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.
We should bring this back.
Interesting. That couldn’t work here, you would have to break several laws in order to do something like that in America. The only way it could happen is large masses of people everywhere did this. But that would require learning where these politicians live, stalking their houses to ensure the families were gone, then breaking and entering, theft (even if it’s just food, it would still be theft.), possible vandalism because of food in cans and others not already cooked.
I can’t seem to find anything to back this up. I can’t find anything other than more Tumblr posts, stating that this is true. No news articles or anything. I’ve checked the notes, and all I see is one source provided by the OP, which I cannot access because it’s written in text, not posted as a link. Maybe OP could edit their post and include the source in it. Also if they could provide more than one single source by some fringe site, that would be very helpful in providing credibility to this.
You could easily copy-paste that link into a browser instead of acting like a lazy entitled ass. But here ya go:
If you want English sources to online articles by some big international newspaper, your standards for sourcing on small activist actions that happened in the Netherlands 40 years ago are a little unrealistic.
As for the first part of your message. All of this was illegal in the Netherlands inn the 1980s. These people did figure out where politicians lived, wait for them to leave, break and enter, and steal their food. That’s sort of the point. It was illegal, it was intimidating, it showed that starving people are willing to break the law. That was the whole fucking point.
Like I said before:
The law is never going to have room for effective activism, it is
designed to keep us in a place where we can be controlled, where our
anger can be guided into petitions and vigils and hashtags that change
nothing.Break the fucking law.(Try to avoid getting arrested or caught on camera without your face covered. Exchange information on how to do these things)
Please spare me your ‘this could never work here because the law’ bullshit. It’s irritating as fuck.
(Just for fun: If you enjoy reading angry pieces of fail, go in the notes and watch
@just-a-fan-of-things
write a loooooooooooong reply full of swears and insults, and then argue in the replies that followed that they’re ‘not butt hurt’. It’s quite something.)
techlikeagirl @just-a-fan-of-things you’re all butthurt about proper sources when @primipiatti specifically linked actual news clippings from Dutch newspapers. Are you so paranoid you wont believe Dutch news sources? Why bother using technology at all??
I think it’s important here to also note the erasure that takes place when we only value sourced that are english and produced by the mainstream media. It re-enforced US-centrism and UK-centrism (as well as Eurocentrism where many people have access to and produce english language sources)
But it also means that the only activism that is considered real is the activism that focusses on big media spectacles and are polite enough to get favourable coverage. These are almost always reformist movements with heavy elite support.
The many things we do in the dark, the forests we occupy, the punches we throw when nazis try to march, the thousands of ways we fight back on a local and direct level. These things never make the news because we’re not running an election campaign, we’re just getting this done. The only place where we write about our work is for each other. But when we no longer know where to find each others writing because anything that isn’t written by a big US or UK newspaper isn’t connsidered real? We’d lose our most important channels of communication if we took on that mindset.
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