> > > ZAD Press release - Intergalactic Call-Out > > Issued Thursday 19 April 2018 > > Welcome to France. > > In theory and written in stone: Freedom, equality, fraternity. > > In reality and written in the flesh: Public services under attack. > Solidarity criminalised. Freedom trampled. The peasantry suffocated. > Working class neighbourhoods destroyed. Social movements annihilated. > Hospital workers repressed. Railway workers ignored. Students muzzled. > Pensioners despised. And more besides.... > > Welcome to the ZAD. > > 2,500 military personnel and their armoured vehicles arrive to attack a > community of 200 inhabitants. One week later: 11,000 grenades; 250 > people injured at the last count; 30 living spaces destroyed; tens of > thousands of people arriving to support us (thank you!). A so-called > open dialogue, with an armoured vehicle pointing at your head and a > bulldozer in your back. The government?s hand extended, the middle > finger raised. Welcome to the lies of this State. > > Because they speak of the rule of law, while assassinating twenty people > a year in France, and democracy, while pounding Syria. Because the state > and the government are asking us to bow our necks till they break. > Because they are asking us to bend our knees until they fracture. > Because they isolate each person?s anger in order better to fragment our > revolt, trying to set us against each other, even though we breathe the > same gases. They will tell us not to mix everything up because they know > that they are our common enemy. They are trying to divide us. > > Because every paving stone, every building, every tree planted, is the > fruit of our ancestors, here and elsewhere, and not theirs. We have > almost forgotten that this world belongs to us and that it is high time > to take it back from them. Because they cannot be everywhere ? but we > can. Because "ZAD Everywhere" is not just a wall slogan, a cool poster > or a demo chant, but the solid idea of a convergence of struggles and > solidarity. Because the ZAD belongs to those who have supported it, who > are supporting it and who will support it. Because of all this, the > machine?s constant attempts at separation and division are unacceptable. > Because we are both the wheat AND the weeds. Because by exterminating > the ZAD in Notre Dame des Landes they think they can show how strong > they are, and give a lesson to all those who dare to raise their voices > and fight back. > > From April 23, it is possible that they will return. From what they are > saying, they want to finish us off. > > If this happens, we immediately call those who fight, who are indignant, > who rebel ? a call to all the abandoned, the repressed... to the > oppressed... to those who have not yet dared... to those who have > tried... to those who blew it... to those who blew it in order better to > succeed... to those who have been forgotten .... to go wild > collectively, whether on the zone or in other places, with creativity > and imagination. Because every way of doing, every sensitivity and every > action counts. Diversity is our greatest weapon. All we have to do is to > express it in concert. May this week, and what comes after, be ours, and > sincere and authentic. > > Let?s be beautiful. > > See you soon. > > From occupants of the ZAD > > ---------------- > NB , no I didn't translate it - but the French version ends with > 'Let's be magnificent' ... ;-) > > Cheers, NDdL ZindabAD! > p+7D! > > > ------------------------------ >
Here here -- - *Anthony Stephenson* *http://anthonystephenson.org/ <http://anthonystephenson.org/>*
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