GIVE LIGHT TO I'
ROVO !
I'
Rovo has been operating since
February 7, 2015 in via del Guarlone, South Florence. I' Rovo is a
squatted and totally self-managed farm located in a public owned
estate abandoned and decayed since 20 years or so; we've called it
this way, I' Rovo
(The Brier), because there wasn't anything but briers when we've
taken it. A jungle overgrown with weeds, uncared-for olive trees, a
no man's land totally left to drug dealers.
I'
Rovo squat originates from a dream: the dream of a land
without masters. A
dream totally opposite to capitalist exploitation, and so we've set
to work since the very first day. As I' Rovo originated and developed
from the experiences and activities of a neighborhood collective, it
has always tried to establish a direct connection between the
population and free production independent from the capitalist
“market”. Meanwhile, I' Rovo has also turned into a social and
reception space, getting a whole area out of the clutches of drug
dealers and criminals, though with several and serious difficulties.
Throughout its activity, I' Rovo has been organizing initiatives,
solidarity performances, showings, games and amusements.
A
land without masters, a dream, a social space. Well yes: but
without
electricity.
I'
Rovo is a squatted area, so it hasn't the right of being connected to
the electric network, not even with a regular contract, according to
the laws and
regulations in force
in the Italian state. At present, the old farmhouse located in the
Rovo area -a free social space we found in awful conditions and that
we have cleaned and renovated with our hands- is provided only with
one solar panel running
a battery system and only giving basic lighting, which has been
bought and installed by the squatters. So, also electricity is
self-produced there. Nothing else. No fridge, no sockets, nothing.
You can easily understand that even farming works are almost
impossible in this situation: just think to the lack of any watering
system.
Getting
a complete, self-produced solar panel and battery-run electric system
costs about €3,500.
This plant would allow I' Rovo to become both a full-fledged urban
farming squat and a social space truly available to all those who
don't want anymore to accept capitalism's logic and praxis.
Capitalism is barbarism, and barbarism means also eliminating any
possibility of developing effective alternatives.
We're
going to organize in the next months a sensitization
campaign with several initiatives and performances of various kinds
in order to raise the funds necessary to buy and install a complete
electric system with solar panels and batteries. You don't give us
the light? We'll do everything by ourselves. But we
need your help this time.
You
may come and visit I' Rovo whenever you want.
Come and look with your own eyes, whether you already know I' Rovo
even by hearsay or you've never heard anything about it. Whether you
totally share our motivations and actions, or you aren't that much
persuaded. Whether there's militancy in your past or present
lifestory, or you've never thought about it. Whether you are young or
aged, we're here to show, explain and tell you about anything you
want (in English, too).
GIVE
LIGHT TO I' ROVO !
I' Rovo is located in
via del Guarlone 25, just before the crossing with Stradone di
Rovezzano.
Take ATAF Bus n. 20 and
get off at via Comparetti terminus, then walk just 300 m.
Or by train, get off at
FS station Firenze Rovezzano and use the pedestrian subway.
For further
information, you may also call us at nr (39) 33 88 61 90 29.
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