The protest will start on Thursday at 18:XNUMX on the city square in Čačak.
SEOS president Ljiljana Bralović invited citizens to come to the protest to hear "what they would not be able to hear anywhere on public services". She added that they are organizing the protest because of "clean air, water and land that all children need".
According to SEOS, Dragan Simović from "Protect Dobrinja and its surroundings", Zlatko Kokanović and Nebojša Petković from "Ne damo Jadar", Dr. Duško Brković from Suvoborska greda and Dragan Božović Gidra from "Naše selo Preljina" will address the crowd.
"We will not give up the protest"
The previous weekend was marked by one-hour roadblocks in Preljina and Gornji Nedeljice.
Activist of the "Ne damo Jadar" association Zlatko Kokanović he said then that the blockades in Preljina and Gornji Nedeljice are a warning, and that environmental organizations will not give up their protests until the current government prohibits them by law lithium mining.
"The government had a majority in the Serbian Parliament and did not want to pass the law banning the mining of lithium and boron, so we are forced to return to the streets and take radical measures." For the next period, we have announcements of new places for blockades, and today we only have Nedeljice and Preljina, which are two safe locations," said Kokanović.
Blockades can be extended
Marijana Petković from Gornji Nedeljice warned that blockades and protests could be extended to more places in Serbia.
When asked what is the "red line" that will trigger mass blockades, Petković points out that there are many of them.
"We are constantly walking on the edge of the red line." The only question is that Spatial Plan of the Jadar project, which should be implemented in the Spatial Plan of the city of Loznica... To give permission for the preparation of the study that is necessary for the continuation of the Jadar project. There are more and more people, they wouldn't count heads if they didn't have a problem. "He who is against the mine is always like that and does not change his position," Petković points out.
Loznica ordered: "You will not dig"
It seems that the citizens' will to fight in the streets is not waning, so the protest in Čačak will be the third gathering of citizens who are against lithium in the last week.
The first protest was in Loznica, last Wednesday.
Union of Environmental Organizations of Serbia (IF THE) decided to renew protests against the Jadar Project after the parliamentary majority rejected the proposal to amend the law on mining, which would have banned the mining of lithium and boron in Serbia.
The gathering took place in front of the Loznica City Assembly.
A "general popular uprising against Rio Tinto" will follow, announced Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, leader of the Ecological Uprising and MP, but he did not explain what this means specifically.
