{"id":1185,"date":"2026-02-04T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debordement.crues.org\/en\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:13:27","slug":"the-hunger-justifies-the-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debordement.crues.org\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/the-hunger-justifies-the-means\/","title":{"rendered":"The hunger justifies the means"},"content":{"rendered":"
By <\/span>Robin des ruelles<\/a><\/div>\n\n
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We are the Robin des Ruelles<\/em>, the Robin Hood of the Alleys. On the evening of Monday December 25th, we stole $3,000 worth of food from the Metro on Laurier Street in Montreal, a grocery chain that recorded over a billion dollars in profits for the year 2025. We left the food under a Christmas tree at Place Valois in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We struck there, but it could have been anywhere else. Of course, this Metro is known as \u201cthe most expensive on the island,\u201d of course the security guards beat up customers if necessary, of course at the time this branch did not hesitate to evict tenants to set up shop in the neighborhood. But we could have chosen another target, and you will choose others. We know we are not alone. Anyone can organize and become a Robin Hood of the Alleys. This gesture was above all an invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro president \u00c9ric Lafl\u00e8che pays himself a salary with bonuses of nearly $6.1 million, while his employees are paid minimum wage to watch other poor people scan their items. Let’s face it, the self-checkout registers that have appeared in recent years are anything but self-service. Enclosed, guarded, and monitored by an employee, security guards, and cameras in every corner, it could hardly be more stifling. The checkout alarm goes off at the slightest weight discrepancy on the scale. But what about the weight of hunger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, we saw people crying at the grocery store and supplementing their income with canned food; an elderly woman stealing tuna from Dollorama; a prepared sandwich as evidence at the feet of a handcuffed person in front of a Maxi. The Robins des Ruelles are a reflection of all these people, caught in a system that takes advantage of their empty stomachs. A system that reminds us at every meal that we have to work to live. We don’t buy into any of that; we believe in something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you as tired as we are? We are fed up with working to the point of exhaustion only to struggle to pay our bills and buy groceries. We don’t just want to survive, we want to live. And we want much more from this life. Understand, not more hours of work, not more bills to pay. The answer certainly does not lie in the palliative efforts of food banks, and even less so in the various reforms that only serve to prop up this system a little better. It lies first and foremost in our refusal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We therefore respond to the call of the Soul\u00e8vements du Fleuve to fight back. As long as the profits of a few take precedence, we will eat poorly and too little, and will no longer have a roof over our heads. Breaking free from the market’s grip on our livelihoods, that\u2019s our political horizon. Breaking free from the economic world that governs our lives and from our trust in \u201cour\u201d institutions, from which we no longer expect anything. Let us give ourselves the means to achieve our ambitions: let us expropriate grocery chains, create collective kitchens, turn parking lots into large vegetable gardens, and monoculture fields into collective pantries. This world does not belong to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our horizon must be linked to the sound of our firm footsteps as we take to the streets. The price of bread is rising and history is repeating itself. Those who hope to hear only the silence of social peace in the present must prepare to be disappointed. The future belongs to those who rise up. We will not remain hungry for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin des ruelles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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