What’s happening on our coast?
#StopThewarehousetakeover: Your Advocacy Toolkit
One Hundred Miles is pleased to work alongside our community partners to promote the #StopTheWarehouseTakeover campaign. While we are all working hard to prevent the warehouse takeover, there is no place for violence in the effort. OHM does not condone the use of force, intimidation, or violence of any sort as a means to advocate for our Georgia coast.
Spread Awareness with Yard Signs & Stickers
Make people aware of the warehouse takeover by applying a bumper sticker to your car (or laptop, water bottle, bike, etc.) and placing a Stop The Warehouse Takeover sign in your yard. Contact your advocate now to get either (or both)!
Raise your Voice on Social Media
Community organizing via digital media networks is an effective way to mobilize your neighborhood, share information (such as county commission meeting agendas or informational sessions), and put positive pressure on your local decision-makers.
Use the hashtags below when you post to Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Customize the final one with your county or city name to connect with other folks participating in the campaign.
#StopTheWarehouseTakeover #DontBoxUsIn #STWTcounty
Tagging your local government bodies and newspapers in your posts will also help draw attention to the issue. Don’t forget to tag One Hundred Miles (Facebook and Instagram) so we can share it too!
Help us Build a Map of the Coast’s Warehouses
No single entity has a regional picture of industrial growth on our coast. Contribute to our ongoing, crowd-sourced map by sharing what you see on the ground. Pictures, tips, and information is always appreciated! Contact North Coast Advocate Jen Hilburn for more information.
Active Community Groups
Many communities are already mobilizing around the warehouse issue. Connect with your local group on social media by clicking on the relevant group’s image below.
If you are a member of a Facebook or community group and want to be part of this directory, please contact Katie.
West Chatham Co. Community Watch
Please note that this group posts about issues in addition to warehouses.
Contact Local News
Letters to the editor can be powerful modes of communicating with fellow community members, as well as local leaders. Find contact information and submissions guidelines for your local paper in the tabs below. Remember that many papers cross county borders!
The Brunswick News
The Brunswick News requires your name, address, email, and phone number. All letters must be 250 words or less and are submitted via an online form.
Bryan County News
Submission Guidelines: “Letter submissions should include name, hometown and phone number; letters are published with full names and hometowns and never appear anonymously. Letters may be edited for content and length.” We recommend keeping your letter between 250 and 300 words.
Coastal Courier
Coastal Courier covers Liberty County, with some crossover into Chatham/Savannah area.
Submission guidelines: “Letter submissions should include name, hometown and phone number; letters are published with full names and hometowns and never appear anonymously. Letters may be edited for content and length.” We recommend keeping your letter between 250 and 300 words.
The Current
“The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, independent news organization which provides in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.” While The Current does not accept Letters to the Editor, the staff are grateful for news tips: if you have information about local impacts, upcoming hearings or community meetings, and pertinent stories, please send them to [email protected].
The Current sends out newsletters via email five times a week. Their “Coastal Navigator,” which comes out each Monday, is a helpful resource for locating local government meetings (such as County or City Commission meetings). Subscribe to their newsletter here.
Effingham Herald
Submission Guidelines: “Letter submissions should include name, hometown and phone number; letters are published with full names and hometowns and never appear anonymously. Letters may be edited for content and length.” We recommend keeping your letter between 250 and 300 words.
Savannah Now / Morning News
Submission Guidelines: “Letters should be no longer than 250 words. Any letter exceeding this length will be sent back to the author for revision. Writers should include their full name, city of residence and phone number for verification. Only your name and city will be published.”
Tribune & Georgian (St. Marys)
Tribune & Georgian serving the St. Marys and Camden County areas requires your name, address, email, and phone number. We recommend that you limit your letter to 250 words. Their online form asks that you paste your letter into the form from another word processor (such as Word, Google Docs, or Pages).
WSAV (On Your Side) / WTOC
WSAV accepts story submission ideas via this form on their website. You can also call the On Your Side news line at (912) 651-0307. This is a great option if there is a particular meeting, event, or decision you want to call media attention to.
WTOC accepts “news tips” via email at [email protected]. This is a great option if you have a particular event, meeting, or decision you want to call media attention to.
What’s at risk?
Wildlife Corridors
Many of our coastal counties provide vital connections to statewide wildlife pathways called SWAP corridors. When large areas of forest or wetland are cleared and filled with impervious surfaces, disorienting lighting, and increased heavy traffic, natural wildlife patterns are disrupted—sometimes irreversibly. County authorities often claim they want to protect their natural assets, but their endless catering to developers suggests otherwise.
Watersheds & Wetlands
With thousands of square feet of concrete, come increased needs for careful stormwater, wastewater, and runoff management. Though mitigation tactics like berms and stormwater containment ponds are required contamination is inevitable at this scale. All it takes is one storm to compromise our water supplies—and impact the people, animals, and plants dependent upon clean water.
Traffic & Infrastructure
“High-volume logistics centers” like these industrial warehouses require changes in infrastructure to accommodate increases in heavy truck traffic. Sometimes this involves expanding existing roads or adding new ones. Warehouses are popping up across our coast without adequate traffic impact analyses, often because the development is occurring too quickly to allow for them.
Coastal Culture
When the landscape so drastically changes, our treasured coastal culture is diminished. The promise of ‘economic progress’ overshadows the destruction of historical and cultural sites, as well as the character of our neighborhoods. Consider the possible impacts of Camden County’s Project Unicorn on the nearby Rosenwald School. Industrialization of rural areas fundamentally alters everything about the existing communities.
Concerns? Questions? Ideas?
Contact your advocate!
Warehouses in the News
The Current / GPB | 10/1/24
Savannah Morning News | 8/13/24
The Brunswick News | 8/10/24
Savannah Morning News| 6/22/24
Savannah Morning News| 5/30/24
Savannah Morning News| 5/23/24
WJCL| 5/21/24
WSAV | 5/20/24
Savannah Agenda | 5/19/24
WSAV 3 | 5/10/24
Georgia Recorder / The Current | 5/3/24
Savannah Morning News via AOL.com | 4/25/24
Savannah Morning News | 3/21/24
Georgia Virtue | 1/17/24
Savannah Morning News | 1/16/24
Savannah Morning News | 1/16/24
Savannah Morning News | 1/4/24
Savannah Morning News | 1/3/24
The Current | 12/15/23
Coastal Courier | 12/11/23
WSAV | 12/11/23
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 12/8/23
WJCL News | 12/6/23
The Current | 12/2/23
Cody Adkins Creations | 11/18/23
WSAV | 11/16/23
Savannah Morning News | 11/6/23
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 11/6/23
WSAV | 11/3/23
Savannah Morning News | 10/30/23
The Current/Capitol Beat | 10/17/23
Bloomberg | 10/6/23
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 10/4/23
Westside Coalition (YouTube) | 9/27/23
WTOC | 9/27/23
Coastal Courier | 9/21/23
The Current | 8/28/23
Savannah Morning News | 8/24/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/27/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/25/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/25/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/22/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/22/23
Savannah Morning News | 7/6/23
Savannah Now | 6/24/23
Construction Dive | 6/1/23
Effingham Herald | 5/30/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/25/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/5/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/4/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/4/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/3/23
Savannah Morning News | 5/1/23
WSAV3 | 4/19/23
Savannah Morning News | 4/14/23
Savannah Morning News | 4/10/23
Washington Post | 4/10/23
Savannah Morning News | 4/5/23
Coastal Courier | 3/9/23
Savannah Morning News | 3/9/23
WJCL / AP | 2/15/23
Coastal Courier | 1/19/23
WTOC 11 | 1/19/23
Coastal Courier | 1/11/23