Call to support the ZAD de la Colline
Holcim very recently filed a complaint against ZAD. The countdown has begun.
The fight to save Mormont hill is emblematic. It is the fight of the living world defending itself against the system which oppresses it ; a system within which multinational corporations and their race for profit engender destruction and exploitation. The occupants are fighting for life, for water, for the earth ; for the beauty of landscapes and fertile soil ; for the recognition of the rights of non-human elements. They are fighting to defy the exploitation of non-renewable resources, fossil fuels and illimited growth. They are fighting for our future and for their own. As well as for this unique hill.
The ZAD is more than a place of resistance. It is also a space of convergence and a collective, inclusive, experimental way to sustain innovative aspirations. By creating this space of community for the safeguard of the hill, the occupants are simultaneously carving a breach in the concrete wall which separates the current world from the one which we all hope for. They are supporting other ways of producing, consuming and living. This breach is the breach of possibility ; that of a creative and caring space where we try new ways of living together, that of a nascent, forming imaginary of community, perpetually questioning itself in order to elucidate and realize our common values.
We, individuals and collectives of diverse sensibilities but united in our determination to defend this space and what it represents, declare our support to the ZAD de la Colline.
Aurélien Barrau, Astrophysicist, Professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes & CNRS researcher
Laila Batou, Lawyer
Dominique Bourg, Philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Lausanne
Lukas Aramis Bühler, Sustainability Entrepreneur
Béatrice Camurat Jaud, Filmmaker
Daniel de Roulet, Writer
Vinciane Despret, Philosopher, Professor at the University of Liège
Laëtitia Dosch, Comedian
Jacques Dubochet, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean-Marc Ducotterd, President of the Association for the Protection and Recovery of Turtles, Chavornay
Annabelle Ehmann, Climate Activist
Txetx Etcheverry, Climate Emergency Activist Social Justice
Isabelle Fremeaux Activist and Author
Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Professor at the National Museum of Natural History, AgroParisTech and the ENS
Antoine Guisan, Botanist co-author of one of the IPCC reports
Jean-Paul Jaud, Filmmaker
John Jordan, Activist and Author
Massa Koné, Spokesperson for the Malian Convergence against Land Grabbing
Bill McKibben, Journalist and Activist, recipient of the Alternative Nobel Prize
Anne Mahrer, Former Member of Swiss Parliament
Baptiste Morizot, Professor-researcher in Philosophy, WBU University
Payal Parekh, Climate Justice Activist
Carola Rackete, Captain and Activist
Philippe Roch, Former Director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Forests & Landscape
Asti Roesle, Financial Analyst
Stephanie Roth, OPEN Network Manager, recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize
Philippe de Rougemont, President of Sortir du nucléaire Switzerland, Coordinator of Noé21
Julia Steinberger, Professor of Ecological Economics and Social Ecology at the University of Lausanne
Juan Tortosa, Spokesperson for the CADTM Switzerland
Josef Zisyadis, Co-Chairman of Slow Food Switzerland, Director of the Swiss Week of Taste
Pierre Zwahlen, Member of the Canton de Vaud Parliament, President Swiss Platform Agenda 2030