Statement on Robin Hood action
14.04.23
At 11:00 AM in supermarkets across Glasgow, we redistributed overpriced essential goods from the shelves into food bank collection points. Asda, Marks & Spencer’s, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose – we disrupted your business with a simple motivation: take from the rich, give to the poor.
Why should the masses of ordinary people, already struggling to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis, be guilt tripped into further financial hardship each time they shop for basic necessities?
Hunger will never be eradicated through individual acts of charity.
It is not us, the “customers”, who uphold the rigged economic system that creates food banks. It is you, the corporate profiteers at the top of the food chain. Your price-gouging is accelerating food scarcity. People are already shoplifting to survive – this is a
victimless “crime”.
Donate the essential items we delivered to the food bank collection points, or return them to the shelves and expose that you only care about profit.
Big oil and gas, energy and agribusiness are wreaking social and environmental havoc. Supermarkets are one link in the global supply chain and no industry exists in a vacuum. Global elites must learn that infinite private profit is impossible on a finite planet.
We will continue to use guerrilla tactics to create a crisis for companies complicit in this mess. We are building a resilient civil resistance community ready to take redistributive action to turn this situation on its head.
No more business as usual.
This Is Rigged.