Notre-Dames-Des Landes-ZAD May the sounds of our sticks be heard! Call to all diverse factions of the struggle for the 8th of octobre. Poster: Let’s hear the noise of our sticks! Prevent the airport project, defend the ZAD Start: 10am in the grove Saturday 08th of October / 08.10.2016 Demonstration, construction, party As you may know, the French government plans to build a new international airport next to Notre-Dames-des-Landes in France, which implies the destruction of traditional (...)
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Who are we?
Website of the ZAD occupation - where the future airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes is planned to be.
The ZAD - to the developers it is the Zone d’Aménagement Différé’, the differed development zone and for us it’s a Zone À Défendre: a zone to be defended. Either way, it’s a part of the countryside close to Nantes in France, which according to the decision-makers should make way for an international aiport.
Their construction project "Grand Ouest" is an economic platform of international importance stretching from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, which will form a singular, huge metropolis. Fulfilling this project means taking over the sky, the sea and the land in replacing the current airport in Nantes with a new one at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, but also enlarging the port at Saint-Nazaire and constructing new roads and highways...
Our goals, in coming to live here on the proposed site of the airport, are many: to live on a protest site, where we can be close to those who’ve been opposing the project for 40 years and to have the power to act when construction happens; to make use of abandoned spaces to learn to live together, to cultivate the land and to be more autonomous from the capitalist system.
Most texts and infos are published in french and everything is not always translated, sorry. So if you want to be sure wether there’s new info, have a look on the french website. Also, if you want to help translating, you can get in touch with us !
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Call to all diverse factions of the struggle for the 8th of octobre
22 September 2016
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Defend the zad – a call for international solidarity
20 September 2016
October 8th & 9th 2016 For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a new airport for the French city of Nantes (which by the way already has one). Now in these rich fields, forests and wetlands, which multinational Vinci want to cover in concrete, an experiment in reinventing everyday life in struggle is blossoming. Radicals from around the world, local farmers and villagers, citizen groups, trade unionists and naturalists, refugees and runaways, squatters and (...)
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Ventimiglia : migrants overcome border policies
8 August 2016
Press Release issued by the European Civic Forum This week more than 400 people from a wide range of collectives and movements worldwide met in Longo Mai for the Congress of the European Civic Forum. We would like to stress our position concerning the events that have taken place over the last few days at the France-Italy border. For several months now, repressive measures adopted against migrants are strengthened, particularly in Ventimiglia. Crossing the France-Italy border is becoming (...)
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Soon after the extremely strong and continuously increasing mobilisations of December, January and February 2016 against the planned evictions, the government attempted a strategy : on one hand, they announced a study on alternative solutions to the construction of a new airport, on the other they introduced a referendum on the project of an airport in Notre Dame des Landes, which was soon renamed a « consultation ». At that same moment, the inhabitants of the ZAD all became evictionable, (...)
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Statement from occupants of the ZAD struggle against the airport and its world on February 27, 2016
1 March 2016
Hello, We here present a statement from the occupants of the ZAD, which we tried to create collectively. It was done through open discussions to enact proposals, and we reread it repeatedly in the weekly meeting of the occupants of the ZAD. The result is a voice that, although it certainly does not reflect all the opinions of everyone, is a voice that we created together. Each week, month, and year that passes, we see the merchants’ empire colonizing the last areas that escaped the (...)
Campaign News
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news from the 25th of january to the 31
28 January 2016
Monday January 25 The big news for today is evidently the verdict of the trial against our comrades who are having their houses taken by eminent domain. Without surprise, the judge refused to transfer the affair, as the defense lawyer had asked, questioning the constitutionality of the trial. The judge declared the farms immediately evictable, along with three families who don’t have their main residence on the zone. He “gave” a two month delay to the others. He did refuse Vinci, whose lawyer (...)
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Direct Flash Infos 11th to 17th of january
12 January 2016
Ouest-France article. Three tractor drivers were arrested monday around 6pm at Saint-Etienne-de-Montluc. They were participating in a “snail operation” against the airport project. Port-Saint-Père, Aigrefeuile, between Joué-sur-Erdre and Nort-sur-Erdre, Blain, Savenay: five blockages and “snail operations” were organized this monday in the region. The collective of airport opponents COPAIN 44 intended to keep the pressure on after the big demonstration which gathered 20,000 people Saturday in (...)
Practical informations
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In case of arrest
9 January 2013
In case of arrest: If you are arrested, alert the people around you so they can inform the legal team. If you witness an arrest, call the number of the legal team which is on this flyer, and give: a physical description of the person arrested aswell as the clothes they are wearing, aswell as the time, the circumstances and place of the arrest. Never give any name over the telephone, nor any kind of information about the crimes maybe commited (for example: “my friend was doing a tag...”). (...)
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List of materials that could be useful here
29 November 2012
To start, two specific requests in "human resources" .. is looking for a dentist who is willing to receive people free or in exchange for donations and also an osteopath List updated November 28, 2012 * New updates for construction and medic! Bicycles! Caravans for auto-Media and the medic team Boots and Socks Chocolate and tobacco (or we could manage it ourselves) She-pees Oil Lamps (to see after 18h!) aluminum tape We had two forges in the Chestnut plantation and the cops (...)
Sow the ZAD
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Callout for agricultural occupation of the ZAD
25 December 2013
SOW YOUR ZAD Following more than forty years of struggle against the airport and three years of land occupation we, the farmers in struggle, resisting local inhabitants and rebel friends from all over the planet have saved this land from blind pillage and barren urbanisation. Several generations of farmers have shaped the history and the wooded landscape surrounding Notre Dame des Landes. From the past fights of farm workers unions to the present struggle against the airport, the spirit (...)
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New translation: New article
18 February 2013
20 Février 2013 - Audience au Tribunal de St Nazaire pour la ferme de Bellevue February 20iest - Court Audience in St Nazaire for Bellevue’s farm
Texts
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Winter is here !
19 December 2016
The autumn is coming to an end, and the other day we were watching the news. As usual, the politicians were rambling on about nothing very interesting. As usual, the media got overexcited. And as usual, we thought "absolutely fascinating, I’m sure". In spite of it all, contrary to what they announced, it seems that they don’t plan on evicting us, nor even to start works somewhere. We’re not going to declare victory straight away, nor start sending each other flowers. With the grumbling cops, (...)
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unconditionnal valls : text about ZAD from Mauvaise Troupe
18 October 2016
Editorial published in Le Monde in October 2016 (uncut version) As we write, the noise of helicopters tries to interfere with our concentration. Every day now, for some time, they have been circling around, high up where the airplanes don’t fly, recreating the sights and sounds of war and the threat of another conquest. César is lying in wait and trying to make his presence felt. Sometimes he stays slightly on the sidelines, the better to observe us. Is he surprised by the tractors (...)
Audiovisual ressources
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When the trees shake
13 March 2013
A documentary made by ZAD automedia about the big forest (forêt de Rohanne) before and after the evictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bm6vMyDVr4 http://archive.org/details/ZadNddlQuandLesArbresSagitentWhenTheTreesShake Soon in better quality and with subtitles that are easier to read :)
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When the Trees fume
3 March 2013
In french and in english. From the team that brought you When the Trees Shake this film starts off where the last one ended. Begining with the skillshare week held in the Rohanne forest, the film goes on to show how the evictions continued escalating, culminating with the announcement of a temporary halt to the destruction of natural areas in the zone. This film also addresses issues around ecology, our own ecological impact, different tactics employed and violence within the struggle. A (...)
Anti Répression
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Au mois de janvier et février 2017, les trois personnes titulaires du compte bancaire du comité de soutien aux inculpé.es (la caisse de solidarité de Nantes) ont été convoquées par la gendarmerie dans le cadre d’une enquête ouverte par une juge d’instruction. En se rendant à ces convocations, elles ont appris que l’enquête portait sur un appel à dons visant à financer, via la caisse de solidarité, les amendes et frais de justice de personnes condamnées1. L’instruction pourrait être longue car au-delà de (...)
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PDF du rendu
Vinci & cie
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The Calais Wall: Vinci and the other profiteers making a killing from building an anti-migrant barrier
7 October 2016
Construction work on the wall by “Eurovia VINCI”, using equipment from LIEBHERR. by Calais Research Network Work has now started on the “great wall of Calais”, the 13 foot high £2 million anti-migrant security wall ordered by the UK and French governments. The wall will block off the “jungle”, a government created slum where approximately 10,000 people are living (some trying to cross to the UK, others waiting for a welcome in France), from the motorway near the Channel’s busiest port. The money (...)
Comrades in struggle
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Dear Supporters, Is it too late to wish you all a very happy new year? Happy New Year. We hope you’re having a restful winter season. We wanted to share a slew of dates and events with you as 2017 gets going. Our 7th Birthday! As the year turns, so our birthday looms! This March Grow Heathrow will be turning 7 years old, and we’d like to invite you to come and celebrate with us from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th, with our main celebratory day on Saturday the 4th March. But don’t just attend- (...)
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No 3rd runway demonstration
14 November 2016
The time is now! Heathrow’s 3rd runway has been given the go ahead by our government. This is the first chance to make our voices heard loud and clear: We’ve defeated plans for a 3rd runway before, we’ll do it again. No compromises. Meeting at 11:30 outside the Three Magpies Pub, Bath Road, TW6 2AU. Make it colourful. . . come to sing, dance and shout. Banners! Share this event, spread it on your networks: (...)
Press
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Ventimiglia : migrants overcome border policies
8 August 2016
Press Release issued by the European Civic Forum This week more than 400 people from a wide range of collectives and movements worldwide met in Longo Mai for the Congress of the European Civic Forum. We would like to stress our position concerning the events that have taken place over the last few days at the France-Italy border. For several months now, repressive measures adopted against migrants are strengthened, particularly in Ventimiglia. Crossing the France-Italy border is becoming (...)
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Soon after the extremely strong and continuously increasing mobilisations of December, January and February 2016 against the planned evictions, the government attempted a strategy : on one hand, they announced a study on alternative solutions to the construction of a new airport, on the other they introduced a referendum on the project of an airport in Notre Dame des Landes, which was soon renamed a « consultation ». At that same moment, the inhabitants of the ZAD all became evictionable, (...)
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