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12th meeting against the airport’s project, metropolis and it’s world

Wednesday 31 July 2013

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Demonstration with a cook in the hand.

One year ago, after the presidential election, monthly demonstrations against the airport and the metropolis began. Step by step, those demonstrations got bigger and bigger and became the Nantes’s confluent point of people that struggle against the airport and its world.

This airport raise matters that exceed ecology. Last autumn, thousand of expelled and inadequat housing people joined us in the street while they were occupying the Lieu Unique. At the same time, the state tried to expell people from the ZAD, but resistance on the spot and solidarity (8000 people in Nantes during the demonstration in november) foiled the state’s will. Few weeks later, we heard anticapitalist slogans to support Arcelor Mital’s workers that could be fired for economical interest. Then, with the late blooming spring, during demonstrations, we heard criticism about « Nantes - green european capital », RFID tag on the tramway and bus’ tickets, or stories from anti-homophobic people.

Today, the struggle against the airport is about to be won, but the one against the metropolis – which is getting bigger, cleaner and more controled – has to be intensified. The struggle against the airport becomes more important in France. More and more voices raised against the territorial reform (third step of decentralization) which would favor metroplis to the detriment of contryside to « develop its attractiveness » for economical reason only. Decentralization is planed to take power away from town council to submit them to departmental and regional council : chemical dump, administration’s closing, etc.

We have to put pressure on decision-maker to stop the project !

We invite inhabitants of Nantes and around to celebrate this year full of struggle and to prepare the one coming. We’ll also take advantage of this birthday to celebrate the publication of « Nantes necropole N°2 », the CNCA newspaper’s where you’ll find a featur about « Nantes european green capital », an article about speed and another one about participative democracy.

Rendez-vous for a big demonstration, a cake in your hand on Saturday, June 29th, 3 PM place royale.