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VICTORY AFTER EPIC STRUGGLE.. WHO NEEDS POLICE… WHO NEEDS GOVERNMENT ?
A Rally called for 10th February 2018 to defend the autonomous area will likely now become a massive celebration of how we can live peacefully and creatively without authorities. Now is the time to spread the network of ZADs across the planet.
In a communique the famous horizontal community Zone à Defendre (ZAD) has declared a “historic victory” and called for “expropriated peasants and inhabitants to be able to fully recover their rights as soon as possible.”
Up to 300 eco-warriors live in the ZAD: officially the Zone d’aménagement différé (zone for future development), renamed by protesters as the Zone à défendre (zone to defend). The local mayor, Jean-Paul Naud, says 75% of the area’s residents oppose the proposed airport. Critics of the plan pointed out there is already an airport at Nantes just 26km away
The entirety of the land area devoted to the airport project — 1,650 hectares of land declared as being of public utility in 2008 — currently belongs to the State, with the exception of three roads crossing it. The ZAD has argued that this land should be kept in public hands and, rather than turned into an airport, put into forms of public lease for the benefit of the community and wildlife.
Protesters block access to a farm inside the ‘Zone à défendre’. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images












