In 2018, its franchiser said he would sell his five other locations to a fellow McDonald’s franchiser. This particular store, however, would be sold on its own and turned into a halal restaurant, NPR reports.
Closing the branch would mean shutting off a major source of employment for the neighborhood. One of the food bank’s organizers told Vice that, with the McDonald’s gone, the only other place for residents to find work was a local hypermarket.
So Guemari took drastic action. In August 2018, he locked himself in the restaurant, drenched himself in gasoline and threatened to light himself on fire, Forbes reports. In the coming weeks, other employees would join him in occupying the McDonald’s to protest its planned closure.
When the pandemic hit, the workers stepped up to feed residents. They dubbed the location “L'Après M,” or “the after M,” to represent the new life it has taken on after serving as a McDonald’s. Farmers, shops and organizations donated food to L'Après M, while locals chipped in cash to fund its operations, according to Vice.
The food bank served at least 100,000 people in its first five weeks of operation, according to Vice.
Earlier this month, Marseille’s government announced it would buy the building, saving it from closure over its illegal occupation, according to The Washington Post. Besides distributing food, the food bank hosts a variety of events today, in line with its community-building mission.
White folks ain’t going to reblog this. They want their version of MK Jr. that only said “I have a dream”.
Guilt tripping white people into reblogging stuff isn’t going to make you have more allies, just saying.
It’s not about guilt tripping.
It’s about white people, even well-intentioned white allies, being too comfortable in their privilege and not learn more about the complex beliefs of civil right leader MLK Jr other than his “I have a dream” speech. MLK Jr. talked extensively about American Imperialism, Capitalism, and White Fragility/Complicity throughout his career and activism, which most Liberal white allies won’t share because they’re too comfortable with the white lies they were taught in schools.
Reblogged.
totally agree, however that is still guilt tripping lol
here’s the hilarious thing about calling this “guilt tripping.” the psychological definition of a “guilt trip” is an UNJUSTIFIED feeling of guilt induced in someone else. um, what about anything here said about white people that’s “unjustified” or baseless? we’ve got over 400yrs of evidence to back up our statements about white people. we even got studies, research and stats. none of which shows what @dreamyblackchild said to be false.
lmaoo white people love to act like we don’t have centuries of examples of who they are. always want to act brand new. like this suspicion and mistrust of your character isn’t earned every fucking day by your behavior, your treatment of black people, native people, brown people, by who you vote for, who you support with your money, who you tone police, your “jokes” and more. foh! like there isn’t a trail of dead black, native and brown bodies in your wake. we watched y’all whitewash the fuck out of mlk’s legacy (AFTER KILLING HIM BTW) and then tried to use that whitewashed version to limit our fight for liberation and justice to just the acts your comfortable with and then have the fucking nerve to say that calling out your typical behavior to be “guilt tripping?” fuck you.
the one other thing i know about “guilt tripping” is that it only works on people with a fucking conscious. foh!
no effort whatsoever. like mlk said…
for all the constant mlk quoting about “content of our character” blah blah blah i hear from white people, how do they think this reflects on their character?
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