Soweto benefiet Voku

By: pokkeherrie - March 1st, 2014  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 10th, 7pm Vegan 3-course benefit dinner and info night on latest developments Pieter Nieuw landstraat-project.

Soweto, together with an enthusiastic group of people, is realising a new political social center, work space and collective housing on the Pieter Nieuwlandstraat in the Dapperbuurt, Amsterdam. Be part of this DIY subsidy free project and help launch this inspiring new housing initiative.  We need to raise money to get this project off the ground- offering an alternative to mortgages,  long waiting lists, and unaffordable rents. Instead we will be sharing skills, ideas, knowledge, labour and wealth. In times when many social initiatives are being shut down, or in danger, this project is needed now more than ever.  Come and eat your heart out. Donations are more than welcome. This is also an opportunity to become soweto member at the event, or purchase one of the much asked for bond certificates à 50 Euro on the spot. For more info see: www.soweto.nl […Lees verder]

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Benefiet Voku Soweto

By: pokkeherrie - October 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
Pieter_Nieuwlandstraat

Monday October 21st 2013, Benefiet Voku SOWETO, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

Soweto goes for Pieter Nieuwland – Update on SOWETO & the Pieter Nieuwland project.
We are a collective that is enthusiastic about creating more community owned housing. We are currently taking an old school building in Amsterdam Oost and turning it into a community living, working, and social space. We are seeing this as a starting point in bringing more buildings back in to the public domain – a counter movement toward the growing privatization of public spaces a reclaiming move against the increased corporate ownership of property.
The housing association “Soweto” aims to do what the official ‘social housing corporations’ don’t deliver: to provide communities with affordable space for living, working, organising, talking politics and having fun. It all started with trying to legalize Joe’s garage in the squatted Pretoriusstraat 28. Unfortunately, that wasn’t successful – but now the Pieter Nieuwlandstraat project, close to the Dappermarkt is about to be realized. […Lees verder]

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Benefiet voku Soweto

By: pokkeherrie - March 23rd, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
Soweto_Benefiet_Joe's_Garage

Monday April 8th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Benefiet voku Soweto, 19:00 pm.

Housingassociation SOWETO

In a nutshell Soweto is an idealistic housing association which aims to be a legal and democratic framework within which multiple solidarity based housing projects, such as legalized squats, can operate together simultaneously, thus increasing their political and economic strength. The goal is thus to make Pieter Niewlandstraat 93_95 the first of many projects operating under the umbrella of Soweto. […Lees verder]

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Benefiet Voku Soweto

By: pokkeherrie - February 16th, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku, Woonstrijd

Mo./Ma. March 4th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Benefiet Voku Soweto, 19:00 pm.
Creating A COMMUNITY OWNED social (and living) space

The housing association Soweto aims to do what the official ‘social housing corporations’ don’t deliver: to provide communities with affordable space for living, working, organising, talking politics and having fun. It all started with trying to legalize Joe’s garage in the squatted PS 28. Unfortunately, that wasn’t successful – but now there is a realistic chance for getting our first space: a beautiful old school-building on the Pieter Nieuwlandstraat in Amsterdam East, close to the Dappermarkt. […Lees verder]

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Vanishing Point, a classic anti-authoritarian cult film

By: pokkeherrie - June 2nd, 2012  Filed under: Events

Sunday June 17th, 8pm VANISHING POINT,
a classic anti-authoritarian cult film
high-definition screening
screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock

VANISHING POINT (1971)
Directed by Richard Sarafian
105 minutes
In English

Since law-abiding conformity seems to be running rampant these days, I think its time to re-screen this rebellious one-of-a-kind ultra-cult classic! Art film and exploitation road movie come together in Vanishing Point, an existential car chase film that races across the desert in a post- Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a drug dealer who bets that he can drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He then loads up on amphetamines and begins his full-throttle journey through the American desert, picking up the wrath of the cops who are trying to stop him. When a hip black DJ (Cleavon Little) learns about Kowalski’s odyssey, he turns the driver into a folk hero on his radio broadcasts, declaring him the “last free Man on Earth“. The amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Vanishing Point is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s.
And maybe you know already, but this is the wonderful film that Tarantino rants on about in his film Deathproof. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafian, 1971)

By: pokkeherrie - June 2nd, 2012  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 17th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema, VANISHING POINT (1971), Directed by Richard Sarafian, 105 minutes, in English. A classic anti-authoritarian cult film, high-definition screening, screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock. 8pm

Since law-abiding conformity seems to be running rampant these days, I think its time to re-screen this rebellious one-of-a-kind ultra-cult classic! Art film and exploitation road movie come together in Vanishing Point, an existential car chase film that races across the desert in a post- Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a drug dealer who bets that he can drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He then loads up on amphetamines and begins his full-throttle journey through the American desert, picking up the wrath of the cops who are trying to stop him. When a hip black DJ (Cleavon Little) learns about Kowalski’s odyssey, he turns the driver into a folk hero on his radio broadcasts, declaring him the “last free Man on Earth“. The amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Vanishing Point is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s.
And maybe you know already, but this is the wonderful film that Tarantino rants on about in his film Deathproof. […Lees verder]

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Benefiet voku Buro Jansen&Janssen

By: pokkeherrie - May 28th, 2012  Filed under: Events

Monday 11th of June, 7pm Benefiet voku Buro Jansen & Janssen

Buro Jansen & Janssen is een onderzoeksburo dat politie, justitie en inlichtingen- diensten kritisch volgt en daar gevraagd of ongevraagd een mening over geeft. Een grondrechtenkollektief dat publiceert over uitbreiding van bevoegdheden en repressieve wetgeving in vooral haar eigen uitgavenen op het internet. Soms een steungroep voor mensen die ongewild gevolgd of vervolgd worden. Een vraagbaak voor burgers, maar ook politici, journalisten en andere onderzoekers. En meestal een combinatie van dit al.

Buro Jansen & Janssen is a research agency that critically  investigates police, judiciary and intelligence services. A fundamental rights collective that publishes on expanding
powers and oppressive laws, especially in its own publications on the Internet. Sometimes a support group for people who unwillingly are followed or persecuted. A source of information for citizens, but also politicians, journalists and other researchers. And usually a combination of all of this.

Benefiet voku Buro Jansen&Janssen

By: pokkeherrie - May 28th, 2012  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 11th of June, 7pm Benefiet voku Buro Jansen & Janssen

Buro Jansen & Janssen is een onderzoeksburo dat politie, justitie en inlichtingen- diensten kritisch volgt en daar gevraagd of ongevraagd een mening over geeft. Een grondrechtenkollektief dat publiceert over uitbreiding van bevoegdheden en repressieve wetgeving in vooral haar eigen uitgaven en op het internet. Soms een steungroep voor mensen die ongewild gevolgd of vervolgd worden. Een vraagbaak voor burgers, maar ook politici, journalisten en andere onderzoekers. En meestal een combinatie van dit al.

Buro Jansen & Janssen is a research agency that critically  investigates police, judiciary and intelligence services. A fundamental rights collective that publishes on expanding
powers and oppressive laws, especially in its own publications on the Internet. Sometimes a support group for people who unwillingly are followed or persecuted. A source of information for citizens, but also politicians, journalists and other researchers. And usually a combination of all of this.