Benefit Voku in solidarity with the squatted neighbourhood of Prosfygika

By: börek - July 11th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 17 July 2023, Benefit Voku in solidarity with the squatted neighbourhood of Prosfygika. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

“Prosfygika”, or otherwise refugee homes, is a complex of residential flats built in 1930’s to house refugees resulting from the Asia Minor conflict between Greece and Turkey. The buildings are situated on a central avenue of Athens, surrounded on either side by the police HQ and the supreme court, in a heavily gentrified area . 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.

– Communıty of Squatted Prosfygıka https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/
– Info-night and benefit for Prosfygika in 2014 at Joe’s Garage https://joesgarage.nl/archives/9989
– Statement from Community of Squatted Prosfygika in November 2022: https://joesgarage.nl/archives/16341

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

By: börek - July 2nd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 3rd july 2023, Benefit Voku for The Future. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The signs of the times have been littering the doors of squat WC’s and the stands of book and magazine fairs. The signs of The Future Times, that is. Squatters from 2123 have travelled back in time to the year they believe could be a turning point in the war against environmental degradation and capitalist exploitation, to give us a fresh and urgent perspective from a drowned Amsterdam 100 years in the future. On the night of 7 July, the squatters of the future invite all forms of expression of frustration at the current state of the world to be demonstrated on Spui. But they will need a bit a funding to pull this off. The voku tonight will benefit these time travelling activists in their mission to turn the tides of history and rile up enthusiasm for creating change today!

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 to support Phoenix Amsterdam

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

Thursday 29 june 2023, Benefit Voku to support Phoenix Amsterdam. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This Voku Benefit goes to support Phoenix Amsterdam, a safe space and peer support community under het Wereldhuis for LGBTQ!+ people in forced displacement. Phoenix is self-organized, meeting several times a month to cook, share information and build community after what is often a very difficult journey to the Netherlands. Right now, they are working towards their independence, because they currently receive a small stipend from the Diaconie van de Protestantse Gemeente te Amsterdam, which isn’t nearly enough to support their work in the community (e.g. paying for legal aid). They are also on the lookout for an office space, so information as well as donations is much appreciated!

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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Volkseten Vegazulu & performance with Lasha Rukhadze

By: börek - June 23rd, 2023  Filed under: Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 26 June 2023, Volkseten Vegazulu & performance with Lasha Rukhadze. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music on the stage around 9pm.

Lasha Rukhadze had announced his departure for Athens in the freezing winter but failed to escape the city, keeping performing in every dark corner. Then, it became useless to go to Greece as Teeth’n’Tongue, his band from Bern (CH), would visit Amsterdam in June. Lasha is back another time at Joe’s Garage, for a solo performance with his acoustic guitar. You’ll laugh your ass off, ending up dancing with the crowd. Expect an hilarious show, mime, a fusion of dub ska afro balkan tunes. Unforgettable!

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 benefit: in Defense of Barroso

By: börek - June 16th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 19 June 2023, Voku benefit: in Defense of Barroso. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Join Us for a Voku in Defense of Barroso!

Come to the benefit dinner at Joe’s Garage, where we will raise funds for the camp as well as for the legal actions we are undertaking to stop the mine.

From the 10th to the 15th August, all roads lead to northern Portugal, where locals and their allies are organizing the 3rd edition of the Camp in Defense of Barroso.

In Barroso, the British multinational Savannah Resources, with the help from the Portuguese State and the European Union, wants to open what would be Europe’s biggest open-pit lithium mine. This mine, touted as a “green” solution for the energy transition, is actually far from green: it threatens to displace the local population, pollute the waters and destroy the forests of this protected area, classified as World Agricultural Heritage Site.

For the past seven years, locals and their allies have been resisting the prospective lithium mine and rejecting the false “green” solutions that capitalism seeks to impose. In Barroso, we are confronting and deconstructing the idea that the energy transition has to go through unbridled extractivism, the depletion of all natural resources, the dispossession of rural territories, and the incessant search for profit and capital accumulation.

For the past 2 years, we organize a Camp, where hundreds of people from all over the world join us in solidarity. The third edition of the camp is just around the corner and we invite you to join us this summer. The Portuguese government is announcing its final decision, and we need your support more than ever!

GREEN IS BARROSO!
NO TO MINES, YES TO LIFE!

Website: https://barrososemminas.org/
Videos: https://videos.coletivos.org/c/acampada/videos?s=1

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 Venezuelan refugee family. Performance by Bella Luna

By: börek - June 11th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 15 June 2023, Benefit voku for Venezuelan refugee family. Performance by Bella Luna. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music on the stage around 9pm.

Two years ago Yameli and her daughter Laumar arrived in Gran Canaria from Venezuela, they had to emigrate for family health issues, one of her daughters was having a very complicated pregnancy at that moment and needed family support. Once they got on the island the only legal support they had was the ex-husband of Yameli who was abusing them physically and verbally in a daily basis. So they had to leave his house and start a new journey on the streets, they become totally homeless without any right to apply for government support, not even for charity food.

New chapter starts on them life, they got a small house provide by a neighbour where they can stay long term, but they need some money for food and medicines still. Yameli is 70 years old, so she can’t work anymore, and Laumar have disability due to a car accident she had years ago and without an official permit that says which type of disabilities she has, she can’t work at all, the waiting list to get this paper goes up to two years or more.

So we will be cooking a delicious vegan meal and enjoying of an Acoustic set by the hand of Bella Luna to support this powerful women who despite everything continue fight by day to survive.

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 ROSA (Radical Organisation of Students in Amsterdam)

By: börek - June 11th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 12 June and Thursday 22 June 2023, Benefit voku for ROSA (Radical Organisation of Students in Amsterdam). Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are part of ROSA (Radical Organisation of Students in Amsterdam), a group of radical leftists at UvA, and we are raising money for actions around the announced closings of certain public transport lines in Amsterdam by GVB. We want to especially focus on the closing of tram 19 and metro M53, as they are important connections for students and workers. Hope to see you all here!

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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Grote Glazen en kleine lettertjes, poetry night

By: börek - June 5th, 2023  Filed under: Poetry, Volkseten/Voku

Saturday 10 june 2023, Grote Glazen en kleine lettertjes special edition. Food from 7pm, performance, open mic from 8pm. Normally hosted at Molli Chaoot, special edition at Joe’s Garage.

Grote Glazen is a monthly poetry event where there is space for experiments. Big and small poets performed here and a lot of poets perform here before they got famous. It’s a party for everybody but mostly for poets. Sometimes we have a lot of Dutch poetry sometimes a lot of English. We welcome all languages! Food on donation (for sans-papiers) at 7. Poetry at 8. There is an open mic but you can also contact us if you want to talk about your performance in advance.