A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros | Peaceful Warriors

30.5.15

A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros | Peaceful Warriors: Since the financial crisis began in 2008, Marinaleda has shot to fame — and so has its maverick mayor Juan Manuel S�nchez Gordillo, who earned the nickname,”The Spanish Robin Hood,” after organizing and carrying out a series of supermarket raids in a direct action protest last August. Basic groceries such as oil, rice and beans were loaded into carts, wheeled from the store and taken to a local food bank to help the poor, as helpless cashiers looked on, some crying.

In an interview after the event, Gordillo, the democratically elected mayor since 1979, said it was not theft, but a non-violent act of disobedience.

“There are many families who can’t afford to eat,” he argued. “In the 21st century this is an absolute disgrace. Food is a right, not something with which you speculate.”