Les Soulèvements de la Terre

It ended on Friday the 13th the occupation of the construction site of work on the Girosa glacier, in France, after a week of mobilization in 3400 meters of height which blocked the construction works of the third section of the La Greve cable car.In fact, about a fortnight earlier, the barracks for the workers, the first machinery and an excavator for the installation of a cable car pylon had arrived by helicopter.The camp, how they write on their site the occupants belonging to the network of Soulèvement de la Terre, the radical ecological movement that the French government attempted to dissolve a few months ago, "testifies to the desire to put an end to the exploitation and artificialisation of the mountains, from the lands of the valleys to the glaciers.” The objective was also to make it clear that new resistance camps could return in the spring if the project is not definitively abandoned. Around 300 people passed through the site:the camp held up despite threa...