Benefit voku for Palestinian Family Khaled & Bassam, by ZZW Rafelrand

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 16, 2024, Benefit voku for Palestinian Family Khaled & Bassam, by ZZW Rafelrand + let’s talk about DIY projects (theme: unrelated). Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

THE BENEFIT OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED: DONATIONS GO TO PALESTINIAN FAMILY KHALED & BASSAM

Khaled and Bassam and their parents, Ali and Heba, live in northern Gaza. Since October 7th, they have been displaced more than 13 times from their home due to the continues bombing of people’s homes in Gaza. Even the so proclaimed ‘safe’ areas where they fled to have been bombed, leaving nothing left and everything distroyed. Last Tuesday night, the street in front of their shelter was bombed. Ali’s brother was killed. Through a friend who is in contact with them, we hear the most horrified stories come through every week. The family of Khaled and Bassam is just one of many Palestinians who are being displaced, under threat and being killed by the Israeli genocide regime.

The benefit is held by ZZW Rafelrand, a patchwork of communities living and creating in one of the last frayed edges of Amsterdam East, on Zeeburgereiland. Excisting since over 40 years, the whole neighborhood is scheduled for demolition in December 2024. The community neighborhood – ZZW, artist ateliers, Fort Knox, One Peaceful World, Cruise In, etc – will be fully demolished for a new neigborhood.

Since September 2023, we – a small team of DIY film enthusiasts – started following the story of the neighhborhood to create a DIY documentary film. We combine everyday life with community activism: solidarity networks & events, a symbolic funeral, endless negotiations with the municipality, a summer free for all festival, etc. But we also create funky scenes to show the creativity residing in the neighborhood and to show its funky spirit. We would love to take you along this journey and start talking about DIY projects!

Join the VoKu for a delicious meal, a chat, and join to help Khalled & Bassam into safety!
CHICKENS AND NIGHTINGALES UNITE – DE LAATSTE RAFELRANDEN VAN AMSTERDAM
Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand […Lees verder]

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Radical Sunday School: Mastering your machine. Towards a liberatory relationship with computers

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday September 15, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Mastering your machine. Towards a liberatory relationship with computers. From 18:00 till 20:00.We are in a constant battle, with big tech and ourselves, to make prosocial use of modern technology. We find ourselves pulled in unproductive, counter liberatory directions by the computational world. At the same time, if we abandon this technology, we seed the power to communicate and publish that it grants us.

In this workshop we will explore the theoretical origin of that strain, learn why the very nature of the computer makes victory inevitable and seek to empower ourselves to truly control our technologies.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Friday September 13, 2024, Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music. From 20:00 to 23:30.

This is a weekly open practice session of east Mediterranean music, in which we play genres such as rebetiko and Greek/Balkan/Turkish/Middle Eastern folk music. Together we explore the melodic pathways, rhythms (e.g. 9/8, 7/8. 5/4) and harmonies of, as well as connections between these musical traditions. We gather to have fun playing music together, to share musical knowledge and experience, and improve our skills on our instruments. We welcome interested newcomers to join in, regardless of musical experience, and using any kind of instrument (strings, percussion, wind, voice). Bring your instruments and your best mood!
Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

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Joe’s Garage open assembly

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Poster archive

Friday September 13, 2024, Joe’s Garage open assembly, from 19:00 to 20:30

Get involved at Joe’s Garage, a squatted social center. Come along to figure out how you could contribute to such a space. Joe’s Garage always needs active participants to remain open. Such a monthly meeting is also the moment to discuss your proposals, get to know each others, share tasks, plan the coming weeks.
Please, note the date has been moved from Saturday 14 to Friday 13 September. Printed posters and flyers say the event is on Saturday but for once, we’ll meet on Friday 13th at 19:00.

Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 12, 2024, Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

“We are researchers, anthropologists, layers, psychologists, sociologists, mediators, and activists moving in the Mediterranean area to critically analyze the borders that limit it, the migration processes that run through it and the policies that regulate them.
In total adherence to the pleas of the families of those missing or killed attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea routes-particularly Tunisian and sub-Saharan mothers and sisters-we want to promote the defense of the fundamental rights of exiled people, their families and communities, promoting, in particular, the right to know, as well as advocating for initiatives in favor of the right to freedom of movement.
The Mediterranean is the space where we are radicatə, particularly in Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia, places where we operate on a voluntary basis, based on our knowledge of legal, psycho-social, research and reporting.

We believe in building a collective and active memory that is a practice of countering discrimination, racism and structural injustice, as well as a means of narrating-from the voices of those living on the borders-what is happening in the Mediterranean”.

Memoria Mediterranea https://memoriamediterranea.org/ […Lees verder]

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Proxy Cafe: the backup edition

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday September 11, 2024, Proxy Cafe: the backup edition. Door opens at 18:00

Hold on to your regrets!
Here comes the backup edition, where we look at the different ways of keeping your own data safe and tidy, with your own little hands.

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Usually twice a month on Wednesdays from 18:00 till 22:00 at Joe’s Garage, LAG and sometimes in different locations and why not in your social space, somewhere else than Amsterdam?!
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Nov Lituania

By: börek - September 3rd, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday September 8, 2024, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Nov Lituania * 98 minutes * In Lithuanian with English subtitles, doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

This is a pretty unusual film for when it was made, and actually it’s a pretty unusual movie to be made in America at any time. It presents us with a situation that we are increasingly becoming familiar with – lack of housing, food prices rising like crazy, and not being able to afford anymore to live in big cities. The story takes place in the 1930s during the great depression, a time when the bankers went too far with their wheeling, dealing and money grubbing, causing a disaster.

Our main characters are a couple who have no place to live anymore but are offered a worthless piece of land in the countryside. Their idea is to create their own Eden, but when faced with difficulties they realize that they are city people and have no idea how to do things like farming. The solution to the problem is by inviting other unemployed people to join them, and thereby creating a cooperative.

A film about collectivism and community and alternative societies, I think we are sadly missing these days. It’s been called an anti-cynical film and no matter what you think of it, its enthusiasm whips up a semi-socialist alternative that includes exchange of labor, sharing food, bartering and solidarity. All of this is presented as an alternative to the dog eat dog capitalism and monopolization that was tearing apart the country. Some viewers have even aptly compared it to the early Russian-Ukrainian movies Alexander Dovzhenko.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Radical Sunday School: How to dress like an anarchist

By: börek - September 3rd, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday September 8, 2024, Radical Sunday School: How to dress like an anarchist. From 18:00 till 20:00.Clothes form a central part of human life. Each day we choose what to wear, to dress the part in the theatre of life. On this stage, every item of clothing is entwined with some meaning. Think of how skirts symbolize femininity, how uniforms represent authority, or how the color black denotes rebellion. Such meanings inevitably regulate the ways we dress.

The world is riddled with dress codes – coded meanings that are oppressive and restrictive in nature. Our choices of clothing are limited in this regard, not really our own. Capitalism regulates, exploits, and reinforces these coded meanings for profit. Exploitative labor practices, furthermore, pervade the fashion industry. Clothes are a thorny question… especially for anarchists.

What are the meanings of our clothes anyway? How are we to dress without reinforcing exploitation? How can we dress in ways as not to be complicit to oppression? What can we do to counteract the power and oppression of clothes? What would be the right strategy to liberate our clothes (and ourselves)? Should we simply stop caring? Opt-out of clothing all together? Or should we embrace and expand our clothing options? Embrace the creativity and self-expression of clothes? How do our clothes fit in(to) the movement? How to dress like an anarchist…?

Come join us for tonight’s session. Come dressed up as you, that is, as you are or otherwise want to be – or pick your most provocative, anarchistic, Marxist, or creative outfit. No garment is off-limit!

THE FASHION POLICE WILL BE BARRED FROM ENTRY.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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