Proxycafe: Repair Cafe

Wednesday April 23, 2025, Proxycafe: Repair Cafe. Door opens at 18:00.

Is your linux computer broken and need some help? This is the perfect moment to ask help to our folk and fix your machine together, hopefully learning something from it. 🙂
Do you have a Windows or a Macbook machine? If you are lucky you may find someone to help you but you shouldn’t expect it as we are not having fun fixing those proprietary systems and is also more difficult to learn from it! 😛
We’ll try to offer our expertise to help fixing the operating system and some software, assisting you opening your machine to debug hardware faults but note we don’t have components to give/sell, but we could help you ordering the replacement part!
Of course expect our famous fresh frozen pizzas!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Radical Sunday School: French-English Border Struggle and Solidarity

Sunday April 20, 2025, Radical Sunday School: French-English Border Struggle and Solidarity. From 18:00 till 20:00.Through the years, thousands have waited, often for months, struggling to survive, trying to cross the English channel at Calais, France, to Dover, England, in hope of a better life. They are met with harsh living conditions, police brutality, and state repression… And it’s all because of BORDERS…
What is the situation at the French-English border? How do people live and how do they try to cross the English channel? What kind of policies and political responses are at play that deny people the right of entry? What groups provide aid to those in need? And, what can we ourselves do to help?
Jointly, we will examine and discuss these questions. To set the stage, the facilitator will first talk about the situation at the border. After which, we explore these matters together, from providing aid to border tech to the No Borders movement, and much more.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

Radical Sunday School – From Housing Insecurity to Collective Power with the Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW)

Sunday April 13, 2025, Radical Sunday School – From Housing Insecurity to Collective Power with the Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW). From 18:00 till 20:00.Housing is not a privilege, but a civil right. And yet, more and more people are forced to live insecure, facing temporary housing contracts, poor quality housing and unaffordable rents. This growing group – the precarious tenants – is told that precarious living is normal, but we at the BPW (Bond Precaire Woonvormen) don’t agree with that.

That’s why BPW and RSS are organising the Living Struggle workshop: From stress to collective power. We explore how to stand your ground, build counter-power together, get moving and keep going – without exhausting yourself. What concrete strategies are available to help push back even if you find yourself facing a housing problem on your own? How do we stay connected and grow as a movement when housing insecurity tears down our communities?

This workshop is for anyone who is facing a precarious living situation, willing to support those who do or seeking solidarity. Prior experience in housing activism is not needed. Together, we’ll build a more accessible and powerful movement.

Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW) https://bondprecairewoonvormen.nl
BPW Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/bpw-amsterdam

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

All Crafts Are Beautiful

Sunday April 13, 2025, All Crafts Are Beautiful, from 14:00 till 18:00.

Doe deze zondag met ons mee voor All Crafts Are Beautiful! Er is een tijd om samen de barricades op te gaan en er is een tijd om samen te komen om het samenkomen. Kom en breng je eigen handwerkproject mee of leer nieuwe vaardigheden van anderen zoals breien, haken, repareren enz. Vanaf 14:00 tot 18:00, elke tweede zondag van de maand. Joe’s Garage is op de begane grond en heeft een steile ramp bij de entree. De toilet is erg smal. Qua zitplekken is er 1 comfortabele bank en verder zijn er veel houten stoelen en tafels. Tijdens dit evenement wordt er binnen niet gerookt.

Join us this Sunday for All Crafts Are Beautiful! There is a time to go on the barricades together and the is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft project or learn new skills from others like knitting, crocheting, repairing etc. All Crafts Are Beautiful is from 14:00-18:00 every second sunday of the month. Joe’s Garage is on the ground floor and has a very steep ramp at the entrance. The toilet is very narrow. There is one comfy couch and there are a lot of wooden chairs and tables. During this event there is no smoking inside.

All Crafts Are Beautiful https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/all-crafts-are-beautiful

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday April 11, 2025, Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music. From 20:00 to 23:30.

This is a weekly open practice session of east Mediterranean music, in which we play genres such as rebetiko and Greek/Balkan/Turkish/Middle Eastern folk music. Together we explore the melodic pathways, rhythms (e.g. 9/8, 7/8. 5/4) and harmonies of, as well as connections between these musical traditions. We gather to have fun playing music together, to share musical knowledge and experience, and improve our skills on our instruments. We welcome interested newcomers to join in, regardless of musical experience, and using any kind of instrument (strings, percussion, wind, voice).

Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

Radical Sunday School’s second birthday party

Sunday April 6, 2025, Radical Sunday School’s second birthday party. From 12:30 till 23:00.

Radical Sunday School is turning two! Since April 2nd 2023, we have been hosting all types of workshops, discussions, and skill shares almost every week for two years, and WE WANT TO CELEBRATE!
Come join us for a whole day programme! Get cozy at Joe’s and join us for lunch, two amazing workshops, dinner, and an open podium – a day and night you cannot forget.
Thank you to everyone who has been with us and who is curious to see what we do!
Drop in and out whenever – for the workshops, for the food, for the open podium, for the company. We are so happy to celebrate our second year with all of you!

Programme:

12:30 lunch
13:30 – 16:00 first session: Theatre of the Oppressed
The ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ is a method that allows us to express, manifest, and tackle social oppression. During this workshop, we’ll play, and through playing we research, grow and share perspectives on the personal worldly.
We’ll work with the theme of the day, ‘Communal learning’ and research what that could look like by and through playing theater together.
There’s absolutely no theater experience needed, the workshop facilitator will guide you through the workshop.

16:30 – 18:30 second session: Communal Learning: Confronting Hierarchies Together
Even when we say we’re against all forms of oppression, our radical spaces still have hierarchies. Some people talk more. Some experiences count more. Perspectives are disregarded. Voices go unheard.
What does it mean for those voices to go unheard? How do we actually create room for those on the margins? Let’s cut through the academic bullshit and contradictions, and have an honest conversation about how to actually listen and learn – on how to actually center marginalized voices.
We’ll discuss historical, cultural practices together: practices of learning, of community, and of dialogue, that may help us to learn from and with one another. To create a space where power is genuinely shared, not just talked about.

19:00 dinner
20:00 open podium
As part of our celebration we are hosting an Open Podium! Every radical soul is welcome to take the stage, front and center, and express themselves! 🖤 ANYTHING GOES! Music, poetry, spoken word, theatre, comedy, stories, essays, two minute RANTS, drag – you name it! No microphone – not amplified – bring your own equipment – Joe’s Garage is intimate enough! Time limit of 5-7 minutes for each performance to give everyone the chance to take the stage.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

Radical Sunday School – Necropolitics: Who lives and dies in a state of exception?

Sunday March 23, 2025, Radical Sunday School – Necropolitics: Who lives and dies in a state of exception? From 18:00 till 20:00.The norm is televised genocide, illegal mining and occupation. This system of marking specific bodies as kill-able and national sovereignty as “the right to kill” is as old as capitalism and colonialism itself.

Defining a state’s freedoms in such terms normalizes mass slaughter in distant lands, but it also props up justifications for places like Guantanamo Bay and organizations like Frontex here in the belly of the beast.

Who among us have limited rights, and what laws justify the hierarchies between different kinds of political identities?

In a Europe where the “working classes” and “stateless” people are quickly sliding into the category historically reserved for “savages” in the Dutch “Golden Age”, such questions help us anticipate who among us will be dragged off without a warrant to preserve “democracy”.

This session will break down musty academic concepts like necropolitics and the state of exception to explain how war in the 21st century has changed to keep pace with capital’s ever-growing need for blood and materials.

No prior knowledge needed.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday March 21, 2025, Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music. From 20:00 to 23:30.

This is a weekly open practice session of east Mediterranean music, in which we play genres such as rebetiko and Greek/Balkan/Turkish/Middle Eastern folk music. Together we explore the melodic pathways, rhythms (e.g. 9/8, 7/8. 5/4) and harmonies of, as well as connections between these musical traditions. We gather to have fun playing music together, to share musical knowledge and experience, and improve our skills on our instruments. We welcome interested newcomers to join in, regardless of musical experience, and using any kind of instrument (strings, percussion, wind, voice).

Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli