French unemployed carry out a “self reduction” in Parisian supermarket

On 31 Decem­ber, 2008 over 50 unem­ployed and pre­car­i­ous work­ers blocked the check­out of a Mono­prix super­mar­ket in the sub­urbs of Paris with 13 trol­leys full of food.

On 31 Decem­ber, 2008 over 50 unem­ployed and pre­car­i­ous work­ers blocked the check­out of a Mono­prix super­mar­ket in the sub­urbs of Paris with 13 trol­leys full of food.

After dis­trib­ut­ing a leaflet, demand­ing a “self-reduc­tion [autore­duc­tion] appro­pri­ate to this time of cri­sis, which will allow for the pre­car­i­ous to cel­e­brate New Year’s with dig­ni­ty”, nego­ti­a­tions with the super­mar­ket man­age­ment result­ed in them leav­ing with­out pay­ing. A por­tion of the food was dis­trib­uted to the undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grants who have occu­pied the Parisian labor hall.

Leaflet here (in French):
http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=4180