A fork of Rural Dictionary
The expression Zone to Defend or ZAD (French: zone à défendre) is a French neologism used to refer to a militant anti-capitalist occupation that is intended to physically blockade a development project. The ZADs are organized particularly in areas with an ecological or agricultural dimension, notably in the permanent blockade village against an airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes in the western French region of Normandy.
When the police attempted to evict the ZAD, one of them was set on fire.