arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Nous, la campagne "les illégaux n'existent pas" organisons notre deuxième camp d'action international contre les frontières.

Il se déroulera au croisement des frontières biélorusse, polonaise, et lituanienne, non loin de la ville polonaise d'Augustov. Nous nous y manifesterons contre la politique d'immigration de l'Union Européenne, contre la fermeture des frontières de l'Est aux non-citoyens (par le biais de la mise en place de régimes de visas, etc.), contre la déportation des "illégaux" et contre le nationalisme.

Nous voulons associer l'action politique à un intéressant programme culturel: concerts, happenings de rue, manifestations. D'autant plus que cette région est un espace multi-culturel.
L'année dernière, le camp d'action contre les frontières s'est déroulï aux frontières polonaise, slovaque et ukrainienne et a rassemblé des participants d'une dizaine de pays: Russie, Ukraine, Biélorussie, Slovaquie, Allemagne, Autriche, Bulgarie, Suisse, Pays-Bas, Belgique et Finlande.

S'y sont déroulïs toutes sortes d'événements intéressants: manifestation devant les bâtiments des garde-frontières, marche dans les montagnes jusqu'au lieu de rencontre des trois frontières, occupation d'une nouvelle tour de surveillance, discussion, diffusion de films sur les actions de la "Fédération Anarchiste de Pologne", chants dans toutes les langues possibles,...
Nous invitons à ce camp toutes les personnes d'accord avec le slogan de la campagne "Les illégaux n'existent pas"

Pour plus d'informations, contactez nous aux adresses suivantes:

Rozbrat
LF-Maciej Roszak

po box 5

60-966 Poznan 31

Poland

tel: 0048 (0) 603247245

ACTION ANTI-NUCLEAIRE

Votkinsk is a city of 100 000 inhabitants in the Udmurtian republic of the Russian Federation. It is now a site where it's planned to build a Russian-American plant that shoud process old heavy rocket fuel.

In America, the first of such an experiment (process old heavy roket fuel) ended in a ban of the United states department of environment against the proposal that consisted of building a processing plant in the desert of the Nevada, where the closest human settlement was a community of 300 indians, situated 250 kilometres away. The plant was supposed to harm protected tortoises in the area.

That's why, finally, US congress decided to finance such an experiment in Russia with 55 million US$ - in a scale 10 times bigger than the one planned in Nevada

In Rusia, first planned site was the city of Perm near Ural mountains - after strong protests of local inhabitants Russian government decided to move project to a place 4 kilometres away from the city of Votkinsk. This because rocket manufacturing company Topol is the biggest employer of the city.

The plan is that after 5 years of American governance, plant will be governed by local company.
After tour of offers, US government decided to give subcontract to Lockheed Martin, biggest military-industrial transnational company in the world, and most important contractor of the US army and NASA. Lockheed Martin has also been strongly involved in privatization schemes of Russia. Lockheed Martin has also a record of scandals, both ecological and on breaking of arms export regulation.

Russian government has made an ecological impact assesment of the project, as usual, not after their own laws. Result was that plant is good because will mean "jobs" (25 in the beginning).
Known greenwash "NGO", Union for chemical security (against chemical pollutants) has been paid to promote the project in local mass media and to marginalize the resistance.
Inhabitants of Votkinsk started resistance immediately when they learned about the plans. Local organised group has dozens of activists, and has organised public protests with 2000-3000 participants.

Local movement also got a municipal referendum organised, in which majority opposed the project. This without any grants or finances whatsoever, while local government was putting lots of money and effort in counter-propaganda. Biggest employer of the city, company Topol forbid their employees to participate the referendum and watched people who went to vote.
Administrative court nullified the referendum, which has become more like a routine in Russia where municipal and regional referendums are formally binding.

There is also a strong movement in the city of Chaykovskiy near Votkins, which has organised mass meetings as well as car caravan to the city of Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtian republic.

Groups in both Votkinsk and Chaykovskiy have joined Socio-Ecological Union, umbrella of about 300 enviromental NGO's, and Union for chemical security.

After lenghty court processes, local movement asked help from "Rainbow Keepers", radical social ecologist movement known for their direct actions. After two years of resistance, local people decided that new forms of resistance are necessary. Local people wanted to organise a protest camp, in the sort of those organised annually by the Rainbow Keepers since the beginning of the nineties.

The camp is planned to start in the middle of the july - usually Rainbow Keepers camps last up to 6 weeks.

See you in Votkinsk!

Pour de l'information à propos des groupes organisateurs des deux actions présentées, vous pouvez aussi vous adresser à Nathalie Melis: nath_melis@hotmail.com