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===Ardèche, South-east France (+ Grenoble ?)===
Suggested by -- [[User:lapouceuse|lapouceuse]] ([[User talk:lapouceuse|talk]])
The spot would be perfect to spend some good time among us, organize workshops, prepare ourselves for some public actions that we could organize in grenoble, a medium-size town where we could move just afterwards. Read below for more details.
The place is a collective farm in south-east france, 20K from valence
(south of lyon). About 15 people live there together, growing fruits and
veggies, baking bread, making goat cheese for themselves and for
supporting local struggles.
I know them relatively well, I spent 3 weeks down there and since then
we met quite regularly for some political actions and activities.
The place where they live is quite lost in the hills (not a good spot
for a gathering), but they own some fields in the valley closeby where
their main economic activities take place ; there are more or less 2-3ha
cultivated with apple trees, cereals and veggies, and a bigger "wild"
area (that's where we could camp).
I would say that 2-300 tents could easily fit, possibly more. They use
to host events pretty often down there, and most of the logistical
issues could be easily worked out :
* Water : there'a 1ton tank that we can fill before the gathering with
drinkable water (and refill if needed)
* Electricity : small connection available, for charging cell phones but not much more
* Toilets : 2 dry toilets are already built and available
* Collective spaces : they could lend us 2 big tents (12x5m), that in
case of rain could become our collectif spaces.
* As far as food is concerned, some scouting is needed for finding good
dumpsterdiving spots ; there should also be a way to get some organic
fruit&veggies from them in exchange for work (needs to be discussed).
* The location is pretty nice, it's close to a small river with a
beautiful stony beach where I already took many nice baths : )
* The closest neighbours are quite faraway, we shouldn't have any
problems about noise.
* About the date, 1/8/15 would be perfect, because at the beginning of
september the whole place (except the cultivated areas) gets regularely
inondated.
* To get there by hitchhiking is quite simple, it's some 20k away from
the A7, one of the biggest french highways (lyon-marseille), and people
are cool, it's one of the most alternative regions in france.
Since logistics should go quite fast, organizing the gathering in
this place would allow us, if we want to, to have more energy left for
preparing actions/workshops - or just having a more relaxed everyday
life : )
One more point, if - as suggested - we want to organize some actions in
town, Grenoble is 100K far, it's a pretty alternative medium-size
student town, surrounded by beautiful mountains, with one of the biggest
squat scenes in france. I lived there 3 months and I would say that it
could be pretty easy to find local partners for actions, and that
finding places for the night wouldn't be a problem.
