from The Final Straw
Final Straw 9/21
Paul and Camille from the ZAD du Testet. ZAD du Testet, as they will explain, is a land occupation in the southwestern department of Tarn, France. Farmers, residents and activists are struggling to stop the building of a dam that would flood the lands of some farmers for the purpose of irrigating other farmer’s lands in order to facilitate the growing of large amounts of corn, probably for animal agriculture. The flooding would also destroy the wetlands of that area and destabilize the ecology further. Taking the model of the ZAD, or Zone a defendre against the building of an airport in Notre Dame de Landes in eastern france of which we’ve spoken a lot on this show, the people struggling against the dam in Testet have been occupying the lands slated for deforestation in relation to the dam building and have recently been evicted from their occupation.
Final Straw 9/17
Grand Jury resistor Jerry Koch talks about his case and experiences while incarcerated and on the case of Luke O’Donovan, an anarchist self-defense prisoner currently incarcerated in Georgia.
Write to Luke:
Luke Patrick O’Donovan #1001372271
P.O. Box 206, Davisboro, GA 31018
