Christmastime 1997, Loblaws arrested Santa & 2 elves for directly depositing 1000s of dollars worth of quality food from the store into the food bank bin without paying for it, part of the millions Loblaws owed the community. The grocery chain was declared a corporate hypocrite by members of Toronto - ThreadSky

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matthewbehrens.bsky.social • 77 days ago

Christmastime 1997, Loblaws arrested Santa & 2 elves for directly depositing 1000s of dollars worth of quality food from the store into the food bank bin without paying for it, part of the millions Loblaws owed the community. The grocery chain was declared a corporate hypocrite by members of Toronto

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lalegault.bsky.social•77 days ago

I remember my parents switching grocery stores.

matthewbehrens.bsky.social•77 days ago

Action for Social Change (part of Homes not Bombs) for profiting off of poverty. Loblaws refused dialogue to end root causes of hunger (inc. Loblaws' greed, $60 million in deferred, unpaid taxes, paying executives multi-million dollar salaries & supporting right-wing regimes whose social spending

matthewbehrens.bsky.social•77 days ago

cutbacks created further poverty and hunger, like Mike Harris). It hired private goons to stalk us and brought out the constabulary to arrest the Easter Bunny, Santa, Great Pumpkin, Robin Hood & numerous others. To this day, all members of TASC are barred from entering any Loblasws store & if we

matthewbehrens.bsky.social•77 days ago

were to "perform such activities as providing pamphlets to our customers while on Company property or picking up grocery products in our store and depositing them directly into a Food Bank drop-off location without purchasing the product, will be classified as trespassing and the appropriate

matthewbehrens.bsky.social•77 days ago

authorities will be advised and requested to act." 27 years later, Homes not Bombs continues to engage in creative direct actions to resist and transform individual and institutional violence. You can support our work with etransfers to [email protected]

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