Archive of The Zad and NoTAV

On 8 October 2019, riot police and other armed security forces violently evicted what had come to be known as L’Amassada, a ZAD (Zone-to-Defend) occupation in Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu in southern France. The following, written a year after the eviction, outlines the goals, structure, and accomplishments of the occupation as well as the political and environmental context of ongoing ZAD struggles against the economic and ecological destruction required by “green” development. 

"We, filmmakers, call on ourselves to bite, to film, and to defend this territory which is beaten and hits back."

What the state and its representatives cannot bear is the fact that for ten years the ZAD has experimented forms of life which prefigure a possible future society in the here and now.

Why France’s biggest police operation since May 68 is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare.

Kristin Ross speaks with France 24 about the French government's efforts to evict the ZAD. 

What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of, that would lead him to act so violently? Today living a little outside the system constitutes a threat to neoliberalism.

A statement from a group of architects, urbanists, thinkers, and citizens in defense of the zad and this unique experience of living the future.

"We are calling on you to take solidarity actions everywhere, it could be holding demos at your local French embassy or consulate, or taking actions against any suitable symbol (corporate or otherwise) of France!"