This article [from Rabble] is about developments in the ZAD (‘Zone to Defend’), the site in Western France of a 9+ year occupation against the construction of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport by French construction giant, Vinci. Things have been heating up in France following the decision by a Nantes court to press ahead with the eviction […]
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France: Recent actions against Vinci and the state in solidarity with the ZAD
France/Finland: Direct actions from Rennes to Helsinki in solidarity with the ZAD
This Friday, January 22nd, at dawn, people decided to blockade the road passing through the middle of the construction site for the new Eurorennes train station and in front of the women’s prisons’ main entrance. Bins were overturned, oil spilled and the following text plastered on the jail walls and site fences: This morning, we’re […]
Melbourne, Australia: Disruption of Vinci and French Consulate in solidarity with the ZAD
To the defenders of the ZAD, Solidarity from anarchists in so-called ‘Melbourne, Australia’- the never-ceded indigenous land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, stolen and occupied by the genocidal settler-colonial state. In response to recent threats of violent eviction by the French State, actions were taken at several locations in Melbourne, the city […]
Nantes, France: Police station repainted in support of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes
Whilst the cases of the last legal occupants of the Zad were being judged this Wednesday [January 13th 2016], we set out to repaint the red police station facade of the Beaujoire neighbourhood, in the purest tradition of Nantes-style greenwashing. We’re not fooled: we know well that every court defeat implies a confidence uptake for […]
Lille/Toulouse, France: Spontaneous march and flaming barricades in solidarity with the ZAD
Lille, France: Support action to the blocking of Nantes’ ring-road At this very moment in Lille [Saturday 9th January] a day/evening is being held of support to the ZAD of Notre Dame des Landes and the inhabitants that face trial this Wednesday 13th January. More than 100 people gathered in the General Assembly decided to […]
Lille: Afternoon/evening of support to the ZAD of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes
Film, snacks, literature, discussion, pizza, bar, concert. January 9th 2016 from 3pm at La Ferblanterie (15 Rue Abélard, Lille, Metro: Porte d’Arras) Excerpt: For a few months the government has announced its wish, to resume airport works involving the eviction of its inhabitants; destruction of the grove, its cultures and protected species. This is why, […]
Notre-Dame-Des-Landes, France: Call for bids on the ZAD “To build a future without an aeroport”
Resumption of public works 30th and 31st January 2016 Herein-below the list of proposed lots, updated 25th December The “steering committee for a future without an aeroport” launch a call for bids to start the public works (which never ceased from our side) on the ZAD the 30th and 31st January 2016, just after the […]
France: Against the airport and the Cop21 – Attacks in solidarity with the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
While the multinational Vinci is an official partner of the “COP21 Solutions: Come live the climate experience” exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, providing two conferences there (one of which is co-presented by an executive director of Veolia), to explain to the public at which point their approach is “green”, sustainable and eco-responsible; its […]
France: ZAD facing eviction threat – call for solidarity
Some context for the international community: Over the past month the Prime Minister, President, and pro-airport lobby have been increasingly vocal and clear about their desire to evict the ZAD [Notre-Dame-Des-Landes] and begin work on the airport as soon as they can. The time frame of January-March is recurrent in their public declarations. These are […]
Toulouse, France: Summary of repression from recent ZAD demos & solidarity with IAATA.info
About the arrestees, convictions and those locked-up from the November and February ZAD demonstrations in Toulouse. A call for solidarity. Whilst there is currently a campaign of international solidarity and also against the conviction of a single demonstrator from November, it seems important to us to sum up the verdicts and bring forward our modest […]
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Three ‘Vinci’ lackeys chased out of the ZAD (and their vehicles sabotaged)
Wednesday morning [April 29th], in Vigneux-de-Bretagne, three biologists from Angers who came to study marbled newt were chased off by a dozen masked individuals. In recent days, scientists from Gecco (Ecology and Conservation of Vertebrates Group), a Faculty of Sciences laboratory in Angers, have been taking samples on the ZAD. The concessionaire appointed by the state, […]
Sivens, France: Eviction of the ZAD of Testet!
Since the morning of the 6th March, the situation at Sivens has rapidly evolved…after some days of tension and repetitive aggressions from members of the FNSEA [*] towards the occupants of the ZAD of Testet, all has accelerated. Here is information about what happened, as taken from the website Tant qu’il y aura des bouilles […]
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