Friday, June 29, 2012

Struggle Against the the Notre Dame des Landes Airport


The host organization:  Les Alternatifs


The description/explanation of the session

Notre Dame des landes (NDDL) is a grove area, close to Nantes (north west of France). The mayor (our prime minister) decided to build there a huge international airport. Nantes has already a airport which is not used a 100 %. And there's the pic oil. Nantes is linked to others big city in France by several Very Fast Train (TGV) lines. There's an ecosystem and peasants in NDDL. So this is an stupid project. But support by right wing parties, socialists, communist … Even the Greens don't really fight against it. But it's a long radical struggle with hunger strike, support of the locals … And Vinci, who is supposed to do the job, is involve in the project of the main motorway of Khimki (Russia) and the channel under the Bosphorus in Istanbul.

A video, in French, done last July in NDDL : http://vimeo.com/26385772

The type of the session:
1. Testimony of the struggle
2. proposals for a common campaign






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