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Trainstopping. Intervening in Rail Transport. Blockade & sabotage of rail traffic in the context of the anti-nuclear movement (2019)

Auteur	anonomous
	6-09-0-00-68.pdf
Datum	2019
Classificatie	6.09.0.00/68 (VERZET INTERNATIONAAL - ALGEMEEN)
Voorkant

T R A I N S T O P P I N G
INTERVENING IN RAIL TRANSPORT
Blockade & sabotage of rail traffic
in the context of the anti-nuclear movement
brochure & manual

Foreword
Documentation of the exhibition:
„TRANSTOPPING – railblockades and sabotage in the history of antinuclear 
struggles“ On 3rd of August 2019 the opening ceremony of the exhibition 
"TRAINSTOPPING" took place in the old station of Lumeville near Bure (FR). 
We, as polit-art collective Bure/Gorleben, had already shown this exhibition 
during the "Kulturelle Landpartie" (Cultural Festival) in Meuchefitz 
(Wendland/Northgermany). In translated version we installed it with great 
support of many people as a permanent exhibition at the "La Gare".
In and around Bure the CIGEO construction site is located - the French 
nuclear repository for the waste from all 56 French nuclear power plants is 
to be built here. In a few years, 2 Castor transports with each 10 containers 
are to roll up every week, and every 80 minutes a finished portion is to go 
down into the depths - for a period of 100 years! Resistance to this project 
has existed in the region since the 90s. More recently, the occupation of the 
"Bois Lejuc" forest, which has since been evicted and is to become part of the 
repository, has played an important role. In the sparsely populated, 
agricultural region, numerous places of resistance have been created in the 
villages.

The old railway station of Lumeville ("La Gare"), has been one of these places 
since 2004; the centre of many people's lives and an important "nest of 
resistance" - also strategic. It is only a few kilometres from Bure. In addition, 
the former station is located on the planned railway line for the future 
transport of nuclear waste. As a consequence, it is foreseeable that it will 
culminate in an attempted expropriation of the area by the state and a battle 
for La Gare. The fight for La Gare and against future nuclear transports could 
become an important new strategic (and very exciting) point in the struggle 
against CIGEO and its world.
With this exhibition, we as a Wendish political art collective want to bring 
the experiences of past anti-nuclear battles to this specific place and so make a 
small contribution to the debate about future strategies. The choice of the 
location also had to do with the longstanding solidarity of German-French anti-
nuclear struggles - both in Bure and in the CASTOR transports from La Hague to 
Gorleben.