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]
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]
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
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
https://squ.at/joe
https://joesgarage.nl
Wednesday May 28, 2025, Proxycafe: Learning Cafe / Tear Apart & Rebuild. Door opens at 19:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00
” Hardware glitching? Always the wrong screwdriver for the wrong screws in the wrong order?
Too many parts left over after reassemblage? Come patch up some long-neglected hardware with us.”
In this workshop we are going to provide a couple of laptops and maybe a desktop computer for us to open it, analyze the components, discuss them and then assemble the machine back. The idea is to increase confidence on opening our machines so that we can fix them or upgrade components and also to have a better understanding on what’s under the chassis and demistify the black box. 🙂
You can also bring your own computer, don’t be scared of opening your loved laptop!
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/
Monday May 26, 2025, Molli Benefit. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
The Molli in the Pijp is one of the oldest anarchist places of the city, being squatted in 1979.
For many years the Molli has been legalized, with all the struggles this entails. Molli Voku crew will take over the Joe’s Monday VoKu and they will blow your tastbuds away. All proceeds will (saddly) go to the legal cost of having a legalized squatters bar, mainly renewing the horeca permit…
Molli, van Ostadestraat 55 HS, Amsterdam
https://molli.squat.net/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/molli-chaoot […Lees verder]
Sunday May 25, 2025, Movie Night: Movie Night: Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) * 124 minutes * in English, German, French with English subs * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.
Possession is a cult psychological horror film directed by Andrzej Żuławski. After returning home from a long business trip, Mark discovers that during his absence he has become a complete stranger to his wife Anna. He decides to find out why and finds out that Anna periodically disappears.
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
