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Challenges in practice | Environmental Defenders


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Program:

Friday 6 October 2023

1st session – Human rights and the environment. From theory to practice.

Presenting project’s main points and introducing key concepts of environmental defenders.
Dr. Asterios Tsiumanis (ΤIESS)

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2nd session – Skouries (Giorgos Kalyvas)
Facilitator: Dr. Elsa Tsiumani

Screening documentary “Golden Forest” on Giorgos Kalyvas (22’)
Director: Stratis Viyatzis (The caravan project)

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Dr. Giorgos Velegrakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Social, economic and environmental dimensions and impacts of mining in NE Halkidiki

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Alexandra Karina, Nestor Nestoros (Megali Panagia Struggle Committee)
Struggle for land and freedom. Who are we?

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Stavroula Poulimeni (Alterthess)
SLAPP, environmental movements and the case of Alterthess.

20.00-21.00
Discussion

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Saturday 7 October (09.30-14.00)

3rd session – Volos (Vassilios Maggos)
Facilitator: Dr. Asterios Tsiumanis

Dr. Markos Vaxevanopoulos (Geologist)
The case of garbage burning in Volos.

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Coordination of Volos Associations Against Garbage Burning
The movement against garbage burning.

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Yiannis Maggos
Repression and police violence. The case of Vassilis Maggos

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4th session – Agrafa | Western Macedonia
Facilitator: Dr. Maria Alebaki

Sophia Zygogianni (Athens Initiative for the protection of Agrafa, Struggle Committee of the People of Agrafa)
The struggle for the protection of Agrafa (2018-2023)

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Dr. Nikos Giannakis (biologist)
Environmental movements in Western Macedonia

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5th session – The right to the environment

Dr. Nikos Giannakis, Dr. Maria Alebaki, Dr. Asterios Tsiumanis
Round table – closing remarks and the project’s final results and conclusions.


Policy Paper

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Vangelis Perrakis, Crises, neoliberalism, tragedies and the commons: from the common spirng to the spring of the commons