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[actionla] All Out Monday Dec. 12, 5:00 AM‏
MEDIA DVISORY-TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ON NDEC 12 MOBILIZATION‏

just cause and occupy oakland fight fannie mae and the banks‏

Will you back call center jobs?‏

ILWU veterans say: 'We don't cross community picket lines!'‏
Occupy Our Homes
Unemployed Confront Congress at Take Back the Capitol
Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
This Modern World: A Brief Guide to Class Conflict

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On Dec. 12, as part of the March and Boycott for full legalization 
and jobs for all, Occupy LA, Occupy Long Beach and the Occupy 
movement are holding a port action, "Occupy the Ports! A Day without 
Goldman Sachs!" This legal rally, march and community picket will 
gather at 5:00 AM at Harry Bridges Park in Long Beach, 1126 Queens 
Highway, right outside the Queen Mary.

There are several ways to get there:

Join us the evening before at Occupy Long Beach  on Pacific in 
downtown LB. The General Assembly is on Sunday at 4:00 PM, and the 
General Strike Preparation Committee of OLA will hold its final 
planning meeting at 6:00 PM there. We'll also be making signs for the 
protest, but bring your own, too, as well as noise-makers, drums, etc.

Carpool down with us from First and Main Sts. in downtown Los 
Angeles, commencing at 4:15 AM. Drive down on your own - take the 710 
to the Queen Mary, park in the Queen Mary lot ($12 flat rate) and 
walk right back out to Harry Bridges Park.

Or take the Blue Line to its southernmost stop in downtown Long Beach 
and take the C shuttle bus to the Queen Mary (this will probably get 
you there a bit late because the trains don't run early enough to get 
there at 5:00 AM).

Why are we taking this action:

In solidarity with port workers, including the port truck drivers, we 
are focusing on SSA Marine, a global company owned by the investment 
bank Goldman Sachs, as an example of the corporate greed that is 
ruining the lives of the 99%.

Goldman Sachs, the parent company, was the recipient of billions of 
dollars in bail-out money.

SSA Marine which has multiple terminals in LA and Long Beach and 
other facilities in the area, as well as terminals in other ports, is 
a major military contractor that ran the port in Iraq under the US 
occupation. In Bellingham WA, where they are trying to build a dirty 
coal terminal, they were found guilty of illegally building an access 
road without a permit. In Oakland, they were discovered to have been 
carrying potentially explosive cargo without warning the numbers. 
Here in L.A., their Shippers facility in Carson denies union 
representation with the ILWU to internal workers, even though the 
facility is legally part of the port and under ILWU jurisdiction. 
They were also exposed by CBS News for treating the truck drivers as 
independent contractors, avoiding FICA taxes and workers 
compensation, and denying the truck drivers the right to organize.

We will be conducting a legal rally, march and protest and putting up 
community picket lines at one or more SSA Marine facilities on Dec. 12.

We are demanding economic justice for all. The 1% have pursued 
conscious policies of globalization, deindustrialization of the US, 
capital flight and super-exploitation of workers in other countries, 
with the result that "trade" at LA & Long Beach ports means eight or 
nine containers of imports for every one of exports. Rebuilding the 
economy and engaging in real, fair trade would mean good jobs for 
all, and plenty of work for everyone!

Why we are acting independently of the unions:

We are building towards a general strike by organized and unorganized 
workers, as a path of direct action by working people and the 99% to 
define and protect our own interests. We understand that because of 
reactionary labor laws, rulings and court decisions, dating back to 
the Taft-Hartley Act and other cold war legislation that tried to 
limit workers' collective power and rights, unions are constrained 
from taking job actions based on solidarity or political demands. 
Just last week, the Clerks local of the ILWU was forced back to work 
over a technicality after they went out on strike. We are standing up 
for the rights of labor to organize by undertaking a "third party" 
community picket. The longshore and other port workers are threatened 
with fines and imprisonment. The port truck drivers are threatened 
with prosecution under anti-trust laws if they try to organize. But 
as concerned residents and working people, we are able to act 
independently and are doing so. We understand that our action on Dec. 
12 will not shut down the ports of LA and Long Beach, and we never 
claimed we would. Only the working people of the ports, drivers, 
longshore, warehouse, clerks and others have the power to do that. 
That is why we see this as only a first step towards a General Strike 
on may 1, 2012, and we invite all of organized and unorganized labor 
and all communities to join in building towards that goal.

For more information call 323-901-4269 or email occupytheports at gmail.com
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DEC 12 BOYCOTT COALITION
Contacts: Javier Rodriguez 213-909-3410 Gloria Saucedo 818-919-4718 Ricardo Reyes 213-359-8631. 

MEDIA ADVISORY 
To all members of the media 

Dec 7, 2011 

We are writing on behalf of the December 12 March & Boycott Coalition to invite you to be present in our March and Rally to Demand Legalization-Immigration Reform and jobs which will take place on December 12, 2011. Before we begin to tell you about our event, we would like to thank all of you for your excellent coverage on the making of this important mobilization for the human rights of all immigrants and the 99%. 

On Monday December 12, 2011 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm, 18 immigrant rights organizations, labor and religious leaders, and potentially thousands of members of the community, along with port drivers, teachers, home care workers, students and the embattled 99%ers, will participate in the “March and Boycott for Legalization, Immigration Reform and Jobs-Another Day Without an Immigrant” from Broadway & Olympic to 1st St. Additionally, as part of the 99%, the coalition has partnered with Occupy LA, who mainly because of our principled ground work, have vigorously embraced immigrant rights, combining them with the major economic issues of the day against the super rich billionaires who control America. 

As part of the December 12 day of action, the Occupy movement, with our active endorsement and support, is effectively moving to close all the West Coast ports primarily to support port drivers and all unionized port workers who are also victims of the 1%, and 

who not surprisingly, own most terminals in the ports. With major Latino TV networks Channels 34, 52, 62 and 22, La Opinion, LA Times, Hoy, the Korean Times and Radio, as well as the internet and on the ground addressing and reaching out to churches, organizations and towns, and distributing close to one hundred thousand flyers, etc., the Coalition estimates it has consistently reached millions of people with a message of hope and to fight back against the 1% and their politician cohorts in government, especially the ultra right wing Republicans who have blocked the Dream Act and immigration reform for the country, driving many young people to despair and in some cases to suicide.  For the last two weeks the march and the shutdown of all the ports in the West Coast have clearly become major Latino news, creating public opinion, a buzz, in Southern California. 

The principal objective of the December 12 campaign has been to influence the immigrant community and its leadership and to begin injecting this non partisan sector into the national presidential debate and, as the Occupy movement has successfully done for the 99%, change the discourse on immigration on behalf of the 12 million immigrants and the quest for legalization and empowerment. As part of this campaign, again along with the Occupy movement, this wing of the immigrant rights movement has also promoted the occupation of all the ports in the West Coast especially, reaching out on the airwaves to the 17,000 LA Latino immigrant port drivers whose leadership has already declared they will not work on Monday December 12, effectively shutting down the ports. On that day, we will also be joining and making the call for the national marches and a possible general strike for May 1, 2012. May Day, which is now less than five months away, will arrive in one of the high and intensive moments of the national presidential debate. 

The closing Dec 12 Campaign Press Conference will be held on Friday Dec 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM on the traditional corner of Olympic and Broadway. The event will be sponsored by the Dec 12 Boycott Coalition and Occupy LA General Strike Committee, Occupy Long Beach, port drivers, and several other groups organizing both the march and the port occupation. 

Sincerely, 

Javier Rodriguez 
Gloria Saucedo and 
Ricardo Reyes

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Just Cause and Occupy Oakland Fight Fannie Mae and Banks
Photos by David Bacon

OAKLAND, CA - 06DECEMBER11 - Activists from Causa Justa:Just Cause and Occupy Oakland protested foreclosures, and demanded that banks stop foreclosures and allow families to move into foreclosed and vacant homes in Oakland.  The action was one of over two dozen carried out by Occupy activists and supporters across the country to protest foreclosures and the refusal of banks to renegotiate loans. 

After a march, people occupied a home owned by Fannie Mae, and announced they would make it a community center, as part of an effort to force Fannie Mae to allow people to live in the many vacant homes it owns as a result of foreclosures.  In front of the occupied home, poets recited, activists made speeches, and neighbors poured through the gates.

Causa Justa announced it was holding the occupied house to demand that Fannie Mae turn it into low-income housing, and in support of the Ramirez family, whose home was improperly foreclosed on by Fannie Mae.  Bank of America sold the Ramirez home while suppossedly renegotiating the loan, and the family now rents the home they once owned.  Fannie Mae took $169 billion in bailout money, while its six top executives received $35 million in income, including bonuses. 

A statement by Causa Justa asked, "If we can ensure that big banks don't go under, why can't we ensure that American families stay in their homes? ... To stop the displacement of long-term residents from Oakland and amplify the fight to keep families in their homes, we are OCCUPYING our homes in solidarity with 27 cities across the nation!  We are the 99%!"

For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.org

See also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575 

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html -- 

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David Bacon, Photographs and Stories
http://dbacon.igc.org 

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Dear Friend,

Tired of the 1% shipping jobs off-shore? Wish you could do something about it?

Now you can.

Today, Representative Tim Bishop has introduced a bill that would help stop good American call center jobs from being "off-shored" abroad by greedy corporations. Tell your Representative to sign on to support The US Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act right now.

www.cwa-union.org/USCallCenterBill

The Call Center Bill would support American workers and protect consumers by:

Cutting off taxpayer cash for off-shorers: by creating a bad actor list that would stop companies that ship jobs abroad from getting Federal loans and grants and send them to the back of the line for government contracts.
Giving you the right to know: require call center agents to tell you where they are talking to you from.
Giving you the right to transfer to a US operator: so that when you don't want a foreign call center, you have the right to be transferred to a US-based operator.

If you agree that we should be investing in American call center workers once again, then click here to send a message to Congress.

www.cwa-union.org/USCallCenterBill

Too many corporations have sent thousands of call center jobs in a race to the bottom that hurts American workers and consumers. 

It's time for us to put pressure on US companies that send American jobs abroad. Send a message to your Representative right now and tell them to support The United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act.

www.cwa-union.org/USCallCenterBill

In Unity,

Beth Allen
Online Mobilization Coordinator

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Clarence Thomas spoke at the 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico Labor Conference. Read the interview where he and Leo Robinson defend the ILWU's Ten Guiding Principles:

WATCH VIDEO ABOUT THE 12/12 West Coast Port Shutdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqncu3wlEI&feature=youtube 

ILWU veterans say: “We don’t cross community picket lines!”

'SOLIDARITY OF LABOR ABOVE ALL ELSE'

As pressure builds for the Dec. 12 West Coast port shutdown, the capitalist owners and their media began a battle of ideas to blunt this powerful threat to their profits and control — even for a day. 

Two International Longshore and Warehouse Union members — Clarence Thomas, who is a third-generation longshoreman in Oakland, and Leo Robinson, who is now retired — spoke with Workers World reporter Cheryl LaBash.  Both men have held elected office in ILWU Local 10 and have been key labor activists during their years of work in the ports. 

WW: The Nov. 21 ILWU Longshore Coast Committee memorandum states, “Any public demonstration is not a ‘picketline’ under the PCL&CA [Pacific Coast Longshore & Clerk’s Agreement] … Remember, public demonstrations are public demonstrations, not ‘picketlines.’ Only labor unions picket as referenced in the contract.” What is your reaction? 

Clarence Thomas: A picket line is a public demonstration — whether called by organized labor or not. It is legitimate. There are established protocols in these situations. To suggest to longshoremen that they shouldn’t follow them demands clarification. It is one thing to state for the record that the union is not involved, but another thing to erase the historical memory of ILWU’s traditions and practices included in the Ten Guiding Principles of the ILWU adopted at the 1953 biennial convention in San Francisco. [Ten Guiding Principles reproduced below]

Leo Robinson: The international has taken the position somehow that the contract is more important than not only defending our interest in terms of this EGT but having a connection to the Occupy movement in that when you go through the Ten Guiding Principles of the ILWU, we’re talking about labor unity. Does that include the teachers? Does that include state, county and municipal workers? Those questions need to be analyzed as to who supports whom. The Occupy movement is not separate and apart from the labor movement.

CT: Labor is now officially part of the Occupy movement. That has happened. The recent article done by Steven Greenhouse on Nov. 9 is called ‘Standing arm in arm.’

The Teamsters have been supported by the OWS against Sotheby’s auction house. OWS has been supportive of Communication Workers in its struggle with Verizon. Mary Kay Henry, International President of the Service Employees, has called for expanding the Occupy movement by taking workers to Washington, D.C., to occupy Washington particularly Congress and congressional hearings demanding 15 million jobs by Jan. 1. 

LR: There was the occupation in Madison, Wis. That was labor-led. People are trying to confuse the issue by saying we are somehow separated from the Occupy movement. More than anything else the Occupy movement is a direct challenge or raises the question of the the rights of capital as opposed to the rights of the worker. I don’t understand that the contract supersedes the just demands of the labor movement. It says so right here in the 10 guiding principles of the ILWU.

Article 4 is very clear. Very clear. “...‘To help any worker in distress’ must be a daily guide in the life of every trade union and its individual members. Labor solidarity means just that. Unions have to accept the fact that solidarity of labor stands above all else, including even the so-called sanctity of the contract. We cannot adopt for ourselves the policies of union leaders who insist that because they have a contract, their members are compelled to perform work, even behind a picket line.” It says picket line. It doesn’t say union picket line. It says picket line. It says: “Every picket line must be respected as if it were our own.”

CT: Only 7.2 percent of private sector workers have union representation today, the lowest since 1900. Facing a critical moment, the labor movement has been reenergized by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

LR: Any number of times this union [Local 10] has observed picket lines, including Easter Sunday 1977 when the community put up a picket line at Pier 27 to picket South African cargo. Longshoremen observed that picket line for two days. So I don’t understand how all of a sudden the sanctity of the contract outweighs the need to demonstrate solidarity. It just does not compute. It doesn’t make sense.

WW: What were the similarities between that event and what is going on now with the Occupy movement?

CT: The first action against South African apartheid was a community picket line. It was not authorized by the union. It was a community picket line from start to finish. 

LR: It was about 5,000 people out there on the Embarcadero for two days running a community picket line opposing South African apartheid. Local 10 officers took the position that it was an unsafe situation and our members were not going to cross that picket line, period. It was ruled as such by the arbitrator.

WW: Who determines whether a situation is safe or unsafe?

LR: We have never waited for the employer to declare what is safe or unsafe. It is always the union that moves first. We don’t ask the employers what is safe or unsafe. They wouldn’t give a damn one way or the other as long as they got their ship worked. If the police have to escort you in or out, that is patently saying it is unsafe. What if someone decides to throw a rock while you’re being escorted in by the police? Does it make it hurt any less? A longshoreman determines what is safe for him or her — on the job and off.

CT: Our members have been hurt by the police and so has the OWS movement. In 2003 when we were standing by at a picket, police shot our members with wooden bullets. In Longview, Wash., at the EGT Grain Terminal, ILWU members and their families have been hurt by the police. We don’t want the police to do anything for us.

WW: What is happening at the grain terminal in Longview?

CT: Our union is at an historical juncture. Our jurisdiction is being challenged up and down the coast — the issue of logs and Local 10 and use of “robotics.” There has been nothing like this since 1934.  If ILWU members don’t honor the community picket lines, it will cause an irreparable breach with the community. If the ILWU can’t support the community, why should the community support the ILWU in 2014 contract negotiations or when the new grain agreement is up next year? Who knows what the employer has up their sleeve when they demanded only a one-year contract. 

LR: Grain work provides 30 percent of our welfare contributions. Who knows … let’s say that EGT is successful. It will open the door for other grain operators to try to work anybody.

WW: Aren’t the ports private?

CT: These ports are the people’s ports. Ports belong to the people of the Pacific Coast. The money came from the taxpayers in California, Oregon and Washington. EGT was subsidized by the Port of Longview. So the people have the right to go down there and protest how their tax dollars have been ripped off.

WW: Wall Street is in New York City. What do the West Coast ports have to do with that?

LR: To show you the link, last year in the ILWU Dispatcher - a sister from Local 10 was foreclosed on. I am certain she’s not the only one.

CT: Fifty-one percent of Stevedoring Services of America is owned by Goldman Sachs. EGT is a multinational conglomerate trying to control the distribution of food products around the world. The face of Wall Street is in the ports.

WW: Any closing comments?

CT: The ILWU is not some special interest group. We are a rank-and-file militant, democratic union that has a long history of being in the vanguard of the social justice and labor movement.

We don’t cross community picket lines. When people begin to do so they have completely turned their backs on the ILWU’s 10 guiding principles. Is it coincidental that Harry Bridges’ name has not been asserted in relation to the OWS movement and the history of militancy? Is it an accident? How can we not talk about Harry Bridges? That is how we got what we have today.

Clarence Thomas is executive board member and  past secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10 and co-chair of the Million Worker March movement, which was initiated by Local 10 and supported by the ILWU Longshore Caucus. Leo Robinson is retired and co-founder of African American Longshore Coalition. He is a former member of the ILWU Local 10 executive board, a national convener of the MWM movement and its major benefactor.  

ILWU:  Ten Guiding Principles – From ILWU Local 13 website
1.                                                   1. A union is built on its members. The strength, understanding and unity of membership can determine the union’s course and it’s advancements. The members who work, who make up the union and pay dues, can best determine their own destiny. If the facts are honestly presented to the members in the ranks, they will best judge what should be done and how it should be done. In brief, It is the membership of the union which is the best judge of its own welfare; not the officers, not the employers, not politicians and fair weather friends of labor. Above all, this approach is based on the conviction that given the truth and the opportunity to determine their own course of action, the rank and file in 99 cases out of 100 will take the right path in their interests of all the people.
2.                                                   2. Labor unity is at all times the key for a successful economic advancement. Anything that detracts from labor unity hurts all labor. Any group of workers through craft unionism or through cozy deals at the expense of others will in the long run gain but little and inevitably lose both its substance and its friends. No matter how difficult the going, a union must fight in every possible way to advance the principles of labor unity.
3.                                                   3. Workers are indivisible. There can be no discrimination because of race, color, creed, national origin, religious or political belief. Any division among the workers can help no one but the employers. Discrimination is a weapon of the boss. Its entire history is proof that it has served no other purpose than to pit worker against worker to their own destruction.
4.                                                   4. “To help any worker in distress” must be a daily guide in the life of every trade union and its individual members. Labor solidarity means just that. Unions have to accept the fact that solidarity of labor stands above all else, including even the so-called sanctity of contract. We cannot adopt for ourselves the policies of union leaders who insist that because they have a contract, their members are compelled to perform work, even behind a picket line. Every picket line must be respected as if it were our own.
5.                                                   5. Any union, if it to fulfill its appointed task, must put aside all internal differences and issues to combine for the common cause of advancing the welfare of the membership. No union can successfully fulfill its purpose in life if it allows itself to be distracted by any issue which causes division in its ranks and undermines the unity which all labor must have in the face of the employer.
6.                                                   6. The days are long gone when a union can consider dealing with single employers. The powerful financial interests of the country are bound together in every conceivable type of united organization to promote their own welfare and to resist the demands of labor. Labor can no longer win with the ancient weapons of taking on a single employer in an industry any more than it can hope to win through the worn-out dream of withholding its skill until an employer sues for peace. The employers of this country are part of a well organized, carefully coordinated, effective fighting machine. They can be met only on equal terms which requires industry-wide bargaining and the most extensive economic strength of organized labor.
7.                                                   7. Just as water flows to its lowest level, so do wages if the bulk of the workers are left unorganized. The day of craft unionism-the aristocracy of labor-was over when mass production was introduced. To organize the unorganized must be the cardinal principle of any union worth its salt; and to accomplish this is not merely in the interest of the unorganized, it is for the benefits of the organized as well. 
8.                                                   8. The basic aspirations and desires of the workers throughout the world are the same. Workers are workers the world over. International solidarity, particularly among maritime workers, is essential to their protection and a guarantee of reserve economic power in times of strife.
9.                                                   9. A new type of unionism is called for which does not confine its ambitions and demands only to wages. Conditions of work, security of employment and adequate provisions for the workers and their families in times of need are of equal, if not greater importance, than the hourly wage.
10.                                               10. Jurisdictional warfare and jurisdictional raiding must be outlawed by labor itself. Nothing can do as much damage to the ranks of labor and the principle of labor unity and solidarity as jurisdictional bickering and raiding among unions. Both public support and strike victories are jeopardized by jurisdictional warfare.   (Emphasis added.)                                   Labor donated

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Occupy Our Homes
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "Yesterday, no one had lived in 702 Vermont Street for three years.... the Brooklyn neighborhood where foreclosures are five times more frequent than in the rest of the state. Today, Alfredo and Tasha and their son and daughter moved in, with the help of a number of friends whom they'd never met... brought together by Occupy Wall Street for a national day of action to promote foreclosure resistance, an event kicking off a project they call Occupy Our Homes."
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Unemployed Confront Congress at Take Back the Capitol
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and 'K Street' that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and that unemployment benefits must be extended before they run out at the end of the year....This is not the OccupyDC group, but it is supportive and very much like the Occupy group, with 'Mic Check' and 'We are the 99%' and 'Banks got bailed out, we got sold out' chants going on everywhere."
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Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
Marie Diamond, ThinkProgress: "Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama's agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created a labor shortage in the state.... GOP politicians have crowed that driving immigrants out of the state will reduce unemployment by letting native citizens fill those jobs. But ... Americans are simply unwilling to do the back-breaking labor of harvesting crops. To stave off the disastrous collapse of state agriculture, Alabama officials are seriously considering replacing immigrant workers with prison laborers who they could perhaps pay even less than immigrants."
Read the Article 

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CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
Alex Main, Center for Economic Policy and Research: "The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) ... includes every nation in the Western Hemisphere with the exception of the United States and Canada and is seen by many as a potential rival to the region's foremost multilateral organization, the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).... The (resulting) Action Plan also commits the group to developing a 'strategy to design a new regional financial architecture ... based in the principles of justice, solidarity and transparency.'" 
Read the Article 

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This Modern World: A Brief Guide to Class Conflict
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Tomorrow presents the dueling positions on the country's economic crisis. 
Read the Cartoon 

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