a big party planned, 7 years after the abandonment of the airport project

After 50 years of conflict, the January 17, 2018the government Edward Philippe abandoned the project to build an airport on agricultural land located between Notre-Dame-des-Landes et Vigneux-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique). To celebrate the historic victory of this ecological and social movement, the “Plane-Free Bocage Festival” is organized. for two days.

Loire-Atlantique: the Bocage Festival without a plane

January 17 is a historic date for the Zadists who established it as public holiday :

To celebrate the abandonment of the airport project, we are going to have a big party today and tomorrow. We too often tend to erase what is linked to a collective history, it is a way of recalling this resistant history.

A banquet is organized this Friday, January 17, with a surprise ritual at 5 p.m., followed by a cake competitiond’a baleanda boom.

A party that continues on Saturday morning with a brunch planned, followed by tour of places and farms before a snack and a screening at 4 p.m.

A ritual tour in 5 places

We are also celebrating the signing of long leases which will make it possible to perpetuate and rebuild collective housing that was destroyed during the struggles.

To celebrate this signing of a lease with the department which took place on Thursday January 16, 2025, a ritual tour singing is organized on Saturday at noon, visiting the five places of which the activists are today the owners.

Other victorious fights and invited activists

This great annual celebration is open to all: “We are expecting hundreds of people” announces Nicolas, who arrived at Notre-Dame-des-Landes in 2012 at the Nameless Farm who was very active in the Zadist movement, under the assumed name of Benoît Feuillu:

Every year we invite struggles that have achieved victories. In a context of ecological and environmental crisis, sometimes we feel helpless and at the same time every year, there are people who resist to keep fertile land.

Other activists like those who stopped the extension of the Lafarge career has Saint-Colomban, opponents of BIP highway project or even at the salmon factory, which involved artificializing land to Carcassonnewill be present.

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