Mayor and unionists looting food for the poors in Spain

[el_chavista]

The Mayor of Marinaleda (Seville) broke into two "Mercadona" supermarkets in his town today and looted a load of goods which he says are “for the poor of the village”. José Manuel Sánchez Gordillo (IU) together with dozens of people, mainly from the left wing union SAT – some reports say up to 500 looters were seen.

The so-far-left-wing-its-lost-over-California union Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores (SAT), under the leadership of this prat Sánchez, said that they were “occupying the powers that rob the poor of their land, the banks, and the supermarkets”.

The Mayor appears to have ordered the Local Police not to intervene in during the robberies. Instead, he and about thirty others went inside to fill as many supermarket trollies as they could, whilst the rest of the unionists rioted outside, keeping the National Police at bay. Supermarket workers attempted to stop the looters but were told to back down by their managers after the SAT lot “turned violent”. At least one young girl who worked on the till had a breakdown and had to be attended to by a doctor, according to eyewitnesses on twitter, and she might have been pushed over when trying to stop the looters.

All the trollies will be handed over to an NGO for distribution to the poor, according to Sánzchez, although he refused to say which NGO would get the loot. I assume that any flat screen TV’s that accidentally fell into the basket will be kept by the proliteriat heroes for their own usage, monitoring the capitalist bastard society.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/26/world/26spain.inline.A.190.jpgSánchez is a bearded left wing anarchist mayor who visited Caracas on May and gathered with the Bolivarian circles.

Marinaleda became a center of leftist activism after Mr. Sánchez first won the mayoral election in April 1979 as a representative of the United Workers’ Collective, a Communist farm workers’ organization that promotes government through popular assemblies and believes that Andalusia should be independent from Spain. Over the years, the residents have occupied farms, picketed government offices and held hunger strikes to demand work and land.

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[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Do they stock big screen tvs in Spanish supermarkets?

[brigadista]

what a coincidence !!! was watching costa gavros film state of siege last night [about the tupamaros- great film] where expropriation was a central event......

[el_chavista]

Do they stock big screen tvs in Spanish supermarkets?
I forgot to add the source http://www.davidjackson.info/2012/mayor-and-unionists-rob-supermarkets-to-give-food-to-the-poor-in-marinaleda.htm (it explains the political stand behind the news report).

[Regicollis]

I wish our mayor was like this...

[Tim Cornelis]

I read this in a right-wing Daily Mail-isque type newspaper (less right-wing than the DM though), and they seemed somewhat sympathetic even.


'Robin Hood' plundert supermarkten
SEVILLA - Twee supermarkten in Spanje zijn dinsdag overvallen door een groepering die veel weg heeft van de tactiek die de Engelse volksheld Robin Hood toepaste.

Winkel overvallen door 'goedzakken'

De overvallers met hun winkelwagens vol eten.

De leden laadden in de plaatsen Ecija en Arcos de la Frontera zestien winkelwagens vol eten om die vervolgens naar lokale voedselbanken te brengen.

Met de actie wil de Andalusische Unie van Arbeiders (SAT) aandacht vragen voor de dramatisch toegenomen armoede onder de Spaanse bevolking. In het land leven ruim 2,5 miljoen kinderen onder de armoedegrens, omdat hun ouders niet genoeg geld voor eten hebben.

De situatie lijkt niet snel beter te worden nu het Zuid-Europese in een enorme crisis verkeert. Zo is de helft van de jeugd werkloos en liggen er bezuinigingsplannen van 102 miljard euro op tafel.

Google translate:


'Robin Hood' looting supermarkets
SEVILLE - Two supermarkets in Spain on Tuesday were robbed/looted by a group that show similarities with the tactics of the English folk hero Robin Hood.

Shop raided by 'good guys'

The robbers with their shopping carts full of food.

The members loaded in the places Ecija and Arcos de la Frontera sixteen shopping carts full of food to local food banks that was sent to bring.

The action was carried out by the Andalusian Union of Workers (SAT) to draw attention to the dramatic increase in poverty among the Spanish population. In the land over 2.5 million children living below the poverty line because their parents do not have enough money for food.

The situation does not seem it will improve soon, now that the Southern European is in a huge crisis. Half of the youth is unemployed and there are austerity measures planned for as much as EUR 102 billion.

EDIT:

Sanchez is not an anarchist mayor. He is a member of the United Left (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Left_(Spain)). It's a shame the workers attempted to stop them.

EDIT II:

English subtitles:

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