Where Should the Food Protests Be? AT THE SUPERMARKETS! Where the Food Is!
The announcements have gone out throughout NJ local municipalities – the Federal Government is not allowing the funds allocated to feed SNAP beneficiaries during a government shutdown to be expended for that congressionally approved purpose. The SNAP benefits are not flowing and 40 M Americans including 830,000 NJ citizens and residents, almost 9% of NJ’s population face immediate food insecurity. It does not seem likely that the Murphy administratoin has a plan to provide the food on an immediate basis. NJ OAG Platkin has rightfully filed legal action to demand the SNAP funds be released but no plan has been announced to bring food to the people who will face immediate food shortage emergencies on and after November 1. 2025.
IF there is not some miracle within the next couple of days that releases ths fund – NJ has an emergency on its hands unlike any we have encountered – deliberate government action to begin to starve close to 1M NJ people. Silence is not an option – mass mobilizations are the option.
This can be practice for all of the calls for general strike. The food supplies are at supermarkets – with ready for consumption food. A very legitimate demand from NJ could be:
All supermarket chains operating in NJ must donate a percentage of their food products to food distribution efforts. The percentage shall be determined by the amount of food needed to prevent hunger among NJ’s 830 K SNAP food recipients.
We can focus protets at the supermarkets. NJ OAG can figure out how to relieve the chains from the liability fear they will raise – perhaps with an inspection regiment that can assure the donated food is unexpired and edible. There can be other touch points to protest – anyone supporting the SNAP cuts should be uncomfortable in public and offices of the responsible parties, agencies, elected officials should also be inundated. But where the food is – is where there is potential for immediate remedy to prevent immediate health and safety dangers from the manufactured forced starvation – so large food outlets should be targeted.
IThat is an intial proposal – what do others think?
Let’s call this proposal “food for thought” for now!
It is almost like – to quote a Christmas song in this macabre way – with forced hunger crisis right now:
ITS GETTING TO BE A LOT LIKE GAZA! EVERY WHERE WE GO! They passing IHRA to take our rights away . .
Forcing folks to starve – their depravity is hard YOU KNOW!
