Middle East, in Ravenna as in Livorno: port operators will not load weapons directed to Israel
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May 25, 2021 The Asiatic Liberty ship scheduled to dock at Terminal Tcr in Ravenna on June 3 "will not embark the container containing armaments, as the shipowner has renounced the load". Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti make it known after having officially learned the owner's decision.
"The satisfactory news allows the categories of Transport of Cgil, Cisl and Uil to revoke the strike of the workers of the Port Cooperative and TCR and the garrison scheduled for June 3", say the unions.
The workers of the Port of Ravenna, the note reads, "although aware that their act of witness, in favor of peace for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, does not even remotely constitute a decisive action for the solution of the conflict, nevertheless they believe that it was necessary and unavoidable. The only way to peacefully oppose war is to actively take a stand against it, whenever the opportunity arises. "
The strike had been proclaimed a few hours earlier for June 3 by the provincial unions at the port of Ravenna. The port workers had expressed all their will not to load war material for Israel that could "be used to fuel a war that has already claimed hundreds of victims including children, women and the elderly and thousands of wounded, especially civilians".
"The workers of the port of Ravenna feel the moral responsibility to do everything in their power to testify their commitment to peace and refuse to be complicit in any way in that tragic conflict or in the endangering of the fragile ceasefire. in progress "they declared in the announcement of the strike. Then the important decision of the shipowner who refused the load and allowed the dock workers to cancel the strike.