from ZAD Forever This text is an update from some inhabitants of the zad claiming that they will continue to fight to defend this unique territory, this "commons of resistance". Written just before the 15th of May which was the deadline after which the French government promised to evict the Zadists who had refused to enter the process of regularisation. This second round of evictions began on the 17th of May and lasted two days, ten more sites were evicted and destroyed and a few days later a 21 year old lost his right hand when it was blown off by one of the gendarmes explosive grenades. The police remain on the zad 'to clear the roads' and protect the bulldozers clearing the ruins. Tank goodness we are here. In the course of this so-called "truce", which has more of the texture of a military occupation, daily life has, bit by bit, here and there, reclaimed some of old habits. Cops or no cops, you still have to sow seeds, look after the animals, run the public spaces. One might feel