Update 10:00 pm
A small group of remaining protestors huddled in the cold at 9:30 near Terminal 18 but once the barricade was cleared and the larger numbers had left, they thinned out and eventually left too. No all night effort was mounted.

From the SPD Blotter:
On December 12th demonstrators gathered on Harbor Island near Terminal 5 at the Port of Seattle. Demonstrators subsequently blocked vehicular traffic at Harbor Island and began throwing flares (which burns at 1400 degrees fahrenheit), bags of bricks and paint, rebar (pictured above) and other debris at the police officers and police horses monitoring the demonstration. At least one officer was injured after being struck in the face with a bag of paint. The officer was treated at the scene by SFD medics and did not require transportation.

Eleven adult subjects were arrested for various violations including Failure to Disperse and Assaulting an Officer. Those subjects will be booked into the King County Jail.

7:30 Update
Around 5 pm police lined up their bikes and 3 horses and began to forcibly move the people off the street near Terminal 18 and to remove some of the pieces of junk that had been used to form a makeshift barricade that had blocked traffic. People screamed and shouted angrily as they were forced back, Pepper spray, a flash grenade and just brute strength were used to move everyone back to the sidewalk and off the roadway. Many had previously left to go to Terminal 5 as they announced to the crowd that the purpose of the protest had been accomplished, they had "shut down all the ports on the West Coast. Police did make arrests for protestors who had laid down on railroad tracks.

Protesters were committed to staying all night at last report

4:15 Update
Seattle Police confirm several Occupy protesters have been arrested near Terminal 18 at the Port.

3:50 Update
There are roughly 200-250 protesters blocking the roadway into terminal 18.

They have successfully blocked the road by creating a makeshift barricade. Miscellaneous items including pallets, pieces of metal, anything they can grab is being salvaged from the shoreline underneath the low level bridge.

They are allowing swing shift workers to leave in spurts, but traffic is tied up.

No arrests have been witnessed as of yet.

Another group of protesters have gathered closer to the Spokane St. fishing pier and the road has been blocked at that location as well.

Original post
In a general notice on the OccupySeattle.org website the word went out to recruit protestors to the West Coast Port Shutdown today Dec. 12. After a march to the port that will start at Westlake Park at 1pm the protestors are being urged to come to the Spokane Street fishing area after 3pm and form picket lines. A rally will follow at 6 pm. Drivers should expect delays in the area.

From www.OccupySeattle.org:

On December 12th, Occupy Seattle will join the rest of the West Coast Occupy movement in the West Coast Port Shutdown. We will be shutting down the Port of Seattle with a mass community picket/ blockade.

Occupy Seattle’s General Assembly voted unanimously to endorse the call to action put out by Occupy Oakland. Port blockades are planned in San Diego, LA, Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Tacoma, and Seattle.

- We will march to the port beginning at Westlake Park at 1 PM

- There will be two rallies near the port at 3 PM and 6 PM at the Spokane Street fishing area, just to the east of the Spokane St. Bridge, near the intersection of SW Spokane St & SW Manning St, under the West Seattle bridge. (the 125 bus goes there from downtown and from West Seattle; get off at Chelan Ave SW and SW Spokane St. and walk east along the Alki bike path)

- Come to the Spokane St. fishing area anytime after 3 and Occupy Seattle members will meet you there to show you where to find the port picket lines

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This action is aimed only at commercial shipping and will not be targeting commuter passenger ferries used by the 99%.

Why shut down the port?

1) We will shut down the port to resist the budget cuts that
target working class people.

The 1% are confident they can cut our health care, education, food aid, and social services because they think we won’t fight back. They are wrong. If they cut our safety net to pieces, we will cut their profits. The port is a major source of profits for the 1%, especially during the holiday season when they ship goods produced by Asian workers under horrible labor conditions to American malls where increasingly broke workers buy holiday presents on credit, worried about whether we will lose our jobs, food stamps, or health care. We are tired of worrying, so now we are fighting back. A port shutdown will hit the 1% directly in their wallets. Happy Holidays you scrooges.

Read the remainder on http://occupyseattle.org/resource/west-coast-port-shutdown