#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL-Maine-et-Loire - Anjou libertaire #18: Fight against basins: The Battle of Sainte Soline (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 You may have seen the images of the Battle of Sainte-Soline. The so-called

"eco-terrorists" who fight against the construction of large tarpaulin holes in
the ground. These basins, which pump water from the water table in winter in
order to be able to irrigate crops in summer, contain, in the case of
Sainte-Soline (in the Deux-Sèvres), 720,000m3 of water; the annual consumption of
10,000 households. Despite the presence of more than 2,000 farmers in this area
along the Sèvre Niortaise, the project is carried by barely 5% of irrigating
farmers. Apart from the impact on the water cycle, the concreting of 16 hectares
of agricultural land, this project means above all the monopolization of a common
good by a limited and private company (the Coop de l'eau 79). And, icing on the
cake: the project is 70% funded by public money! To defend this project ecocide
on the weekend of October 29-30, the government sent 1700 gendarmes and 6
helicopters. But the organization on the side
male and female demonstrators (between 5,000 and 7,000) on the
strategic plan was also impressive, and a motorcade
managed to enter the site (for more details on the strategy and
the demonstration go to
https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Refusons-les-megabassines-refusons-la-privatisation-de-l-eau).
The fight is not over, however. the
land on which the camp is built is lent to activists and
activists until May next year, and
constructions are in progress. At the beginning of November,
about 1,000 gendarmes are still on site to prevent
the establishment of a ZAD, the greatest fear of the government. The prefect,
Emmanuelle Dubée, despite the suspension
of works and the announcement of the implementation of new water restrictions in
Deux-Sèvres, continues to support the
project. Non-violent sabotage missions are also in progress.
course as the dismantling of the network of pipes around
the new basin. Despite this massive mobilization (in which comrades from UCL took
part), a heavy record in
wounded (50 including 4 serious among the demonstrators), the government
stubbornly supports this project, because this
is not only a hole in the earth which it defends, but their
capitalist, corrupt and ecocidal world. Our only solution
is to continue the fight: NO BASSARAN!

http://unioncommunistelibertaire49.fermeasites.net/sites/unioncommunistelibertaire49.fermeasites.net/IMG/pdf/anjou_libertaire_no18.pdf
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca