Thursday November 13, 2025, Voku for legal costs of a trans migrant comrade. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Come eat and support out well beloved comrade who has been facing a lot of oppression from fortress Europe. Fighting against this evil courts a lot of money to pay lawyers. Support people’s right to move! Let’s move and eat together! […Lees verder]
Sunday November 2, 2025, The Borders of Paradise (Nicolas Romero Silva, 2024 * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.
At the border of Italy and the French Riviera the French police and Italian State create a humanitarian hotspot through physical violence, illegal pushbacks, and negligence of young people on the move.
In the town of Ventimiglia (at the French-Italian border) we meet the young men who have fled genocide, violent militias, destitution, and have risked their lives crossing the sea to reach the perceived safety of Europe. However, once in Italy they are faced with what one young man calls a “slow death”. Unable to gain the foothold of basic social services, many asylum seekers end up in Ventimiglia. For those who wish to try their luck in another European country awaits a difficult border crossing, often thwarted by the violent and extra-judicial pushbacks by the French police. Others try more dangerous means, such as the ‘pass of death’ through the mountains, in the backs of trucks, or the roofs of trains.
Caught between the agonizing wait for help in Italy and the hope of a better life on the other side of a fortified border, The Borders of Paradise is a detailed portrait of the psychological toll which neglectful European policy has on the young men who arrive on its shores. Incorporating multiple face-to-face conversations about the why and how of their migration, this film seeks to make heard the voices of those most dehumanized in the European political landscape.
The Borders of Paradise is the first documentary film by Nicolás Romero Silva. To organize a screening or learn more about the project visit https://20milesmore.org/.
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
Sunday November 2, 2025, School Without Masters – Open Session. From 18:00 till 20:00.
From November 2025, every Sunday, 18:00 – 20:00, we meet up and’s talk about the various topics we wanna talk, learn and develop awareness about. Right now, we’re meeting at Joe’s, a squatted location. The doors open at 17:30 and we start at 18:00.
Every regular session starts off as an open session: No specific topic is focused on and conversation flows freely. The lines between masters and students blurs to a point where both terms become increasingly meaningless, their distinction arbitrary and their hierarchy obsolete.
Should we want to focus on a topic to collectively educate ourselves, then that’s a decision we’ll make in person.
We hope to see you there!
School Without Masters
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/school-without-masters
Thursday October 30, 2025, Voku to support book publishing “Tattoo on The Waterwave”. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
We are crowdfunding for this book which will be published in Arabic under the title alwashm ‘ala assaqiya, which translate roughly as ‘a tattoo on the waterwave’. It is correspondances in the tale among two friends, their relation is writing. Writing bodies on waves, conjugated by long waves of storytellers that take water tales and implace their feathers in the world of ears, to change, influence the flow of the dream (living).
These tales, mostly recorded from Palestinian old women, form the rupture in the picture, tales look at realty folded behind the tent, folded by the stars’ own hands with shining elements. Individuals weave these lines of the streamy consciousness that takes flower from the mouth. Mountains, vallies calls the human to be born, third hand weaves, third eye sees. And the flower to be born from the seed. […Lees verder]
Wednesday October 29, 2025, Joe’s salon – Special edition with voku
AM (10-16): Quiet study and non-corporate work space.
PM (16-19): Salon hang out.
Coffee and tea, sometimes snacks. Feel free to bring your own food, but no meat. Donations-based – proceeds go to Joe’s Garage structural maintenance.
+ (19-23) this week: VOKU!
We are collecting donations for our friends from Syria – a mum and her daughter – who live in Germany but have family members in Aleppo who are struggling under the current political changes in Syria. We want to help them with rent and medicine. Come eat a delicious vegan meal and support.
Monday October 27, 2025, G is for Gaza – Dinner and Fundraiser for Families in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
After two years of continuous genocide, israel is starving the Gaza population for the past six months, and now the barely existing food is sold at immense and unreachable prices. So, a bunch of friends decided to support families in Gaza to buy food. We are organizing fundraisers with tasty food and good vibes. All the proceeds will go to Families in Gaza with currently 3 families benefitting from this fundraiser. Everyone involved is a volunteer or a donor, and 100 % of the contributions are going to our beloved Palestine.
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.
Sunday October 26, 2025, Raising Radicals, from 14:00.
Een maandelijks ouder-kind-cafe maar dan een beetje anders. Misschien komt er af en toe een specifiek thema aan bod zoals; welke acties zijn veilig met kinderen en welke niet? Of misschien is er soms een leuke activiteit voor kids, of misschien is het gewoon al leuk genoeg om te kletsen met politieke activistische ouders en kunnen kids lekker met elkaar spelen, klagen over hun hippy-ouders whatever. Alle input en ideeen zijn super welkom, idealiter gaat het zichzelf een beetje organiseren en ben ik alleen de toevallige starter van het geheel….. Stuur graag door naar alle ouders die zich thuis voelen op een plek als Joe’s Garage ♥️
Idea is a monthly parent-child cafe, but a little different. Perhaps a specific theme is discussed occasionally, such as; which actions are safe with children and which are not? Or maybe there is a fun activity for kids, or maybe it’s just fun enough to chat with political activist parents and kids can play with each other, complain about their hippy parents, whatever. All input and ideas are super welcome….. Please forward to all parents who feel at home in a place like Joe’s Garage.
