Winter camp — February 2024

On Saturday 3 February, ATR members from all over France (and beyond) met at a winter camp at the foot of the Alps. A common objective animated this gathering: the stopping and dismantling of the techno-industrial system in the process of annihilating life on Earth.

Thematic workshops were organized in order to promote the assimilation of technocriticism and the understanding of strategy. It was also an opportunity to discuss our activist experiences. Subsequently, in order to collectively reappropriate the history of techniques and resistance movements, several times allowed each person to present a technocritical thinker (Alexandre Grothendieck, Vandana Shiva, George Orwell, Celia Izoard, etc.) or a revolutionary (Nestor Makhno, Buenaventura Durruti, Lucy Parsons, Joe Hill, etc.) or a revolutionary (Nestor Makhno, Buenaventura Durruti, Lucy Parsons, Joe Hill, etc.).

Several times of team sports punctuated the week (combat sports and collective travel, among others). To this were added two hikes, the first over two days with bivouac. The second was an impromptu hike: waking up at 5 am in the morning with the aim of gaining the heights to observe the sunrise of our venerable solar star from the top of the peaks. This demanding course will have left an impression both for the risk-taking and for the harshness and splendor of the Alpine landscapes. The anti-techs have shown exemplary collective strength. These experiences allow us to strengthen human relationships as well as the initiatory, reflective and practical capacity of movement.

Together, every day, they sang, laughed, cried. They grew closer, confided in each other, shared their experiences, dreams and doubts. On the last night, antitechs danced around the fire until late into the night to celebrate an adventure that finally gives meaning to their lives.

Birdy

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