of Oakland
http://www.intergate.com/~daniel41/2004/05/for-8-days-in-may-truckers-closed-port.html

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THE SPYMASTER'S TALE
by Daniel Borgström
http://www.intergate.com/~daniel41/2006/08/spymasters-tale.html

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THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES -- 2007
Rally April 7, 2007 to Stop the War Shipments
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/29/18385700.php