#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman -[Self-managed pot]Your groceries increase... Their profits too! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Last Sunday, members and friends of the Collectif Emma Goldman held a new edition

of La Marmite autogérée in downtown Chicoutimi. The participants did not fail to
underline their joy and their enthusiasm to the members of the collective in
front of the return of the Marmite. Barely an hour after the start of the
activity, the entire contents of the large pot of spag had been distributed, the
coffee stove was empty and the dozens of eggs on the table had been given away.
As in previous editions, this activity makes it possible to put forward the
principles of cooperation and mutual aid, to put aside mediation and money, to
have interesting discussions on the different realities experienced downtown .
But above all, to have a good time, time that does not benefit capital but
responds to our desires.

For the occasion, the theme was: "Your groceries are growing? So are their
profits". We heard many testimonies. There was this lady, living in a
neighborhood on the outskirts, who was forced to sell her old car because of the
increase in the price of gas and who finds that public transport in Saguenay is
dysfunctional, just like lighting for pedestrians, which is insufficient to say
the least when night falls in the city centre. Many participants also noted the
increase in the price of the grocery basket, but also the many fees or surcharges
passed on to consumers due to the increase in the price of fuel. Others named the
increased cost of sending a package to the post office and snow removal from
private driveways as issues that add to the long list of difficulties in making
ends meet. .

We also spoke with a few international students recently settled in Saguenay who
feel like they're being passed over when it's time to pay the rent to their
landlord. A sum that turns out to be far too expensive for the quality of the
accommodation. Faced with this situation, many are wondering where and who to
turn to in this situation: the housing group, the university, the student
association, the municipality? Resources and information are, to say the least,
unknown for these students.

The war in Ukraine and the pandemic have a very broad back to justify the
dramatic price increases of recent months. Much less is said about the record
profits raked in by the grocery chains and the oil companies. In recent weeks,
the price of a liter of gasoline has been falling but there is still no
difference in people's wallets. But it's a safe bet that the bourgeois at the
head of the big grocery chains will offer themselves a nice performance bonus at
the end of the year while crying crocodile tears over the global geopolitical
situation by saying that they don't have no choice but to pass the bill on to
consumers.

by Emma Goldman Collective

  http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/09/marmite-autogeree-votre-epicerie.html
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