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L38Squat
was squatted 15 years ago and became a freed space in a popular neighbourhood,
downsouth suburb of Rome.
The
space is set into areas: one is the area of living together, the others
are everyday opened zones, centre of activities shaped and shared by the
people, mostly teens of the neighbourhood.
The
DIY ethic is the basic of the living here.
''DIY stands for "do it yourself", as opposed to paying a professional
to do it for you.''
maybe the simplest way of finding solutions for composing sounds and visuals
and spaces, learning bicycle repairs, recycling/repairing/modifying, starting
gardens, hardware assembling and networking, new cooking combinations,
fairplaying sports, building, plumbering, and roofmaking...
The
Laurentino/L38 squat's web site trys to collect about 10 years of occupation,
that is still going on now; antagonist information, direct actions and life
lived in collectivity in a continuous growth and transformation extremely
connected and radicated to this place.
In the years
we have always thought with our own heads without taking any campaign
or mobilisation for granted.
For this reason we often find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. We
are not attracted by the "union-against", or the unity of our
"small-strenght".
We globally think that our strength is everything but small.
We don't have the presumption to know more but we have the presumption
to express who we are, what we feel and what we want, with no compromise
with anyone.
In
this place there are no leaders or hierarchies (explicit or not), and
it is obvious that we put in act a daily attention to not fall in the
mechanisms of a McWorld which bombards us in every way without hesitation.
In our web
site we have put, in an orderly way, what we have chaotically done in
the past years.
Who can, those who pass by or live in Rome, are strongly welcome to visit
not only our site but also to come to the outskirts of Rome to Via Giuliotti
8 to meet us.
You can come and see what we've been able to build, and what can be built
without coming upto compromises with the state or other forms of power.
The
navigation of this site is made easy thanks to the buttons on the left,
which takes you directly to the main parts of the web site. It was not
possible to put buttons for each part of the site, so you can find many
things in the sections like: Infoshop where you can find the web version
of the LaurentinOkkupato's newsletter. In Worldwide Info you can find
deeper analysis of situations and campaigns in the world, there are also
translations and international info that we have helped to distribute.
Kill a Multi is a section apt to help reveal what's behind the "smiling
face" mask of Multinational corporations such as Shell, Disney and
McDonalds, and show their real face of destruction and exploitation. Unfortunately
all this sections are in italian language only.
A
map to reach the Laurentinokkupato/L38 Squat with the public transports
bus 776 from Metro B Station Laurentina (bus stop "sesto ponte")
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