One of our editors, Riot Turtle, was interviewed by the comrades of It’s Going Down about La Zad.
Riot Turtle Interviewed by It’s Going Down: Through the Tear Gas: An Audio Report Back from La #ZAD
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Still la #ZADResist at #NDDL
Yes they are strong, they come with all this equipment, all this gaz, all this pollution and all this physical and psychological violence, and still the zad resists, still people continue to forge bonds and liberate space while facing the fascist state with his crushing boots that is trying to devour our life’s and environments.
Communique from the Assembly of Usages of the #ZAD, following some dialogue and threats of new evictions
Communique from the Assembly of Usages of the zad, following some dialogue and threats of new evictions.
#ZAD Press release – Intergalactic Call-Out
Welcome to France. In theory and written in stone: Freedom, equality, fraternity.
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Message From #Atenco in Solidarity with the Struggle of La #Zad in France
Message in solidarity with ZAD by the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra, Atenco.
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Legal Team: Quick summary of the repression in #Nantes and the #ZAD #NDDL since April 9, 2018
This article with a summary of the repression in Nantes and the ZAD replaces the previous one (published 18/04/18).
Bringing The #ZAD Back Home: A Video Series
The first episode in a series by The Cinema Committee which looks at La ZAD, or the Zone to Defend, in France.
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#ZAD #NDDL Reportback: Two days in France
Reportback and 2 videos about two days on the French territory: Nantes and ZAD.
#ZAD #NDDL: Cops play with electricity and shot people in the back
Wednesday 18 April 2018: today cops were playing with the electricity and shot people in the back. ZAD activists also received explicit photos of an individual in civilian clothes talking with riot cops and then leaving to rejoin our side.
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Interview: Voices of the #ZAD
In 1972, a project emerged for a Nantes-Rennes airport on the site of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Vigneux de Bretagne, and other villages. Resistance groups and associations mobilised to prevent its construction. Little by little certain historical farmers and also new ones, militants, but also homeless and excluded persons of all types, came together on the site corresponding to the outline of the proposed airport [called the ZAD for “Zone À Défendre” (Zone to Defend) – ed. note] to live, work, and cultivate the land while preserving the landscape of hedgerows, fields, wetlands and woodland and its fauna and flora. For a few years, they experimented with a self-managed micro-society [1]. Intrigued by the anything-but-flattering image of the “Zadistes” put forward by a few mainstream media, I decided to go and meet these “radical vandals” a few days before the start of the attempts to evict them. I found people with highly diverse profiles and with varied backgrounds and motivations. But they all had points in common – openness to others, a sharp-eyed way of seeing the world, an awareness of their responsibility, etc. From gutter punks to young engineers, and including young mothers and artists, their presence here was no accident. All of them had reflected deeply and had real confidence in what they were doing. A few agreed to talk frankly with me. JJ, a militant artist, lives in the ZAD with his partner. He is extremely active. Among other things, he welcomes visitors, teaches, communicates.
#ZAD #NDDL: Solidarity from #Olympia, WA
Statement in solidarity with ZAD from Olympia, WA.
#NDDL Report of what has been happening here this sunday 15 April or the magic of #ZAD
Despite the state of siege imposed by the government, a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people has succeeded, whatever the cost, in reaching different points of the ZAD this Sunday. This afternoon (Sunday, April 15, EIE)new groups are arriving all the time. Since this morning, the state has done everything possible to break this huge surge of solidarity: there are road blocks and checkpoints everywhere; police checkpoint policeman at the exit lanes of the motorways, asking drivers not to to try to go to the solidarity gathering. This is the first time that the state has tried to prevent a big demonstration of this kind on the ZAD, and to wind up the tension. But here the collective spirit has not allowed itself to be intimidated by any such thing: the ZAD’s supporters know the country paths, and the fields, and they have been moving in groups in order to get round the police blockades. The movement that succed in forcing the abandonment of the airport project is here again today, in all its strength and diversity, to defend the ZAD.
