Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

I was perplexed by my decision last week to make public the havoc that TERNA is about to wreak on the Tuscan hills. But from your messages today I know that not only are you close to me in this – signing the petition – but you help me to go beyond… beyond myself… beyond the beloved hills… to understand how a profoundly spiritual man should take on, at a certain point, political awareness. Not as belonging to a party, but as taking on...

  Last night, reading your supportive and affectionate comments on the petition and the fight against the powerful, I understood something. Deep down you all are my true brothers and sisters. We are companions chosen to go on this earthly journey of life together. I dream that one day – if we win – we can all gather for a heartfelt embrace, here on the wide field in front of the hermitage.   My farmhouse hermitage was built centuries ago with the river stones that...

The power line of the multinational TERNA will pass above my hermitage, ruining it forever. Naturally, I am not asking you to sign the public petition of the Bucine High Tension Committee for me (with my illness I can easily go and get treatment in some Northern city) but because the passage of the 50 meter high power line will ruin forever the sweet surrounding hills that make up the true beauty and the true value of this Italian countryside, noted around the world. But...

TERNA IS PLANNING TO RUN A GIANT TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH OUR TUSCAN HILLS!!! TERNA, the Italian electrical transmission company, wants to run a giant 380 kv transmission line through the Tuscan hills, destroying forever what has been intact for centuries. I’m attaching here the message I received from the High Tension Committee, which I just joined. Dear members, We have just launched an online petition and would like your help to get as many signatures as possible. We...

  Do representative democracies truly exist – if we consider that they were born to give voice to the rights of citizens and ensure an equal distribution of goods? Politics is getting farther and farther away from the true needs of citizens. Politicians want to get elected and give citizens the impression they are there to represent them. But in reality they just want votes. And citizens remain mere gears in a system of power, as the final customers of a commercial,...