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Nuclear plant project
In the early 1970s, the French state power company, EDF, decided to establish a nuclear power plant in Brittany. The first proposed site was in Erdeven, Morbihan, but objections arose. EDF then proposed Ploumoguer, Finistère, just north of Brest. Councilmen around Brest redirected their attention to Plogoff. Local residents then blocked access to the site in 1976, while protests resumed in 1978 and 1979.
In 1980, the national government and EDF attempted to fulfil their statutory obligations to display the required inquiry documents in the local mairie or city hall. Local officials burned the documents and refused to allow replacements to be displayed. In response, the national government set up mobile mairies annexes to display the documents in town centres. These mairies annexes became the focus of the protest movement.
For 45 days, the riot police (CRS), the military police (gendarmerie) and some parachutists (EPIGN) guarded the mairies annexes while coming under attack from the protesters.
Once the obligation to display the documents had been met, the protesters occupied the proposed site.
In 1981 François Mitterrand was elected President of France. Mitterrand carried out his campaign promise to cancel the project.
A documentary Plogoff, des pierres contre des fusils (Plogoff, stones against rifles) relating the struggle against the French security forces was later produced by Nicole and Félix Le Garrec. Source Wikipedia
Minolta XD7, MD 35-70mm 1:3.5, Fujifilm Dia 100 ASA
Matchbox - King Size Vehicles
* Mercede-Benz Binz Ambulance (1979)
* BP Foden Breakdown Tractor (1963)
* Merryweather Fire Engine (1964)
* Refuse Truck (1967)
File name: 08_06_035145
Title: Dirty alleys in Roxbury, rear 270-280 Ruggles
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1942 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Refuse; Alleys; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
John Kennedy street / ‫جون كندي‬‎ شارع - Ain El Mraiseh / ‫عين المريسة‬‎ - Beirut / بيروت - Lebanon / لبنان
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Protest outside Cork City Hall on 11th July 2011 against the forthcoming privatisation of Cork City's refuse collection service.
This rear load garbage truck was seen FAR from Vero Beach, FL it was near Fort Pierce, Florida at a Peterbilt dealer.
These collapsible containers (Binvelopes) were given out in Easter 2004. The idea was people would take them in after the collection, but in my street the houses are short of storage space and people didn't like to handle them once they had been used and the dogs had peed on them, so they were permanently left out on the pavement. The council was warned this would happen but carried on regardless. The offending binvelopes were eventually collected, but they seem to have crept back and the recycling boxes are also being left out all the time.