Zone A Défendre
Tritons crété-e-s contre béton armé

Who are we?

Website of the ZAD occupation - where the future airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes is planned to be.

The ZAD - to the developers it is the Zone d’Aménagement Différé’, the differed development zone and for us it’s a Zone À Défendre: a zone to be defended. Either way, it’s a part of the countryside close to Nantes in France, which according to the decision-makers should make way for an international aiport.

Their construction project "Grand Ouest" is an economic platform of international importance stretching from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, which will form a singular, huge metropolis. Fulfilling this project means taking over the sky, the sea and the land in replacing the current airport in Nantes with a new one at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, but also enlarging the port at Saint-Nazaire and constructing new roads and highways...

Our goals, in coming to live here on the proposed site of the airport, are many: to live on a protest site, where we can be close to those who’ve been opposing the project for 40 years and to have the power to act when construction happens; to make use of abandoned spaces to learn to live together, to cultivate the land and to be more autonomous from the capitalist system.

Most texts and infos are published in french and everything is not always translated, sorry. So if you want to be sure wether there’s new info, have a look on the french website. Also, if you want to help translating, you can get in touch with us !

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  • G7 and its world to the pyre

    28 January 2019

    G7 and its world to the pyre Hi folks, how’s it going? They call me Maiti, grand-daughter of the heretics they never could burn. Heiress of ancestor’s knowledge, magical plants energy is running through my veins, tales music sounding in my head. I’m flying broom and megaphone in hands. I was lately at Notre Dame des Landes’s ZAD, i have been adopted by Aman Komunak’s network comrades, in order to unite popular movements and self-managed projects in the Basque Country. I come up with terrible (...)

Campaign News

  • Tuesday, April 24: "Meanwhile, in the East of the Zad..."

    28 April 2018

    Tuesday, April 24: "Meanwhile, in the East of the Zad..." [Source page: https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article5682] Some voices from the East, to tell what is happening when everything is supposed to be "calmer" Eyewitness accounts from the ZAD – see here: https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article5693 21h50min Because we don’t let them beat us, we continue to rap! Here is the piece of Tuesday, 17 April, mixed as it should be. https://soundcloud.com/zadsocialrap/la-bande-a-gazergazees (...)

  • Thursday, April 26 : Early reports from the...

    28 April 2018

    Thursday, April 26 : Early reports from the situation on the zad 23h44min Because the Chèvrerie will not fall, despite armoured vehicles, bulldozers, grenades, ministers and presidents... Here is a nice account aout life in this place, made by people on the spot. Photos and a short film about the living spaces of the ZAD. https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article5728 Videos & Images A bunch of images, sounds, films and readings. From everywhere and about everything. (...)

Practical informations

  • In case of arrest

    9 January 2013

    In case of arrest: If you are arrested, alert the people around you so they can inform the legal team. If you witness an arrest, call the number of the legal team which is on this flyer, and give: a physical description of the person arrested aswell as the clothes they are wearing, aswell as the time, the circumstances and place of the arrest. Never give any name over the telephone, nor any kind of information about the crimes maybe commited (for example: “my friend was doing a tag...”). (...)

  • List of materials that could be useful here

    29 November 2012

    To start, two specific requests in "human resources" .. is looking for a dentist who is willing to receive people free or in exchange for donations and also an osteopath List updated November 28, 2012 * New updates for construction and medic! Bicycles! Caravans for auto-Media and the medic team Boots and Socks Chocolate and tobacco (or we could manage it ourselves) She-pees Oil Lamps (to see after 18h!) aluminum tape We had two forges in the Chestnut plantation and the cops (...)

Groupes de la ZAD

  • Les Mardis, chantier ouvert au Très Petit Jardin

    18 octobre 2022

    Chantiers au Très Petit Jardin ! Jardin de production de plantes aromatiques et médicinales Programme selon le nombre de bras, la météo et l’envie du jour. Désherbage et paillage dans le jardin, effeuillage et tri de plantes au séchoir, ou cueillette... Ouvert à toutes et tous, Rdv à 14h pétantes (surtout si vous n’êtes jamais venu), au lieu-dit "le Tertre", à Notre dame des Landes, à côté de la ferme de Bellevue ou à 9h30 l’été, à partir du moment où il fait trop chaud l’aprèm (info à jour sur le (...)

  • Chantier au jardin médicinal

    12 novembre 2021

    Chantier au jardin médicinal (au fond du champ rouge et noir) 14 novembre 10-17h Ça y’est, après 2 ans d’engrais vert sur la parcelle, on réinstalle des cultures de plantes médicinales. Pendant le chantier, on continuera les buttes déjà commencées en octobre (donc plutôt du travail un peu physique) et on mange ensemble vers 13h - amène un truc à partager si possible. À dimanche !

Texts

  • Until where will we go with this scam of negociations ??

    28 May 2018

    I haven’t signed the files project nor do i believe in negociation with a State. I don’t want to discuss with this oppressor, i just simply and only want to destroy it. But still I feel concerned by this process of legalisation that includes almost all lands and sites on ZAD, this area that I see as a whole and not only as my little home, this last one today being destroyed anyways. We’re calling negociations the injuctions of the prefect, while I really don’t see when have we been negociating. (...)

  • The Movement is Dead, Long Live... Reform!

    14 May 2018

    The Movement is Dead, Long Live... Reform! This text was written during fall 2017 on the ZAD of Notre-Dame- des-Landes, France. Since then, the situation drastically changed when the government announced on January 17 th , 2018 that they are abandoning the airport project. It may seem obsolete to pub- lish this after the “victory”. But, despite the importance this strug- gle has for me, I didn’t celebrate this victory. I am probably too suspicious and critical about what’s at stake and what’s (...)

Audiovisual ressources

  • Pictures of homes and buildings at the ZAD

    12 April 2018

    So as not to forget, because we don’t want to let them do it, while the military operation launched to attack our homes beginning on 9 April continues, we want to take you on a little tour of the cabins at the ZAD, starting with the ones that have been destroyed in the past few days. BUILDINGS DESTROYED SINCE THE START OF THE EVICTION OPERATION (list not complete, photos added gradually) The group home Les 100 Noms, destroyed 9 April 2018: The agricultural shed and sheepfold at Les 100 (...)

  • When the trees shake

    13 March 2013

    A documentary made by ZAD automedia about the big forest (forêt de Rohanne) before and after the evictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bm6vMyDVr4 http://archive.org/details/ZadNddlQuandLesArbresSagitentWhenTheTreesShake Soon in better quality and with subtitles that are easier to read :)

Anti Répression

  • Soutien de NNDL poursuivre ensemble aux Soulèvements de la terre

    20 juin 2023

    COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE du 20 juin 2023 DE L’ASSOCIATION NDDL POURSUIVRE ENSEMBLE Aujourd’hui 20 juin 2023, la police sème la terreur sur la ZAD de Notre Dame des Landes et dans les milieux de résistance écologiste. Dix arrestations musclées au petit matin par la sous-direction anti-terroriste ! Exfiltration vers la région parisienne pour un maximum de 96 heures de garde à vue ! On peut s’interroger sur le fait que la police sème la terreur juste la veille de la probable dissolution des Soulèvements (...)

  • soutien total aux soulèvements de la terre

    20 juin 2023

    Aujourd’hui au petit matin nous avons eu la mauvaise surprise d’être réveillé, sur plusieurs lieux de la zad, par une armada de flicaille, surarmés, venus interpellés quelques un.es de nos camarades. Nous ne sommes pas surpris par ce timing : arrêter des personnes soupçonnées d’être proche des Soulèvements de la terre deux jours avant de mettre en branle leur dissolution est bien une technique policière pour tenter de museler la résistance. Arrêter pour faire taire, pour faire peur, pour briser. Mais (...)

Contre les multinationales et leurs projets

Comrades in struggle

  • LET’S IMPEACH THE G7 AND ITS WORLD !

    2 July 2019

    G7 BLOKATU COLLECTIVE LET’S IMPEACH THE G7 AND ITS WORLD ! G7 BLOKATU is a collective of people opposed to the G7 summit which will take place in Biarritz from August the 24th to the 26th. Coming from the civil society or engaged activists, we carry with us the urgent need of a better world, at the opposite of the one represented by their summit. Capitalism embodies itself in these seven Heads of State and their side-kicks who gather in the Basque Country. They will be bunkerised, (...)

  • Actions against the Brussels Maxi-Prison!

    4 February 2019

    Actions against the Brussels Maxi-Prison! February-March 2019. Chemin du Keelbeek, Brussels (Zad de Haren). After 9 years of resistance, the Belgian state and the companies still insist on starting work on the Brussels Maxi-Prison and have set themselves a date: to lay the foundations by the end of January and to start construction in the spring of 2019. They may plan to start building, but that does not mean the end of the fight! This is a call to intensify the resistance through any (...)

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