Dernières nouvelles !

[English summary below]

Le train vient de partir selon le suivi du Réseau (http://twitter.com/#!/sdnfr).

Train just left Valognes according to Sortir du nucléaire twitter service.

Texte in deutscher Sprache from Taz.

Info directe du collectif :

Des personnes sont maintenant, 11h15, sur les voies au lieu dit Percy sur la commune de Lieusaint.

Some demonstrators are at this time on the tracks in a village of Lieusaint called « Percy ».

D’autres infos de « premières mains » sont publiés sur le fil info du réseau Sortir du Nucléaire.

Total des personnes arrêtées (à notre connaissance) : 6. Quatre d’entre elles ont été relachées.

News from the arrestees : 6 arrested in total (as far as we know), 4 of them being released.

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Selon Ouest-France :

10 h 32. Près de 400 manifestants face aux forces de l’ordre

Environ 400 personnes continuent de faire face aux forces de l’ordre dans un champ à proximité de la ligne Cherbourg-Paris dans un champ près de Valognes. Une partie des antinucléaires ont réussi à accéder à la voie ferrée pour y déposer des obstacles*. Les CRS ont réussi à les repousser, permettant à des cheminots d’intervenir sur les voies.

* ie : un sabot.

According to online updates of the local newspaper Ouest France, at 10:32 am, about 400 demonstrators are facing police forces in a field, and some antinuclear demonstrators achieved to get on the tracks where they put a blocking device.

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Photo Benoît Tessier / Reuters.

Ci-dessous la dépêche de l’AFP. D’après France-Info, certain-e-s d’entre nous auraient réussi à rejoindre la voie ferrée avant d’en être expulsé-e-s.

Action is on from early this morning. At 8 am some of us were already by the railway tracks, and even on the tracks according to a radio report, before being evacuated by the police.

Police forces have been using batons and tear gas to dispers the demonstrators. Which they have… all over the place and all along the tracks.

According to the authorities (prefecture, which is in charge of the police/gendarme forces), 5 arrests were made.

4 Details of the call-out to block the nuclear transport “routine” in Valognes.

Demo Thursday, 24 November at 11am

Camp 22-24 November, 2011

1. A coup won’t be enough.

After the Fukushima disaster, the fury of the French pro-nuclear lobby leads to a total denial of reality. The lobby is convinced that they are the finest and the best, and that they have a major part to play against all the other nuclear nations: they have the best know how for everything concerning nuclear power. Whilst other countries feel forced to take into account the major risks and deal with their
public opinion, France continues as if nothing has happened. Despite a situation which should weaken the nuclear industry it is clear that their power and arrogance are not seriously shaken; the industry is expanding even further.

The economic and industrial outlook for Areva is focused in the Cotentin area of France with the EPR and the High Voltage line, waste reprocessing, etc.. Faced with the enormity of the nuclear industry we can act directly on its doorstep. The trains, which from the Hague spread the radioactivity all over Europe are an opportunity to harass the industry as the Germans have done for many years.

Let’s be clear, if the actions will try to effectively blockade the nuclear waste going back to their senders, we’re not pushing at all for it to stay in la Hague. A single action with the aim to block the CASTOR train is obviously not enough to really block the industry, but this time must be used to construct a movement both locally and internationally, a relentless harassment of this industry until they stop.

2. Stop the nuclear industry.

The last thirty years, with few exceptions, opposition to the nuclear industry stuck to a symbolic confrontation, made of lobbying and calls for parliamentary democracy.
To have a chance, we must break with habits we are used to while falling asleep in the daily nuclear grind. Let’s become an artisan in stopping nuclear. Disrupting the construction site of the Very High Voltage line, Disrupting the daily routine of radioactive waste is an effective contribution to undermine the development of the nuclear industry. North Cotentin sites are one frontline of this battle. It is up to
us, to be organised, to make it visible and effective. The weakening and stopping of the nuclear industry does not just play on our ability to materially affect its interests. Discard arrogance and unquestioned evidence of its presence in our lives is definitely what we can achieve now.

3. First steps.

Practically the objective of 24 Nov. rally in Valognes is to move collectively towards the tracks and to try and occupy them. The precise locations of the assembly point for the rally and of the camp will be announced only days before the end of November to hamper the police as much as possible. This can only work if we are several hundred. Beyond this attempt to block determined mobilisation against nuclear power is what will make it a success. Particularly aware of the difficulty for many to make available these three days mid-week, this mobilisation should not stick to a presence in Valognes. Public meetings should be held wherever possible.
Nuisance actions as well as symbolic support to the Valognes camp can be organised right now. It is also possible for organisations/groups to take part in signing the call-out on the collective blog (valognesstopcastor.noblogs.org).

Through this call-out which is a process that has only just begun, we hope to build relationships of trust so that we can multiply these actions of harassment. To create an opposition movement based on a horizontal operation. Specifically, the three-day camp designed as much to allow us to anticipate an early departure of the train as to take the time to think collectively as a result, the different practices
of thinking and set them in motion. Aware of the practical difficulties of organising a camp on the edge of winter in those sweet regions, we will provide shelter, food and heat (bring tents anyway).
For this camp to be more comfortable we are in your hands, equipment and proposals, and the blog as well as email should allow us to stick together/keep in touch.

4. Have control over our lives.

By the concrete action of self-organisation, we want to do without having to entrust our future to a delegation nor to rely on electoral illusions that are sure to revive the spirits in the coming months. This is all well to create a balance of power, to have taken over our lives. A struggle against the nuclear industry can not stick to the goal of its elimination. The horror of nuclear disasters is as much about what it creates than the daily management of the people it involves. It is first in that the stop nuclear work is one of a craftsman. Because it is only
through this that we can at once be able to experience the wealth of a takeover of our lives, and provide the means to undermine the rationale for a world in need of nuclear power.

One strategy could be to re-focus the existence of the nuclear industry through the questioning of the power relationship that has thrived for years, while it shows the reality of denial.

By allowing individuals to put themselves in a position to deal with conditions that are made, the interest of the camp might be to break the “hum drum” citizen acceptance of this relationship of domination, to introduce the real challenge for people seeking to break the cycle of deprivation.

The Valognes Stop CASTOR Collective

L’affiche et la cible

L’affiche :

La cible :

Stop Atomic Waste Transport – Anti Nuke Camp in VALOGNES, France.

INVITATION FOR A BIG CAMP AND MASS ACTION AGAINST THE NUCLEAR TRANSPORT CASTOR IN VALOGNES (FRANCE) FROM 22ND TO 24TH NOVEMBER 2011, JUST ACROSS THE CHANNEL

The french and the english government have this common feature of being mad about nuclear power. Whereas Germany, Switzerland and Italy are stepping out of the nuclear energy, France and Great-Britain are doing as if Fukushima never happened. If we refuse to let Fukushima become, like Tchernobyl before, an accident without consequence, it is time to take action, NOW.

More than ever, it is obvious that it is only on an international level that we can think the struggle against nuclear power, because it is on this level that the contradiction between the states that step out of it and those who don’t becomes explosive. As our aim – to free ourselves of those who destroy our lives and everything alive for the last money left to make – can in no way be achieved by them, as all the governments can do is greenwash their tools of destruction, we should use this moment to make it clear that we still envision a future. For it is not only the question of energy that we are determined to take back in our own hands but our lives. That is why we invite all british comrades to join our initiative right on the other side of the Channel, in Valognes (near Cherbourg) from 22nd to 24th november 2011.

On these dates starts the CASTOR transport of highly radioactive refutes that goes from La Hague to Gorleben (Germany). This year for the first time, in coordination with the German comrades, there will be a camp and mass action in order to block this transport at its very starting point, in Valognes, just like the Germans do it in Gorleben.

LET’S MEET THERE AND DISTURB LIKE NEVER BEFORE THE QUIET ROUTINE OF THIS DEADLY INDUSTRY!