#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #330 - Ecology, Earth uprisings: A grain of sand in the workings of Lafarge and GSM (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 At the beginning of July in the south of Nantes, as part of the Earth Uprisings,

700 people demonstrated and took part in direct actions against the sand quarries
of Lafarge and GSM, responsible for the sealing of the land and other ecological
disasters and social. ---- In Saint Colomban, a few kilometers south of Nantes,
the Lafarge and GSM sand quarries are threatening, along with agro-industry,
hundreds of hectares of arable land. ---- Lafarge, world leader in the production
of concrete, has in particular been talked about for financing up to 13 million
euros from the Islamic State in order to maintain the activity of one of its
cement factories in Syria. ---- Industrial market gardening, just as destructive,
is a major customer of these quarries: for each hectare, tens of tons of sand are
dumped on cultivated land. Saint Colomban is one cog among others in a French
disaster that has already been at work for several decades.

Every five minutes, the equivalent of a football pitch of French wild and
agricultural land is buried under concrete. The consequences are numerous:
grabbing of hectares of agricultural land, collapse of biodiversity, soil
sealing, depletion of groundwater, significant increase in floods...

The collective La Tête dans le sable, made up of the inhabitants and peasant
farmers of the territory, has joined forces with the Uprisings of the Earth to
federate around them trade unions, including the CGT and Solidaires, political
organizations and militant collectives both traditional and ecologists in order
to form an anti-capitalist front of struggle for the preservation of ecosystems
and for the defense of the peasantry.

As part of the Earth Uprisings, a demonstration was organized on July 3. The
principle is to link traditional legal and festive demonstration with direct
actions, with the aim of maximizing inclusiveness by leaving the freedom to each
and everyone to act according to their physical form and the level of repression
that he or she considers. to be able to endure.


As part of the Earth Uprisings, seven hundred people took part on July 3 in a
demonstration linking traditional legal and festive demonstrations with direct
actions.
A DISARMED LOCK
Seven hundred people took part in the balance of power. A first festive and
non-violent symbolic action was held at the entrance to the quarries massively
protected by the police. Using tractors, trade unionists from the Confédération
paysanne dumped tons of organic waste from overproduction.

A large part of the procession then went to the Redour stream, blocked for more
than ten years by a lock installed illegally by Mr. Vinet, an agro-industrial
owner condemned for his multiple attacks on the environment.

The latter employs, like other industrialists in the region, precarious workers,
including foreigners, in more than unworthy conditions, by arranging with the
Region to circumvent the law.

With the participation of the procession, the lock was disarmed, thus freeing the
stream. The organization, the unitary strategy and the concerted collective
actions were able to guarantee the success of this demonstration. Faced with the
exploitation of resources and populations, let us join these initiatives to
intensify and unify the mobilizations of the collectives in struggle.

Hugo and Nicolas (UCL Nantes)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Soulevements-de-la-Terre-Un-grain-de-sable-dans-les-rouages-de-Lafarge-et-GSM
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