Dear comrade,
Great that you will be joining the information evening in Amsterdam on Friday, December 13th (19.00-21.00).
We are very excited to welcome and learn from the climate activists joining us from France and Belgium. Please read the text below about their struggles.
It is important you fill in your email address so we can send you the exact location as well as any updates if needed.
The doors will open at 18.00 for informal getting to know each other with tea and snacks.
The interactive presentation will start at 19.00 and end around 21.00.
See you there! ❤️🔥
Struggles in France
Conceived as a highway for boats to link Paris and the northern ports (notably Antwerp and Rotterdam), the Seine-Nord Europe canal would stretch over 107km in northern France.
Its route would artificialize over 3,000 hectares of land, impact several water tables and threaten dozens of protected species. The Seine-Nord Europe canal is a project of massive destruction, one of the largest ever undertaken in France: the quantity of excavated material generated by the project is equal to 10 tunnels under the English Channel.
Behind the (completely delirious) promises of jobs, lies the continuation of the dynamics of precarization of workers, who are always the first to suffer from the incessant acceleration of goods flows.
Many citizens, associations, political parties and trade unions are mobilizing to stop this project. Les Soulèvements de la Terre has joined this movement to fight against this carnage, which serves only capitalist interests.