Since 2010, the anti squat law is stating house owners would get fined if they leave their buildings empty for more than six months. Well, years later, not a single owner has been fined. That’s is no surprise knowing the City of Amsterdam. Parallel to that, 15% of office buildings in Amsterdam are officially empty. The reality would be the double.
Amsterdam is gearing up to evict squatters these coming days. The house on Swammerdamstraat 12 will be evicted for a fourth time in a few years. Let’s hope this ‘monument’ won’t make place to a sand yard for the coming years. Other squats in Amsterdam who received the eviction announcement are Bessemerstraat 23 (El Taller), Cornelis Drebbelstraat 35 (LaRage), Simon Stevinsstraat 25hs (Willem Beukels Alternatief).
On May 31st, activists and squatters were taking over the empty office building on the Jan Tooropstraat 29. The door magically opened and within minutes, the refugees from the Vluchtkerk moved in. Off course, Eberhard van der Laan the apathetic mayor was again forced to show a bit of concern. Lucky us, there weren’t any comment from the Dutch squatting expert Eric D. that day.
You’ll find various solidarity events this month at Joe’s Garage, to support the Autonomous Centre Köln, Roomtuintje Oostbos, Plan B a new squat in town, the people arrested inside the Ubica, No Border Camp Rotterdam, Mapuche communities, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign. You may want to join the Safer Place Meeting, the Cooking workshops or participate into the Cut & Paste Party. You won’t miss the new monthly event, Singer Songwriters, on which you are kindly requested to be on time. The film program is offering you The Edelweiss Pirates, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Five Broken Cameras and Daisies.
In July, Valreep will be squatted for two years, Roomtuintje Oostbos will be growing veggies for one. Get involved here and there, you are the ones making these spaces alive. Joe’s Garage will run a people’s kitchen only on Mondays during July and August. You are very welcome to organize a workshop, volunteer with any activity, the kitchen, the movie night, the Lonely Collective Day Cafe, the KSU squatting assistance, the give away shop.
Sunday June 2th 2013, Movie night: Daisies (Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1966, 74 min.) Czech with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film written and directed by Věra Chytilová considered a milestone of the Nová Vlna movement. Made with the support of the state-sponsored film studio, it follows two teenage girls, both named Marie, played by Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová, who engage in strange pranks. [Read more]
Wednesday June 5th 2013, Safer Place Organisers Meeting, 8pm. The plan is to organize a workshop in Joe’s about Safer Spaces. We would like to invite you to get involved in organizing it, preparing it, and thinking about it. So your ideas can be represented when the (first) workshop takes place on the 9th of July. We envision the workshop to a be a skills sharing workshop, where people can share communication skills and conflict management skills. It will also give the collective a chance to start defining what it is a safe place is. [Read more]
Monday June 3rd 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Autonomous Centre Köln on the Barricades, Benefit and Infonight about the situation at the AZ Köln, 7pm. Tonight we are going to talk about the struggle of the Autonomous Centre (AZ) in Cologne (Germany), that is facing an eviction thread from the 1th of July 2013 on. We will talk about our 3 years history of shaping the space, struggling for it, defending it. We will also present our ideas for defeating the coming eviction, we will present our eviction consensus and we also want to sincerely invite everybody to come to Cologne at the begin of July. [Read more]
Thursday June 6th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Benefit / Info meeting about the No Border Camp in Rotterdam, 7pm. The Dutch No Border Network organizes a No Border Camp in Rotterdam from August 2nd till 10th. The organization of a militant week of action, discussion and workshops connects with the tireless actions of migrants in the Netherlands during the past one and a half year. The No Border Camp also connects with the Voices From The Borders project on the North Sea that starts in Rotterdam August 4. [Read more]
Sunday June 9th 2013, Cooking Workshop, from 4pm till 7pm. Come and join the once in a lifetime cooking workshop with the amazing cook from the SVZV benefits (Steungroep Vrouwen Zonder Verblijfsvergunning). Sunday the 9th of June she will teach you how to cook two traditional Bangladeshi desserts. [Read more]
Sunday June 9th 2013, Movie night: Five Broken Cameras (documentary from Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, Palestine/Israel, 2011, 90 min.) with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. His West Bank hometown of Bil’in having turned into a site of weekly civil disobedience and provocative Israeli land development, Palestinian Emad Burnat, a family man, took to documenting the clash, beginning in 2005. Unwittingly, he started calling himself a journalist—isn’t that often how it happens?—and while Burnat’s equipment suffered the brunt of his risk (see title), the results are eye-opening. [Read more]
Monday June 10th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign Benefit, 7pm. Mumia got a lot of birthday cards in april; thanks to all of you. In Philedelphia,Mexico and France were demonstrations at his birthday and benefits at many places. However the prison industrie continues, spreading her dirty wings out over Europe (even Holland). [Read more]
Sunday June 16th 2013, Movie night: No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2009, 106 min.) Persian with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. This film is the fifth feature by awardwinning director Bahman Ghobadi, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival. Co—written by imprisoned Iranian—American journalist Roxana Saberi, the film is an indictment of cultural repression in Iran’s exciting underground music scene, a powerful cinematic foreshadowing of current protest movements, and a celebration of an entire generation of Iranians striving towards personal and creative freedom. [Read more]
Monday June 17th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Roomtuintje Oostbos benefit, 7pm. The Roomtuintje Oostbos garden gang will be dropping their shovels and picking up the serving spoons at Joe’s Garage. You can expect three courses of tasty vegan treats as always. The Roomtuintje Oostbos DIY garden project temporarily re-designates unused land with the aim of allowing people the opportunity to make their own urban garden. [Read more]
Thursday June 20th 2013, Benefit Mapuche communities and their fight for Autonomy, 7pm. Proceeds will go to support the Mapuche community Wente Winkul Mapu. Maricheweu International (“10 times we shall overcome”) unites people whose main goal it is to support the human rights of the Mapuche (people of the earth). The Mapuche are an indigenous people of South America. Their ancestral lands are occupied by Chile and Argentina. Currently there live more than 1,5 million Mapuche in Chile and about 50,000 in Argentina. [Read more]
Friday June 21st 2013, Singer Songwriters, from 6pm till 10pm. This is the first of a monthly evening Joe’s Garage organizes. For this session, there will be two singer songwriters on this hot hot Friday Amsterdam evening. We can tell you that Blackbirds & Thrushes will be there, for the the rest is a bit of a surprise. [Read more]
Sunday June 23rd 2013, Cooking Workshop, from 4pm till 7pm. Come and join the once in a lifetime cooking workshop with the amazing cook from the SVZV benefits (Steungroep Vrouwen Zonder Verblijfsvergunning). Because the number of people who can join is limited, please contact us beforehand if you want to join. [Read more]
Sunday June 23th 2013, Movie night. Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, UK, 1962, 104 min.) In English with English subtitles! Directed by Tony Richardson and based on a short story by Alan Sillitoe, this drama movie was the epitome of the “angry young man’ films that came out of England in the 60s. It centers on Colin, a rebellious youth who is sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery. [Read more]
Monday June 24th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Plan B benefit, 7pm. Plan B is a new squat in the centre. We are just getting settled there, and interested in exploring our options for social activities. Holding a benefit will not only help us live and get started on small events or workshops. [Read more]
Thursday June 27th 2013, Volkseten Vegazulu, Ubica Benefit, 7pm. UBICA was a squat which was barricaded after eviction notice; the 8 guys and 1 girl inside got convicted for throwing paintballs, fireworks and doing lockups. They are in for 1 month (one guy for 6 weeks), they are all sitting in different jails. [Read more]
Friday June 28th, Cut & Paste Party Workshop, 7pm. We are a group of artists who are making analogue collages. We recycle and use old books, papers and magazines. With the help of a pair of scissors and some glue we can create wonderful artwork. You are invited to join us at the Cut & Paste party/ workshop on Friday evening, 28th of June at 7 pm.
Sunday June 30th 2013, Movie night: The Edelweiss Pirates (Niko von Glasow, Germany, 2004, 111 min.) German with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. The story of two teenage brothers living amid the rubble in bombed-out Cologne in the last days of World War 2. 17 year old non-conformist Karl secretly belongs to a group of friends known as the Edelweiss pirates (named after the tough mountaintop flower) [Read more]
Joe’s Garage is possibly open 6 days a week:
Ma/Mo: 19.00 Volkseten Vegazulu, vegan food, no reservations, donations welcome
Di/Tu: 11.00 – 15:00 Office Hours
Di/Tu: 20.00 – 21.30 Kraakspreekuur
Wo/We: 15.00 – 18.00 Lonely Collective Day Cafe
Do/Th: 19.00 Volkseten Vegazulu, vegan food, no reservations, donations welcome
Za/Sa: 14.00 – 18.00 Weggeefwinkel
Zo/Su: 20.00 Filmavond/Infoavond
Joe’s Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
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