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Dosa 13, 1600
Quvak, South Kolhar
It seemed like another normal day in the supermarket in Quvak. And for shoppers, that's no doubt what they thought it would be. Just another day living in the south, under a government they loathed but didn't know how to stop, but at least their daily lives were relatively livable. Food was a reasonable price and not scarce, water was clean, and things generally seemed okay in spite of the dictatorship that reigned over them.
But today was not in fact another day. For in fact it had been years since the companies granted a monopoly over the food market saw the sorts of profits that they used to see back when the country was unified. All of their assets in the north had been confiscated and redistributed to entrepreneurial northern Kolhari citizens. In the north, a healthy capitalistic free market had developed in the industry, with competition and a small amount of regulation from laws brought about from compromise between the Party of Honor and KPFP allowing for the development of many companies in the north. The south, however, simply had many private monopolies that were not happy at all. They lost their profits and wanted to recover it.
When rush-hour came to the supermarkets, people were shocked to see that prices of food had doubled and in some cases even tripled. The store employees were just as shocked, and the managers couldn't offer any explanations. Many assumed it was corporate greed, which was true but only partly. The other part of the story being that the fascist government recently ended subsidies to the industry, while maintaining the monopoly's. Without those subsidies, some of the company's would go under, unless they raised prices that is. Not that many people in the supermarkets realized this, they assumed it was another move by monopolies aimed at squeezing the populace for money, all in the name of profits (and patriotism of course).
They were not happy. It didn't take long for shouting matches between store managers and shoppers became a regular sight on that day. They continued well into the night, and would happen regularly.
Dosa 14, 1600
It was another day and crowds gathered at the supermarkets. More shouting matches between shoppers and managers, though it was only the second day it was already a regular sight. Some smaller managers again tried to explain that it was beyond their own control, that they had been told to do it by people in ranks higher than them. By now several groups had begun organizing themselves to collectively go to stores to try and pressure managers into lowering prices, but this got them nowhere. Finally, defeated by the end of the day, some of these groups met together and conferred.
It was around this time that news that the government ended subsidies to the food industries spread, and the people decided to make their opinion of the move known. The next day, they would gather in Quvak.
Dosa 15, 1600
It was a group of roughly 400. All of them a particular type of person. They were mothers and fathers, people who had families to take care if. Though the mothers far outnumbered the fathers, as women in Kolhar were traditionally in charge of protecting the house (a job that in Kolhar was considered equally important if not more important than the man's traditional role of leaving the house for jobs). They saw themselves as doing their motherly duty to protect their households from a threat, in this case the threat of not being able to afford food.
The government quickly took note of this and tried to contain the protests with police. Though they were successful in ending the demonstrations early, they did not realize this was simply the first domino to fall.
Quvak, South Kolhar
It seemed like another normal day in the supermarket in Quvak. And for shoppers, that's no doubt what they thought it would be. Just another day living in the south, under a government they loathed but didn't know how to stop, but at least their daily lives were relatively livable. Food was a reasonable price and not scarce, water was clean, and things generally seemed okay in spite of the dictatorship that reigned over them.
But today was not in fact another day. For in fact it had been years since the companies granted a monopoly over the food market saw the sorts of profits that they used to see back when the country was unified. All of their assets in the north had been confiscated and redistributed to entrepreneurial northern Kolhari citizens. In the north, a healthy capitalistic free market had developed in the industry, with competition and a small amount of regulation from laws brought about from compromise between the Party of Honor and KPFP allowing for the development of many companies in the north. The south, however, simply had many private monopolies that were not happy at all. They lost their profits and wanted to recover it.
When rush-hour came to the supermarkets, people were shocked to see that prices of food had doubled and in some cases even tripled. The store employees were just as shocked, and the managers couldn't offer any explanations. Many assumed it was corporate greed, which was true but only partly. The other part of the story being that the fascist government recently ended subsidies to the industry, while maintaining the monopoly's. Without those subsidies, some of the company's would go under, unless they raised prices that is. Not that many people in the supermarkets realized this, they assumed it was another move by monopolies aimed at squeezing the populace for money, all in the name of profits (and patriotism of course).
They were not happy. It didn't take long for shouting matches between store managers and shoppers became a regular sight on that day. They continued well into the night, and would happen regularly.
Dosa 14, 1600
It was another day and crowds gathered at the supermarkets. More shouting matches between shoppers and managers, though it was only the second day it was already a regular sight. Some smaller managers again tried to explain that it was beyond their own control, that they had been told to do it by people in ranks higher than them. By now several groups had begun organizing themselves to collectively go to stores to try and pressure managers into lowering prices, but this got them nowhere. Finally, defeated by the end of the day, some of these groups met together and conferred.
It was around this time that news that the government ended subsidies to the food industries spread, and the people decided to make their opinion of the move known. The next day, they would gather in Quvak.
Dosa 15, 1600
It was a group of roughly 400. All of them a particular type of person. They were mothers and fathers, people who had families to take care if. Though the mothers far outnumbered the fathers, as women in Kolhar were traditionally in charge of protecting the house (a job that in Kolhar was considered equally important if not more important than the man's traditional role of leaving the house for jobs). They saw themselves as doing their motherly duty to protect their households from a threat, in this case the threat of not being able to afford food.
The government quickly took note of this and tried to contain the protests with police. Though they were successful in ending the demonstrations early, they did not realize this was simply the first domino to fall.