Thursday 26 October 2023, Bike courier benefit diner. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Bike messengers get together! Food and drinks, Pass by on the bike, talk about bikes and support your bike messengers world wide! All Cyclist Are Beautiful! This benefit supports all the riders, foodies, messengers, small bike initiatives and critical messengers. come hang out and eat beautiful food cooked by bike couriers from Amsterdam. […Lees verder]
Wednesday 25 October 2023, Proxy Cafe, basic IT security practices, from 18:00 to 22:00.
A workshop to teach basic IT security practices for computers and smartphones. We will try to focus a bit on every OS and then on Linux. Also an evening to just chill, have a drink and hack with your friends 
Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/
Monday 23 October 2023, Justice for Kostas Manioudakis. Rebetiko night, voku and concert with Rebet GuitarS. Food served from 7pm, music from 9pm, no reservation.
On Friday, September 1st, 2023, 58-year-old Kostas Manioudakis was murdered by cops on a rural road in Crete after being beaten up, for a small amount of cannabis, which has not been yet confirmed. The cops in their statements claimed that he died suddenly from heart attack during police check, which is non-existent and is proven both by the testimonies of passers-by and by the obvious signs of beating. The purpose of the rebetiko night is to financially support the family of Kostas in the difficult struggle it has to fight for justice.
On the stage after the food, Rebet GuitarS (Jaap Faber and Charis Konstantinou), a guitar duo: https://joesgarage.nl/archives/tag/rebet-guitar
Rebetiko, the music crossroad between middle east and west from the early 1900’s. Songs about love, joy and sorrow. A musical sub-culture, a music of the lower classes.
“The womb of rebetiko was the jail and the hash den. It was there that the early rebetes created their songs. They sang in quiet, harsh voices, unforced, one after the other, each singer adding a verse which often bore no relation to the previous verse, and a song often went on for hours. There was no refrain, and the melody was simple and easy.” Ilias Petropoulos. […Lees verder]
Friday 20 October 2023, Cormorani Live, benefit concert for Evagelismos squat in Heraklion, Crete. Door opens at 8pm.
A concert to support financially the squat of Evangelismos in Heraklion, Crete, which was evicted after 21 years of action. With a feast that will be opened by Cormoras and by the familiar to all of us Αman Μolli.
For more information regarding the squat of Evangelismos please click on the site https://evagelismos.squat.gr/?p=5070
We will have many songs and dances. The Cormorans are Tasos Kofodimos (guitar, song), Giorgos Pop (ud, bouzouki voice), Yvonne Melissa (violin voice). A small amount will be allocated for the transportation of the musicians. We are waiting for you. See you there.
Thursday 19 October 2023, Voku benefit for safe house in the Balkans. Concert with Per Verse Vis (Dirty Folk). Food served from 7pm, live music from 9pm, no reservation.
This benefit is to raise money for a long standing safe house for survivors of domestic abuse and now in more recent years, people on the move. The funds raised will go towards necessities such as heating, electricity and other basic resources especially now that winter is closing in.
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.
Monday 16 October 2023, Horeca United fundraiser voku. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Seeing how our dispute with Hague coffee company Lupi Coffee has escalated, we have to hold a fundraiser. Unpaid work, underpaid staff, intimidation: this company has treated its personnel horribly. Now the boss chooses to intimidate us by dragging us before the judge. Come and support us, and show the boss that we working people stand strong together! As a horeca union, most of our most active members are cooks and chefs, so we offer a high standard. Our case has also been picked up by BOOS so we’ll be showing their episode about it after the meal.
Horeca United verzamelingsactie
Gezien hoe onze huidige arbeidsconflict tegen Haagse koffiezaak Lupi Coffee geëscaleerd heeft moeten wij een verzamelingsactie houden. Onbetaald werk, onderbetaalde personeel, intimidatie: deze zaak heeft zijn personeel verschrikkelijk mishandeld. Nu kiest de baas voor intimidatie door ons voor de rechter gooien. Kom ons steunen, en laat de baas weten dat wij werkende mensen samen sterk staan! Omdat wij een horeca vakbond zijn zijn de meeste van onze bezigste leden koks en chef-koks dus we bieden een hoge standaard aan.
Onze zaak is ook door BOOS opgepakt dus we zullen hun episode erover tonen na het diner.
Lupi Coffee baristas share their stories https://horeca-united.nl/news/lupi-coffee-baristas-share-their-stories/
Lupi Workers Fighting Against Self-absorbed Boss! https://horeca-united.nl/news/new-campaign-lupi-workers-fighting-against-self-absorbed-boss/
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.
Sunday 15 October 2023, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: NOLA DARLING 1986 * Spike Lee * 82 minutes * In English * Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.
Maybe the best feature film by Spike Lee is the one he made at the very beginning, the one that has been kind of dumped, left behind and forgotten about. The one before he started getting more money, and before he started doing the Hollywood shtick (שטיק). In a sense, it is an ode to the spirit of women, and the right for a woman to own her own body and decide her own fate.
The main character of this movie is Nola Darling, who has an ongoing relationship with three different men. It must’ve been almost impossible to find an unknown actress that would be able to handle a role like this, and Tracy Camilla Johns absolutely sparkles in an incredibly naturalistic way. This being a Spike Lee joint means that it is also about urban black culture, but that is actually in the background in relation to the film’s real focus – Nola Darling’s struggle for autonomy. It’s a surprisingly playful film, not only in its content, but also in its style and structure. Like I said, this was made before Spike went straight. Having said that, there is one sensitive scene that was rushed through insensitively, and Lee says in hindsight he regrets it. Once again, the great thing about these community cinemas is that it gives us the opportunity to discuss these issues after the screening.
It was shot in shimmering black-and-white, and there is a kind of lush sensuality in its camerawork, giving respect to the human body in ways that we don’t see in cinema much these days. It keeps its rough edges and is leagues away from a glossy CGI’d, photoshopped look, offering us a great alternative to the Barbie sham that is being hyped at the moment. This first film by Spike Lee was considered to be groundbreaking when it came out and a triumph of independent cinema, but for years now it’s been almost impossible to see. It’s snappy, clever, charming, and creative, but it’s Tracy Camilla Johns’ disarming performance as Nola that ignites the entire project and sets it ablaze.
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
Monday 9 October 2023, Voku for Piepend en Krakend. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Come eat some sexy noodles cooked by feminists who got their funds saved by Piepend en Krakend. In order to continue the fight, all the proceeds of this voku will go to the fund of Piepend en Krakend so we can continue to defend our housing and our social spaces!
AFGA (Anarcha Feminist Group Amsterdam) squatted Kanaalstraat 128 in May 2023 after been vacant since at least 2017: “our newly opened house and social space, by anarcha-feminists for anarcha-feminists. We squatted this house, abandoned for multiple years, for multiple reasons: Villa Mina is now AFGA’s own social space. We can organize there anarchist, feminist and queer events in accordance with our values. The house only houses women and gender minorities out of a depressive reason: this demographic is deeply affected by the housing crisis in an often invisible way. We are more likely to stay in dangerous and dependent situations rather than to choose to end up on the streets, where the risk of sexist and sexual violence is almost 100%. Squatting for women and gender minorities is not a new phenomena, it was also an important feminist tool in the 70s-80s in Amsterdam. We are looking forward to improve the house, the social space and of course to open new houses for this cause.”
https://squ.at/afga
https://afga.neocities.org/manifesto/
https://en.squat.net/tag/anarcha-feminist-group-amsterdam/
https://afga.noblogs.org/
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.
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