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  • Defending the zad

    24 January 2016

    Something is flowering in the forest, fields and hedgerows, of the bocage1 of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Nestled in a landscape that remains under threat by the building of a new airport, an experimental zone is proliferating, it’s called - La zad.2 Since the victorious resistance to the 2012 wave of evictions, the zad has become a rallying cry, inspiring a multitude of other nodes of disobedience. The French government has announced that the riot police might return to the territory and the (...)

  • Against the Airport and Its World

    11 March 2013

    un recueil de textes en anglais, traductions d’article publiés sur le site, à lire en ligne ou à télécharger : http://zinelibrary.info/against-airport-and-its-world

  • Breaking Concrete: Selected Texts Translated from Lèse-Béton

    9 March 2013

    Selected texts translated from Lèse Béton, a publication from the ZAD, 2010-2012, exploring the history and context of Europe`s largest land defense struggle. The zine’s two introductions, one by the translator and one by the original creators of Lèse-Béton are reproduced below. For Those Who Don Know: Translator’s introduction The Zone à Défendre, or the ZAD, is an area of about 2000 hectares in western France, near Nantes, in the town of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes. Since the 1970’s, elites in the (...)