Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty.
They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else.
Direct action at its finest.
Can someone send me more info on them? googling Dutch Unemployed Union didn’t come up with much
The word you’re looking for is Werklozenbond & since there was very little official history written about it you might want to check Delpher.nl and other archive websites.
On eat actions (which were practiced by more groups) I put some newspaper clippings here:
http://queeranarchism.tumblr.com/post/127930607693/exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear-gatewaycommunism
Hey people who read Dutch! I’ve found an extensive source list on unemployed resistance here: http://www.bijstandsbond.org/geschiedenis/boekwbva/boek19.htm
I’ve got my hands on one book (Betaalstaken. Verzetsmiddel van Baanlozen en andere Minima) and will be trying to put that online and translate some of it when I have more time.
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