Voku for Palestinian Mutual Aid

Monday June 16, 2025, Voku for Palestinian Mutual Aid. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

We’ll have a (vegan) dinner to raise money for Zaki, his family and his community. Come enjoy delicious food, and support the Palestinian cause with mutual aid!
Zaki is a 19 year old Palestinian trying to survive in Gaza. He misses his family, from which he got separated since the beginning of the war, a lot. Both Zaki and his family lack the most basic necessities of life, they need money to buy food, water and soap. His neighborhood and all of his family’s homes are destroyed. They are now homeless. Since also Zaki’s older brother was killed, the family has had no way to earn money anymore. […Lees verder]

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Radical Sunday School: Anarchism 101: Worldbuilding?

Sunday June 15, 2025, Radical Sunday School: Anarchism 101: Worldbuilding? From 18:00 till 20:00.This week at Radical Sunday School, we’re getting back to an old favorite: Anarchism 101! We’ll be talking with a long time anarchist organizer from the Vrije Bond about some tricky questions, like:
– Why is the world the way it is?
– What does ‘materialism’ mean and what do anarchists think of it?
– How do we build power? Do we want to?
– How do we change the world by working together?

This isn’t going to be some stuffy theoretical lecture – we’re going to focus on how our experiences have shaped us, and see how by working together, we can materially build the world we want to live in! Of course there can be plenty of disagreements, but always in the spirit of learning from each other. By the end, we hope everyone leaves with just a few more tools to bring into their politics, their activism, and maybe even their taste in music? […Lees verder]

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday June 13, 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

Voku for Joe’s Repairs

Thursday June 12, 2025, Voku for Joe’s Repairs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

Voku for Joe’s Repairs. Come support joe’s garage maintenance costs by getting a tasty vegan tuscan meal. In order to keep this great space up and running, we sometimes need to fix some stuff, and that isn’t always free. The food will be delicious and you will leave with a full belly and a smile. […Lees verder]

Voku for Lenna squat legal costs and floor repairs

Monday June 9, 2025, Voku for Lenna squat legal costs and floor repairs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

What is Lenna? Lenna is not just our squat dog. Lenna is also a building on Oetewalerstraat 8, liberated from supposedly “non profit” social housing organization Ymere. Almost two years passed since the last residents have been forced to relocate and this former social housing has been left to rot waiting for the new landlords privatization. Oetewalerstraat 18, also from Ymere, used to be squatted for more than 10 years.
So continuing a long tradition of reclaiming social housing around the neighborhood and Oetewalerstraat itself, Oetewalerstraat 8 has been squatted by a friendly active group almost two months ago. However, we are already engaged in legal conversations and we are succeeding in it!!! At least until we can pay our lawyer…
The ground floor is as messy as Ymere itself. We would like to share our ground floor and our back yard with the community, but apparently we have no floor in the ground floor. These fixing projects requires a bit of funds which we don’t really have. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: a night with Pepe Mujica (Rest In Power)

Sunday June 8, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: a night with Pepe Mujica (Rest In Power) * EL PEPE: A SUPREME LIFE * (El Pepe, una vida suprema) * Directed by Emir Kusturica * 75 minutes * In Spanish with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30

A movie night in memoriam of Pepe Mujica, who described himself and his fellow Tupamaros as “politicians with weapons.” Not the brightest of his famously lucid turns of phrase, if you consider that the Junta that eventually took power, held on to it, tortured and imprisoned him for over a decade were also, arguably, “politicians with weapons”.
Short clips and a full-length movie El Pepe, una vida suprema by Emir Kusturica.

About a month ago the former Uruguayan president José (Pepe) Mujica died. In my book, he was maybe the only so-called politician that I think was sincere, thoughtful, and straightforward. He had a philosophical bent, and was on the right side of history. For the most part politics is game-playing involving vast amounts of money going to the top government officials. Mujica brought something radically different to the table. He had spent 14 years imprisoned and tortured under the Uruguayan dictatorship in the 1970s, and understood what’s valuable about life. As president, he continued living on his small farm in the countryside, living there with his wife and his three legged dog. He would drive to work every day in his tiny Volkswagen beetle or his moped. In this film he is asked why he was so different from any other politician, why no limousines, huge palaces or red carpets? He responded “If it’s the majority of the people who elect you for office, one has to try and live like the majority, not like the minority.” Such clear-sightedness puts all other politicians to shame.

This documentary was directed by Serbian director Emir Kusturica, and it’s clear that he went out of his way to make this film about a man he admired and loved. Kusturica spent three years filming him right up until the last day of his presidency. It’s a pretty straightforward documentary, but one that covers a lot of territory and adds some lively music to the journey. There are a few documentaries about Pepe Mujica out there, and we wanted to show one of them because of his recent passing, and chose this one because it at least contextualises the situation of Uruguay and Latin America a bit.

Pepe Mujica had been one of the left wing guerilla fighters of the Tupamaros National Liberation Movement in the 60s, who robbed banks and staged prison breaks under the dictatorship in order to redistribute the money to the poor, Robin Hood style. The Tupamaros invented a new form of guerrilla warfare that became a role model for all Latin America. It was crucial for them to stay on the side of the people, and to do actions that the general people could understand…. He didn’t just shoot off, wildly out of anger or desperation, they were incredibly thoughtful in everything they did. The film weaves together this past into the present, and includes discussions with his life-long partner/companion Lucía Topolansky who reflects “We united two utopias – the utopia of love, and the utopia of political struggle.”

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

Joe’s Garage 20th Anniversary

Saturday May 31, 2025, Joe’s Garage 20th Anniversary, from 14:00

Joe’s Garage celebrates its 20th Anniversary!!! Come and enjoy a full day of music and festivities on the Steve Bikoplein and in Joe’s Garage. We start at 14.00 clock outside on the square. There will be games & food and drinks & freeshop & workshops. On the square: Dj Daan, VERZET Choir, PEIKE, Dj Zovies, performance by RainBow Monk & more surprise acts..
And In the Garage: KRAAKLUSTIG, DE BEATZERS, 886VG noise Live set, Dj Rengo Estar, Dj Totaal Recall, Dj Trankilo, Dj Sjaakk, Dj Atze, Dj Afgeleid
Performance: Funny, not funny. Let’s make it funny!

Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
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June 2025 at Joe’s Garage