Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD – Europe’s largest Postcapitalist land occupation.

Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD – Europe’s largest Postcapitalist land occupation..

News and a repeat of the call for resistance this weekend

News and a repeat of the call for resistance this weekend

Le Rosier and La Sécherie have been granted a stay on their eviction.

The dates are, respectively, 15 November and 27 December. This news does not affect the call that was made for this weekend of 27-28 October. For two weeks, since the State, the PS and Vinci began sending their troops to evict and expel, support in the form of word and deed has been flowing in and, that is very encouraging. With this invitation, we hope that the support will take on even more consistency and strengthen our ties. That is what will happen as we defend, all of us, the people and the places that are a barrier against their planned destruction. By choosing to assemble, instead of submitting to the expulsions, we demonstrate our determination and reaffirm that we are strong in resisting them.

This weekend, we call on everyone to come and enrich the spaces of resistance, the encounters, and the diverse energies that keep us going. The more numerous we are, the better we will be able to unite our practices and turn the places threatened by eviction and expulsion into spaces that are protected against the gendarmes (“weapon-people”) and the developers.

In practical terms: meet at La Vache Rit: – this Friday 26 October at 9 p.m. – then Saturday 27 and Monday 29 at 5 a.m. (yes, in the morning!) for breakfast.

For more information: zad.nadir.org/

 

 

NEWS FLASH from the ZAD (Nantes airport site occupation)

Friday 26 October 2012, by zadist

See below for the daily news feed

Go HERE for general info, how to get to us, photos and videos, news of the previous week, what to bring etc.

You’re invited to join us for this weekend : invitation for the “second wave of expulsions” For the camp to be organized for this occasion (on ground we can’t be evicted from), we’re looking for marquees, circus tents, pavilions, or other such structures. Get in touch if you can lend us one!

AIDE/HELP: We need translations into English, but also other languages. In particular the News Flashes and call to decentralized actions!!!!! Thank you!!

Meetings

Daily meetings:

Notre Dame des Landes, from 9 a.m.: station on the Place de la Poste (union hall – diagonally across from the Mairie [town hall]) for rides to the Zone
Nantes, from 10 AM: citizen’s watch at Pont Morand
Nantes, 7PM currently for a couple of evenings: assemble in front of the Préfecture
Rennes, at 6PM every evening: info update at the Maison de la Grève

Meetings today:
de 10h30 à 17h30 à Nîmes : L’association ARBRES tiendra un stand d’information place de l’horloge
Nantes : à 19h : Assemblée d’organisation de la manif de réoccupation
ZAD : à 21h invitation pour la “deuxième vague d’expulsion”
Strasbourg : manif contre l’aéroport ICI
Rennes :à 18h30 rassemblement à , place de la mairie,
Chateaubriant : à 18h30 rassemblement devant la mairie
La Roche sur Yon :à 18h devant la Préfecture de Vendée :Soutien expulsion d’une famille et expulsion de la ZAD

Upcoming meetings:
du 26 au 28/10 : Toulouse ; congrès national du PS … appel à rassemblement ici
Samedi 27/10 à 15h, Nantes 4ème manif mensuelle contre l’aéroport
Samedi 27/10 : Lille pique-nique
Samedi 27/10 – Vannes – 9h30 devant la Poste : en soutien aux anti-aéroport de NDDLandes et contre les expulsions
Mercredi 31/10 : Le collectif “Vinci Dégage Touraine” appelle à un rassemblement devant le siège de la filiale immobilier de cette entreprise à 18h, 52 bis rue Bernard Palissy à Tours

HERE meetings our comrades in the struggle have told us about.

Map with good resolution HERE

Despite what the honorable Prefect suggests, logistical  organization at the ZAD is still operational! The bakery has been arranged to serve as a ZAD center and is open on the same days and times as before! 

Daily news feed

10:20: a gendarmerie van with the facial recognition specialist aboard it is patrolling the area

9:30 : verdict from the sentencing judge:

Le Rosier has until 15 November and La Sécherie until 27 December!!! We’re not done we being a thorn in their side!!! The call for this weekend is still in place – to be together, defend places in danger of expulsion, rebuild, and prepare for the future!

9:00: a few rare police cars on the horizon …

7:00: The ZAD awakes gently to the sound of Radio Klaxon, which is broadcasting excerpts of news stories about recent days and the jingle for the re-occupation demonstration … (this evening we’ll know the date!)

Communiqué from the Occupiers at Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Second wave of expulsions planned to begin October 27: 

Invitation for the weekend and the following days *

(flyer below)

We had said “We won’t go,” and for the past 8 days, you can’t say we aren’t trying! But when it’s 10 to 1…

The bastards have evicted, razed, and burned – all quite sustainably and responsibly, of course – ten of our homes and meeting places; they haven’t gotten it through their heads yet that they can tear down our houses, but our ties remain intact: we keep knitting, you keep knitting… and there’s the rub!

Saturday, 27 October, La Sécherie, La Saulce and Le Rosier, our last three “real houses” (sic), will be legally subject to expulsion.

And in fact, maybe they hope that this week of 27 October to 3 November will sign the death warrant of what we’ve been doing and living here.

But a promise is a promise, no? So we’re not moving.

So please come, starting from Friday evening – because we know how to pick the right time – to enjoy the weekend, build, fill up those three houses, talk, party, and in short… keep on living!

Logistically speaking, bring everything you can for a camp that will last several days – tents, blankets, duvets, building materials, friends, relatives, ideas, music… but above all please not your dog (for the sake of his/her life and our nerves).

Weekend meeting times/places

Friday 26 October beginning 9 PM at La Vache Rit
for breakfast, from Saturday 27, Sunday 28, Monday 29 (and the following days if necessary) at 5 AM at La Vache Rit
and in fact, Saturday 27 is also the 3^rd anniversary of La Sécherie… big celebration?!

(*this invitation is also called “Come surf the 2^nd wave of expulsions” …)

Reoccupation Demonstration Against the Proposed Nantes Airport

Reoccupation demonstration

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A message from the ZAD (“Zone à defendre,” the site of the proposed airport) sent on  20 October about the resistance to the evictions and the reoccupation demo.

As a first step, a meeting has been organised to discuss the reoccupation demo on Friday 2 October at B17, 17 rue Paul Bellamy, Nantes. The precise date of the reoccupation demo will be confirmed at this meeting. For more explanation, and an opinion on the situation, read the following:

===On the evictions and current resistance===

The ZAD was invaded, and three-eighths occupied by hundreds of police of all kinds last Tuesday morning (16/10/2012). Little by little, they attacked the occupied houses and huts, destroying them, and scrupulously removing all of the debris from the zone in order that nothing that might serve the resistance or reconstruction be left behind.

The sites and fields still occupied are regularly harassed, sprayed with tear gas, and trampled. The police are trying to prevent any meeting or demonstration. Since Tuesday, the occupiers and those who have come to support them have countered with barricades, roadblocks on the roads used by the cops, by reoccupations, projectiles, fires, insults and sarcasm… For 4 days now, in constant rain, a few hundred people have held the zone, at all costs, against the police, and they have every intention of staying. Demonstrations and actions have taken place every evening in Nantes and other cities, and it is not over yet.

Seven houses have already been evicted, as well as some huts, but there are several others that remain, scattered throughout the woods and fields, and in the trees. Apart from the occupiers, the tenants, owners and farmers continue to be threatened. They are also being forced to leave the ZAD. In other words, this super-sized eviction attempt is now well under way. We cannot at this moment predict how the evictions are going to go. They may or may not be continuous, affecting the other huts and inhabitants in the next few days. But it seems certain that the military occupation of the zone and the demolition of the houses that have been evicted will continue next week. “Le Sabot” (the cultivable land occupied following the demo of 7 May 2010) has resisted all the police harassment of the last week, but it is possible that the Prefecture will seek to force them to leave in the next week. At “Fosses noires” a house that was evicted on Friday evening, then reoccupied a few hours later, is threatened within the next 48 hours. The tree huts and other aerial installations remain occupied and may increase in number.

It is highly likely however that a second grand offensive will take place after the 28 October, because 3 houses will be newly evictable, including “les Rosiers,” the first occupied building in the ZAD, which has now been occupied for 5 years. Be that as it may, we need reinforcement and relief and creativity in the coming days and weeks, both here, to reconstruct and continue the occupation, as well as action elsewhere to keep up the pressure.

As the struggle intensifies, and especially if there are arrests, everything possible must be done to ensure that the occupiers do not find themselves isolated. (Follow zad.nadir.org to get ideas for action, meeting points, up-to-date info on the situation on the ground, and advice about what to bring.)

Kudos and profound thanks to everyone who has already taken action in solidarity, demonstrated, whether that be 3 people or 2,000, sent messages of support, brought food and supplies, socks, and other things required for the struggle… It warms our hearts, and feet, and bolsters morale, on these rainy days of resistance, to know that others are targeting the Socialist Party, Vinci, and their cronies, builders of the airport, and destroyers of our lives.

=== Reoccupation demo ===

With respect to the reoccupation demo, already planned should evictions take place (see the announcement), we still see the necessity for an event with wide, constructive and aggressive mobilisation following this first round of evictions. It is still worth saying that we, the occupiers, locals and incomers, farmers and activists, have yet to lose anything in this struggle: We will always return, and we will not allow this airport to be built. Together we must construct an open place to organise the struggle for the threatened land. Our actions increasingly call this project into question, and keep it in everyone’s minds.

The reoccupation demo will therefore be well received!

We had announced that it would take place on the fourth Saturday following the first significant evictions from the zone. However, though this first wave of evictions has well and truly started in the last four days, it has not seen any respite and we have had hardly had a chance to rest even a minute. Because of this, we have decided that it will be necessary for us to take a step back from the situation before confirming a date.

We therefore call for a meeting to organise this reoccupation demonstration on Friday 26 October at 1900h (7 every evening) at B17, 17 rue Paul Bellamy in Nantes. All groups, associations and individuals who wish to take part are welcome. The date of the demonstration will be confirmed following this meeting. We invite you to pass on the message as widely and rapidly as possible, so that everyone is able to arrange to come. We call on all of the collectives who support the reoccupation to begin to mobilise and to organise on the issue. As we wait we are already looking for communal kitchens, marquees, musicians, batukudas, hut kits, materials, tools, tractors, etc. with a view to reoccupying.

All enquiries to: reclaimthezad@riseup.net

[signed] The occupiers of the ZAD and supporting collectives, who cede nothing

Some rendez-vous ================

Every day:

– Notre Dame des Landes, 9 AM and after: presence on the Place de la Poste (local des Syndicats – opposite to the communal house) to go to the area – Nantes, from 10 AM: citizens’ presence at Pont Morand – Nantes, 7 every evening every evening: gathering in front of the Préfecture – Rennes, 6 every evening every evening: info at Maison de la Grève

Today thuesday:

– Paris: meeting to prepare support initiatives 7 every evening at CICP. – Redon: support gathering in front of the Sous-Préfecture at 6 PM.

Tomorrow (Wednesday)

– 8 AM: Ayrault (Prime Minister and former mayor of Nantes, who supports the airport) will be a guest on France Inter radio. It’s possible to leave them messages: l_finter_le_sept_neuf@radiofrance.com / +33 (0)1 56 40 14 14 listener’s service of France Inter Monday through Friday 9:30 AM to 6 PM). – 2 PM Carcassonne: solidarity gathering in front of the courthouse against evictions on the ZAD – 6 PM Saint-Nazaire (Fontaines République): demonstration to support inhabitants of the ZAD and against the Notre-Dame des Landes airport

Later on…

25 October Vienna: information evening on the evictions and the ZAD

26 October Strasbourg: demo against the Notre-Dame des Landes airport (to be confirmed)

27 October: – Nantes: monthly demo against the airport and the world that comes with it at 3 PM, Place Royale – Lille: picnic against the Notre-Dame des Landes airport

Don’t hesitate to send us information about more gatherings at zad@riseup.net

Follow info on our Web site: http://zad.nadir.org/

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