Earth Uprisings announce “mass direct actions” for the coming months

The radical environmentalist collective Earth Uprisings, which the government sought to dissolve in vain last year, announced a timetable on Tuesday March 19 “mass direct actions” for the coming months, including a return to Sainte-Soline and a new mobilization against the A69.

The movement announced in a press release “the schedule for its seventh season of mass direct actions in defense of land and water: blockades, occupations, disarmament for the next five months”. “From April to the end of August, national and international convergence meetings will follow one another in order to articulate peasant and environmentalist struggles, local resistance and alliances for social justice”he continues.

A return in June to the A69 motorway site

This calendar begins with a call to converge near “Sainte-Soline, one year later”, from March 22 to 31. The commune of Deux-Sèvres was last year the scene of violent clashes between gendarmes and opponents of “megabasins”, these water reservoirs dedicated to agricultural irrigation.

The Earth Uprisings also plan a mobilization in May in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) against a logistics platform project or a return in June to the A69 motorway site between Castres and Toulouse.

The government had initiated proceedings to dissolve the collective following the clashes in Sainte-Soline. But the Council of State dealt him a snub in November by annulling this decision. “The Council of State considers that no provocation of violence against people can be attributed to the Earth Uprisings”ruled the highest French administrative court.