(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - Notre-Dame-des-Landes: "The Zad is everywhere, " and even Paris (fr)

Since October, 150 community support emerged in France and Belgium. In the image of the 
area to defend (Zad) Nantes, they include political trends and activist practices varied. 
In Paris, it is in this configuration that the AG of a hundred people to take back every 
Tuesday reflexes operation and collective decisions and horizontal. ---- On October 17, 
the day after the mass expulsions Zad, a dozen people gather outside the Ministry of 
Ecology for "citizen watch", then found a few days later and a little more numerous near 
the National Assembly for a picnic solidarity. October 23, 150 people were present for the 
first meeting of a Parisian collective constitution Support Zad, with enough strength to 
implement actions and a weekly appointment. The first action the next day, reinforces the 
collective self-es since investing Radio France, to popularize a struggle so far absent 
from the media.

Found that the foundations of the collective - the combination of self-es on the basis of 
action and not organizations - self-management is a culture rooted in the environmental 
movement, anti-globalists, anarchists, communists, and we find in the Climate Action 
Camps, or even against-tops.

Many actions
Surprising in the fact that the collective day to stay away from political recovery, even 
if some participants and some participants are affiliated AG-es, this is simply not the 
issue. By operating according to the principle of self-management, the fund may include 
all the better newcomers and newcomers.

The group is in line with the decisions of the Zad and ACIPA [ 1 ] in Nantes as well as 
the AG collectives for some actions he organizes and improvise for others. But it is not 
easy to take concrete decisions or push some debate without proper collective 
organization. A committee was then set up to reintroduce practices meeting.

Diversity of practices
The level of investment may not be the same for everyone and activist practices are 
diverse too, without excluding each other. As Notre-Dame-des-Landes, everyone finds to be 
useful in one way or another: street theater, writing, viewing and distribution of 
leaflets, songs, actions on the subway pubs, collecting material for Zad, demonstrations 
and evening (s) service (s) control information, planting trees Zad Farm of Happiness in 
Nanterre, planned construction of a hut, concert Feb. 15 [ 2 ] etc..

Both network equipment to support Zad and action "decentralized", the Parisian collective 
strives for the fight be victorious and that is its raison d'?tre. Parallel, and that is 
what makes this fight emblematic deadly logic that leads to the airport project is 
available everywhere - big urbanization projects disheveled, unwanted by residents, 
inequality, and which is cleared and expelled as and more - and since the Paris region is 
not left, the group sometimes takes the opportunity to unite and inspire a number of local 
struggles.

Commission ecology AL

[ 1 ] Citizens Association inter populations affected by the airport project

[ 2 ] See NDDL-paris.effraie.org