Tag: ZAD Occupation

ZAD Reocupación: 20,000 toman el solar /Re-take Airport Site!

17th November 2012 – Today marks the full-force reoccupation of an area known as the ZAD (zone à défendre – zone to defend) in Notre Dame des Landes, Brittany, France. In response to the brutal eviction and bulldozing of various farms, the disruption of livestock and tear-gas poisoning of vegetable gardens by riot police during the last week of October 2012, between 20,000 and 40,000 people are estimated to be on-site today. They are constructing cabins and cleaning up the land to get it ready to be inhabited once again. You can check out a weekend-long livestream here: http://ow.ly/flopU. Continue reading “ZAD Reocupación: 20,000 toman el solar /Re-take Airport Site!”

ZAD airport eviction: Resistance grows

A huge military police operation continues to play cat and mouse with the thousands of Occupiers of the ZAD site of the proposed ‘white elephant’ airport in Nantes, NW France.

/Expulsions#slideshow(fotografies de la resistència al desallotjament)

Pour vous orienter sur la zone, voici 4 cartes précises : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Les gens demandent à être ravitaillés en chaussettes fringues sèches et chaudes / cirés, imperméables, etc. (à capuches !) / bottes (surtout au-delà du 41) / lampes frontales / radios portatives / piles pour lampes (AAA) et radios / pochettes plastiques pour protéger les cartes géographiques / nourriture (barres de céréales, fruits secs, café, thé, infusions, miel, guarana, soja, gingembre, huile, riz/pâtes, etc.) Continue reading “ZAD airport eviction: Resistance grows”

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