ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENT OF ELEFSSINA

REGION ATTIKI

Prefecture ATTIKI

ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENT OF ELEFSSINA

Date of Initial Completion: 4/7/1996 1st Update: 6/2/1998 2nd Update (CHAP.I): 6/12/1999

Date of Last Update: 4/4/2001

e_mail: chrchr@e-free.gr

I. Identity of Organisation

Address

ELEFSINA Postal Code 192 00 Street: 5, ASKLIPIOU STR.

Tel. 210-5541474, 210-5542217 Fax 210-5541474

Contact Persons: CRISTOS CHRISTAKIS, GIANNIS FILIPPOU Tel. 210-5542217, 210-5548143, 6977 180196

Legal Status

The Organisation is Non typical Collaboration since 1985

Aims

Bringing out the environmental problems of the Elefsinas’ region and of Thriasio field from an ecological point of

view and interfering for promoting their solution / promoting ecological awareness of the citizens / general aims of

the ecology movement (mostly from local intervention)

Members and Friends

With voting right: 50 Without voting right: 50 of whom have paid their membership fee: 25

Material Substructure

Office: Rented, Operating days: Every Thursday, Operating hours: 20.00-22.00

There are databases in Paper its morph and structure is Thematic / file of magazines

Activities Hall: 100 individuals

Administrative board

Filipou Giannis

Cabanis Gabriil

Christakis Christos

Laskou Sophia

Griva Eleni

II. Activities

General Issue: Information - sensitisation of the public

Issue-Topic: Events - debates

From: 1985 To: 1996 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Organisation of events on general environmental and social issues such as the Chernobyl disaster, the Ecological

movement, issues of national importance

Issue-Topic: Publications

From: 1994 To: 1998 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Publication of the magazine 'Stachi' (1994-1998)

General Issue: Political action

Issue-Topic: Attempts made for the participation in the local government decision making process

From: 1986 To: 1994 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Independent participation in two local elections and a third participation in co-existence with other local parties

Actions taken in municipal councils for the assertion of the right to speak

General Issue: Protection of the natural environment

Issue-Topic: Coasts

From: 1985 To: 1996 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Bringing charges, dissemination of printed material, contacts with the relevant Ministries with the view to protect the

coasts from pollution and landfills.

Coasts' cleansing

Lodging of complaints against the extension of Elefsina port

Issue-Topic: Industrial pollution

From: 1987 To: 1996 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Campaigns, charges and lodging of an appeal to the State Council, bringing a charge to the European Council and

the European Commission, rallies and demonstrations e.t.c.

holding of a local plebiscite in connection with the issue which resulted in the cancellation of the B' phase of the

procedures for the sitting of the Petrola plant

Lodging of complaints against the environmental deterioration of the environment as a result of the operation of

Elda, Tital cements and Chalivourgiki companies

Issue-Topic: Sitting of a rubbish dump in Thriasio Pedio

From: 1992 To: 1994 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Similar to the above protests took place for the purpose of putting pressure against the sitting of a rubbish dump in

Thriasio Pedio

Campaign for the promotion of recycling

Carrying out of a paper and materials recycling programme

General Issue: Showcasing, protection and conservation of cultural inheritance

Issue-Topic: Local archaeological sites

From: 1985 To: 1996 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Actions taken for the showcasing of Elefsina's archaeological site

Making complaints for the transportation of statues from a local museum in the USA

Cleaning up of the archaeological site of Elefsina

General Issue: Urban planning issues

Issue-Topic: Local initiatives

From: 1985 To: 1996 Range: Local

Activities - Results:

Communication with the municipality for the safeguarding of communal space which resulted in the allocation of green

Actions aiming at the decrease of the maximum heights of buildings

Actions aiming at the incorporation of derelict factories to the urban fabric through the assignment of new uses

Future Plans

General Issue: Protection of the natural environment of Elefsina and of the broader area

Issue - Topic: Interurban spaces

Range Local

Future Activities:

Effort for the protection of Interurban spaces from turning them into building grounds, from illegal construction and from

the building ground Unions

III. Source of Information

Nea Oikologia, Recycling, Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature, Dasoponia, Arhelon, Oikotopia, and other

General Printed Materials from Environmental NGOs.

Source of information: Greenpeace

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Common Perfect

Source of information: Network "Mediterranean S.O.S."

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Common Perfect

Source of information: Ministry of Environment, Phsical Planning, and Public Works and the Ministry of

Culture

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Ours Low

Bureaucratic ways

Source of information: Municipality of Eleusina

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Ours Moderate

Bureaucratic ways ( the degree of satisfaction depends from the mayor)

Source of information: Organization for Prescriptive Plan and Environment of Athens

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Ours Low

Bureaucratic ways

Source of information: PERPA

Subject: Depending on the occasion

Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

5/1985-7/1996 It fluctuates Ours Low

Bureaucratic ways.

IV. Relations with the Press

Title: ΤΑ ΝΕΑ

Subject: NGO's activities

Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level

Newspaper National 5/1995-7/1996 depending on the issues Ours High

Title: ELEYTHEROTIPIA

Subject: NGO's activities

Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level

Newspaper National 5/1995-7/1996 depending on the issues Ours High

Title: AVGI

Subject: NGO's activities

Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level

Newspaper National 5/1995-7/1996 depending on the issues Ours High

Title: KATHIMERINI

Subject: NGO's activities

Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level

Newspaper National 5/1995-7/1996 depending on the issues Ours High

Title: EPOCHI

Subject: NGO's activities

Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level

Newspaper National 5/1995-7/1996 depending on the issues Ours High

V. Relations with Mass Media

Title: SKY 100,4 FM

Subject: Local environmental issues

Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

Radio National 1/1987-7/1996 appropriately Ours Moderate

Superficial presentation

Title: ANTENNA 97,1 FM

Subject: Local environmental issues

Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

Radio National 1/1987-7/1996 appropriately Ours Moderate

Superficial presentation

Title: FLASH 96,1FM

Subject: Local environmental issues

Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

Radio National 1/1987-7/1996 appropriately Ours Moderate

Superficial presentation

Title: MEGA

Subject: Local environmental issues

Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

T.V. National 1/1987-7/1996 appropriately Ours Moderate

Superficial presentation

Title: ANTENNA TV

Subject: Local environmental issues

Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level

T.V. National 1/1987-7/1996 appropriately Ours Moderate

Superficial presentation

VI. Relations with others ENGO

Name: Greenpeace

Subject: Campaings for petroleum products