Benefit voku for Palestinian Family Khaled & Bassam, by ZZW Rafelrand

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 16, 2024, Benefit voku for Palestinian Family Khaled & Bassam, by ZZW Rafelrand + let’s talk about DIY projects (theme: unrelated). Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

THE BENEFIT OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED: DONATIONS GO TO PALESTINIAN FAMILY KHALED & BASSAM

Khaled and Bassam and their parents, Ali and Heba, live in northern Gaza. Since October 7th, they have been displaced more than 13 times from their home due to the continues bombing of people’s homes in Gaza. Even the so proclaimed ‘safe’ areas where they fled to have been bombed, leaving nothing left and everything distroyed. Last Tuesday night, the street in front of their shelter was bombed. Ali’s brother was killed. Through a friend who is in contact with them, we hear the most horrified stories come through every week. The family of Khaled and Bassam is just one of many Palestinians who are being displaced, under threat and being killed by the Israeli genocide regime.

The benefit is held by ZZW Rafelrand, a patchwork of communities living and creating in one of the last frayed edges of Amsterdam East, on Zeeburgereiland. Excisting since over 40 years, the whole neighborhood is scheduled for demolition in December 2024. The community neighborhood – ZZW, artist ateliers, Fort Knox, One Peaceful World, Cruise In, etc – will be fully demolished for a new neigborhood.

Since September 2023, we – a small team of DIY film enthusiasts – started following the story of the neighhborhood to create a DIY documentary film. We combine everyday life with community activism: solidarity networks & events, a symbolic funeral, endless negotiations with the municipality, a summer free for all festival, etc. But we also create funky scenes to show the creativity residing in the neighborhood and to show its funky spirit. We would love to take you along this journey and start talking about DIY projects!

Join the VoKu for a delicious meal, a chat, and join to help Khalled & Bassam into safety!
CHICKENS AND NIGHTINGALES UNITE – DE LAATSTE RAFELRANDEN VAN AMSTERDAM
Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand […Lees verder]

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Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 12, 2024, Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

“We are researchers, anthropologists, layers, psychologists, sociologists, mediators, and activists moving in the Mediterranean area to critically analyze the borders that limit it, the migration processes that run through it and the policies that regulate them.
In total adherence to the pleas of the families of those missing or killed attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea routes-particularly Tunisian and sub-Saharan mothers and sisters-we want to promote the defense of the fundamental rights of exiled people, their families and communities, promoting, in particular, the right to know, as well as advocating for initiatives in favor of the right to freedom of movement.
The Mediterranean is the space where we are radicatə, particularly in Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia, places where we operate on a voluntary basis, based on our knowledge of legal, psycho-social, research and reporting.

We believe in building a collective and active memory that is a practice of countering discrimination, racism and structural injustice, as well as a means of narrating-from the voices of those living on the borders-what is happening in the Mediterranean”.

Memoria Mediterranea https://memoriamediterranea.org/ […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen

By: börek - September 3rd, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 5, 2024, Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

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, and by that showing solidarity with national and international resistance initiatives.

On this Thursday we are cooking a wonderful vegan meal (yes, there will be dessert) from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, raising money for our friend Mohammed and his family, who had to flee the war in Sudan and are trying to build a new life abroad.

In April 2023 a horrible war broke out in Sudan and it has been raging ever since. The humanitarian situation in the country is deteriorating, making it almost impossible to survive. One of the affected people is Mohammed from Al-Qadarif. He and his family lost everything in the war: friends and colleagues, their homes, their jobs. Luckily, the whole family was able to flee Sudan and is now in Egypt. But life as a refugee is hard. They are trying to move on but lack the financial means to build a new life abroad. We are raising money to support for Mohammed and his family to ease their current circumstances and plant the seed of a new beginning. […Lees verder]

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VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective

By: börek - September 1st, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 2nd, 2024, VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Progetto20k is a self-organized collective actively struggling since 2016 against the border system. It is located in the region of Ventimiglia, on the Italian side of the coastal border with France. It aims to support People on the Move who face the violence of the European racist migration policies.
The collective has the aim of being a horizontal, anti-racist, transfeminist and anti-capitalist project that takes decisions in assembly. This past months it has been active directly at the border for monitoring and information, and in the city campement of Via Tenda, opening the self-organized space Upupa. Progetto20k has been trying to bring forth their autonomous politics in the struggle, working alongside several humanitarian organizations active on the territory.
The collective recently had to stop their activities this summer, but there is always money needed for house repairs and possibly re-starting again after using this break for internal reflections.
Come along for a delicious meal because the only good nation is a donation 😉

Ventimiglia, dove la violenza del confine è strutturale https://www.meltingpot.org/2022/11/ventimiglia-dove-la-violenza-del-confine-e-strutturale/

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 Disgraça in Lisbon

By: börek - August 18th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday August 26, 2024, Benefit voku for Disgraça in Lisbon. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

News from Disgraça, Lisbon https://disgraca.com/ : as you may have heard, after 9 years of horizontal, autonomous, anti-authoritarian mischief, we’re making an effort to buy Disgraça!
It all started on 11 September 2015. Atop one of Lisbon’s hills, the doors of Disgraça opened in a former school. From the vapid white walls, from the empty, echoing rooms, from the multitude of wills that converged in that place, this restless project blossomed. Walls fell, walls rose, walls were scribbled on. And as if it were a spring of insubordination from the depths of the city’s subsoil, we materialised, room by room, each one’s community potential. Moved by common dreams, desires and needs, we built a canteen and community space, a library, a DIY concert hall, a workshop where chaos reigns, a rehearsal room and a screen printing room, a gym (the tidiest place in the building), the free shop Desumana, and, from the memory of an empty shop front, a cosy anarchist bookshop – Tortuga.
Disgraça https://radar.squat.net/en/lisbon/disgra%C3%A7a

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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Solidarity VoKu for BANGS

By: börek - August 18th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 19 August 2024, Fundraiser voku for BANGS Festival at Joe’s Garage. Come to support and eat with us! Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Amsterdam BANGS is an autonomous, politically charged theatre and performance festival, joyriding all over Amsterdam!
GET READY for the first edition of AMSTERDAM BANGS, an autonomous theatre and performance festival taking place all over Amsterdam during September 19-22, 2024. When we mean all over Amsterdam, we really mean it. Get ready for clownery and witchcraft taking over the squats, streets, supermarkets, ING help desks or whatever you wish, or open up your own home!
The OPEN CALL has just opened (finally!). Anyone is welcome to propose a show, performance, or workshop. Let’s make this city ours. Get ready for a BANGING festival!!
Amsterdam BANGS
info [at] amsterdambangs [dot] nl
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/amsterdam-bangs
https://amsterdambangs.nl/ […Lees verder]

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Benefit for medicals costs of Lola

By: börek - August 5th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 12 august 2024, Benefit for medicals costs of Lola. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This evening we eat for Lola! For those who don’t know, Lola was a cat, our housemate, squatter, comrade and a friend. Lola got hit by a car/fat bike/motorcycle, we are never gonna know. And a big fighter managed with a broken jaw, and severe brain injury’s to come back home and ask for help. After 24 hours of fighting and 2 different hospitals, Lola passed away. We are crushed, and not only that we are left to deal with incredible sadness, we are also left to deal with a medical bills. We need your help, so come and eat for Lola! There are also gonna be patches available.

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 for Ringdijk

By: börek - August 1st, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 5 august 2024, Benefit for Ringdijk. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Ringdijk is a squat existing since November 2021. Through this time of existance has been home to many, but lately has been hosting thousands of new unexpected guests that we have troubles evicting. But with a little bit of support and help from exterminators we can get rid of fleas and Ringdijk can be habitable again.
Ringdijk 8 https://en.squat.net/tag/ringdijk-8/

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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