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(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif, CA #238 - Anti-airport by force! (fr) [machine translation]
Date
Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:02:02 +0300
On 22 February, the opposition movement to draft Notre-Dame-des-Landes brought together
tens of thousands of people in the streets of Nantes. ---- If you're not going to ZAD, ZAD
will come to you! ... ---- During the autumn the project's supporters led an offensive
communication with many statements, saying loud and clear that the work was imminent,
enjoying sweeping obscure and inane recalcitrant es to future happiness associated with
their project. The prefect .., well trained, even signed the Mandate December 21,
despising all the arguments of the opposition. In response to this practice of fait
accompli, suspensive appeals have been filed and the demonstration of February 22 was
prepared, in turn causing a general effervescence indicating the probable strength of the
mobilization. Dice mid-January meeting of local committees was full and posters went like
hotcakes. It was not disappointed! And the prefect either: his offensive communication
autumn cauliflower was white!
On 22 February, the farming community moved en masse to Nantes including 520 tractors from
the Loire Atlantique and neighboring departments: the previous mobilization Nantes, March
24, 2012, had collected nearly 200. This proves that if necessary the movement becomes
more and more momentum. Better, a survey FIFG revealed the same day that 56% of the
population is against the hexagonal airport, 20% not ruling and 24%. For our politician ne
es s always fond of polls, the revelation of such a view would make febrile when their
popularity rating hesitates between the Titanic forbearance and the raft of the Medusa ...
The different groups to support anti-airport and individuals struggle were involved in the
initiative of 22, preparing multiple tanks and masks, banners and placards to animate the
procession and bringing their own claims. These postings showed a broadening of concerns
beyond the strict combat Notre Dame des Landes, including speaking solidarity with other
struggles against infrastructure projects (No TAV rail tunnel project Lyon-Turin) but also
a comprehensive review linking the airport project and the organization of society as a
whole and may display well beyond the small procession anticapitalist we had made (see
call text in CA n 237).
A fighting spirit
The festive atmosphere was also combative: the various "events" that took place from the
first meters of the procession received the approval of a large majority of those present,
whether the tags, stencils and other daubs targeted facades (mayor Vinci Real Estate,
Travel agency in Nantes, ...) or more "identified" as the sacking of Vinci agency actions,
the burning of a drill and a digger of Vinci Construction, wisely left within reach of the
procession (?). Except for a few indignant spectators, these well-chosen targets allow
everyone to express e-according to its possibilities and met largely the ranks of
protesters, which is not disbanded during loads and various grenadages that followed. This
determination of the demonstrators is necessary to affirm the resolution opposing es not
falter before the maneuvers of the state and not just rely on institutional maneuvers. The
day ended in a little chopped between different pieces of the procession gassed or
ventured into an unlikely route on the Isle of Nantes. Presumably the 40 000 participants
were reached but there was only the helicopter cops who had a bigger picture ...
The event was clearly displayed on the left, supported horizontally on local collectives
very present with EELV and PG parties and unions discrete Confédération Paysanne. She
reoccupied the street against a project strongly associated with the Socialist Party,
supported by a few days earlier Breton employers Club des Trente (Bolloré, Pinault,
Leclerc, Roche, owner of Intermarket, ...) project! As a response to mobilizations cathos
and reactionaries of all kinds of AKI for all or Day of Wrath in late January and early
February, the anti airport event opened in the city a premier antagonistic space could
translate anger and revolt against this company TINA (There Is No Alternative) so dear to
Thatcher and so internalized by institutional and productivist French left.
Prefecture and media maneuvering
In this long struggle, the project leaders would not admit defeat so easily. The police
presence almost 1,500 police banned the commercial city center with numerous riot gates
barring the route originally planned. Then it did not take much effort the police to fix a
central point of confrontation, as a dedicated space - without too many objectives to
destroy, well filmed - and so arranged that cut the flow of manifesting es, preventing a
late final reunion ... which could emphasize the success of the mobilization. With an
arsenal including water cannons, the cops drove gradually protesters most bold-es to the
end of the day.
The prefecture, Ministry of the Interior, the Mayor, President of the incredible region
... and even then Ayrault tried to retract the magnitude and direction of the
mobilization, focusing on the "excesses", the responsibility the organizational structures
of the parade for the inconvenience and finally breaks the ambiguity of the simultaneous
presence of the headquarters of the ruling party in the street. This media avalanche
literally escamotait magnitude, intensity and direction of mobilization, even concealing
the 20 injured protesters hospitalized side, including three seriously. Breakage of a
window is apparently more important than eye popped for editorial managers. For the state
and the PS, it was unwise to draw the necessary conclusions logic: pure and simple
abandonment of a project denounced as an aberration. Valls, in the footsteps of
Alliot-Marie even exhumed the ultra-left and the black blocks from abroad ... (which is
pretty croquignolet, when the state celebrates the memory of the red poster and me).
Project leaders then tried to bring maximum pressure on the spokesmen and representatives
of coordination, always trying to divide the movement. Degradation on the whole limited to
a dozen shops, street furniture and bus shelters bus (be aware that falls every day 4 or 5
on the entire city ...) and pavement lines tram is then transformed into a "rampage
downtown, devastated." This is not bearing fruit. Indeed the press release on Sunday by
organizing the event, visible on the site of the ZAD, refused any dissociation and assumed
a diversity of tactics and practices of the movement. The mayor announced Monday that he
filed a complaint, the damage no longer amounted to 300,000 but less than one million
euros, he encouraged everyone to file a complaint against the organizers ... Faced with
captivating images of injuries demonstrators circulating on the net, the cops discovered
130 wounded and bruised eight hospitalized. The media noise was such that some
anti-airport structures ended by release of hazardous releases to release the pressure:
the fault of the police that have left to do, the fault of suburban youth who came to
break the fault 200 thugs who allegedly kidnapped ... These anti-airport components should
nevertheless recognize that it is not making the round back we pushed back the state, but
banging his fist on the table, especially when was 56% of the population behind when we
mobilize tens of thousands of people in the street and when the resistance in the field
has shown that it rainbow bouterait whether to do it again. Local committees to support
the struggle of Notre Dame des Landes fortunately kept a cool head and co-authored a press
release after replacing the real issues such mobilization (see below against the insert
with the press and the list 26 committees signatories).
What possible perspective?
Behind the hype around the so-called excessive violence used by Saturday between Nantes-es
at the airport, as political actors or prefectural Auxiette as Lapouse urge a coup against
the occupation of the ZAD. But this risky decision could very well turn against its
initiators in case something goes wrong and send early retirement a Prime Minister who is
the lowest for his popularity and stopping a little a president who comes to see
unemployment rise to the third consecutive month.
It seems more likely that another perspective stands out as the leader of the EELV evoked
group in the Senate, JF Placed. As part of a cabinet reshuffle more likely with a narrow
government, a large Department of the wider environment, which would manage the transport,
told Ségolène Royal with a State Secretariat for Placed could renegotiate the top the
abandonment of the Notre Dame des Landes, in exchange for EPR projects on old nuclear
sites, it certainly does not displease the Greens (who have agreed to launch the EPR
Regional Council of Normandy in 2003), lobby BTP and Vinci, it would be consistent with
the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and departing the Lower Loire a situation become
inextricable ...
Nantes, Thursday, Feb. 27.
BOX 1
PRESS RELEASE INTER-COMMITTEES TO SUPPORT THE FIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING NDDL MANIF OF 02/22/2014
We support committees struggle NDDL throughout France and beyond, fully support the
position expressed in the press release on Sunday, February 23, organizers / trainers of
the manifestation of Saturday, February 22, 2014 in Nantes (cf the site of the ZAD).
We wish to acknowledge the undeniable success of the rally and our pleasure to be involved.
A popular demonstration, powerful, dignified. This is a strong emphasize between urban and
agricultural convergence world!
We are especially regonflé.es motivé.es and suites for mobilization that day event has a
time of reunion and exchange and allowed us to take the measure of our strength and our
support.
And especially convaincu.es that given the mobilization continues to expand year after
year, stopping the project can not be inevitable as, despite the propaganda would have us
believe otherwise. This event as the struggles we are involved here and there against the
big and small projects imposed harmful tells us or we confirm where real violence comes
from and how it is manipulated by the powerful, industrial, financial, government and media-s.
We deplore the excessive police presence in the streets of Nantes on Saturday 22 and we
give our support to those of us who were blessé.es during interventions forces. We will
not let ourselves wrong. uni.es. We are and will remain
Support committees will continue actions to inform the public about issues of defense and
the Zad consider, depending on the evolution of the situation, the necessary opposition to
airport actions. When working on Zad, committees recall their particular stand ready to
answer the call by opponents: bringing reinforcement on site, block Vinci, its allies and
its subcontractors by all means deemed necessary and occupy places of power where they are.
Resistance!
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Signatories to the committees February 26, 2014: Committee NDDL 18 (Bourges) Collective
Alsace NDDL Committee NDDL 4B16 Collective NDDL Centre Finistère Committee NDDL - Saclay
Committee Troyes (Aube, 10, Champagne) Comité Régional Nord-Pas de Calais Collective
solidarity ZAD Rouen NDDL NDDL Pleudaniel Committee, Côtes d'Armor bigouden Committee
Support Committee Challans Northwest Vendée (85) NDDL Committee 92 South CNCA (Nantais
Collective Against Airport) Committee of Lisieux (14) Collective Nîmes (30) Collective
NDDL Beauvais (60) NDDL Committee Challans (85) Committee Nort Nozay (44) of Comminges
(south of the Haute-Garonne 31) Collective Collective IDF NDDL Quimper Cornwall (29)
Committee NDDL Saint-Malo (35) Collective of the Committee Against the University of
Nantes Airport (Cunca) Support Committee 79 opponents at the airport NDDL Committee
Poitevin NDDL Committee NDDL St Brieuc (22)
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