Eviction callout from ZAD (occupied area against airport construction, France)

Call-out for sup­port, to come, to the occu­pied area of Notre Dame des Lan­des (france) to organ­ise against the com­ing evic­tions.…

about the occu­pied area of Notre Dame des Lan­des (NDDL)
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two years ago, in the area set aside for the con­struc­tion of a new air­port, we reclaimed the land and the hous­es left aban­doned. Two years, to occu­py, live, organ­ise our­selves, think, chase off con­trac­tors, sur­vey­ors, soil-sam­ple drillers and oth­er ‘experts’. Two years to meet, make links, plot against the world, and see the mil­i­tary and heli­copters pass.

Today, many of the occu­pied areas have been con­vened to appear in court in prepa­ra­tion of a mas­sive evic­tion. If we are here, its to not leave this place free for them to destroy, con­trol, and con­crete over. To make them under­stand that they are not on con­quered land. Where­as the evic­tions which are being pre­pared will be a mar­tyr­dom or ‘vic­to­ry’ for them, for us it will be a fies­ta: a fies­ta because we know that they won’t chase us away with a bull­doz­er; that they can destroy our hous­es, burn our cab­ins, we will stay. We will stay and this strug­gle will con­tin­ue.

about the tri­al.…
the 11th august, many areas have been con­vened to appear in court in Nantes. We hope to get a delay. The 17th august, the oth­er occu­pied areas will be judge in the court of Saint Nazaire. We are call­ing for a mass gath­er­ing / demo in front of the court house of Saint Nazaire from 8am the 17th august. Also, from the 16th to 19th august, we invite every­one to the squat ‘les planchettes’ (direc­tions giv­en lat­er in text) to meet, dis­cuss and organ­ise.

.….and then we will be evictable.…

as soon as we know the date giv­en by the judge, we call every­one to come on mass to sup­port the evictable areas. From the 17th, keep an eye on our web­site zad.nadir.org (most­ly in french, we will try to keep news updat­ed in eng­lish also, oth­er­wise use inter­net trans­la­tor, sor­ry…) to know the com­ing dates. we will need as many humans, ener­gy, mate­r­i­al, good ideas etc. as pos­si­ble to defend the area and resist the evic­tions.

we are already organ­is­ing to wel­come as many peo­ple, and to cre­ate a strat­e­gy where all kinds of defence tac­tics can find their place.

and from now.…
from now, if you are avail­able and moti­vat­ed, you can come and have a look at the area, imag­ine and brain­storm with your group what is pos­si­ble to do, to help us skip/find as much mate­r­i­al as pos­si­ble, and to stay as long as you like. As there is a lot to think about, to dis­cuss and organ­ise, we will not always be as avail­able as we’d like, but every­body is wel­come, and for info there will be some­one every­day to do a ‘welcome/info’, at the planchettes, from 12 — 14:00.

For all those who’d like to come see the area and what’s going on, for all those who have already been here and are linked with this strug­gle, its now or nev­er. we need you.

faced with those who would destroy spaces of liv­ing and organ­is­ing; faced with builders of air­port and oth­er such bol­locks: organ­ise the resis­tance!!

direc­tions to squat ‘les planchettes’: hitch-hik­ing from Nantes: from the city cen­tre, take the tram line 2 to the last stop, which is called Orvault Grand Val. From the tram stop, walk straight on down the hill, under the high­way bridge, and you can start hitch-hik­ing at the round­about direct­ly in front of you. the first vil­lage you want is ‘Orvault Bourg’, from there take the road towards ‘La Paque­lais’, once in La Paque­lais, at the north end of the vil­lage you will pass through a round­about, go straight ahead, after about 300metres is a fork in the road, take the road on your left going towards ‘Fay de Bre­tagne’ (D281). After about 3–4km, you will see a very obvi­ous­ly squat­ted old house on your right.…for road direc­tions, you can search ‘les planchettes, notre dame des lan­des, france’ on google maps. The D281 runs between the vil­lages La Paque­lais and Fay de Bre­tagne.…

We are look­ing for all kinds of mate­r­i­al to bar­ri­cade and to hold out in case of long evic­tions.… here is a list of things which can be brought to ‘les planchettes’, between the 16th to 19th of August or any time before (and after, if we are still there, keep an eye on Nantes Indy­media or zad.nadir.org, we’ll try to keep updat­ed in eng­lish too, oth­er­wise in french):

*scaf­fold­ing
*con­crete rein­forc­ing steel (re-bar)
* sol­id met­als
* steel cables
* beams * barbed wire
* met­al plates
* nets
* met­al grills / fenc­ing
* met­al cut­ters / pli­ers
* all kinds of rope
*ban­ner mate­r­i­al
* fire extin­guish­ers
* large mir­rors
* mat­tress­es
* all kinds of saws and blades
* ham­mers * nails of all sizes
* gas masks
* div­ing gog­gles
* hel­mets
* mal­ox, bio-lemons or lemon juice
* phys­i­o­log­i­cal salt solu­tion
* pal­lets
* screws and nuts (any size)
* weld­ing mate­ri­als (rods, hel­mets…)
* mega­phones
* glue
* paint
* blan­kets
* sleep­ing bags
* bicy­cles (whole or parts)
* vehi­cles which are not use­ful any more
* car­a­vans
* pick­ax­es
* mon­sters
* wood plates * crow­bars
* walkie talkies, cb, radios
* con­serves, jam, evic­tion stash food.….

PLEASE SEND ON THIS TEXT.…

zad@riseup.net
zad.nadir.org