Solidarity Week with Ukraine – Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives + screening: “Where Russia Ends” (Oleksiy Radynski, 2024)

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, February 24 – March 3, 2025

Monday March 3, 2025,Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives & screening of “Where Russia Ends” by Oleksiy Radynski (2024). Volkseten Vegazulu, food served from 7pm, no reservation. Movie from 21:30.

Solidarity Collectives call out: As we enter the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the urgency to act has never been greater. The situation grows increasingly dire, with the toll of the war deepening both on the battlefield and within the fabric of Ukrainian society. So today we need your voices, your solidarity, and your actions to amplify our actions for justice and resistance.

From 24 February we call on all our friends, partners and all anti-authoritarian groups in all parts of the world for a week of action! We encourage you to organise rallies, fundraisers, and public events that draw attention to the Ukrainian resistance struggle against Russian imperialism. Whether it’s a public demonstration, a direct action (the case of squatting in a Russian oligarch’s mansion inspires us), a music concert, a movie screening or an art exhibition, a fundraising campaign or a panel discussion, your efforts are vital to keep Ukrainians’ struggle visible and supported. The topic of the Russian shadow fleet and its environmental impact or international security challenges could be topics of such discussions. You could paint graffiti in the street of your city and send us a picture of it or even make a series of photos. We would be grateful for any kind of participation.

The alarming rise of far-right movements around the world demands that we stand together to counter these forces to fight imperialism and oppression. Supporting Ukrainians fighting Russian imperialism should be one of the priorities of the anti-authoritarian movement, and this goes hand in hand with supporting all refugees and immigrants in the West.

We believe that we should exchange practices and ideas internationally in order to develop our common struggles. And our team is ready to participate in your events, exchange knowledge, discuss difficult issues and assist in any way we can to make your initiatives impactful. Together, we can build a global network of solidarity that echoes beyond borders and languages.

Where Russia Ends by Oleksiy Radynski – Ukraine | 2023 | Short film / Documentary | 25’
In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film rolls were rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This fascinating archive is the starting point for a cinematic essay that addresses Russian imperialism, the exploitation of raw materials, environmental destruction, and the ongoing oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples in the remote areas of Siberia.

Solidarity Collectives
https://radar.squat.net/en/solidarity-collectives
https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/ […Lees verder]

SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit Voku for a Soup Kitchen in Khartoum

Thursday February 27, 2025, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit Voku for a Soup Kitchen in Khartoum. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), a cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, and by that showing solidarity with national and international resistance initiatives.
On this Thursday, we are cooking a wonderful three-course vegan meal from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, once again raising money for a local soup kitchen in Khartoum, Sudan.
After over a year of war in Sudan, the living conditions are worsening and there is a lack of electricity, clean water, and food. Today, 18 million people in Sudan face acute hunger. The lower agricultural production due to the war led to soaring prices for food and the ongoing fighting makes it difficult to fetch supplies. The situation in the capital Khartoum and the neighboring city of Omdurman is especially difficult. There, local initiatives for soup kitchens have emerged in different neighborhoods. The Sudanese organization “Hadhreen” together with the Dutch organization “Onderwijs Oost Afrika” is running such a soup kitchen in the Elrayan School, where people are being served their only meal of the day, which helps them survive.
SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity) : https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/skraps-solidarity-kitchen […Lees verder]

Voku for student activist organization ROSA

Monday February 24, 2025, Voku for student activist organization ROSA. Volkseten Vegazulu. 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.

Benefit dinner to support the Barrio Bravo popular autonomous gym project

Thursday February 20, 2025, Benefit dinner to support the Barrio Bravo popular autonomous gym and its future sport climbing wall. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Barrio Bravo Popular Autonomous Gymnasium is located in the Cuxtitali neighborhood, on the eastern part of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Cuxtitali is one of the oldest neighborhoods, founded by the first indigenous settlers used by the conquistadores for the construction of the city. For always maintaining its own identity and an attitude of community self-care, it has long been called “Barrio Bravo” (Untamed District). A legacy of that old pride continues today and is expressed in the popular cultural manifestations of the neighborhood, in the community self-management of the drinking water source and in the struggle to defend the territory and forests that surround this area. Despite its extraordinary example of popular organization for the urban context of San Cristóbal, the neighborhood of Cuxtitali encounters the social difficulties characteristic of the Chiapas context, marked by historical structural inequities: low wages, low schooling, insecurity, exploitation of its people and resources, institutional abandonment and, especially in the last three years, the dramatic incidence of drug trafficking groups and organizations that have subjugated the city and the entire region. In this context, sports, health, coexistence and community can create the physical, mental and political space for the young people of the neighborhood to have healthy and constructive alternatives and feel relief from the alienation of today’s society, which in San Cristóbal sees in them only the future cheap labor for the bars of the various walkways of the city at the service of tourists or, worse, as the basic forces of increasingly violent criminal groups. It is a long-term ambition, just like any social project that also wants to radically transform the unjust social relations imposed by capitalism.

The Barrio Bravo Gym opened its doors on May 3, 2021 and since then has received more than 200 students (mostly children between 5 and 15 years old) and offered courses in 9 sports disciplines: KungFu, Calisthenics, Parkour, Boxing, Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Polynesian Dance, Kenpo and Capoeira. The plan is to raise funds to be able to build a wall and open a climbing course for the children of the Gym. We see the climbing wall as a link between the body and the territory; An element to reconnect with nature, with new people, to regain confidence in the body by recognizing the abilities that each one has. It’s like a window to see beyond violence, a great tool to overcome bad times. A wall is a first encounter with a sport that can take young people to new places, which they didn’t know existed. The wall has the power to help them free their mind and body.

https://tekio.org.mx/red-beta-libre.php
https://nodosolidale.noblogs.org/ […Lees verder]

Voku in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners

Monday February 17, 2025, join our vegan Voku dinner in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Currently, at least 1,245 people are imprisoned following the mass resistance to the illegitimate 2020 elections. Yet another illegitimate presidential election has just begun, and we can expect more politically motivated arrests.
Although we cannot directly contact political prisoners, we can still support them financially. Donations will go towards (food) parcels, legal fees, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, and other necessities. As the situation in Belarus is not improving, the least we can do is continue supporting those who are serving time for trying to change that. […Lees verder]

Voku for African refugees in Turkey

Thursday February 13, 2025, Voku for African refugees in Turkey. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

As we all know, climate justice is also social justice which extends to fights for refugees and other displaced people to have everything they need to be able to live a dignified life and not go through the horror that they escaped again. The cause for which we will be raising money during this Voku is exactly about this dimension of climate justice, more specifically – educational rights of African refugees in Izmir, Turkey.
If you join us on the 13th of February for a donation-based dinner, your money will go to Imece Initative – an NGO based in Izmir, Turkey, working since 2014 to create collective solutions for disadvantaged groups and refugees. The organisation’s primary focus is on empowering women and equipping them with vocational skills to build sustainable futures. One of their key projects also include an educational centre in Basmane – one of Izmir’s most densely populated immigrant areas – where they work closely with African refugees – one of the most marginalized and invisible communities in Turkey. Many lack access to basic rights and resources, leaving them unseen and unsupported.
The educational centre is in desperate need of money due to the limited amount of support it’s been getting from external donors in the past months. Hence, any bigger donations will also be very much appreciated but even a standard donation counts and can do a lot of good. […Lees verder]

Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide

Monday February 10, 2025, Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Jerusalem-Gaza Mutual Aid Collective – We are a group of Jewish activists raising funds each month to help ten Gazan families with no income to meet their basic needs – for food, clothes, medicine, fixing tents, transport for fleeing danger. This support also enables these families to organise small but essential projects to benefit their community: running pop up food kitchens; repairing neighbours’ tents; entertaining their children. We raise funds via local and international Palestine solidarity networks, and the Gazans who the funds go to know that the financial support is also an expression of our political solidarity with them/ – because none of us are free until all of us are free. […Lees verder]

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Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318

Monday February 3, 2025, Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit Voku for De Grachten Rat squat, Keizersgracht 318. De Grachten Rat is getting evicted on February 15th and need support. The court case will cost the rats over 3,000 euro! Keizersgracht 318 is squatted since July 2020, it had been squatted a first time in 2015
https://en.squat.net/tag/keizersgracht-318/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/de-grachten-rat […Lees verder]