Radical Sunday School: Mastering your machine. Towards a liberatory relationship with computers

Sunday September 15, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Mastering your machine. Towards a liberatory relationship with computers. From 18:00 till 20:00.We are in a constant battle, with big tech and ourselves, to make prosocial use of modern technology. We find ourselves pulled in unproductive, counter liberatory directions by the computational world. At the same time, if we abandon this technology, we seed the power to communicate and publish that it grants us.

In this workshop we will explore the theoretical origin of that strain, learn why the very nature of the computer makes victory inevitable and seek to empower ourselves to truly control our technologies.

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 September 13, 2024, 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). Bring your instruments and your best mood!
Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

Proxy Cafe: the backup edition

Wednesday September 11, 2024, Proxy Cafe: the backup edition. Door opens at 18:00

Hold on to your regrets!
Here comes the backup edition, where we look at the different ways of keeping your own data safe and tidy, with your own little hands.

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!
Usually twice a month on Wednesdays from 18:00 till 22:00 at Joe’s Garage, LAG and sometimes in different locations and why not in your social space, somewhere else than Amsterdam?!
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Radical Sunday School: How to dress like an anarchist

Sunday September 8, 2024, Radical Sunday School: How to dress like an anarchist. From 18:00 till 20:00.Clothes form a central part of human life. Each day we choose what to wear, to dress the part in the theatre of life. On this stage, every item of clothing is entwined with some meaning. Think of how skirts symbolize femininity, how uniforms represent authority, or how the color black denotes rebellion. Such meanings inevitably regulate the ways we dress.

The world is riddled with dress codes – coded meanings that are oppressive and restrictive in nature. Our choices of clothing are limited in this regard, not really our own. Capitalism regulates, exploits, and reinforces these coded meanings for profit. Exploitative labor practices, furthermore, pervade the fashion industry. Clothes are a thorny question… especially for anarchists.

What are the meanings of our clothes anyway? How are we to dress without reinforcing exploitation? How can we dress in ways as not to be complicit to oppression? What can we do to counteract the power and oppression of clothes? What would be the right strategy to liberate our clothes (and ourselves)? Should we simply stop caring? Opt-out of clothing all together? Or should we embrace and expand our clothing options? Embrace the creativity and self-expression of clothes? How do our clothes fit in(to) the movement? How to dress like an anarchist…?

Come join us for tonight’s session. Come dressed up as you, that is, as you are or otherwise want to be – or pick your most provocative, anarchistic, Marxist, or creative outfit. No garment is off-limit!

THE FASHION POLICE WILL BE BARRED FROM ENTRY.

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, Septembre 8, 2024, All Crafts Are Beautiful, from 14:00 till 18:00.


Join us this summer for the All Crafts Are Beautiful events located at Joe’s Garage! 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.
14:00-18:00 every second sunday of the month at Joe’s Garage.

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

Radical Sunday School: Demands, Limits and Ethics of Activism

Sunday September 1st, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Demands, Limits and Ethics of Activism. From 18:00 till 20:00.

Activism can be seriously demanding. In our fight for all that is right we tend to impose heavy demands on ourselves as well as on others: the fight is never-ending, no cause too great, no action too steep. Many of us (aspiring) activists will recognize the constant (inner) call for action, while also at the same time feeling helpless at the excruciating limits of our own activism – it just never seems enough.

This heavy (self-)imposed burden can create unhealthy, unsustainable, toxic, and even outright dangerous situations.

Tonight’s session is inspired by the book ‘Joyful Militancy’. During this session we would like to explore these pitfalls in activism, the demands and the limits. So that we may better protect ourselves against them, and engage in more healthy, communal, sustainable and, above all, joyful ways of activism.

Open to battle-scarred veteran activists, newbies, and anything in between or beyond that.

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

Proxy Cafe

Wednesday 28 august 2024, Proxy Cafe. Door opens 18:00

A place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, workshops.
Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxy Repair Cafe

Wednesday 31 july 2024, Proxy Repair Cafe. Door opens 18:00

Do you have a problem with your Linux machine? Is your laptop hardware faulty? Do you need some help with your devices but don’t want to pay for someone else to fix it without learning?
Come by to Joe’s to this event of Proxy cafe where we will focus on fixing computers. Remember that is just a gathering of people and is all volunteer effort 🙂
If you want to just come for a tea, coffee or a talk is also more than fine! We will offer you the tastiest frozen Pizzas that we know!
P.s. You get much higher chances of getting help if you run Linux or other opensource operating system

Proxy Cafe, free software workshops, discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/