Benefit Voku for imprisoned comrade Akis. D

By: börek - April 15th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday April 20, 2026, Benefit Voku for imprisoned comrade Akis. D. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

A few words from Akis. D about his persecution and imprisonment in Greece:

At the same time when the domestic neoliberal road-roller of modern totalitarianism flattens any resistance on all fronts, displaces people from their first homes on behalf of foreign funds and banks, fragments our personal and comradely relationships, crushes any labour gains that have been won through struggles and blood, beats and tortures fighters and activists who participate in class and social struggles, slashes salaries and pensions so that the money does not even reach half of the month, actively participates in the genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people by providing military bases and logistical equipment, covers up the state crime with the 57 dead in Tempi and eliminating any scandal that appears in the spotlight.
Amidst all this mess of events, today, 20/11/2025, I was sentenced by the three-member judicial panel to 5 years in prison and a fine of 2,100 euros. In a sham trial, I was faced with a rotten and fabricated indictment, cut and sewn by the state garbage of the Hellenic Police, which concerns my alleged involvement in the attack that took place on 14/02/2025 in the Western Attica Region.
The charges against me are the following: damage to buildings and public property, violence against employees, attempt to cause serious bodily harm, illegal carrying of a weapon, use of a weapon.
From the state’s perspective, walking a random night within a short distance of your home is a criminal offense to the extent that you are now tried, convicted and end up in a domestic penitentiary institution. Obviously, the reason I was targeted and am currently locked up in state cages is my uncompromising and continuous participation in workers’ and people’s struggles, always having as my life stance the just struggle against a rotten and corrupt capitalist system. From the first moment of my arrest, I denied the accusations they are making against me. Accusations that in no case are based on reality. Accusations that create a fabricated truth based on distortion and lies. At the same time, websites and television stations known for their “ethics” and “validity” were trumpeting inaccuracies with the sole purpose of targeting and persecuting me in those days, as well as the police’s invasion of my home a few hours later, even confiscating political printed matter and posters.

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ALL CELLS
IN THE END WE WILL WIN
SOUL DEEP
AKIS D. […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for Greek anarchist legal cost

By: börek - April 14th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday April 16, 2026, Benefit Voku for Greek anarchist legal cost. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Chronicle of the prosecution

On March 8th and 9th 2020, after a state security operation three male and one female comrade are arrested. Τhe authorities’ sole piece of evidence was two cops having ‘visually’ identified the first arrested person on a video of the attack against the Mitsotakis* Foundation. The other three were arrested due to their friendly and comrade relationships. They now find themselves charged with an enormous case file which includes 55 attacks.

Based on the anti-terrorist Act 187A, they are charged with setting up and participating in an alleged terrorist organization under the name of “comrades” . The authorities are prosecuting the comrades based on attacks, actions and public addresses uploaded on counter-information platforms which had been signed using the term “comrades”. In this way, the police are attempting to bring any political action signed by “comrades” together under the umbrella of a collective terrorist organization.

A few words on the construct of the organization “comrades”, from the statement of the prosecuted female comrade in May 2020: /… / Behold then, the State, in its attempt to sell the ideological construct of “war against terrorism” fabricating organizations. They claim the terrorist organization they created by the name “comrades” to be a group that has acted since 2016 up to the present carrying out attacks in Athens. This reasoning goes beyond normality or reality in a way that can only be called ridiculous. In fact, the name of this infamous organization is but a sign-off used by the broader spectrum of anarchist/ anti authoritarian groups for many years now. It was used, it is still being used and it will continue to be used. Anyone who searches can find hundreds of texts bearing the said signature all over Greece, most probably even abroad. This new stratagem, the use, that is, of a broader signature and its conversion into the name of a terrorist organization, is unprecedented and its only aim can be to “lump” together […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for Schagerlaan Squats

By: börek - April 11th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday April 13, 2026, Benefit Voku for Schagerlaan Squats . Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Krakers en huurders tegen lege huizen. Liever laagbouw social dan dure torens.

There are two squatted houses on Schagerlaan owned by Eigen Haard near by Amstel station where high towers keep mushrooming out of the ground. The first Schagerlaan squat was open in October 2025, the second one a month later.

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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Voku for the global Palestine benefit weekend

By: börek - April 7th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday April 9, 2026, Voku for the global Palestine benefit weekend. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

On the coming weekend 9.-11th of April we are organizing a global Palestine benefit day. We are collecting money for communities in Masafer Yata, which is a collection of 19 villages in the West Bank, south of Hebron. These villages get constantly attacked by settlers and army, and as we see every day more people attacked, villages burnt and people being left with nothing, the situation is clearly getting worse and worse and we see it as an emergency to collect as much money as possible so those communities are able to recover and rebuild what is taken from them by the Israeli occupation. Our idea was to contact people who organize events in as many cities as possible and have them create any sort of benefit event that they see fitting for the cause (gig, soli party, soli dinner etc). we will create a flyer that contains every city where the events take place to hopefully receive more attention to the events. The money will be taken by us physically to the West Bank.

Amsterdam is going to be joining this weekend with a Classic Voku at Joe’s Garage on the 9th so this week Thursday! So come eat delicious vegan food for a very urgent cause <3 After food there will also be a talk or maybe even a discussion about the topic so feel free to join just for that as well! […Lees verder]

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Voku for Ghazal House

By: börek - April 2nd, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday April 6, 2026, Voku for Ghazal House. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Our squatted house needs support as we build rooms and improve the situation of the building after years of neglect. see you there,) […Lees verder]

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Benefit voku for Prosfygika, bluegrass folk live with Sherman Potatoe en Thijs Vrolijk

By: börek - March 22nd, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 30, 2026, Benefit voku for Prosfygika, bluegrass folk live with Sherman Potatoe en Thijs Vrolijk. Vegan food from 19:00, no reservation. Music on the stage from 20:30. Free entrance, donations more than welcome.

We’ll off course update you about the current situation at Prosfygika and in Athens. We’ll also have live music on the stage with two solo acts touring soup kitchens around the Netherlands. Get ready for Sherman potatoe (Blue Grass hillbilly folk, Hannover https://shermanpotatoe.bandcamp.com ) and Thijs Vrolijk (Americana Blue Grass, Groningen).

The neighborhood of Prosfygika was built in 1933 to accommodate refugees from Asia Minor. A lively neighborhood with community characteristics was established, consisting mostly of working class people. In 1944, the anti-fascist partisans used Prosfygika as a shelter against the Greek and British state army. After years of abandonment, Prosfygika has been increasingly reclaiming its original purpose as many refugees, migrants, poor, Greek and foreigner working class people have sought to resolve their need for housing by squatting the empty flats. Today, it is one of the largest building complexes in the center of Athens, which has not yet accepted the gentrification and exploitation that comes from big capital and the state apparatus. During the last decade, there were fourth attempts to evict and plunder the squatted neighborhood. In 2026, Prosfygika is more than ever under the threat of repression and eviction, the State not hiding any more its intention to take over Prosfygika, evicting a few hundreds of people.
Hands off Prosfygika! The Community of Squatted Prosfygika will not let Mitsotakis and his gang of thieves destroy such a monumental neighborhood. The whole movement is already mobilized and has announced fierce resistance.
https://en.squat.net/tag/prosfygika/
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/
https://joesgarage.nl/archives/tag/prosfygika […Lees verder]

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Cooks for Books: Chaos Kitchen Voku for Feminist Library Noord

By: börek - March 22nd, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday March 26, 2025, Cooks for Books: Chaos Kitchen Voku for Feminist Library Noord. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Feminist Library and Chaos Kitchen are coming together for our first VoKu in our Cooks for Books series, raising money for new books for our ever-evolving library at Het Groeneveld, ADM.
If you don’t know us yet, the Feminist Library is an anti-imperialist, anticolonial, antiracist feminist library that understands feminism as a project for the liberation of all. Everyone is welcome. Our collection spans fiction and non-fiction, theory and practice, art and photography, children’s books and zines. We collect work on liberation movements, Black and queer activism, Indigenous knowledges, feminist Marxism, lesbian and trans histories, abolitionism, ecology, feminist art, and embodiment and health. At the moment, our books are in Dutch and English, but we hope to keep growing and diversifying.
Because a library like this can never be complete, we’re hosting Cooks for Books VoKu nights to raise funds to expand the collection. During the meal, we’ll pass around a suggestion box where you can tell us what you would like to read and what you think should be part of a public collection for the city of Amsterdam.
Feminist Library Noord https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/feminist-library-noord
[…Lees verder]

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Benefit for renovations of PS43 building

By: börek - March 22nd, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 23, 2026, Benefit for renovations of PS43 building. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit for much needed renovations of PS43, the home that houses Joe’s garage. Pretoriusstraat 43, home of Joe’s Garage on the ground floor, an house of many people over the past 20 years on the floors above. The building was squatted over 20 years ago, and was transformed from empty neglected dump into the beautiful living space that is now one of the oldest squats in the city… and this is beginning to show… The building is old and in need of maintenance. Last year we started repairing windows and window frames, and will continue these works and more sometime this spring. Do you want to help? You are all very welcome to come and eat, drink, socialise and give us money. […Lees verder]

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