Bella Ciao dinner & party, live music, antifascist karaoke

Friday April 25, 2025, Bella Ciao dinner & party. Let’s celebrate Italy’s Liberation day together. Door opens at 16:00, food served from 19:00.

April 25th marks Italy’s National Liberation Day, a celebration of the country’s freedom from the nazi-fascist occupation.
80 years ago, on this very day, the partisans of the Italian Resistance regained control of Northern Italy, bringing an end to twenty years of fascist oppression and five years of war.
For two years, the partisans fought under the Italian tricolor flag, standing against the black flags of the fascists and the swastikas of the nazis.
Celebrating April 25th means remembering that struggle for freedom and democracy and defending the values of Italy’s anti-fascist Constitution that was born from that struggle.
To celebrate these ideals we’re hosting a Bella Ciao dinner and party. There will be great food, live music, and an antifascist karaoke – a chance for everyone to grab the mic and sing the songs that inspired the fight for freedom.

Proxycafe: Repair Cafe

Wednesday April 23, 2025, Proxycafe: Repair Cafe. Door opens at 18:00.

Is your linux computer broken and need some help? This is the perfect moment to ask help to our folk and fix your machine together, hopefully learning something from it. 🙂
Do you have a Windows or a Macbook machine? If you are lucky you may find someone to help you but you shouldn’t expect it as we are not having fun fixing those proprietary systems and is also more difficult to learn from it! 😛
We’ll try to offer our expertise to help fixing the operating system and some software, assisting you opening your machine to debug hardware faults but note we don’t have components to give/sell, but we could help you ordering the replacement part!
Of course expect our famous fresh frozen pizzas!

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!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

BAT Voku: West-African Food For BAT Mutual Aid Fund

Monday April 21st, 2025, BAT Voku: West-African Food For BAT Mutual Aid Fund. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come eat with the BATs who are making some vegan West-African inspired food. We are raising money for our BAT (BIPOC Anarchist Team) mutual aid fund to send money to various Queer BIPOC comrades in need. We will have a little stall with some zines and posters we made as well, bring cash!
BAT (BIPOC Anarchist Team), Amsterdam-based group for non-white anarchists to organize and community build together: https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/bat-bipoc-anarchist-team […Lees verder]

Cinerevolt, two films by Harun Farocki: The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and Eine Sache, die sich versteht (1971)

Sunday April 20, 2025, Cinerevolt: 2 films by Harun Farocki, The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and Eine Sache, die sich versteht (1971) * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.
This month Cinerevolt returns to highlight the experimental and propagandistic work of German filmmaker Harun Farocki.

The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)

“When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you’ll shut your eyes. You’ll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you’ll close them to the memory. And then you’ll close your eyes to the facts.”

These words are spoken at the beginning of an agitprop film that can be viewed as a unique and remarkable development. Farocki refrains from making any sort of emotional appeal. His point of departure is the following: “When napalm is burning, it is too late to extinguish it. You have to fight napalm where it is produced: in the factories.”

Resolutely, Farocki names names: the manufacturer is Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Michigan in the United States. Against backdrops suggesting the laboratories and offices of this corporation, the film then proceeds to educate us with an austerity reminiscent of Jean Marie Straub. Farocki’s development unfolds: “(1) A major corporation is like a construction set. It can be used to put together the whole world. (2) Because of the growing division of labor, many people no longer recognize the role they play in producing mass destruction. (3) That which is manufactured in the end is the product of the workers, students, and engineers.”

Eine Sache, die sich versteht (1971)

One thing that goes without saying is an educational film about a section of political economy. The subject matter of instruction is the concepts of use value, exchange value, commodity, labor power; they are intended to initiate the process of understanding the labor theory of value and the law of value, alienation and fetish.

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

Radical Sunday School: French-English Border Struggle and Solidarity

Sunday April 20, 2025, Radical Sunday School: French-English Border Struggle and Solidarity. From 18:00 till 20:00.Through the years, thousands have waited, often for months, struggling to survive, trying to cross the English channel at Calais, France, to Dover, England, in hope of a better life. They are met with harsh living conditions, police brutality, and state repression… And it’s all because of BORDERS…
What is the situation at the French-English border? How do people live and how do they try to cross the English channel? What kind of policies and political responses are at play that deny people the right of entry? What groups provide aid to those in need? And, what can we ourselves do to help?
Jointly, we will examine and discuss these questions. To set the stage, the facilitator will first talk about the situation at the border. After which, we explore these matters together, from providing aid to border tech to the No Borders movement, and much more.

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

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday April 18, 2025, 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).

Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

Solidarity VoKu for BANGS

Thursday April 17 2025, Benefit Voku for Amsterdam BANGS Festival. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

BANGS is a banging theatre and performance festival, organised by anarchists, artists, and activists, to take over not just traditional venues, not just the squats, not just the streets, not just your local Albert Heijn, not just your ING help desk, but even your own home. BANGS is non-hierarchical and self-organised: anyone can propose their show, wherever they want, create any workshop or performance, so long as it’s non-commercial, respects BANGS’ values, and is just BANGING.
Stages are kept behind gates, giving space to the same old voices. Cultural funds are cut off, free and artistic spaces closed down, and inhabitants pulled away from the artists living in the same city. We want Amsterdam to be a broad stage and hear the voices of many! We wish for soft, loud, ludicrous, experimental performance art and activism to take over the city and shake it up! Let the city become our playground.
This year in September, BANGS will have its second edition, which will take place from 19th–22nd September 2025. If you want to know more, check out our website. Our Open Call will be out soon, so if you feel like organising something, let us know!
By coming to eat at Joe’s Garage and enjoying some delicious food in lovely company, you are helping this festival come to life. The donation money will be used to cover printing costs.

Amsterdam BANGS
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/amsterdam-bangs
https://amsterdambangs.nl/ […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Visitor (Giulio Paradisi, 1979) + snacks and videogames LAG benefit

Sunday April 13, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Visitor * 1979 * Directed by Giulio Paradisi * 108 minutes * In English * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

This is a cult gem that was rediscovered a few years back and caused an uproar across the alternative cinema circuit in America. In the 1970s, before the sci-fi opera Star Wars ironed things out and set the standard, science fiction films were pretty wild, exploding in so many directions. From radical social commentary to hallucinogenic explorations of both outer space and the inner mind. The Visitor is an Italian film, shot in America, and looking back at it from today, one is simply dumbfounded. How the hell could this film ever be made?

This psychedelic sci-fi flick is so bizarre, so off the map, that I won’t even try to describe it. Its reckless journey, a number of different influences collide… from The Omen and The Exorcist to the excesses of Dario Argento, along with Hitchcock’s The Birds. From all accounts, the director Giulio Paradisi was a madman, and everyone who worked on the film, from the actors to the cameraman (Ennio Guarieri) and the scriptwriter (Lou Comici), had no idea what the movie was even about. It was shot in a frenzy of crazed ecstasy. In the end, the film is an audio-visual explosion, an “appealingly weird mish-mash of aliens, evil businessmen, and demonic children” which often treads on the cinematic explorations of Brian De Palma, Raúl Ruiz, and Chilean provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky. What is really at work here is the stunning camera work and the choreography of the film, giving it an incredible style.

Even if the plot did make sense, most viewers probably forget it, caught up as they are in the movie’s astounding imagery. And the cast of actors is equally unbelievable. How did this director ever manage to assemble the legendary John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Shelley Winters, Franco Nero, Lance Henriksen, Joanne Nail and Sam Peckinpah to act in this insane cinematic cocktail?

This will be a high-definition screening of this cult sensation.

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