Historian Kristin Ross named the zad’s lighthouse as an act of “Communal Luxury” — a phrase from the manifesto of the radical Federation of Artists of the Paris Commune of 1871, which proposed that luxury was not the private accumulation of stuff, but the flourishing of beauty in all shared spaces. As the geographer Élisée Reclus wrote, “if the painters and sculptors were free, there would be no need for them to shut themselves up in Salons.”
The illegal lighthouse against an airport and its world — labo.zone
We are not defending nature, we are nature defending itself.
Movement slogan — Notre-Dame-des-Landes / Earth First!
Against the airport and its world.
ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes
The ZAD is everywhere.
La ZAD est partout — 2018
A world in which many worlds fit.
Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos — EZLN (Zapatistas)
The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man.
Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
Murray Bookchin
Man is Nature becoming conscious of itself.
Élisée Reclus
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable — so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Ursula K. Le Guin (2014)
The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently.
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
It is we who plant the fields and build the cities — we carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
Mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid (1902)
The empire of the powerful is built on our obedience.
Starhawk