Cavaillon (Vaucluse) France: 12 construction machines out of order

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Cavaillon (Vaucluse) France: 12 construction machines out of order
Communiqué action zac
A few days ago we put 12 construction machines of the future ZAC des Hauts Banquets (concerted development zone) out of action, in the commune of Cavaillon. Let’s be clear: every year, in France, more than 60,000 hectares are artificially developed. The equivalent of a department every 7 years. At this rate, in 100 years, half of the territory will have disappeared under concrete and commercial zones.
Faubourg Promotion, the promoters of the project, assure us that ransacking 46 hectares of fertile agricultural land is tantamount to building an “ecosystem designed around biodiversity”. The techno-park they promise us is certified as a “Park +, Committed Park”, “Eco Parc Vaucluse”, it would participate in “green growth”, would be “virtuous”, “responsible” and even “positive energy”… Capitalism, in its mortifying madness, ravages the very meaning of words. The Hauts Banquets farmlands have the capacity to produce food for more than 24,000 human beings, they are also the habitat of many living beings: earthworms, dragonflies, voles, frogs… If nothing is done, the construction site will leave behind brand new open spaces and a bitter taste of dust.

It is time to destroy this cynical ecology that dances on the dying corpse of the living. We don’t want any more new ZACs or logistics platforms, no more mega-warehouses or 2×2 roads. As soon as they are built, these infrastructures are already ruins.

In Cavaillon, as everywhere else, when legal recourse, citizen mobilizations and occupation actions fail to stop the machines, nothing is lost yet! Sabotage is a proportionate response to the devastation, a response that could increase the strength of our struggles tenfold. Sabotage, in sometimes very simple gestures, bursts the restricted framework of action in which the State encloses us to condemn us to impotence. Sabotage opens a breach. Wherever it strikes, the course of devastation is interrupted, at least temporarily. Wherever capitalist machines and infrastructures sow death, we can make an offensive response. But sabotage alone will not solve anything. The breach it opens must be widened, deepened, maintained in time, by all types of mobilizations. In Cavaillon the suspension of the construction site can open the possibility of a relaunch of the struggle to obtain the final suspension of the project!
We ask for the definitive stop of the construction site of the future ZAC of the Hauts Banquets. If the machines were to resume their deadly works we will know how to remind them that they are not welcome on these lands!
anarchists
Faubourg Promotion, in charge of the implementation of the ZAC of Cavaillon, is part of the IDEC group, here is their address if you wish to visit them:
IDEC INVEST GROUP – 37 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75008 PARIS
To know more about the project in French :
https://avececologiecavaillon.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-17-SNT-84-Avis-Consultation-Zac-des-Hauts-Banquets.pdf