Thursday October 24, 2024, Voku for Barzakh Cultural space in Beirut. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Supporters from Amsterdam are organizing a Voku Benefit to help the staff of Barzakh Cultural space in Beirut (Hamra), who are actively preparing meals and supplies to support hundreds of people who have evacuated and are displaced from the south of Lebanon.
Barzakh is located above Rossa café in Hamra street, Beirut.
https://brzkh.org/about-us/
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Monday October 21, 2024, Voku for family Baroud in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Benefit for the family Baroud in Gaza, who got displaced the fourth time. […Lees verder]
Thursday October 17, 2024, Voku Benefit to help A.casă in Cluj-Napoca by ZZW Rafelrand and friends. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
This is Call-out for support. A.casă social center in Cluj-Napoca (in so called Romania), the place where multiple informal political radical groups organise, needs your help. Since the new location opened in 2020, lots of energy and money were put into making the space safer, comfortable and better fitting the needs of the people using it. Electricity, gas and water installation were replaced and the roof was fixed, besides many other thing.
Now we just realised we need to reinforce the foundation of one 10 meters long wall of the house, otherwise we risk that the wall will continue to crack and maybe even collapse in time.
We need to do all the necessary work and fix this in November. We are reaching out to groups, friends and initiatives abroad which could organise small solievents for A.casă, so that we can raise the amount needed.
If you would like to help with that, please get in touch by mail.
Solidarity is our weapon!
You are always welcome in A.casă
casa [dot] fara [dot] nume [at] riseup [dot] net
https://acasa.blackblogs.org/
https://radar.squat.net/en/cluj-napoca/casa […Lees verder]
Monday October 14, 2024, Falasteen Fundraiser, voku for a family in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
First event from the Broken Collarbone Collective. Cozy night of cute food, mutual aid, art-making and skill sharing. Traditional Palestinian dishes including mujaddara, falafel, and manaeesh and Levantine snacks will be served (plus dessert!!). There will also be a dabka workshop (which is a traditional Palestinian dance) organised by the lovely Rama and a body artist who will be doing henna. Our aims are to foster solidarity, build community and foster action and resistance! Bring your keffiyeh your cutest outfit!
Broken Collarbone Collective
brokencollarbone [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/broken-collarbone-collective […Lees verder]
Thursday October 10, 2024, Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Fundraiser for solar panels in Rojava! For a democratic and ecological alternative in the Middle East. https://www.solardarity-rojava.org/
Energy crisis in Rojava
The Rojava Autonomous Region in northern and eastern Syria has been in existence for 12 years and is a glimmer of hope for democratic reconstruction in Syria. Since its foundation, Rojava has had to defend itself against numerous threats. In addition to the clashes with the Assad regime, the main threats have been the wars with Turkey and the so-called Islamic State.
Now, however, the autonomy project is facing existential challenges. The energy supply is threatening to collapse. Turkish air strikes have largely destroyed the power stations and substations in the region. Electricity is in short supply and is mostly generated by dirty diesel generators. The civilian population suffers from a lack of electricity and water on a daily basis, but agriculture – in a region already hardest hit by climate change – is also severely affected.
Clean energy as a solution
But we can do something. With clean energy from the sun in Syria. The installation of decentralised solar panels should help to supply municipal facilities, hospitals, schools and women’s shelters with electricity.
We are therefore raising one million euros for solar panels to supply public facilities in northern and eastern Syria with sustainable electricity. In this way, we can make a difference and contribute to the further development of a democratic, gender-equitable and ecological alternative in the Middle East.
Let’s make a difference together: let’s send new energy to Rojava!
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Thursday October 3rd, 2024, Voku for displaced Palestinian family. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
We are a group of friends who are cooking to raise funds for a displaced family in Gaza, who one of our members has a personal link to. The family will be spoken about during the evening. […Lees verder]
Monday September 30, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia in reclaiming their ancestral land. Concert by Catsnout. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8:30pm.
We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, which are then used to support national and international initiatives.
This Voku is dedicated to the Iku people, an indigenous community from Colombia currently striving to acquire ancestral land. Their goal is to reclaim their territory, and build a space to educate young students and nurture future mamos and sagas (spiritual leaders). By doing so, they aim to preserve their ancestral wisdom and actively deconstruct colonial heritage.
In this Voku, we hope to support them in reclaiming their land, and we invite you to join us in this endeavour.
After the dinner, there will be a concert by the band Catsnout who writes about themselves: “hello, we make fun yelling heartfelt anti-folk. Welcome to our acoustic experiment in Joe’s Garage, bring your flutes please!” The show will start around 20:30. […Lees verder]
Thursday September 26, 2024, Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Solidarity VoKu-New Energy for Rojava. Fundraiser for solar panels in Rojava! For a democratic and ecological alternative in the Middle East. https://www.solardarity-rojava.org/
Energy crisis in Rojava
The Rojava Autonomous Region in northern and eastern Syria has been in existence for 12 years and is a glimmer of hope for democratic reconstruction in Syria. Since its foundation, Rojava has had to defend itself against numerous threats. In addition to the clashes with the Assad regime, the main threats have been the wars with Turkey and the so-called Islamic State.
Now, however, the autonomy project is facing existential challenges. The energy supply is threatening to collapse. Turkish air strikes have largely destroyed the power stations and substations in the region. Electricity is in short supply and is mostly generated by dirty diesel generators. The civilian population suffers from a lack of electricity and water on a daily basis, but agriculture – in a region already hardest hit by climate change – is also severely affected.
Clean energy as a solution
But we can do something. With clean energy from the sun in Syria. The installation of decentralised solar panels should help to supply municipal facilities, hospitals, schools and women’s shelters with electricity.
We are therefore raising one million euros for solar panels to supply public facilities in northern and eastern Syria with sustainable electricity. In this way, we can make a difference and contribute to the further development of a democratic, gender-equitable and ecological alternative in the Middle East.
Let’s make a difference together: let’s send new energy to Rojava!
[…Lees verder]
