Hambach Forest: Day 3 of Eviction

Today is the third day of the eviction at the Hambach Forest, which is occupied against the biggest climate killer in Europe, the Rhenish brown coal-mining district (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier).

Today is the third day of the eviction at the Hambach Forest, which is occupied against the biggest climate killer in Europe, the Rhenish brown coal-mining district (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier).

After three days of eviction one activist is left, who's inside a tunnel system under the ground. As this is the first tunnel blockade action Police don't have a clue how to handle this. They ordered different technical teams, who also didn't have an idea.

Now police want to dig down from the top, which is highly dangerous. They have been told that there is an eviction team within UK police who know how to evict a tunnel-system.

Resistance will not be over after this eviction. The forest is not lost yet to be rescued. Everybody is welcome to help. Next summer there will be another climate camp in the area, and a Europe wide Reclaim the fields camp in this region…

Day 2 of eviction Hambach Forest / tunnel-system

 

 

At the second day of eviction the cops evicted everybody from the trees. On the evening of the first day they evicted everybody in concrete-lock-ons. Now there's one activist in a blockade-tunnel. And police don't have any idea how to evict that. So it still could still take a few days. Police that went down just said: "there's a huge tunnel-system, we don't know wich direction we have to go"

The occupation of the forest is against a coal open-cast-mine, that is together with two more sites, the biggest producer of CO2 in Europe. The dust from the pit is radioactive.

Police said, that there were hundred crimes counted from the occupation, but don't have proof of any of them. There have been a lot of solidarity actions in lot of citys against the eviction of the forest.
The forest is one of the oldest in Middle-Europe. There's a type of bat, that will not exict anymore anywhere after the forest is  cleared. They will completlyey clear the forest in the next 5 to 10 years.

Next summer there will be the europe wide "reclaim the field" camp in the region and the german-wide climate-camp. But also before this there will be more activities. So come over and help fight RWE, the enery-giant, if you can. N-Power is part of RWE. Would be also cool to visit them.

Eviction of the Hambach Forest (Germany)

The eviction of the squatted hambach Forest begun this morning. The forest which is in the rheinisch browncoal region (close to collogne) has been squatted since April to stop the deforestation. RWE is cutting the trees to expand the largest open cast mine in europe where they extract brown coal.The rheinish Brown Coal area is the largest CO2 source in europe.

Several hundred police forces are in the area and activists are locked-on in the trees and on the ground. They cut the walkways to stop the police from entering the tree houses. The police removed an occupied tripod on the road to the squat and they have a special force for tree climbing in the forest. A few activists on the ground already been arrested and the main bridge to the forest is closed. In many cities around germany there will be solidarity actions today. Organise other action in your city to support the resistance against brown coal and for the hambach forest. Look out for offices of RWE or subsidary companys.

Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): Yet Another Forest Eviction

We live in the Rohanne Forest. Over the last two years the many people who lived and passed by here built seven high tree houses and a beautiful three storey collective house. On Thursday 19th October the police came with bulldozers and destroyed and removed the house.

We live in the Rohanne Forest. Over the last two years the many people who lived and passed by here built seven high tree houses and a beautiful three storey collective house. On Thursday 19th October the police came with bulldozers and destroyed and removed the house.

Starting the next day, and with lots of motivated helpers, we built a new kitchen six metres up in the trees, and a new communal sleeping area a bit higher. On Tuesday 30th October and Wednesday 31st October they returned with bulldozers and cherry pickers to destroy the two newly finished cabins, plus all of the seven high tree houses.

During the weekend we built a quick temporary shelter on the ground with palettes and tarps so we could sleep there while we rebuilt tree houses. It was basically a few mattresses on palettes, with beams lashed in the trees and covered with tarps.

Early in the morning on Monday 5th November around twenty vans of police blocked the roads around the Rohanne Forest. They entered on foot, and at half eight in the morning six sleeping people were surrounded by about thirty cops with shields, full riot gear and loud walkie-talkies, and shouted at to take what they could carry and get out of the forest. The cops started taking the shelter apart and cutting the tarps into small pieces while we were still inside. After forcing us outside and pushing us to the ground they slashed the mattresses and pulled everything apart, including cutting the polyprop into little tiny bits so it couldn’t be used again. If I didn’t know better I’d say we’re really starting to piss them off.

They tipped a first aid kit out onto the wet muddy forest floor and stamped on it, and did the same with a box of muesli and the whole contents of the bike panniers. They destroyed the two bikes despite our hand on heart promise from the head of operations that we could keep our bikes and they wouldn’t be touched. They pushed us, threatened us and forced us out of the forest. They tried to march us through a huge puddle near the entrance which we know to be knee-deep, but we suggested they instead follow us along the path which they did.

All the male bodied people were searched by the cops, and one had an identity card with them. The other two were taken to the police station for an identity control. The three female bodied people were asked to wait for a female cop to search them. And wait. And wait. And wait. It seems that there are not so many female bodied cops around and after about an hour they just asked for our names and places of birth. When they had no joy extracting personal information there was a small cop huddle, after which they came and told us we could just go. Why? We were told they’re sick of us, and that they didn’t want to waste time in the police station, again, if we weren’t going to give our names, again.

It was a pretty unpleasant way to wake up, all told, and it is getting slightly tedious having our houses destroyed every week. Having had some time to reflect though, I can’t help but see a funny side to all this. When we asked why we were being taken the police told us it was illegal to free camp in the forest. So around two hundred riot police surrounded the forest and spent almost an entire day scouring through every inch of it just to find six free campers. Twenty vans full of highly equipped cops just to take down a few beams and tarps put up in a weekend. We might have had enough of cops but it’s clear that we are annoying the shit out of them. To the next forest cabin!

Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France): Operation Obelix, a menhir in your face, Ayrault!

Story of the assaults and looting of the ZAD – Europe's biggest anti-airport protest camp by the forces of capitalist destruction. Written thanks to the testimony of many friends.

*Le Sabot* –  Tuesday,

Story of the assaults and looting of the ZAD – Europe's biggest anti-airport protest camp by the forces of capitalist destruction. Written thanks to the testimony of many friends.

*Le Sabot* –  Tuesday,

We woke up at 5:00am and had coffee together. The cops showed up by the Paquelais road around 7:00am at daybreak. We got the info that the cops had attacked the south barricade. They moved without the usual three warnings, they spent thirty seconds at the burning barricade before getting some paint-eggs in their faces. They secured the whole road from the Far Ouezt to Sabot. Clashes occured at the first barricades of the Sabot. Cops managed to bypass the barricades through the fields and make us move back by copiously spraying tear gas in our faces. Sixty of us charged the cops. An exchange of various colourful projectiles and colorful shots against their tear gas. Cops and officials are forced to retreat, suffocated by their own tear gas, those big assholes. We spend all the afternoon in a tense face off. In the afternoon, the cops manage to secure the Sabot. Any resistance becomes impossible. The Zadists can no longer defend themself once the bulldozer has destroyed all the barricades and opened a trench along the Paquelais road.

Thirty people in solidarity with the struggle sit in front of the gaping hole left on the road, preventing the bulldozer to enter the community garden. The pigs take a lot of shit. Their eyes, without a shred of humanity and gray matter, remain unmoved despite the relentless jokes that from all sides. The night cops and the Departmental Directorate of Equipment collaborators who are working with them go away booed.

Wednesday

A small gathering in the Sabot followed by breakfast. The day before, Caesar’s legions destroyed all the barricades and projectiles (5 barricades smashed the shovel, paint-eggs, rotten vegetables, bottles of paint, stones, shield to protect from tear gas and rackets to throw it back to the pigs). In the early-morning, only one barricade protects us from the cops, built in the night by newly arrived comrades, farmers and supporters that came on the spot. Cops surprise us by very quickly spreading out in the field. They keep their position thirty meters from us. The cops shoot us with tear gas from behind then gas the road of the Sabot where we are. It quickly becomes impossible to stay there, the atmosphere is unbreathable and we are a bit helpless in front of the robocops. We move back they advance, gas mask on the snout, and they quickly enter and block off the Sabot (west side). The cops also take the East side of Belishroot barricades, barricades of Pimky (north) and contain people at the Far West (south). Speed confrontation, which leaves us with a bad taste of powerlessness. Different groups are trying to focus on the machinery to slow down their work, but the convoy is well protected, foot patrols, escorts and all the trimmings. Result of the day of destruction: the common house of the Sabot is down, the collective garden is devastated, home of the Cent Chênes (former bakery from ZAD, bread is excellent, thank you) is also destroyed. Three other houses we built on the Sabot zone are also down the ground. Cop climbers tackle the treehouses.

*Rohanne **Forest *

Tuesday, around 3:00pm, cops charge Rohanne forest with the aim to destroy the huts in the trees. Cops make use of many rubber bullets. The bastards aim for the head. A friend testifies that he took a flashball shot in the neck. Several friends were injured by shrapnel of concussion grenades. Others are wounded by rubber bullets.

On Wednesday morning, the police surrounded the forest and secured everything. Police trained for mountain rescue begin to fetch activists still perched in the trees to protect the huts. A cherry picker destroyed a hut under heavy protection of the cops.

The cops destroyed several huts with cherry pickers during the day. The zadists on the spot remain powerless in front of insurmountable repression.

*Barricades north and south on the Vigneux **road *

Tuesday morning, 7:30am, the cops take the central barricade running through the Suez road. Some of the activists go back to the south barricade and end up in the fields of the right to pass through the Rohanne forest and defend the north barricade blocking the road that leads to the Vache Rit. At the intersection of the Fosses-Noires and Vigneux road a battucada enters the cow field in front of the Saulce. Bulldozers and trucks full of rubble come and go and begin their death ballet. The house will finally be razed to the ground, the tree houses destroyed and also all the buildings on the ground. Cops that protect bulldozers and trucks receive paint-eggs. The cops, already ridiculous, are the laughing stock of the people there. Fierce Zadists resist on the north barricade all day long. The cops sprayed the activists on site with tear gas and concussion grenades. The barricade withstands the onslaught of helmeted frenzy until 5:00pm.

*Pimky Road*

The cops were in front of the Pimky on Tuesday afternoon. The demo which started from Notre Dame at 10:00am is just on the left side after the Fosses-Noires road. Many zadists and supporters make a human chain to prevent cops from accessing to the road to the cabin. The next morning, two friends hidden in the bushes for an hour and a half hear the cops make bad jokes. These brainwashed idiots finished by taking apart the four tents on site in the midst of filthy laughs.

*Search at the Secherie*

Wednesday afternoon, several police vans surrounded the Secherie making it impossible for inhabitants to enter or exit. Two officers of the Judicial Police are looking for a transmitter, certainly annoyed by the continuous emission of Radio Klaxon making the socialist state, cops and Vinci look ridiculous for the past two weeks. After an unsuccessful search of two long hours, the whole ridiculous troop go back, tails between their legs, hands empty. A bulldozer pulls up a tree on the site of the former house of the Coin, under heavy police escort along the the Fosses-Noires road. Our comrades hassle the pigs until they leave.

Thursday

The cops block the roundabout of Ardillères and Paquelais and search all vehicles. It seems that we expect a new wave of repression tomorrow “par Toutatis” !

AND for more … Obelix operation is launched !

The struggle will continue until the total defeat of the enemy forces and the withdrawal of socialist occupation army from the ZAD.

In the end, Vinci and the Left Government must not misunderstand ! The fact that nearly all of our living places are destroyed will not make us renounce. Quite the opposite. We will rebuild on the ruins that Caesar’s legions have left. We will now be more mobile and reactive to future attacks of the French state, of Vinci and its subsidiary AGO.

The State lies ! The ZAD is absolutely not evacuated ! We are all there and ready for anything ! This place will not be concreted !

Operation Obelix : A menhir in your face, Ayrault ! Vinci, out of our lives!

Hambach Forest anti-open cast camp prepares for eviction (Germany)

The Hambach Forest has been occupied for half an year now. The forest will get cleared to make way for the coal-open-cast-mine "Hambacher Tagebau". This is together with two more open-cast-mines in the region and the power plants that burns the coal, europes biggest producer of CO2. They have already started to cut the forest, and the eviction of the camp can happen any day. So read this anti-eviction-guide and see what you can do!

 

Before the eviction

The clearing of the Hambacher Forest hast already started. The forest is eviction threat. If you have time, it makes sense to come to the forest and support the activists locally in the protection of the forest
Think about whether you and your group can spend a couple of days in the forest to support the Hambach180 campaign. If you know when you come write an email to  hambacherforst@riseup.net You find the the flyer of the campaign here
Use the Ushahidi-Apps (Android/iPhone) for our Stop-RWE-Crowdmap, to keep you up to date and report of solidarity actions or the eviction of the spot!
Send your mobile phone number to  hambacherforst@riseup.net to get on the sms eviction list. In case of exiction you will be informed directly.
Prepare beforehand when and where you want to do solidary actions. Seek out places of RWE in you region, as on this map, which is still upgraded piece by piece. Make a research by yourself!
Draw a banner beforehand. Here are some items you can use on the banner: Hambacher Forst bleibt
There is a design for flyers you can spread on a spontaneous demonstration: Demo-Infoflyer_Rückseite

Maybe you make it to organize an information session in the short term. There is an ODP presentation Hambacher Forst bleibt.odp or as PDF: Hambacher Forst bleibt.pdf Here are some videos
At the end of the week there is most likely printed stickers and posters. There is a b/w master copy: Hambacher Forst bleibt
Distribute stickers and posters in your city!

Solidarity actions

Following is a list of planned solidarity actions on Day X:

Berlin:

14 clock, rally in front of the International Trade Centre Berlin (S+U Friedrichstraße)
19 clock, spontaneous demonstration, meeting place in front of the church at Lausitzer Platz (U
Görlitzer Bahnhof)
Hamburg:

17 clock, spontaneous demonstration in front of Café Knallhart on University Campus (Van Melle Park 9)
Cologne:

14 clock, central of RWE Power AG, Stüttgenweg 2, 50935 Cologne
Essen:

18 clock, Front-exit Central station Essen

more to follow! Organize yourselves and inform us about it:  info@ausgeco2hlt.de

During the eviction

Think about whether you can come as fast as possible in the forest. Find out about the current situation:  http://hambacherforst.blogsport.de,  https://stopprwe.crowdmap.com or phone: 01577-5440595
If you can‘t come into the forest or the distance is too large decentralizes solidarity actions are important. Now it’s time for your prepared actions. Take pictures and write articles on  http://de.indymedia.org,  http://linksunten.indymedia.org and  https://stopprwe.crowdmap.com , and send them to ausgeco2hlt-press coordination:  presse@ausgeco2hlt.de
If you use Twitter to report use the hashtag #hfb
If you have relevant information on the eviction during the eviction, such as Police closures, spontaneous demonstrations etc, post them on  https://stopptrwe.crowdmap.com

After a solidarity action try as fast as possible to come in the forest or get informed what makes sense

In general

In case you still get your power from RWE or its subsidiaries: power switch see i.e.  http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/
Organize local events.
Establish a local group which work on the topic coal, a decentralized, ecological and social energy transition or climate justice
Come to our meetings, see  http://ausgeco2hlt.de
Visit the Hambacher Forst, i.e. with your political group
Organize solidarity parties to raise money for anti-repression costs. ausgeco2hlt will soon likely establish a flow-border legal support fund for climate justice activists.
Donate to the forest, the WAA or ausgeCO2hlt, or ask wealthy people you know.
Talk about the campaign, the forrest, the movement etc. in your social media channels and with your friends
Distribute posters, stickers and more in your city. There are master copies: Hambacher Forst bleibt
Link  http://hambacherforst.blogsport.de and  http://ausgeco2hlt.de

ZAD – Reoccupation Demonstration November 17th. (France)

Notre Dame des Landes
Facing the evictions:
Demonstration of reoccupation !

To rebuild – against the airport!

Pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools in hand…
Meeting Saturday November 17th in the morning.

Notre Dame des Landes
Facing the evictions:
Demonstration of reoccupation !

To rebuild – against the airport!

Pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools in hand…
Meeting Saturday November 17th in the morning.

To read the call online or dowload posters, flyers… http://zad.nadir.org/

The struggle against the airport project of Notre-Dame des Landes kept on growing in the last years. Among other initiatives, an occupation movement has spread on the houses and farmland threatened. A year ago, facing
increasing threats on the different houses, huts and gardens, inhabitants of the ZAD and solidarity collectives called for a mass demonstration of
reoccupation in case of evictions.

When Caesar is floundering…

On Tuesday, October 16th the dreaded eviction offensive started.  1,200 policemen invaded the 1,800 hectares of the ZAD. They attacked gradually occupied houses and huts, destroying them and washing away every garbage
pieces out of the area, leaving nothing that could be used to rebuild. Occupiers and all those who joined them on the spot resisted, barricaded, reoccupied. Together, we have done everything to stop the destruction machinery and block police movements … We're still here!

Our determination was strengthened by a great wave of solidarity coming from the entire country and beyond: daily demonstrations in Nantes and in various cities, supplies and materials, support actions on representation
of socialist party, Vinci, airport manufacturers and other crushers of our lives…

While most homes have already been evicted as well as some huts, many other occupiers remain in the woods, in the fields, in the trees. New constructions are already underway. In addition to the occupiers, « legal » inhabitants and local peasants are also threatened to have to leave the ZAD in the coming months. This is to say that this XXL eviction attempt is going to last. Wise guys from the departmental authority officially called their military operation: "Caesar." It is up to us show them how the resistance against the airport is actually relentless, they will finally be defeated and ridiculous.

We keep on fighting, we are still here!

Beyond the call to join the area and continue the solidarity actions in the coming weeks, we confirm today that a mass demonstration of reoccupation will take place on Saturday, November 17th 2012, starting
from one of the villages near the ZAD.

After this first eviction round, we are looking forward to a time of broad, constructive and offensive mobilization, shared by the various parts of the struggle: occupiers, peasants, inhabitants, local people and from elsewhere, associations and solidarity groups… The objective is to reconstruct an open collective place on threatened lands, meant for
struggle organization. We want to make this place a hub for occupiers and people struggling against the airport, a starting point for new housing constructions, an antenna to organize resistance to future works: those of
the airport and its highway (which is the first stage of the project, meant to begin in January). They well may militarize the area; they will not prevent us from resettling here.

Ayrault, Vinci and others – the message is clear: Fuck off the land!

—- Additional and practical infos —-

– Occupiers from the ZAD and people from the network Reclaim The Fields launched this call for reoccupation. They previously had occupied wasteland with more than a thousand people in May 2012 in order to settle the vegetable farm "Le Sabot". Today we invite all people and groups to spread information on this initiative and to join November 17th organization.

– Beyond a demonstration, this is above all about a collective action that will gain power from a long and active presence of the greatest number of persons. Plan to be there for the weekend and more if you can: to begin the occupation, to continue constructions, to defend, and to generate ideas for the future.

– Bring diverse and varied tools and materials, overalls, sound, wacky creations, portable radios, pies to share and unfailing determination.

– It is possible to arrive the day before. Meeting and camping spots will be announced in the days before the event.

– Given the energy required to resist against evictions by then, and the consequent exhaustion of occupiers, success of this event depends crucially on the involvement of solidary individuals and collectives
everywhere. We call for public meetings, relaying information and car sharing in each village for November 17th.

– Posters and flyers to print and photocopy are available on the website, and on paper in nantes (B17) or in the ZAD (Vache-Rit). Any financial support is welcome (check payable to « Vivre sans aéroport » ("Living without an airport ?), La Primaudière – Notre-Dame des Landes 44130 ; bank transfer: 20041 01011 1162852D32 36)

As the situation changes every day, check information regularly on:http://zad.nadir.org/

For November 17th, we are looking for wooden beams, construction and climbing materials, kitchens, tents, musicians, batukadas, huts kits, tools, tractors…

For any exchange, help, relays, and proposals:  reclaimthezad@riseup.net

— Why do we struggle? For the resistance to the airport and it?s world. —

At Notre-Dame des Landes, policy makers and concreters are working on anew airport to fulfil their dreams of voracious metropolis and economic expansion. For 40 years they have been wanting to destroy under concrete
2,000 hectares of agricultural land and habitats situated on the north of Nantes. The concerned area is called ZAD, originally named ?Zone d?Aménagement Différé? (Deferred Development Zone) by airport stakeholders is now ?Zone A Défendre? (Zone To Defend).

Since the beginnings of this project, resistances are organizing. This struggle is at the crossroads of issues on which unite and think of common strategies. Through it, we are fighting feeding on a drip, industrial
society and global warming, territory control and economic development policies, cities and ways of life standardization, privatization of the commons, myths of growth and the illusion of democratic participation…

Today as yesterday, the opponents are far from giving up and keep on struggling via: demonstrations, legal actions, links with other struggles, hunger strikes, circulation of newspapers, free tolls operations,
oppositions to drillings, sabotages, disturbance of impact studies and archaeological excavations, office and building sites occupations, etc.

To the detriment of the state and Vinci who buy and destroy to clear the ZAD, life and activity densified and diversified in the zone over more than three years. Many abandoned houses have been rehabilitated and
occupied, huts were built on the ground and in the trees, collectives occupy land to produce vegetables. Meeting spaces, a bakery, a library, homes, were open to all. More than a hundred persons were constantly living in the ZAD, supported by many other people, local and from elsewhere, who met and organised there. This presence on the ground has allowed rapid reactions against the works? process undertaken by Vinci. It is this creative and subversive pack that they seek to eradicate today in order to start the building sites.

We keep in mind the past victories against megalomaniac projects, from the nuclear industry to the military. As in the Carnet, in Plogoff or in the Larzac, we know that this airport can still be stopped. We look at the other side of the Alps where opposition to the construction of the high-speed train line Lyon-Turin mobilizes the entire Susa valley, where tens of thousands of people prevent the works. Here as well, any attempt to concrete the land will cost them dearly.

Campaigners from No Dash for Gas abseil 90m down power station chimney to end 7 day occupation

This morning the last two campaigners from No Dash for Gas abseiled down the side of one of the chimneys they have been occupying at EDF’s West Burton power station for the past 7 days to end the most audacious and high profile direct action in recent years. Four campaigners had left yesterday, all have handed themselves in to the police.

Total occupation time: 7 days
Total CO2 saved: 19117 tonnes

The seven day protest saw 16 activists occupy the flues of two of the chimneys at the UK's newest gas-fired power station. Whilst up there, they rigged a rope between the two chimneys and people were able to travel across. The group, No Dash for Gas, were there to stop emissions, halt construction of the power station and highlight the senselessness of the government's proposed 'dash for gas' in the upcoming Energy Bill. In a move that the government's own Select Committee on Climate Change has said might be illegal, the government wants to build up to 20 new gas-fired power stations. This would lock us into relying on fossil fuels for another 30 years, making it impossible to hit emissions reductions targets, and ensuring household energy bills continue to rise.

Ewa Jasiewicz, one of the campaigners and the last person coming down from the chimney, said:
 

“This was the first time activists have managed to successfully shut down a power station, and the longest occupation of a power station the UK has ever seen. We stopped 20,000 tonnes of CO2 being emitted, prevented any construction work on the site for a week and got our message about how reckless and ridiculous, let alone probably illegal, George Osborne's proposed 'dash for gas' is out to thousands of people. I'm proud of what we've achieved – but it's only the start of the battle for our energy future.”

During the week-long occupation, Energy Minister John Hayes’ anti-windfarm outburst demonstrated that the Coalition's energy policy is in utter disarray. We also witnessed Hurricane Sandy wreak unprecedented damage in one of the most severe warnings of the effects of climate change the world has seen. By shutting down West Burton for a week, No Dash for Gas have demonstrated the need to make the transition away from a fossil-fuel-dependent energy infrastructure. Danny Chivers, one of the campaigners who occupied the central chimney, said:

“Hurricane Sandy demonstrated all too clearly that climate change is already serious – and it's only getting more so each month it gets ignored. Companies like EDF are getting away with murder, for the sake of some short-term profit. They are burning more and more fossil fuels, like gas, when we desperately need a sustainable and fair energy system. The technology to supply our energy needs through renewable energy sources already exists, but the people with the power are recklessly and irresponsibly ignoring this.”

Day 7: Update and photos from No Dash for Gas

 

 

No Dash for Gas activists have now prevented over 14,500 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted, as the chimney they are occupying had to be shut down

They are saving over 2300 tonnes of CO2 emissions every day

 

 

No Dash for Gas activists have now prevented over 14,500 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted, as the chimney they are occupying had to be shut down

They are saving over 2300 tonnes of CO2 emissions every day

The Govenment's dash 4 gas is illegal because it will make it impossible 2 meet legally-binding emissions reductions targets under Climate Act

Just 2 activists left occupying the chimney as they head into day 8. Longest-running power station occupation ever!

They've had workers contacting them in private giving their support. Can't speak openly, fear for of jobs

 

(France) La ZAD prepares for another week of eviction NON A LA AEROPORT

In La ZAD, a zone occupied to stop the construction of a new airport for Nantes, the eviction looks set to continue from tomorrow. La Saulce is now evictable and it is possible the police will also target some of the places that require special forces to evict treehouses and such. Callout for solidarity actions against VINCI, the company who will be constructing. Callout for people here to help. All means to increase awareness.

The police have been evicting la ZAD for two weeks now, only stopping for lunchbreak and the weekends. and the nights.
We are still expecting them to return tomorrow to continue. Theyve been passing by with the helicopter today, having a look around. Since Saturday night la saulce has become legally evictable. La secherie won an appeal in court, and is now not evictable till december, and la rosier also is not evictable til the middle of november.
But it seems likely they will come next week for the places they can already evict, and havent already, mostly la saulce, sabot, and the other cabins that dont have a real 'house' on the property.
There is a lot more info on the website  http://www.zad.nadir.org if you dont read french you can change the langue to english.
get in contact if you want to come over, or just arrive
or do something in your place, the company which build the aeroport is called VINCI (  http://stopvinci.noblogs.org/ ) and they have many things everywhere. They are also responsible for the destruction of the khimki forest (  http://www.khimkiforest.org/ ) in russia for the construction of a highway and the eviction of the protest camp there. There has already been a lot of stuff done to humiliate them in the last weeks it is very cheering.
Let everyone know.
The resistance wont end with eviction.
Need people to help with reoccupation.
Peace and love.