(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #231 - Notre-Dame-des-Landes: popular ball against the Ayrault port (fr)

A musical and political festival against the airport project was held in 
Notre-Dame-des-Landes on 3 and 4 August. A new stage in the event of force to compel the 
government to abandon - finally! - His great useless project. ---- Saturday, June 22, 
2013, from 11h to 13h in glorious sunshine, we were 400 to walk the streets of Nimes to 
reaffirm our staunch and unwavering opposition against the vile beast. With cries of " ? 
we will not forget Clement, Fascism will not pass ? "," ? United against the extreme right 
and neo-Nazis ? , "" ? Against the extreme right and extreme poverty, it is the social 
struggle that is necessary ? ", the event brought together activists from Solidarity, 
Conex, CNT, CGT, FA, AL, PCF, PG, NPA, FSU and the antifa ultras of football club N?mes, 
Gladiators 91. This event follows two rallies in N?mes on 6 and 7 June, after the death of 
Clement Meric. In Ales, another rally was also organized. facing extreme right overhead.

From meeting to meeting, mobilization was built broadcasts including leaflets and posters 
collages in N?mes but also in many villages and towns of Gard. There is urgency in our 
department, with a peak of votes in favor of the National Front and MP Collard acclaimed 
in the riding of Vauvert. If in cities (N?mes, Al?s and Uz?s) the presence of fascists is 
discrete in some villages it is not the same.

A particularly smelly climate prevails in several villages in Gard: last year, late night 
at the Aigues-Mortes festival held true ratonnade. A Sumene, during a village festival, 
young people had multiplied provocations singing Nazi songs outstretched arm. These facts 
have angered the village community was mobilized to reassert open and antiracist identity 
Cevennes Gard.

Unit response and inter-
Thursday, June 27, several organizations came together at the local Solidarity of 30 to 
lay the foundations of an anti-fascist collective unit. We defined our areas of 
intervention (with priority the workplace and neighborhoods), bounded by considering our 
unified framework to exclude the participation of organizations (PS, MJS, EELV) 
participating in a government that pursues a policy stigmatization of foreigners in the 
continuity of the previous government. Working committees have been established. 
Appointment is already taken to determine participation in the anti-fascist demonstration 
on Saturday 14 September in Marseille to protest against the holding of the Summer School 
of the FN. Another goal of the group is to propose an inter-event for Gard unions around 
an open trade initiatives with Vigilance and anti-fascists (Visa) meeting and may be 
joining this network.

We will try also to open the collective associations and those active in the social fabric 
of popular areas in order to bring the greatest possible reach the world anti-fascist 
struggle.