Products expropriation from supermarket (Athens, 1/7/2008)

“Anoth­er nov­el rob­bery of foods was realised at Marinopou­los super­mar­ket on Evdok­sos street, Neos Kos­mos. Unknown per­sons entered the super mar­ket as mere cus­tomers, filled their trol­leys with foods and left the store with­out pay­ing. Con­tin­u­ous­ly, they dis­trib­uted the foods at the peo­ple shoop­ing in a near­by open mar­ket, throw­ing leaflets with slo­gans against cost­li­ness…”

“Anoth­er nov­el rob­bery of foods was realised at Marinopou­los super­mar­ket on Evdok­sos street, Neos Kos­mos. Unknown per­sons entered the super mar­ket as mere cus­tomers, filled their trol­leys with foods and left the store with­out pay­ing. Con­tin­u­ous­ly, they dis­trib­uted the foods at the peo­ple shoop­ing in a near­by open mar­ket, throw­ing leaflets with slo­gans against cost­li­ness…”

Trans­la­tion from: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=887219

Today around 12:30 an inter­ven­tion was realised at Marinopou­los super­marked on Evdok­sos street, at Neos Kos­mos. The peo­ple’s behav­iour was encour­ag­ing and sup­port­ive. A typ­i­cal exam­ple of that is that dur­ing the expro­pri­a­tion, out­side the store peo­ple gath­ered with their wheel-carts wait­ing for the prod­ucts dis­tri­b­u­tion.

Fol­low­ing is the text dis­trib­uted at the open mar­ket.

Every day that pass­es we expe­ri­ence intense­ly the con­se­quences of the increas­ing raise of prices the cap­i­tal is enforc­ing on soci­ety, the same time that wages and pen­sions remain at the same poor lev­el, lead­ing us below sur­vival lim­its. Simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, every kind of experts and respon­si­bles, cry out for the con­tin­u­ous raise of prices sug­gest­ing “boy­cottage” styled solu­tions that lead to the illu­sion of a stronge reac­tion to the prob­lem.
We select to react tak­ing prod­ucts of basic needs from shelves of large super­mar­ket chain stores and dis­trib­ut­ing them freely to those that they belong to.
We do not regard our action as rob­bery, because these prod­ucts are the fruits of our own exploit­ed work and belong to all of us.
This action isn’t altru­is­tic, but a sym­bol­ism with the aim to encour­age the social ensem­ble to an uncon­strained, free cir­cu­la­tion of goods and the con­scious eras­ing of the cash desks, over­com­ing the legal lim­i­ta­tions. For the gen­er­al­i­sa­tion of the chal­leng­ing of state and cap­i­tal.
Our choice to act with our faces cov­ered does­n’t mean in any case to fright­en the peo­ple, but to our per­son­al secu­ri­ty against those that think our action is ille­git­i­mate.

Ini­tia­tive of anar­chists for the free cir­cu­la­tion of goods

Note: It is the fourth of this kind of expro­pri­a­tions. Pre­vi­ous­ly, there were Sklaveni­tis on 31/5 and Veropou­los and DIA on 13/6