Open letter to you who shares memories with Bure

In 1995 you trumbled as you took to the streets in Bar-le-Duc with thousands of Meuse residents protesting angrily against the laboratory project in Bure,

In 2002 you pitched your tent with hundreds of others in a vast camp in front of the laboratory under construction,

In 2005 you nailed, hammered, sweated on the renovation site of the house of resistance, laying the first stones of a home that would become the home of struggle and heart of thousands of people since then,

In 2010 you laughed, sang, celebrated at the small Festival against the Big Garbage, welcomed by our friend the then mayor, Jean-Pierre Rémélé, inflexible opponent until his last breath

In 2013 you booed, heckled and stormed to the point of making the members of the public debate commission ring in their ears for a long time, forced to pack up at each of their events,

In the summer of 2015, you met people, discovered Bure, exchanged a thousand ideas, walked with torches to the Andra laboratory, woke up to the sound of fireworks, were moved by the debates at the VMC anti-authority and anti-nuclear camp and at the “100,000 pas” rally

In the spring of 2016 you planted potatoes with 300 people in the fields stolen from Andra, in a warm and family atmosphere,

In the summer of 2016 you chased Andra out of the Bois Lejuc they were trying to cut, occupied it around fires and under the stars, were brutally evicted from it, euphorically reoccupied it, then toppled its perimeter wall under the blow of dozens of exultant mallets, danced naked to “Freed from desire” on its ruins, and invested its foliage and undergrowth with crazy huts in the following months,

In the spring of 2017 you marched on Andra by the hundreds and toppled its perimeter gates, driven by the vibrant chant of the Stake: “If we all pull, it will fall, it is sure that it falls, falls, falls, and we can liberate ourselves…”,

In the summer of 2017 you celebrated and were moved by the shimmering colors of the Bure’lesques festival, then you raged, fought, were wounded, were upset, a few days later, under the heavy fire of grenades and tear gas fumes,

In the fall of 2017 you shuddered with indignation and anger when the House of Resistance and several homes of opponents were invaded by hundreds of gendarmes. You have created or joined a committee, organized balls of criminals, hung banners on your prefecture, kept the struggle alive everywhere in France,

In 2018 you cried at the expulsion of the Bois, when friends were imprisoned. You showed your solidarity with the Owls of Bure who lost their nests, were dragged to court, harassed by police controls, house searches and surveillance. You protested with 2000 people to “bring back the Bois Lejuc to Bar-le-Duc”, in a colourful and determined procession. A few days later you learned with dismay about the Criminal Association which broke down about fifteen doors of the struggle and settled in with a frightening arsenal of means of surveillance, brutally preventing friends from seeing each other, from going back to their place of struggle and life during several years,

In 2019 you were “Proud, angry and anti-nuclear” with hundreds of Bomes Atomiques, marching on Andra in a shimmering ecofeminist procession. A month later, you made Nancy tremble under your 3000 steps, your cloud of flags of all colors, flanked by thousands of armed police,

In 2020 you discovered Bure, its wounds and its riches, its emotions, its history and those of other anti-nuclear struggles during the Antinuke Week,

IN 2021, JUNE 1,2,3 IS THE TRIAL OF THE WHOLE STRUGGLE, OF ALL OUR STRUGGLES, YOURS, OURS, YOURS, OF ALL THOSE INTENSE MOMENTS THAT YOU HAVE LIVED, THAT WE HAVE SHARED, SUFFERED AND LOVED TOGETHER HERE IN BURE AND EVERYWHERE ELSE WHERE WE HAVE FOUND EACH OTHER AGAIN, AND WHERE WE STRUGGLE WITH DETERMINATION AND CREATIVITY FOR ANOTHER IDEA OF THE WORLD!

Make pictures of support, relaunch your committee, share the information about the trial, come to Bar-le-Duc alone or with others, invest the 3-day program of this trial with all your desires and whims, be yourself, beautiful and angry, powerful and creative and write to us on 123proces@riseup.net!

12/05/2021