April 07, 2008
Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins
Barbara Ehrenreich comments on working in America
Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, “Hit me! Please, hit me again!” You can take my house, but let me mow the lawn for you one more time before you repossess. Take my job and I’ll just slink off somewhere out of sight. Oh, and take my health insurance too; I can always fall back on Advil.
Then, on April 1, in a wave of defiance, truck drivers began taking the strongest form of action they can take – inaction. Faced with $4/gallon diesel fuel, they slowed down, shut down and started honking. On the New Jersey Turnpike, a convoy of trucks stretching “as far as the eye can see,” according to a turnpike spokesman, drove at a glacial 20 mph. Outside of Chicago, they slowed and drove three abreast, blocking traffic and taking arrests. They jammed into Harrisburg PA; they slowed down the Port of Tampa where 50 rigs sat idle in protest. Near Buffalo, one driver told the press he was taking the week off “to pray for the economy.”
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Yeah I can’t imagine being a trucker and paying $4/gallon and making any money after it is all said and done. I am just glad I get my fuel for free.
having to lay drivers,friends off is a very hard thing to do,but we have shut down until this fuel mess created by the oil co’s with blessing of the s.o.b.,s in the white house is brought to a head we wont move one truck!!!
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