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• Ecology (France)

  Macron Dreamed of Celebrating May ’68 — and Then Sent in the Riot Cops against Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD

  13 April, by AESCHIMANN Eric, ROSS Kristin

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): The Evictions Have Begun — the ZAD Calls for Mobilisation

  10 April, by Zone à Défendre

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): In Defence of the ZAD – against Emmanuel Macron and the world that he represents

  8 April, by Collective

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): La ZAD scores major victory: airport plans are cancelled!

  18 January, by BALAMIR Selçuk

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): Six Points for the Future of the Zad

  18 January, by Collectif Mauvaise Troupe

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): France abandons plan for €580m airport and orders squatters off site

  17 January, by WILLSHER Kim

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of France – The fight against the construction of a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes

  26 January 2017, by LEGALL Martin

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  France: the battle of Notre-Dame-des-Landes against a new airport – A community in struggle has come into being

  22 October 2016, by Collectif Mauvaise Troupe

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Sivens October 2014-2015: A year on, probe into death of Rémi Fraisse, French dam protester stalls

  25 October 2015, by DELEAN Michel

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Ecology: The reasons behind France’s recurrent deadly floods

  8 October 2015, by PRACONTAL Michel de

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  France – Notre-Dame-des-Landes: a popular and militant success!

  8 August 2013, by NPA 44

  The propaganda of the media and the government will not change anything. The mass rally on 3^rd and 4^th 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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD (Notre dames des Landes, France) – Europe’s largest Postcapitalist land occupation

  14 November 2012, by Laronceblog

  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 (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Notre-Dames-des-Landes (France) : Call : Face evictions, the nov. 17th, reoccupation demo !

  29 octobre 2012, par Zone à Défendre

  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, (...)

• Ecology (France)

  News of the protest actions against the Clémenceau being sent to India

  9 February 2006, by Greenpeace France

  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. (...)

• Ecology (France)

  Victory: Toxic warship Clemenceau turned back to France!

  15 January 2006, by Greenpeace France

  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 (...)