Free West Papua Campaign Infonight/Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Muziek, Solidarity, Volkseten/Voku
Free West Papua Campaign Infonight Benefit

Monday September 30th 2013, Free West Papua Campaign Infonight/Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

Jeremy Bally is a man on a mission. He is Pedalling for Papua on a Storytelling Biketour accross 7 countries: Canada, U.S.A, Ireland, U.K., the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand (12.000 km). Like the old troubadours, accompanied by his ukelele/hip-hop base songs, he will bring us stories and testimonies of a little know conflict: the occupation and repression in West Papua by the Indonesian government.
Official estimates range from 100,000 to 500,000 West Papuans having died as a result of the Indonesian government’s policies in this illegally annexed region (an ongoing media ban makes this figure impossible to verify). The slow-burning conflict is fueled by one of the highest military to civilian ratios in the world, while legal and illegal logging, mining and fishing uproot one of the world’s most diverse and valuable ecosystems. Profits from resource extraction trickle down in meager amounts to West Papuans, whose home regularly ranks last out of Indonesia’s 33 provinces on markers for development like access to healthcare and education. Poverty is rampant. […Lees verder]

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Presentation about the occupation of the Hambacher forest and call for mobilization!

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 19th 2013, Presentation about the occupation of the Hambacher Forest and call for mobilization! The same evening at Joe’s Garage, Cardiff Squatters Network Infonight. With the Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

The Hambacher forest close to Cologne in Germany is now again occupied since a few weeks, wherefore the resistance movement against the clearing of the forest goes on. The new squatted area is now threatened by eviction, so that support in occupying the forest, infrastructural matters (e.g. cooking), presswork, etc. is needed. Furthermore the Hambacher forest represents a nice place to connect political activism with spending a good time with nice people!

In order to excavate coal, the energy company RWE clears the originally more than 4500 hectars big and 12000 years old forest, damages agricultural land and relocates villages Some of the effects of the excavation of coal are the destruction of living space for plants, animals and humans, air and fine dust pollution, release of radioactive substances and the lowering of ground water. The coal excavation in the rhine area is responsible for 13% of the CO2 emissions in whole Germany.

More informations: http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/ […Lees verder]

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Cardiff Squatters Network Infonight

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku
Cardiff Canton Police Station squatted

Thursday September 19th 2013, Cardiff Squatters Network Infonight. The same evening at Joe’s Garage, Presentation about the occupation of the Hambacher forest and call for mobilization! With the Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Squatters from Cardiff, Wales http://cardiff.squat.net/ are dropping by for an infonight about squatting in Cardiff over the last few years. Last month, Canton police station was squatted by the Antagonistic Collective Against Boredom (ACAB) and evicted a few weeks later, costing the police thousands of pounds through the courts and use of high court bailiffs.

They’ll also tell us about the recent ABC-based squat opposite the prison that successfully resisted eviction, Ty-Pwll Coch, the Municipal Club, as well as squats from 2011 and 2012; Gremlin Alley Social Centre, Red & Black Umbrella and the Tax Invasion occupation.

They will also give updates on squatting in London; Made Possible By Squatting project, 195 Mare Street, County Street, London Queer Social Centre, Self-Organised London, Library Street Social Centre, and the Glasshouse, as well as ongoing repression against squatting in Bristol. […Lees verder]

Get legalised or get evicted! Valreep Infonight & Volkseten Vegazulu

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku
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Thursday September 5th 2013, Get legalised or get evicted! Valreep Infonight & Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

In the two years that Valreep has been squatted, it has become an important center of activism, creativity, political ideas, neighbourhood connections, cultural activities, gardening, concerts and parties. Since day one the squatters collective made it clear that our intention is to stay and find a legal solution to be able to run this place into the future. Now, the time has come to make it happen. Within the next two month the Valreep gets legalized or most likely will be evicted next spring. A hot autumn is coming up and we want you to get involved. We will present to you our ideas and intentions. Check our website on previous actions and for our program: http://valreep.org/ […Lees verder]

Singer Songwriters: Leah Song, Shireen, Dangle Manatee

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Muziek, Volkseten/Voku
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Friday August 23rd 2013. Monthly music event, Singer Songwriters #3 with Leah Song (USA), Shireen (NL), Dangle Manatee (UK). Door opens at 6pm, vegan food on donation. performances end at 10pm.

Leah Song (USA), solo performance by Leah Smith from Rising Appalachia. “Rising Appalachia is a genre-bending force of sound that uses vocal harmony, lyrical prowess and diverse artistic collaborations to defy cultural clichés and ignite a musical revolution… They are creatively committed to keeping their work accessible at the local street level as well as expanding to larger audiences abroad, and have continued to maintain autonomy by self-managing, recording, producing, creating, and directing their work.”

Shireen (NL)
‘I call the type of songs I play ‘Crisis-Folk’. A combination of words made up to describe the traditional folksongs me and longtime friend and fellow musician Dorien Meijsing sang and played in our ukulele/vocal-harmony project ‘çok güzel’. We used to tell people that came to listen to us play, that ‘from different sorts of crises in peoples’ lifes, sometimes beautiful things came to be, be it (revolutionary) change, or a great song!’

Dangle Manatee (UK)
Dangle Manatee is a two-piece folk-punk band from Durham and Newcastle, UK. Hugh plays guitar, harmonica and sings. Pippa plays fiddle, tambourine and sings. They both stamp their feet a lot. They write songs about poetry, animals, and trying to be kind in an unkind world. […Lees verder]

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Autoclave Benefit

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
Autoclave Benefit Joe's Garage

Monday August 19th 2013, Autoclave Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Benefit Food for Autoclave II, Bodymod and Tattoocircus. Autoclave II is a second edition of a festival of body modifications (piercing, suspension or tattoo) that will take place in the Autonomous space Les Tanneries in Dijon from 12th to 14th September. The festival is organized in solidarity with prisoners and sex workers and it brings workshops, debates and film screenings, as well as an evening with Mother Fakir’s performance, short films and musicians coming from Texas. More info: http://autoclave.poivron.org […Lees verder]

Genova 2001 is not over – Benefit Voku for the activists convicted after the G8 protests

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
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Monday August 12th 2013, Genova 2001 is not over – Benefit Voku for the activists convicted after the G8 protests, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

In July 2012, 11 years after the protests against the G8 summit in Genoa, 10 people have been convicted for taking part in the demonstrations, the sentences vary from 6-14 years.

The law that allowed this insane sentence is named “Devastation and Looting”: this law was included in the Italian Penal Code in 1935, to protect the so called “public order” under the fascist regime. In the last decade this law has been used multiple times to convict political activists.

In 2004 SupportoLegale (LegalSupport) started a campaign to raise money to support the people involved in the trials connected to the demonstrations of Genova2001 and now, after all these years, SupportoLegale launched the campaign 10×100. One of the aims of this campaign is the abolition of this fascist law, that is being used more and more often to convict political activists. […Lees verder]

Paris suburbs’ squat “Le transfo” benefit and infonight

By: börek - July 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
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Monday July 29th 2013, Paris suburbs’ squat “Le transfo” benefit and infonight, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

The transformer is a space occupied since November 14, 2012. This place nearly one hectare owned by EDF has been empty for several years. EDF is a dirty business that extorts every home selling nuclear energy which poisons our lives. It also speculates on the property. Given the logic of money we invest collectively this place on non-commercial basis. We would talk on july about paris suburbs’ squat “Le Transfo (http://transfo.squat.net/), and possibly, if needed, more widely about the squats situation in France. […Lees verder]