A-Infos (en) France, OCL: April 5, 6, 7, 2024 in Grenoble: Water, not fleas! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Against the monopolization of resources by the electronics industries 
and "connected life" ---- On April 1, 2023, there were a thousand of us 
demonstrating in Crolles against the monopolizing of resources by the 
electronics industries and the expansion of the giant 
STMicroelectronics, which produces electronic chips. ---- Today it is 
its neighbor Soitec which wants to expand, to manufacture semiconductors 
for electric car batteries. ---- The Stop Micro collective denounces and 
fights: ---- The hoarding of water at a time of repeated droughts,
A crazy consumption of drinking water (21,000 m³ per day),
Massive and camouflaged chemical pollution (20,000 tonnes per year: 
ammonia, chlorine, hexafluoride, phosphorus, nitrogen, copper, etc.),
Massive public subsidies for private profits (EUR2.9 billion for the 
expansion of STMicro),
The total absence of democracy: the public inquiry for the operation of 
the Crolles site took place when the work on the first phase was almost 
completed,
The uselessness of these productions. Who really needs automatic lawn 
mowers, connected water bottles, Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network, 
smartphones (Google Pixel 7 for example), electric cars, etc.?
the manufacture of military equipment: ST and Soitec are complicit in 
wars and the nuclear threat. Their activities are based on death and 
destruction (KUB-BLA kamikaze drones of the Russian army, nuclear 
weapons, etc.).

All this is sold to us in the name of a false "industrial sovereignty" 
(when 95% of the world's production of rare metals used comes from 
China) and ecology (yet, connected objects depend on an enormous digital 
infrastructure which accelerates the consumption of fossil fuels).

We don't need the connected world. Unlike water, which is a vital need, 
semiconductors are neither a matter of necessity nor of inevitability, 
but of a political choice: that of a connected lifestyle.
We also do not need the race for innovation, this historical aberration: 
the imperative of competitiveness throws us into a global race for 
innovation that is deadly for the environment, animals and the planet. 
At a time of climate change and mass extinction of species, we advocate 
abandoning this race which makes us perpetuate the ecological and human 
disaster.

LET'S PREVENT THE EXPANSIONS OF ST AND SOITEC
APRIL 5, 6 & 7, 2024 IN GRENOBLE AND IN GRESIVAUDAN
DEMONSTRATION, CONFERENCES & ACTIONS
NO PUÇARAN!

StopMicro Collective

stopmicro@riseup.net
https://stopmicro38.noblogs.org

Join us!

Text written from the April call for actions leaflet.

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4106
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