This week we’re hearing about the ZAD. An autonomous zone of resistance in rural France. It is the site of a 40 year struggle against a proposed airport.But it is also so much more than that. The ZAD became an autonomous zone of social experimentation. A place to create coalitions, imagine new ways of living together and meeting collective needs, and an experiment of living utopia today.

With the announcement to abandon the airport, a seeming victory for the ZAD movement has thrown tensions into sharp relief, and raised the question of what it is all about. All this this as the State sweeps in with heavy police violence.

Links:

• https://zad.nadir.org/?lang=en
• https://zadresist.antirep.net
• https://zadforever.blog/

Image credit: Nantes Indymedia.

Earth Matters #1143 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.