France: Zad Activists Light Barricades, Vow Continued Resistance

Sep­tem­ber 24, 2014 – Bar­ri­cades were lit on RN165 in response to the evic­tion of the Herbin fam­i­ly, from the vil­lage of Lim­in­bout on the ZAD de Notre-Dame-Des-Lan­des to make way for con­struc­tion of the air­port project.

In a state­ment released by the Zad activist they declare “Each step of the project, each attack against the move­ment of strug­gle (work, tri­al, etc.), will bring an imme­di­ate response.

“Every­thing we have achieved so far, adding fail­ure of the César oper­a­tion until the sus­pen­sion of the con­struc­tion, was by a com­mon deter­mi­na­tion of resis­tance and tac­ti­cal diver­si­ty.

“All of these vic­to­ries were also pos­si­ble through actions of sol­i­dar­i­ty every­where in france.”

They con­tin­ue in the state­ment with a dec­la­ra­tion of sol­i­dar­i­ty.

“It is our turn to be present at the side of the var­i­ous strug­gles. Space and the autonomous polit­i­cal force gained by the ZAD have served to inspire and strength­en the revolt of those who do not fit in the row.

Thus, we sup­port mate­ri­al­ly and moral­ly peo­ple with­out paper from Nantes who, after being expelled from their place of life this sum­mer, orga­nize them­selves to take up again recent­ly. At Calais, fac­ing the police and evic­tions in rep­e­ti­tion, refugeess con­gre­gate. With­out papers or air­port, the ZAD is land of asy­lum.”

“We are whole­heart­ed­ly with the SEITA de Car­que­fou work­ers, reviv­ing offen­sive prac­tices (destruc­tion of stocks, occu­pa­tion of fac­to­ry, seques­tra­tion) giv­ing con­fi­dence to those who feel reduced to impo­tence by polit­i­cal par­ties and trade unions.

“In Picardy, the farm­ers opposed to the project of the fac­to­ry farm of 1000 cows stat­ed their posi­tion by block­ing sev­er­al days the arrival of the dairy.

“Bure, against the nuclear waste dis­pos­al cen­tre, the strug­gle con­tin­ues on the ground, and a cam­paign for action, Bure 365 is launched.

“On the ZAD of Testet plays a deci­sive moment for oppo­nents to 16 dams. By our action, we wish to achieve the warm breath of Notre-Dame-Des-Lan­des to this strug­gle that cross­es a turn­ing point.”

Resis­tance moved to the inter­net with a list of hacked sites on the link in the tweet below.

Video here has Eng­lish sub­ti­tles.