(6 Jan 2008)
1. Wide of rubbish in street with cars passing
2. Piles of rubbish on the road
3. Wide of roadblock in Pianura, people in road
4. Wide of Pianura dump, police cars
5. Mid of police truck in front of dump
6. Local residents at special mass at petrol station near dump
7. Mid of priest celebrating mass
8. Woman and children listening to mass
9. Wide of people listening to mass
10. Close up of child in raincoat
11. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Giuseppe Cipolletta, priest:
"It is essential that we define, as soon as possible, guidelines that point towards a final solution to this problem of the rubbish, this garbage that offends the dignity of our population, that seriously hurst our territory."
12. Wide of crowd
13. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Angelo Di Falco, protest organiser:
"We are risking our lives, this is a serious health hazard, it is my health at risk, and that is my worry. This serious health hazard affects 3,000 to 4,000 people that live near this dump. These people all live near this dump. "It is not a problem so much for the 2 million people that live in Naples, it is mostly a problem for us. Most importantly, who guarantees our health? It is now 43 years that we are been submitting to the violence of garbage."
14. Wide of back entrance to dump, rubbish, police
15. Mid of garbage
16. Mid road block with pieces of metal, wheels and pieces of cars
17. Close of pieces of cars
18. Wide of street with dumpsters, cars passing
19. Wide of rubbish on street
STORYLINE:
Residents of a Naples neighbourhood celebrated Mass on the street on Sunday as they kept up their protest against the reopening of a local dump meant to alleviate the city's two-week-old rubbish crisis.
Protesters blockading the dump peacefully followed the service led by a parish priest a day after youths clashed with police in the Pianura neighbourhood, where work has begun to reopen the long-closed site.
Angelo Di Falco, one of the protest organisers, explained that they are willing to risk their lives to keep the dump closed because it is a health risk for all the people that live near the dump.
"We are risking our lives, this is a serious health hazard, it is my health at risk, and that is my worry. This serious health hazard affects 3,000 to 4,000 people that live near this dump," Di Falco said.
"It is not a problem so much for the 2 million people that live in Naples, it is mostly a problem for us. Most importantly, who guarantees our health? It is now 43 years that we are been submitting to the violence of garbage," he added.
Collectors in Naples stopped picking up trash on December 21 because there is no more room for it at dumps, and with garbage accumulating across the city's streets residents have taken to burning the stinking mounds, raising alarm over toxic fumes.
Garbage pileups have sporadically plagued the southern port city and much of the surrounding Campania region for several years.
Although citizens are angered by the uncollected trash, they have also blocked plans to create new dumps or reopen old sites like the one in Pianura.
Using a plastic table as an improvised altar, the Catholic priest celebrated Mass at a gas station near the dump, leading some 100 protesters who sang prayers and Christmas hymns under the rain.
"It is essential that we define, as soon as possible, guidelines that point towards a final solution to this problem of the garbage, this garbage that offends the dignity of our population, that seriously hurst our territory," Reverend Giuseppe Cipolletta said at the mass.
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