The local resistance to the TAP pipeline, a huge EU-funded fossil gas project, is facing repression and criminalisation. About 100 NoTAP activists – students, mothers, farmers, local business owners – are to stand trial soon, with staggering fines and legal fees. Show your solidarity, and donate if you can, to keep this resistance strong!
Since 2012, a local community of Salento in southern Italy has led the resistance against the massive Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the last leg of a fossil gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Italy, which is devastating their land and livelihoods while exacerbating the Climate Crisis. The resistance has been met with a systematic campaign of repression by the Italian state. Later this year, around 100 students, grandmothers, farmers, local business owners, and other ordinary citizens will be put on trial for alleged crimes related to their protest. In total, these activists are facing up to €240,000 in government fines and €70,000 in legal fees. Some even risk prison time and other restrictions to their personal freedom.