<nettime> French crackdown on Les Soulévements de la Terre

[Menno Grootveld via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

Dear all,

Today the sad news arrived that the French state decided upon a total 
crackdown on the ecological movement Les Soulèvements de la Terre (which 
translates as something like 'the uprisings of the earth'). Les 
Soulèvements de la Terre has been responsible for some of the most 
spectacular actions to protect the environment that we have seen lately. 
In one instance they dismantled half a factory last year, and only a 
week ago they clashed with heavily-armed French police forces in a 
mountain valley that is under threat of a high speed trainline between 
Lyon and Turin in Italy.

Now the French minister of the Interior has ordered the movement to 
dissolve. In the relevant decree there is a direct referral to Andreas 
Malm's How To Blow Up a Pipeline, of which I have been the Dutch publisher.

In my eyes this is a crucial moment in the struggle for everything that 
we hold dear. Dissident voices are suppressed everywhere, while the 
drumbeats of the war-mongers are stronger than ever and the burning of 
the earth relentlessly proceeds. This is the time that we have to stand 
up and say 'no, we won't accept this any longer.'

Please support the Soulèvements de la Terre in every way you can, sign 
the petition, organize rally's and take to the streets. Spread the word 
in your networks! We will never surrender! No pasaran!

For the latest news: 
https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/en-eu/blog/appel-aux-soulevements-de-la-terre-ce-qui-repousse-partout-ne-peut-etre-dissous 
(also in English)

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