Practical info about the camp
opening and the beginning of the camp will be from 7 August. The camp will be held until September. Place to camp under the city of Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Living in tents, the donations
(contribution) to food, U.S. $ 2 a day.
1.food:
- Make the local population
- Order (buy)
- Ask (environmentalists, etc.)
- Gather (fruit, vegetables)
2. Information Center (it is composed of members with the skills: translation into foreign languages, Lawyer, writing agitational material, journalist
etc.)
1) when people arrive at the entrance is obliged to fill in the
registration form in
which must be indicated:
- Name;
- Whence learned on ekoсamp;
- Duration of stay in the camp;
- Main activity in the camp;
- Which is actively involved.
In addition, people should have to go with preparing proposals, ideas, what he was going to say, to change experiences and to recruit him. We going to camp activities, rather than planning.
2) advocacy:
- Formation of prizyov, leaflets, advertisements, letters,
resolutions, appeals, complaints, claims, abstracts of technical and material, reports, articles, brochures, should be prepared prior to the opening of camp sidelines, slogans, etc.
- Communication with the press, the local population, Internet news
information dissemination;
3) an order of camp life (duty), update calendar, preparing for debates. Possible topics for discussion:
- Experience of Angarsk (as to avoid the incident);
- Experience ekoсamps, ekoactions;
- Self-defense;
- Self;
- How to live without unnecessary cost in the camp;
- How to make the necessary subject of improvised tools (banner,
template, etc.);
- Climate change and global warming;
- Security at events;
- Sat and kontrkultury;
- Results of different directions;
- Activity and the state, private organizations, grants;
- The essence of the names and ways organizations.
For your calendar:
- This day in history;
- Day today;
- Actions of solidarity with other protest movements, anti
and shares (as an example of a global day of climate change).
4) recreation, entertainment, cultural events
(Flashmobs, games, carnivals, concerts, movies), protests
etc.
5) selection and preparation place for meetings, protests, interviews, other activities.
3. Financial and technical part:
needed in the first place: a tent, tents, sleeping bags, karimaty, toilet, shower, drain, kitchen to the sheets of iron stoves, firewood, tools, the means of self-lighting,
speakers, projector, musical instruments, generator,
garbage cans (inverted 2-liter plastic bottles or paekty
prisobachennye to stick every 100 meters), information booths, materials for banners, banners and more., area for general assembly and local groups.
1) Medical - a list of available and needed medications; Duty medical orderly(санитар);
2) the financial part - the list of available revenues, the estimates for dues (donations) on food, materials, fund for emergencies. "
Call to protest camp against construction of a coal-shipping terminal to Sevastopol (Crimean peninsula, Ukraine) From 7th of August
Stevedore company «Avlita» wants to construct a coal-shipping terminal to Sevastopol. According to plan, terminal may load ships of up to 140,000 tons, with 16.5 meters of draught. Avlita company wants to build 150
meters of new berth, and dig 17 meter deep port, and also to build a new railway to the port. Coal will be transferred from railway to ships and vice versa. Planned scale of the operation will correspond to full annual production of 5 coal mines.
And this is just one of the four planned terminals. Second planned terminal will transfer up to 6 million tons of coke and metals a year.
It is planned to be constructed to area of a fish port in Kamyshovoy bay. In other side of the Kamyshovoy bay a third terminal is planned to be built, for transport of up to 1 million tons of kaolonite a year, besides these three projects there is also a plan to build a port for condensed gas in Interman.
Already now, there is a grain terminal in Sevastopol, which is creating dust which makes life of local inhabitants intolerable. People are having respiratory problems and noise is also disturbing. There are
already protests being organized against the port, so what will happen when when coal terminal is constructed?
If in the past company was hiding their intentions, now they try to actively proof, that coal terminal will not be useful for the city, bringing economical gains (investment is estimated to be 850 millions of khryvnias). Project is not even officially called a terminal anymore but
«universal shipping complex».
Construction alone will cause a number of ecological disasters, such as spoiling of waters and death of everything living in the bay. When coal terminal will be exploited, city will be filled with coal dust and noise from harbor and railway. Coal will include also small amounts of Germanium, Beryllium, Boron, Antimony, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Chrome and Selenium. Thus spreading coal dust may pollute surroundings with heavy metals. Coal my also catch fire by itself, which happens at times at the stores at the mines.
Exploitation of the terminal will mean that huge amount of coal dust will be released a year (company Avlita itself estimates amount of 300,000 tons a year). And coal dust, as is known, may cause various respiratory diseases such as Silicosis, which is a professional disease of miners. Tens of tons of the dust will not only cover walls of the
houses and historical artifacts of the city built from white stone, but it will also make its way to lungs of the inhabitants, thus causing risk of lung cancer.
It is widely known, that all of the Crimean peninsula has an unique, and relatively clean nature, it could be a nature park. Also one should not forget the streams in the sea - water from Sevastopol moves towards Yalta and around the whole Crimean, that is that any local pollution in
the city area will influence directly peninsula, and sea as a whole. But in the upper echelons of the power, everything is already decided. Anti-monopoly committee of Ukraine allowed the purchase of «Alvita», «Sevmorzavod» and «Morskoy Industrialniy kompleks» by «Metalukr holding
limited», registered in tax heaven of Cyprus, which is connected to group «Metinvest» of Rinata Akhmetova (through company System Capital Management). City authorities became more loyal to interests of big capital, and 2nd of September City council voted for giving company 6 hectares for warehouses and 0.6 hectares for building a train station (4.1 hectares is given for the new railway for the terminal).
Also, government of Ukraine made a decision of leasing a part of the waters and land area of the city for Avlita, which announced that it will do reconstruction with its own funds. Question of reconstruction is currently on agenda of state committee under chairmanship of vice-premier Andrei Klyuev.
Why a protest camp and why now?
People, who work in Alvita, are confirming that construction has already started, railroads are being built, company is preparing to receive shippings. We should not allow the construction, as if we react slowly,
soon it will be too late. There has been a series of protest meeting by inhabitants. Every time, inhabitants understand that politics are never going to solve problem of average people by cooperation with them, thus after each such history people will understand, that problems must be solved on their own, without official masters and other such «defenders of peoples' interests».
Official hearing on the project were organized in the city, but society was not invited - inhabitants were «presented» by workers of Alvita, who were forced to take part by the administration. In end of summer of 2008
inhabitants challenged organization of hearings in the court, but courts are playing time, and proceedings have still not started. When hearings were organized and people were disagreeing with the development, authorities accepted a new procedure «on public hearings», which is
substantially decreasing rights of the people to organisation of such events. Authorities do not care about opinion of the city inhabitants, and inhabitants of the neighboring regions. Organization of hearings is
interfered, city council is making decisions before planned referendum has been organized. It is obvious, that we are being betrayed. «Democratic methods» of the society to influence decision-making of the politicians and business men are giving nothing, it is time for direct
action.
Every two weeks local inhabitants are organizing different kinds of protest actions - pickets, meetings, concerts, car rallies etc. Every city inhabitants, even those who have their own economical interests in launching the terminal, know that it endangers nature. It is important
to support both those, who already are joining the protests and those, who are only thinking about such an alternative. And we also should not forget, that negative ecological consequences of the work of the coal terminal are not limited to local level.
It is time for us to open our eyes and to see, that we are being poisoned, and that we have alternatives. Alternatives against capitalism and its unnatural and inhuman ways to gain profit. And alternative is alternative energy and alternative production.
Alternatives
Big corporations attempt to profit from «alternative» means of energy, but they know that there are sources of energy, which are practically inexhaustible - that is solar, wind, tide and geothermal energy. And it is not a problem of access to these sources of energy, but in technology which makes possible to exploit it. Today a variety of technologies are existing which would allow solution of these problems, if they were not forced to compete in the market with already existing corporations of
the energy sector. And these are just few examples, of accessible sources of renewable energy. With the time, we will find more of them. If you think about it, it is obvious that we have enormous quantities of energy, and it is possible to go without pollution of the environment, without traditional means of protection of the environment and also without money. One should not destroy so much nature that you must protect it! It is difficult to talk about alternative metallurgy in a country, where such an enormous amount of different kinds of coal is mined. However with the current state of global environment is itself putting the question to order of day. On this question, such as with the question of alternative sources of energy, there are many myths which are used by those who benefit from polluting the planet.
Huge scale of production, big variety of different goods produced and complexity of the production of steel, cast iron and alloy, mean that corporations of black metallurgy is one of the main sources of harmful emissions to atmosphere.
It is often said that there are no alternatives to coke and metallurgy, but it is not true. They are just not currently profitable, and because of that you, your children, closed ones and friends are breathing smog
and will get cancer.
Thus we, participators of collective «Activated goal» are against construction of the coal shipping terminal, and we call you to joint protest camp, which starts 7th of August and we are demanding a total halt of the construction project!
We demand to stop construction of such a dangerous object inside city limits of Sevastopol, to the coast of Black Sea and to any other place. We demand transition to alternative energy, to ecological metallurgy and
other means of production. For ecologically clean and wasteless lifestyle!
Goal of the camp is also to invite people from other regions and countries to defend ecology of the Black Sea, and to enlarge ecological movement in Ukraine, and also to empower movement for alternative energy and ecological production in the whole world.
