Radical Sunday School: What’s wrong with academia?

By: börek - October 13th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday October 13, 2024, Radical Sunday School: What’s wrong with academia? From 18:00 till 20:00.From its very beginnings, Radical Sunday School defined itself as a collective that is highly critical of the currently existing formal education systems and aimed to offer and imagine alternatives as best as we could. Most of us in the collective have a lot of different personal experiences with formal education as students and we also read others’ thoughts on this topic who had more time and resources to form their opinions. However, we have significantly less knowledge about how the academia looks like from teachers’ and researchers’ points of view. So, tonight, we will have the opportunity to listen to and ask a researcher and lecturer at the UvA, Dirk Damsma, who studies and teaches about topics in the philosophy of science while being critical of the institution where he works. How can you climb up the steps of the academic ladder? And is that even worth it? Is working as an academic just like any other job? Whether you think universities should be burned to the ground or you still want to believe at least a little bit that the promises of the academia are not complete lies, join us for the discussion!

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

By: börek - October 6th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Friday October 11, 2024, 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

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Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava

By: börek - October 6th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday October 10, 2024, Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Fundraiser for solar panels in Rojava! For a democratic and ecological alternative in the Middle East. https://www.solardarity-rojava.org/

Energy crisis in Rojava
The Rojava Autonomous Region in northern and eastern Syria has been in existence for 12 years and is a glimmer of hope for democratic reconstruction in Syria. Since its foundation, Rojava has had to defend itself against numerous threats. In addition to the clashes with the Assad regime, the main threats have been the wars with Turkey and the so-called Islamic State.
Now, however, the autonomy project is facing existential challenges. The energy supply is threatening to collapse. Turkish air strikes have largely destroyed the power stations and substations in the region. Electricity is in short supply and is mostly generated by dirty diesel generators. The civilian population suffers from a lack of electricity and water on a daily basis, but agriculture – in a region already hardest hit by climate change – is also severely affected.

‍Clean energy as a solution
But we can do something. With clean energy from the sun in Syria. The installation of decentralised solar panels should help to supply municipal facilities, hospitals, schools and women’s shelters with electricity.
We are therefore raising one million euros for solar panels to supply public facilities in northern and eastern Syria with sustainable electricity. In this way, we can make a difference and contribute to the further development of a democratic, gender-equitable and ecological alternative in the Middle East.
Let’s make a difference together: let’s send new energy to Rojava!
[…Lees verder]

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Proxy Cafe: rom romance. How I learned to stop worrying and love my degoogled phone

By: börek - October 6th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday October 9, 2024, Proxy Cafe: rom romance. How I learned to stop worrying and love my degoogled phone. Door opens at 19:00

Hold onto your bricks! An introduction to alternative operating systems that you can use on your phone instead of the two global players iOS and the corporate versions of Android that come preinstalled on phones. E.g. Lineage, eOs, Grapheme

The Proxy Cafe is 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!
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Radical Sunday School: Reclaim the Land! – Commons and Private Ownership

By: börek - October 6th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday October 6, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Reclaim the Land! – Commons and Private Ownership. From 18:00 till 20:00.Approximately 60% of the forests in the European Union are privately owned. In England, you only have a right of access to 8% of the land, and uncontested rights to 3% of the rivers.

For decades, people are made to feel unwelcome to roam the world freely – the right to access nature is by no means given to everyone unconditionally . At the same time, we are made to believe that only privately owned/maintained land and resources can function in a long run. Collective ownership is bound to result in chaos and inequality, they say. But the real inequality starts right there, at every fence keeping us from accessing a meadow, a forest, a stream.

In this session, we will talk about access to nature and the right to roam as well as about the tragedy of the commons in fact communal use of resources has been working amazingly well for centuries in locally organised small-scale collectives all over the world.

We will also brainstorm what we can do to reclaim our right of access to land in a way that values and protects nature (how about some more trespassing, wildcamping, forest occupations?). Also, we will think and talk about how to fight private ownership and implement collectively organised commons in our lives.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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Voku for displaced Palestinian family

By: börek - October 2nd, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday October 3rd, 2024, Voku for displaced Palestinian family. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are a group of friends who are cooking to raise funds for a displaced family in Gaza, who one of our members has a personal link to. The family will be spoken about during the evening. […Lees verder]

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October 2024 at Joe’s Garage

By: börek - October 2nd, 2024  Filed under: Poster archive

SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia. Concert by Catsnout

By: börek - September 30th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 30, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia in reclaiming their ancestral land. Concert by Catsnout. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8:30pm.

We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, which are then used to support national and international initiatives.
This Voku is dedicated to the Iku people, an indigenous community from Colombia currently striving to acquire ancestral land. Their goal is to reclaim their territory, and build a space to educate young students and nurture future mamos and sagas (spiritual leaders). By doing so, they aim to preserve their ancestral wisdom and actively deconstruct colonial heritage.
In this Voku, we hope to support them in reclaiming their land, and we invite you to join us in this endeavour.

After the dinner, there will be a concert by the band Catsnout who writes about themselves: “hello, we make fun yelling heartfelt anti-folk. Welcome to our acoustic experiment in Joe’s Garage, bring your flutes please!” The show will start around 20:30. […Lees verder]

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