The Auletta Casa Mia project was founded in 2024 by young residents from marginalised areas in the province of Salerno, Southern Italy.
This region has faced numerous cases of toxic waste trafficking (whereby hazardous waste is falsely said to be non-hazardous and is then dumped in the region) and related legal proceedings, and is currently under threat from speculative projects that aim to exploit its pristine lands with extractive gas operations.
In response to these threats, Auletta Casa Mia was established to protect common goods: soil, air, water and biodiversity through processes inspired by mutualism and active citizenship. The project’s committee employs participatory and assembly-based methods with a transfeminist and ecological approach. This has so far included organising:
Within six months, Auletta Casa Mia had successfully halted a proposed mega gas and methane plant, triggered an anti-mafia investigation, and catalysed involvement from over 25 youths under 18 who now participate in and organise various local activities.
Auletta Casa Mia seeks to continue this regenerative journey, believing that the region’s underpopulated areas, surrounded by centuries-old olive trees, can become places to sow the seeds for new forms of civil economy based on agroecology, permaculture, and holistic practices that integrate art, culture, and ecology.