Collective Action
Beit Mery residents angered by plan for waste facility
Three hundred residents descended on Beit Mery’s civic square Monday evening, angry over a plan to build a waste sorting and treatment plant in a picturesque valley nearby.
“You don’t cut down trees to build a trash plant,” Serge Khazen, a mechanical engineer and resident of the town, told The Daily Star.
Some protesters carried signs emblazoned with slogans against the plan: “A trash plant in the Lamartine Valley? Who can believe it?” “Don’t pollute our water,” “Karantina, Costa Brava, Beit Mery!” – the latter putting the town in the company of notoriously polluted areas.
Date:
August 14, 2018
Actors/ Mobilising structures:
Affected group (inc. NIMBY)
Mode of Action:
Demonstration
Objective:
Protest of a policy/ governmental measure/ etc.
Reform (advocating for limited change in political, socio-economic etc.)
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA:
Policy Grievances
Spatial characteristics:
Location on the Lebanese territory
State response:
N/A