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Large-scale, environmentally destructive development projects in France, such as the construction of an airport, football stadium, and dam, have led to "multifaceted means of opposition, whether it is open squats or demonstrations and sabotages on one hand, and the common ideological foundations of de-growth, anti-capitalism and anti-authoritarianism, as well as the claims for autonomy on the other." <ref>http://beyondeurope.net/299/solidarity-statement-to-the-zads-in-france-for-us-for-remi-for-everyone/</ref> | Large-scale, environmentally destructive development projects in France, such as the construction of an airport, football stadium, and dam, have led to "multifaceted means of opposition, whether it is open squats or demonstrations and sabotages on one hand, and the common ideological foundations of de-growth, anti-capitalism and anti-authoritarianism, as well as the claims for autonomy on the other." <ref>http://beyondeurope.net/299/solidarity-statement-to-the-zads-in-france-for-us-for-remi-for-everyone/</ref> | ||
The occupations and land defense camps that have spouted up around France in response to these projects share the name ZAD: "Zone a Defendre" (a play on the government term "Zone d’Aménagement Différé," or "Urban Development Zone"). La Zad in Nantes has been called | The occupations and land defense camps that have spouted up around France in response to these projects share the name ZAD: "Zone a Defendre" (meaning "Zone to Defend", a play on the government term "Zone d’Aménagement Différé," or "Urban Development Zone"). La Zad in Nantes has been called | ||
<blockquote>Europe’s largest postcapitalist protest camp – a kind of rural occupy on the eastern edge of Brittany, half and hour’s drive from the city of Nantes. Like a rebel constellation spread across 4000 acres of forest, farmland and marshes, it takes the form of old squatted farms and fields, DIY strawbale houses, upcycled sheds, theatres and bars cobbled from industrial pallets, hobbit like round houses, cute cabins built with the worlds waste, huts perched frighteningly high in trees and a multitude of other disobedient architectural fantasies. La ZAD has been a laboratory for ways of living despite capitalism since the 2009 French Climate Camp. At the camp activists and locals put together a call for people to come and live on the Zone to protect it. Now you can find illegal goat herds and organic bakeries, bike workshops and bee hives, working farms and communal kitchens, a micro brewery, a mobile library, and even a pirate radio station: Radio Klaxon.<ref>http://labofii.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/rural-rebels-and-useless-airports-la-zad-europes-largest-postcapitalist-land-occupation/</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Europe’s largest postcapitalist protest camp – a kind of rural occupy on the eastern edge of Brittany, half and hour’s drive from the city of Nantes. Like a rebel constellation spread across 4000 acres of forest, farmland and marshes, it takes the form of old squatted farms and fields, DIY strawbale houses, upcycled sheds, theatres and bars cobbled from industrial pallets, hobbit like round houses, cute cabins built with the worlds waste, huts perched frighteningly high in trees and a multitude of other disobedient architectural fantasies. La ZAD has been a laboratory for ways of living despite capitalism since the 2009 French Climate Camp. At the camp activists and locals put together a call for people to come and live on the Zone to protect it. Now you can find illegal goat herds and organic bakeries, bike workshops and bee hives, working farms and communal kitchens, a micro brewery, a mobile library, and even a pirate radio station: Radio Klaxon.<ref>http://labofii.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/rural-rebels-and-useless-airports-la-zad-europes-largest-postcapitalist-land-occupation/</ref></blockquote> | ||
Revision as of 09:38, 27 November 2014
Large-scale, environmentally destructive development projects in France, such as the construction of an airport, football stadium, and dam, have led to "multifaceted means of opposition, whether it is open squats or demonstrations and sabotages on one hand, and the common ideological foundations of de-growth, anti-capitalism and anti-authoritarianism, as well as the claims for autonomy on the other." [1]
The occupations and land defense camps that have spouted up around France in response to these projects share the name ZAD: "Zone a Defendre" (meaning "Zone to Defend", a play on the government term "Zone d’Aménagement Différé," or "Urban Development Zone"). La Zad in Nantes has been called
Europe’s largest postcapitalist protest camp – a kind of rural occupy on the eastern edge of Brittany, half and hour’s drive from the city of Nantes. Like a rebel constellation spread across 4000 acres of forest, farmland and marshes, it takes the form of old squatted farms and fields, DIY strawbale houses, upcycled sheds, theatres and bars cobbled from industrial pallets, hobbit like round houses, cute cabins built with the worlds waste, huts perched frighteningly high in trees and a multitude of other disobedient architectural fantasies. La ZAD has been a laboratory for ways of living despite capitalism since the 2009 French Climate Camp. At the camp activists and locals put together a call for people to come and live on the Zone to protect it. Now you can find illegal goat herds and organic bakeries, bike workshops and bee hives, working farms and communal kitchens, a micro brewery, a mobile library, and even a pirate radio station: Radio Klaxon.[2]
The ZAD in Nantes has inspired similar occupations across France, including one in Lyon against a football stadium and one at Sivens against a dam. In October 2014, 21 year-old Remi Fraisee was killed by a stun grenade police fired during a defense of the forest intended to be cleared for the construction of the dam in Sivens. [3]
- ↑ http://beyondeurope.net/299/solidarity-statement-to-the-zads-in-france-for-us-for-remi-for-everyone/
- ↑ http://labofii.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/rural-rebels-and-useless-airports-la-zad-europes-largest-postcapitalist-land-occupation/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/world/in-france-dam-is-the-catalyst-for-a-flood-of-young-peoples-anger.html
