Benefit voku for Jorge Esquivel, punk prisoner in Mexico

By: börek - June 1st, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 1st june 2023, Benefit voku for Jorge Esquivel, punk prisoner in Mexico. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Call for solidarity with Jorge Esquivel, punk prisoner in Mexico

Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel is a beloved compañero of the punk community, and a long-time participant of the Okupa Che Guevara. He was arrested on December 8, 2022 by plainclothes police as he was leaving the campus of the Ciudad Universitaria (of the UNAM university) in Mexico City as part of a campaign of criminalization against the Okupa.

BACKGROUND

On February 24, 2016, an operative was carried out in which plainclothes policemen arbitrarily detained him, “planting” drugs on him in order to fabricate crimes against him. The whole case was plagued with irregularities. He was transferred to Oaxaca and then to a maximum security prison in Hermosillo. The authorities used this strategy under the supposition that the distance would hinder his legal defense, but even so, thanks to the solidarity and legal work, he was reclassified from the crime of drug dealing to simple possession of narcotics, so he was released on bail in March 2016.

Jorge decided not to continue with the legal process due to the fabricated charges case against him and the climate of repression towards the Okupa. In the meantime, the frame-up continued to be put together. Constant threats and journalistic reports did not cease; the press even took him for dead and accused him of participating in organized crime.

On December 9, 2022 he was arrested in exactly the same place – a few steps outside Ciudad Universitaria, where the Okupa is located and again by plainclothes police – with the grounds for this illegal detention being that the Attorney General’s Office appealed the decision to reclassify the crime.

The compañero’s health is fragile due to an extended hospitalization a couple years back and more recent bouts with different illnesses.

CURRENT SITUATION

Jorge is currently incarcerated in the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City, where he was recently transferred from the observation and classification area to the general prison population area. For nearly three months he was unable to receive visits other than from his lawyers, but he had his first authorized visit on March 5.

The legal process is in the evidence stage. The Attorney General’s evidence includes the testimony of the police officers who detained Jorge; one of them is deceased and the other has not been located. Due to this, the hearing scheduled for February 17, 2023 did not take place and a date was set for April 14.

On behalf of the legal team that has been working in solidarity to defend Jorge, two expert reports will be presented by an external expert (called a perito in Mexico), one in dactyloscopy to prove that the packages of narcotics were never touched by Jorge, and another one in criminalistics. These expert reports will be presented once the hearing is held on April

Thanks to the solidarity of individuals, collectives and networks, it has been possible to cover Jorge’s expenses inside the prison, which have been very high due to the blatant corruption that reigns in Mexican prisons run by mafia groups that charge prisoners for everything from use of the bathroom to water, electricity, even the cell they are held in. So in addition to Jorge’s costs in prison and other legal fees related to the case, we call upon the solidarity of our friends and compañerxs around the world to help us in supporting our compañero Yorch.

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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Benefit Voku for Mapuche Community “Lof Buchile/Oyarzo- Calfú”

By: börek - May 28th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 29 may 2023, Benefit Voku for Mapuche Community “Lof Buchile/Oyarzo- Calfú” in El Bolson- Patagonia. The anti-authoritarian collective Ajo Negro is cooking, food served from 7pm, no reservation.

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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Benefit Voku for the Future 2

By: börek - May 25th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 25 May 2023, Benefit Voku for the Future 2. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

In support of the future and the quest to save the timeline, we are cooking at Joe’s Garage to support a group of undercover time travellers.

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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Squatter’s Legal Defence Fund benefit voku. El Mo Collective: World Music Open Mic

By: börek - May 15th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 18 May 2023, Squatter’s Legal Defence Fund benefit voku. El Mo Collective: World Music Open Mic. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 9pm.

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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Benefit for Emergency support to Sudanese Families. Performance by Jessie Nokes

By: börek - May 9th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 11 May 2023, Benefit for Emergency support to Sudanese Families. Performance by Jessie Nokes. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.


Since 15 April, armed clashes of extreme violence have erupted in Sudan, first in Khartoum and then in peripheral areas, particularly Darfur. Two powerful armies, the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) and the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) clashed relentlessly with heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. The civilian population is paying the price: deaths, injuries, lack of water, electricity and food, destroyed hospitals and infrastructure, looting and exodus.
The two armies that are now fighting, SAF and RSF, were before good allies against the civilian forces and the revolutionary movement that obtained in 2019 the fall of the Islamist regime, they were the authors of the coup d’état of October 25, 2021 and the repression that followed it, they were also legitimized and supported by Western and regional powers, their diplomacy and the fruitless negotiations of the UN.
The Resistance Committees, pillars of the Revolution since 2019, are continuing their efforts to support and coordinate the population in the affected neighborhoods: they inform the places of confrontation, the points of distribution of water and bread or the care of the wounded, they take care of identifying the dead and missing, they make the solidarity networks on the spot more effective. This ongoing war is not theirs, and as they say, “Fighting between generals is not our fight.”
Presented by the media as yet another confrontation between African generals thirsty for power and hostile to democracy, reduced to the problem of a “humanitarian crisis”, this civil war is also the fruit of imperialist and colonial violence imposed on the countries of the South by the supporters of the economic and political world order, who tremble when the peoples revolt.

The anti-authoritarian collective Ajo Negro is cooking at Joe’s Garage. Come to eat delicious vegan food! Some of our comrades from Sudan, who are currently stucked without papers in Europe, lost part of their families in the current clashes in Sudan. We now try to organize some emergency support for their families in order to cover most immediate needs – whatever they may be – and then see if and in what way we can support with more long-term support. This message goes out to whomever can financially contribute – every contribution is of great help! Also any other ideas or means of support are welcome, of course.

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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Benefit Voku for Yemeni Worker

By: börek - May 6th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 8 May 2023, Benefit Voku for Yemeni Worker. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Kais is a tour guide in Saan’a, the capital of Yemen. He is the subject of Sean McAllister’s documentary The Reluctant Revolutionary, screening in Filmhuis Cavia on Fri May 5th https://www.filmhuiscavia.nl/programma/sean-mcallister-screenings.
Due to the political situation in Yemen, Kais has largely been put out of business and is struggling financially to meet basic needs, and provide for himself and his family. Sean McAllister will be present at the Voku to talk about his follow up film with Kais, and share Kais’s story in an attempt to provide insight into the situation in Yemen. All money from the Voku will go towards Kais to help during this difficult time.

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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Lesvos Mutual Aid & Solidarity Network Soli Brunch on the Steve Bikoplein

By: börek - May 3rd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Sunday 7 May 2023, Lesvos Mutual Aid & Solidarity Network Soli Brunch. Event will take place on the Steve Bikoplein, from 14:00 to 17:00. Come along to eat something, support people in Lesvos, meet us and play ping-pong, basket ball, play chess… In case of bad weather, event will move inside Joe’s Garage.

Lesvos Mutual Aid & Solidarity Network, “a network of comrades and friends active on the Greek island of Lesvos, with ties to collectives and movements that span the globe. We work to build relationships with people on the island, abolishing dominant norms/hierarchies and the socially constructed boundaries between our communities.
As a part of the broader anti-authoritarian movement, we condemn any and all fascist, sexist and racist behavior. We function through our assemblies, where we discuss topics, collectively take decisions and plan actions. We created an environment based on mutual respect where everyone can take part in equal terms, each according to their ability, each according to their needs. Our actions can vary depending on the needs we encounter and the dynamics of the group. We cooperate only with other self-organized structures, like “Women in Solidarity House”, “No Border Kitchen”, “Binio Squat” and other individuals that are active on the ground.
We as anarchists believe in solidarity that comes from the base and stand side by side with people in need, regardless of whether they come from another country, their age, class, ability, gender, the color of their skin or their sexuality. Here on Lesvos, we participate in multiple initiatives on the ground, all grounded in principles of antiracism, anti-authoritarianism, self-organization and mutual aid, each tackling different aspects of this common struggle.”

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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No Borders No CPR!

By: börek - May 3rd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 4 May 2023, Benefit voku – No Borders No CPR! Support activists fighting CPRs and supporting refugees in southern Italy. They are facing charges and being criminalized for showing solidarity, and benefits will help support their legal costs. We will have a video call with the activists. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.


THE CPR
CPR, TEMPORARY RECEPTION CENTRE
They were born with the aim of locking up non-EU people waiting to be deported from Italian territory because of the expulsion act ordered by authorities or also because they haven’t a valid residence permit (for example even if they’ve never had it, if they haven’t renovated in time etc….).

THE CPRS ARE AT THE TOP OF THE BLACKMAIL AND REPRESSIVE SYSTEM AGAINST WHO IS JURIDICALLY A NON-EU CITIZEN, AND ARE DESIGNED TO SCARE, THREATEN, IMPRISON AND EXPEL.
The conditions of reclusion are terrible, the buildings are often in decay; it’s hot in the summer, it’s very cold in the winter. The sections are made up of shacks separated by containment fences and inadequate sanitary facilities. Furthermore, “prisoners” complain about expired or badly preserved food and that it is served by external food services.

THE ABUSES AND VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY “JAILORS” ARE CONSTANT AND THEY GO AS FAR AS FORCING LARGE DOSES OF SEDATIVES TO ANNIHILATE THE PRISONERS.
During the years, there were a lot of episodes of rebellion, of evasions/breakouts and riots carried out by the men themselves inside (most of these ‘centers’ host only men), no longer willing to tolerate these awful life conditions. In some cases, the revolts have brought the shutting down of several of these lager.

IN BASILICATA THERE IS A CPR IN PALAZZO SAN GERVASIO (PZ). IT’S A NON-PLACE FAR FROM INDISCREET EYES, WHERE VIOLENCE AND ABUSES TAKE PLACE CONTINUOUSLY; A DETENTION FACILITY THAT WAS CLOSED MANY TIMES, BUT IT’S NOW OPEN, AND THAT WAS CALLED THE “ITALIAN GUANTANAMO”.
After some demonstrations that took place out of those oppressive walls, in solidarity with the guys inside, today some people are facing criminal charges with the accusation of “incitement”. It’s a false and prosecutorial charge, racist and shameful. This is a narration that tend to criminalize the people who show solidarity with the “detainees”, who try to break the wall of silence and want to tell about these conditions.
This narration infantilize the people inside and it doesn’t even consider them able to understand the shit that is coming their way. It also wants to say that the push to rebel is not born from their daily life conditions, from the violence, abuses of power and abuses in general; nor from the knowledge that it happens also in other centers everywhere, but because someone from the outside explain them “how life works”.

THE CPRS MUST NOT EXIST AND THEY ALL MUST BE CLOSED RIGHT NOW!

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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