Monday March 17, 2025, Voku for family Baroud in Gaza and a special surprise performance. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
This Jungo Life (David Fedele, 2024)
Sunday March 16, 2025, This Jungo Life, a film by David Fedele and the Jungo of Rabat * 2024 * 78 minutes * with English subtitles * door opens at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30 * free entrance.
This Jungo Life, a film by David Fedele and the Jungo of Rabat * 2024 * 78 minutes * with English subtitles. Door opens at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30 * free entrance
This Jungo Life is a collaboration between filmmaker David Fedele, and a group of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, who are living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco. They call themselves “Jungo” – A name traditionally given to seasonal agricultural workers from Sudan, which is now also adopted by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the road. Most have arrived in Morocco since 2020, forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. They are drawn to the capital city of Rabat, seeking to claim asylum with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and be granted refugee status. Most also dream of entering Europe, crossing the heavily militarised fences into the Spanish cities of Sebta (Ceuta) or Melilla, European enclaves on the African continent. This Jungo Life seeks to tell their story from the inside …. unfiltered, with authenticity and without sensationalism. A story of resilience in the face of suffering.
Synopsis – This Jungo Life takes us inside the lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan, living on the streets of Morocco. This Jungo Life takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco; forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. Produced in collaboration with the refugees themselves, and filmed entirely using mobile phones, this film offers unique and intimate access, providing a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human spirit and innate drive for survival, as they fight for a better life for themselves and the families they left behind.
This Jungo Life is filmmaker David Fedele’s third in a trilogy of films exploring issues related to refugees, asylum seekers and migration between the African and European continents. Like all of David’s previous films, This Jungo Life has been independently produced and self-funded, outside the system of conventional film production and funding.
https://thisjungolife.com/
https://david-fedele.com/ […Lees verder]
Radical Sunday School: Who is making America “healthy” again?
Sunday March 16, 2025, Radical Sunday School: Who is making America “healthy” again? From 18:00 till 20:00.
Since last November, global media is dominated by discussions on Trump’s second term and what it means for all of us. However, next to MAGA, a new movement emerged: MAHA, meaning Make America Healthy Again, led by Trump’s new minister of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK Jr. has been known for his questionable statements on vaccines, but many people, especially women and mothers, have high hopes that he will regulate large pharmaceutical, agricultural, and food companies, in order to make healthier lifestyles more accessible to Americans. The health and food industries are heavily criticised by the Left, too, especially in the US, however, it is RFK Jr., who has the opportunity to tackle the issues caused by these companies during the next four years. Doctors have been warning the public for the past few months about the new health minister’s potential agenda, especially with regards to vaccines, but only time will tell whether he leads the country into a public health crisis, or, for example, focus on improving the quality of food.
This Sunday, we will discuss why MAHA became popular, particularly among women and mothers, and what we can learn from this phenomenon.
Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/
Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music
Friday March 14, 2025, 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
Solidarity VoKu for AstaroTheatro, Participatory and Community Theatre
Thursday March 13, 2025, Solidarity VoKu for Participatory and Community Theatre. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Theatre as community experience, as a way to create awareness and support activism has been for years at the center of AstaroTheatro’s practice.
Various communities and collectives operate inside her space in a full participatory and grassroots way, challenging corporate mediocrity and creating truly authentic narratives and contra-culture in the context of defining political theatre.
This voku aims at supporting part of the current productions of our participatory theatre. AstaroTheatro is and will always be donation-based, but the costs and the financial challenges of our shared space are conspicuous. By coming and share a meal with us, you support our communities. Thank you!
AstaroTheatro, Sint Jansstraat 37, Amsterdam https://astarotheatro.com/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/astarotheatro […Lees verder]
Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop – vol 1
Wednesday March 12, 2025, Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop (vol 1). Door opens at 18:00.
We are going to to show you the opensource synth “surge-xt” at its basics and share some presets with you. 
Bring your laptop with your favorite daw, a pair of headphones and we will install it and make sound presets together. At the end of the session we are going to share with each other sounds and we are going to create a proxycafe sound pack! See you then and bring your music nerd friends!
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/
Mn’Fa Queer Collective Fundraiser
Monday March 10, 2025, Mn’Fa Queer Collective Fundraiser. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Mn’Fa is a non-hierarchical collective of queer migrants and allies. We will make our first fundraiser on Mon. 10th March to raise funds for future events, support networks and mutual aid structures for queer refugees and undocumented people navigating the racist and queerphobic processes of the IND and COA.
Mn’Fa collective https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/mnfa-collective […Lees verder]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Stars of the Roller State Disco (Alan Clarke, 1984)
Sunday March 9, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984) * Directed by Alan Clarke * 72 minutes * In English * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.
Back in England in 1984 there was a Prime Minister named Margaret Thatcher, who hurled the country into a dismal neo-liberal world, and attempted to make everybody into an entrepreneur. Those that didn’t fit in and couldn’t stand on their own feet were heavily attacked. Especially young people and minorities were the targets of her clampdown. Within that context this flick was televised, made by the maverick British filmmaker David Clarke. He was a maverick director of several of the most offbeat movies to come out of England during the 70s and 80s. This one is an oddball sci-fi dystopian movie about youth unemployment and how neoliberalism doesn’t only use police with clubs to beat people down – but also mindless entertainment.
Don’t look for any long-winded explanations or science-fiction gadgets in this movie – this is about a mood, and director Clarke simply throws this in the middle of it, and lets us contemplate the situation. In this future dystopia the unemployed youth are sent to a roller rink where they just rollerskate, going around in circles endlessly. There are distractions for them, a hermetic environment of junk food, junk entertainment, and sex. A movie like this shows how even something like sex can be hollowed out and exploited as a means of control. Around the time this film was made, many people were questioning the music industry and exposing the fake rebellion of rock music. I remember a punk band called the Poison Girls that knocked out the lyrics: “State control, and rock ‘n’ roll, are run by clever men…”
This movie is surreal, but not in a spectacular way… it’s a surrealism that has become a deadly routine reality. And for me, real science fiction isn’t about drama and huge special effects, but about the pettiness and dullness of a future that is becoming very real. The same unspectacularity goes with the acting and the video quality of the images – they’re all unpolished and they’re not meant to look like advertisements. Remember, this movie is a dystopian nightmare, but at the same time it would probably fit into our society today. It’s a movie about rigged games, and the cancelling of alternatives.
Even though Alan Clarke has become recognised as a beloved cult filmmaker over the years, this particular flick remains an outlier and is rarely ever seen.
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
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