Survival and self-defense camp — July 2024

” Our great-grandparents were the best autonomists. We can retrieve what was lost for the past 75 years. ”

— An anti-tech comrade

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In addition to the annual summer meetings, in July ATR organized a special survival and self-defense camp for the first time. Rendezvous fixed somewhere in France, in a place far from civilization and surrounded by forest. After the presentations and a quick overview of the hostilities program, let's go for a wild week!

Before continuing, a small clarification is needed on survivalism. This practice has largely been caricatured and demonized by mass media and certain influencers (and even by allegedly alternative or revolutionary media). Inevitably, human beings who seek to harden themselves, who promote collective assistance to individualism, who aim to reappropriate means of subsistence to a servile urban existence under techno-infusion, we can understand that this annoys the members of the technocratic intelligentsia.

Our objective with this event is far removed from the collapsing visions usually associated with survivalism by technocratic propaganda. We do not aspire to a bunkerized future, to entrench ourselves behind defensive positions while waiting for the flood to pass. It is both cowardly and strategically mediocre, because if it is not stopped, the techno-industrial system will easily crush and subdue all autonomous communities — survivalists armed to the teeth. and pacifist permaculturists.

From our anti-tech perspective, acquiring notions of survival makes us better resistant to the techno-industrial system. We learn to defend ourselves individually and collectively. We train physically and mentally, we develop the cohesion of our teams, we train ourselves in useful skills, etc. We must be able to continue the anti-tech fight in an increasingly degraded and hostile environment, regardless of the extent of geopolitical or social conflicts, regardless of the extent of the repression orchestrated by technocratic vermin. Moreover, at the risk of repeating ourselves, ATR is a non-violent and legal movement operating with its face uncovered. Our aim is absolutely not to found an armed militia or to prepare for illegal actions (See the crucial concept of firewall).

For four days, the pace is fast and the discussions are intense.

What is a blackout?
How do I get water?
How can you maintain good hygiene with few resources?
What first aid should be given to an injured person?
How do you move an injured person without making their condition worse?
Do you know how to build a camp in the wild?
What are Katniss Everdeen's failures and successes?
What objectives should be set to consolidate a relationship of power?

Two days of hiking and bivouacking, immersed in nature, punctuate the stay. This allows us to put into practice the lessons of the internship. We prepare our food, we take care of each other, we get used to the discomfort, we learn to build a stretcher with the means at hand. The reappropriation of a few simple gestures makes it possible to break the illusion that any existence outside the industrial system would be impossible. Many classmates have left their comfort zone and come out of this internship galvanized, and have only one desire: to put the table back on track.