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Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a threat to all humanity. But it’s working-class people who are suffering most — and faced with both crises, Emmanuel Macron’s government is not taking concrete action to help.
France is one of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic (...)
More than 100 portraits of president removed in symbolic civil disobedience movement.
It was a quiet Monday afternoon in the picturesque town hall of Lingolsheim, outside Strasbourg. The school summer holidays had started and it was exceptionally hot. But at 4pm something extraordinary (...)
What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of, that would lead him to act so violently? Today living a little outside the system constitutes a threat to neoliberalism.
Kristin Ross’s account of her visits to the ZAD was told to Eric Aeschimann and first published in L’Obs
Zadistes flee a police grenade. via the Nantes Révoltée Facebook page.
I first went to the ZAD in spring 2016, two years ago now. I was impressed by the mix of people — there were more women and elderly people than you generally find (...)
This communiqué was first published at Zone A Défendre . Translated by David Broder.
The ZAD will not disappear. We live here, we are rooted in this piece of countryside, we will not leave.
Cabin of the Vraies Rouges at the ZAD, which houses the English language library, threatened with (...)
It is imperative that we succeed in defending the ZAD just as it is imperative that we succeed in defending the SNCF, the universities, and all the public services, against Emmanuel Macron and the world that he represents
Sign from the re-occupation demonstration, November 2012. via Justice (...)
As of yesterday [January 17, 2018], the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes is buried forever, by the courage, love and determination of hundreds of occupants, thousands of allies and millions of sympathizers.
You don’t have to visit la ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes to understand why the (...)
Yesterday’s decision by the French government to abandon its plans for a new €580m (£513m) airport at Notre-Dame-Des-Landes lead to jubilant scenes at the Zad. The Zad–Zone à Defendre, a small piece of land near the proposed airport–is site of the longest and largest social struggle in France, and (...)
Government ends decades of debate by opting instead to expand an existing airport in Nantes.
The French government has abandoned plans for a new €580m (£513m) airport in western France, a sensitive decision that past governments had shirked for decades, but announced campaigners who have (...)
In a heroic struggle of solidarity and resistance, locals and activists of the ZAD have been fighting against the construction of an airport for many years. [January 17, 2018, the French government has eventually cancelled the project for good, a rare and precious victory. The struggle (...)
Editorial by the Mauvaise Troupe Collective published in Le Monde in October 2016 (uncut version).
UNCONDITIONAL VALLS VS. THE ZAD
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 (...)
In October 2014 student Rémi Fraisse was killed by a grenade thrown by a gendarme during a protest over plans to build a dam at Sivens in south-west France. A year later the judicial investigation into the 21-year-old’s death has become bogged down. Investigators have sifted through the victim’s (...)
Earlier this month, exceptional rainfall caused flash floods in south-east France that swept through the streets of towns and villages, killing 20 people and causing an estimated 500 million euros of damage. It was the latest in a long list of major catastrophic flooding disasters in the (...)
The propaganda of the media and the government will not change anything. The mass rally on 3rd and 4th August at Notre-Dame-des-Landes is a success in terms of mobilization against the Ayraultport .
Far from the ridiculous figure of 4,000 participants announced by the local authorities and the (...)
Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here we go! I think I’ve got it?” The plastic pitch of a corporate jingle pierces the speakers: “Radio Vinci Autoroute: This is the (...)
Notre Dame des Landes
Facing the evictions : Demonstration of reoccupation !
To rebuild - against the airport !
Pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools in hand...
Meeting Saturday November 17th in the morning.
To read the call online or dowload posters, (...)
Greenpeace brings symbols of outrage to French doorstep: ’France, Your Waste Kills!’
February 09, 2006
New Delhi, India - Greenpeace activists were prevented from delivering protest bags, each an individual petition, with the message, ’France, your waste kills!’ to the French embassy in India. (...)
France - French President Chirac has announced a dramatic recall of the asbestos-laden warship Clemenceau — it will be turning around and going back to France. Our actions, emails to Chirac and an embarrassing international scandal left France with little choice but to abandon the misguided (...)
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