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NOISE DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE NANTES PRISON SATURDAY 29th DECEMBER

Friday 21 December 2012

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Hiya,

For a couple of weeks now we’ve been organising a noise demonstration outside Nantes-Carquefou prison, where two demonstrators are being held (Cyril with a five month sentence, another friend with two months). It’ll be on SATURDAY DECEMBER 29th AT 4PM.

Attached is a callout which we have rewritten, with information about how to get there.

Furthermore, it’s worth saying that on the ZAD, we are facing more intense repression in the courts than before. That means covering court costs and active prisoner support. We would like to talk about this and the demonstration, so we would like to invite you to a vegan pot-luck at the Chat teigne on FRIDAY DECEMBER 28th AT MIDDAY.

We hope you can diffuse this info to those around you, to local lists and groups, antirepression and antiprison campaigners, associations and collectives struggling against the airport. We’d like this inofrmation to diffuse as much as possible seeing as finding people’s contact details isn’t so straight forward...

We also want to emphasiwe that we don’t want to take charge of all of the ideas for this demonstration. Be creative, maybe we can talk about ideas on Friday at the Chat teigne...

We all know that New Year is a ’festive’ time, but we hope to see others join us and those facing repression to celebrate all together. No to the airport and the world it brings with it, not this year and not in 2013 either!

Below is the call-out in text and doc format.

Against the airport and its prisons

Whether its in the woodlands, the muddy fields, around the barricades, in the streets of Nantes or anywhere else in France, we all stand together against their machines and their world of devastation... Let’s get together outside the prison walls to make it clear that we’ll stick this out together in solidarity.

Its their intention to make this airport project happen by force. They occupy land, try to control and block access, stop and search us, put pressure on us and try to manipulate and divide us; but we dodge them, annoy them, we continue our lives, rebuilding and resisting over and over again.

Some of us have been banned from this area, from the ZAD or from the whole region for 1 or 2 years, with suspended prison sentences, and more recently with actual prison sentences (2 months and 5 months). In court, the prosecution justify these sentences as “not having anything to do with the anti-airport movement, this is about criminal acts”. We want to make it clear that in this struggle against evictions, we will not tolerate their presence and their repression, and we will continue to fight for them to leave.

They may try to intimidate us, but that won’t work! They may try to isolate us from one another, but we won’t let that happen!

LETS MAKE SOME NOISE OUTSIDE NANTES PRISON, CARQUEFOU SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER

Meet at 4pm in the carpark outside Carrefour supermarket in La Beaujoire, next to McDonalds.

To reach there from Nantes, take Exit 41 from the ring road. The supermarket is between the road for Paris and the Boulevard de la Beaujoire.

Extra information: to find out more come to the pot-luck meal and discussion Friday 28th December at midday at the Chat teigne.

Attached documents