The Z.A.D. is 4,000 acres of occupied land conveniently located where the state and multinational building company vinci plan to make an airport. for 40 years locals have been fighting the project, joined by squatters in the last 5 years. Cue countless actions and demos and constructions, building a place where people strive to be autonomous. Including libraries, treehouse villages, a bakery, a farm, collective gardens, a goat dairy etc, all horizontally organized.

In October the military and riot police came and knocked it all down, but they didn't expect the resistance that they face and had to extend their initial planned operation by 3 weeks. It's been almost 3 months now that there is a daily military presence, and 2 people have gone to prison so far, with hundreds wounded.

There was a big demo and 40,000 people came to re-squat some new land. Over 200 "collectives of support" were created and the government proposed negotiations which were refused by the people involved.

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