Documentary On Radical Ecological Protest In Russia

"Movie "No Pasaran!" documents environmental protest campaign in city of Azov, Russia in summer of 2003. Inhabitants of Azov, together with activists and anarchists of Autonomous Action and Rainbow Keepers, defend their right to clean environment and fight against construction of a methanol shipping terminal in their home town.

After fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a huge pressure of development for the Black Sea rim, and environmental activists have had hard times attempting to protect what is remaining. Most of the protest campaigns in the area have been failures, but Azov campaign, peak of which was in 2003, was a success - eventually methanol shipping terminal, which was already almost finished by then, was redesigned to be used for export of less dangerous goods. This was mostly due to mass popular protests, which managed to mount demonstrations of big as 7000 people in a city of 90 000.

This is a documentary of the protests in summer of 2003, which lasted for two months. Radical protests (road blockades and demonstrations), mobilization of people, life in the protest camp and relations between activists and local inhabitants are documented.

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Please seed it and pass this message! Torrent is 4GB and includes plenty of additional material, such as photos of the protest and MA thesis of Vadim Likhachyov in English language on social antrophology, "Equality in a radical environmental protest: pragmatism or imposed ideology? Two cases of protest campaigns in the South of Russia". Thesis is also separately available from Autonomous Action website: http://avtonom.org/files/lib/ligachev.pdf"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Avtonom