We just helped some folk from Telesur TV to make two little 15 minute documentaries in english about the zad, the 4000 acres of liberated land against an airport and its world where the labofii are now based.
The first film is about the history of the struggle, the final one about the way the free commune works between its 60 different collectives.
For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a
new airport for the French city of Nantes (which by the way already
has one). Now in these rich fields, forests and wetlands, which
multinational Vinci want to cover in concrete, an experiment in
reinventing everyday life in struggle is blossoming. Radicals from
around the world, local farmers and villagers, citizen groups, trade
unionists and naturalists, refugees and runaways, squatters and
climate justice activists and many others, are organising to protect
the 4000 acres of land against the airport and its world. Government
officials have coined this place “a territory lost to the republic”.
Its occupants have named it: la zad (zone a défendre) zone to defend.
In the winter of 2012, thousands of riot police attempted to evict the
zone, but they faced a determined and diverse resistance. This
culminated in a 40,000 people strong demonstration…
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