Antichrist(mas) – Fuck your Hallmark Holiday VoKu

Wednesday December 25, 2024, Antichrist(mas) – Fuck your Hallmark Holiday VoKu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Another year of manufactured cheer, another season of capitalist ritual.
No more capitalist spectacle. No more lonely Christmas.
Are you alone this Christmas? Abandoned by a system that commodifies connection? Estranged from family structures that never truly supported you? Feeling the cold isolation engineered by neoliberal economies that strip away genuine human solidarity?
Tonight we cook together.
Bodies moving. Hands chopping. Strangers becoming community.
Reject the system that keeps us divided. Reclaim connection through collective cooking.
Everyone is welcome to cook, eat, clean or have fun. No hierarchy or religion. Just solidarity.
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Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]

Monday December 23, 2024, Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This evening, we come together to cook, eat and raise money to support Solidarity Collectives, a group of Ukrainian anarchists fighting against the Russian invasion.
This is a SOBER EVENT, meaning we will have an alcohol/smoke-free evening. Please smoke on Steve Bikoplein if you need to smoke!
Solidarity Collectives: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/ […Lees verder]

Benefit No Border Kitchen and Announcement Documentary Screening by ZZW & friends

Monday December 16, 2024, Benefit No Border Kitchen and announcement documentary screening by ZZW & friends. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

This Voku was initiated as a supporting event for the Sunday screening of the documentary “De Zinkende Rafelrand” by Mirte Jepma, Alberto Morbelli, Benjamin Vanderveen, and Marijn van der Eyden, which will be shown at Joe’s on Sunday December the 29th. The film deals with the pending eviction of the Neighborhood “Baaibuurt West” in Amsterdam, an undefined space that has naturally grown and developed over the past 40 years and is home to several individual communities, big and small, many plant and animal species, and plenty of free birds. The purpose of the Voku is to get together, have some good food, and possibly tell some stories about our part of this city which we’ll have to leave behind on December 31st. All profits will be donated to No Border Kitchen.

Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand […Lees verder]

Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies

Thursday December 12, 2024, Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Gira Holanda warmly invites you to this benefit voku. We will share this meal in solidarity with our comrades from Perú, in the region of Cajamarca, who are and have been resisting for years against the violence of mining companies, such as Goldcorp and Newmont. These corporations seek to profit from the land and water of local communities, extracting gold and other minerals from the Andean mountains, leaving behind holes on the earth, desertified soil, and polluted water and wind.
With this dinner we aim to provide a little financial help to our comrades who are resisting there, and who have had to flee to Europe to protect themselves, and to create a little moment of awareness of the violence that mining involves. Mining for our technologies and our luxury in the “Global North”.

¡AGUA SÍ, ORO NO!
WATER YES, GOLD NOT!. […Lees verder]

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Solidarity Voku for Palestinian Family in Gaza

Monday December 9, 2024, Solidarity Voku for Palestinian Family in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Join us for our Voku raising funds for our friend’s family’s GoFund Me to flee the Zionist genocide in Gaza. Their story can be found here: Fundraiser by Talat and Fadwa Hussein : Help my family get out of the scourge of war in Gaza. […Lees verder]

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Benefit voku for Street Aid Daily Odesa, Ukraine

Thursday December 5, 2024, Benefit voku for Street Aid Daily Odesa, Ukraine. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit for Street Aid Daily, a collective that provides direct aid/mutual aid and political education in Odesa, Ukraine. Street Aid Daily (САД/SAD) is a leftist outreach collective helping homeless people in Odesa. SAD is employing intersectional lens in talking about homelessness, taking in account class, gender and race of the people they’re reaching out to. This allows them to develop more ethical and non-hierarchical approach in helping homeless people. Their approach is “Solidarity, not charity”. […Lees verder]

Solidarity Voku for squatted Prosfygika in Athens

Thursday November 28, 2024, Solidarity Voku for squatted Prosfygika in Athens. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Fundraiser for the community of squatted Prosfygika in Athens
The Community – The building complex of Prosfygika was built in 1933 to accommodate refugees from Asia Minor. Thus, in these circumstances, a lively neighbourhood 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; the bullet marks can be seen on the facades of the buildings to this day, as well as the guerrilla monument which has been erected on the front of Prosfygika and reminds us daily of the history of the place. Today, it is one of the largest building complexes in the centre of Athens, which has not yet accepted the gentrification and exploitation that comes from big capital and the state apparatus. It is a place of strategic importance since it is located between two pillars of power – on one side the Supreme Court and on the other the General Police Directorate of Attica.
Find more info on their website: https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/english/the-community/

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.

SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit voku for a Trans Queer Refugee’s Legal Expenses

Monday November 25, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit voku for a Trans Queer Refugee’s Legal Expenses. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This Voku is brought to you by SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity). On this Monday, we will cook a vegan three-course meal from rescued ingredients and raise money for the legal expenses of a trans queer refugee in the Netherlands.
R. is a 21 year-old immigrant trans woman from Azerbaijan, currently facing a terrible situation of systemic injustice and she’s in urgent need of help! She’s been living in the Netherlands from 3 years, where she’s been finally free to express her gender identity, but her Visa to stay in the EU is about to expire and she needs to face very high legal expenses in order to not get deported, risking her life back home. Her situation back home is extremely terrifying and unsafe: that’s why she needs to try her best to stay safe here in EU, navigating tons of bureaucracy and paperwork with the help of skilled lawyers. Our goal is to raise money to be able to pay immigration lawyers and for applying to the paperwork needed to not get her deported.
Azerbaijan is an extremely unsafe place for queer and trans individuals: ILGA-Europe has ranked the country as the worst state (49 out of 49) in Europe for LGBTQ+ folks, not only for its total absence of legal protection, but also for the active violence enforced by the state on trans people, which targets and persecutes and blackmails queer folks. Beside the terrible state repression, queer and trans people face every single day high rates of physical violence, harassment and discrimination.
The system we live in makes refugees’ and trans people’s lives impossible: no one should go through this just because they’re born in a certain country, or they’re queer.
SKRAPS ((Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity) : https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/skraps-solidarity-kitchen […Lees verder]