Benefit Mapuche communities and their fight for Autonomy

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
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Thursday June 20th 2013, Benefit Mapuche communities and their fight for Autonomy, 7pm.

Proceeds will go to support the Mapuche community Wente Winkul Mapu. Maricheweu International (“10 times we shall overcome”) unites people whose main goal it is to support the human rights of the Mapuche (people of the earth). The Mapuche are an indigenous people of South America. Their ancestral lands are occupied by Chile and Argentina. Currently there live more than 1,5 million Mapuche in Chile and about 50,000 in Argentina.
The ongoing systematic destruction of indigenous peoples in South America is an indisputable fact, and apparently an international political strategy. In Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile and elsewhere the human rights of indigenous peoples are flouted over and over again. While there is progress on legal issues, as there are made judgements, decrees, laws and international treaties for the protection, conservation and respect for Indigenous Peoples, all this does not seem to suffice. […Lees verder]

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Roomtuintje Oostbos benefit

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku
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Monday June 17th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Roomtuintje Oostbos benefit, 7pm.

The Roomtuintje Oostbos garden gang will be dropping their shovels and picking up the serving spoons at Joe’s Garage. You can expect three courses of tasty vegan treats as always. The Roomtuintje Oostbos DIY garden project temporarily re-designates unused land with the aim of allowing people the opportunity to make their own urban garden. This D.I.Y. Garden project began in July 2012 in the Dapperbuurt of Amsterdam Oost, on land where formerly stood typical ‘Old Amsterdam’ social houses. The owner, a housing corporation demolished the block with the intention of building modern apartments in 2009. Since that time it remained unused.
Donations from the voku will go towards maintaining this ongoing project. Visit http://roomtuintje.noblogs.org for more info. […Lees verder]

Movie night: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 16th 2013, Movie night: No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2009, 106 min.) Persian with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS is the fifth feature by awardwinning director Bahman Ghobadi, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival. Co—written by imprisoned Iranian—American journalist Roxana Saberi, the film is an indictment of cultural repression in Iran’s exciting underground music scene, a powerful cinematic foreshadowing of current protest movements, and a celebration of an entire generation of Iranians striving towards personal and creative freedom. Shot in secret and featuring extraordinary performances by real underground bands, follows a pair of young musicians, recently released from prison, on a mission to take their rock band to Europe. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan their escape abroad with a fast—talking music promoter. Vowing to play one last show before leaving Tehran, their dangerous mission takes them on a free—wheeling journey through the City’s vibrant and diverse underground scene, home to an estimated 2,000 illegal independent bands. […Lees verder]

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Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign Benefit

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Solidarity, Volkseten/Voku
Demo Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Monday June 10th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign Benefit, 19:00 pm.

Mumia got a lot of birthdaycards in april; thanks to all of you.
In Philedelphia,Mexico and France were demonstrations at his birthday and benefits at many places. However the prisonindustrie continues, spreading her dirty wings out over europe (even holland)
Let us write more cards to mumia to show him and the state,which keeps him and many others in prison, that we didn’t forget what’s happening in these ugly buidings. It’s also usefull to write to the american consulat,to demand mumiaas freedom. There is a petition going round to demand mumia’s release,please help him by signing the petition.

http://www.change.org/petitions/release-mumia-abu-jamalh

to: Mr. Randy W.Berry
Amerikaans Consulaat
Museumplein 19
1071 DJ Amsterdam […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Five Broken Cameras

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday June 9th 2013, Movie night: Five Broken Cameras (documentary from Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, Palestine/Israel, 2011, 90 min.) with English subtitles. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

His West Bank hometown of Bil’in having turned into a site of weekly civil disobedience and provocative Israeli land development, Palestinian Emad Burnat, a family man, took to documenting the clash, beginning in 2005. Unwittingly, he started calling himself a journalist—isn’t that often how it happens?—and while Burnat’s equipment suffered the brunt of his risk (see title), the results are eye-opening. Sharpened into an adrenalizing narrative by codirector Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras places you squarely in the face of interrogating Israeli soldiers or dangerously close to Humvees being pelted with rocks. Blocky settlements and separation barriers materialize over the years; we come to recognize the main protesters and worry about their safety every time they approach the front lines. […Lees verder]

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Cooking Workshop

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Workshop
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Sunday June 9th 2013, Cooking Workshop, from 4pm till 7pm.

Come and join the once in a lifetime cooking workshop with the amazing cook from the SVZV benefits (Steungroep Vrouwen Zonder Verblijfsvergunning). Sunday the 9th of June she will teach you how to cook two traditional Bangladeshi desserts. Because the number of people who can join is limited, please contact us beforehand if you want to join.
The aim of these workshops is just learning. As the cook said: ‘Come and enjoy cooking, just learn and have fun. That’s what is important to me, that’s what I want.’
Sunday 9th and 23th of June, from 4pm till 7pm.
Free for everyone, just on donation base.
Contact: joe_cooking_workshop[AT]squat.net

Nobordercamp Rotterdam Benefit

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

Thursday June 6th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Info meeting about the No Border Camp in Rotterdam, 19:00 pm.

The Dutch No Border Network organizes a No Border Camp in Rotterdam
August 2 – 10. The organization of a militant week of action, discussion and workshops connects with the tireless actions of migrants in the Netherlands during the past one and a half year. The No Border Camp also connects with the Voices From The Borders project on the North Sea that starts in Rotterdam August 4.
The international No Border Network that we all are part of stands for freedom of movement, is anti-capitalist and grass roots organized. It is the aim of the organizers of this camp to inspire and strengthen the struggle of migrants as well as to take our own responsibility in fighting the system of capitalist population policy and its racism, nationalism, colonialism and exploitation. […Lees verder]

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Safer Place Organisers Meeting

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Meeting
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Wednesday June 5th 2013, Safer Place Organisers Meeting, 8pm

The plan is to organize a workshop in Joe’s about Safer Spaces. We would like to invite you to get involved in organizing it, preparing it, and thinking about it. So your ideas can be represented when the (first) workshop takes place on the 9th of July. We envision the workshop to a be a skills sharing workshop, where people can share communication skills and conflict management skills. It will also give the collective a chance to start defining what it is a safe place is. There seems to be a general consensus in Joes that we want a space where people can address power imbalance , personal boundaries, class, sexism, racism, abuse, homophobia, historical exploitation such as colonization and it’s legacy, and misunderstanding when that arises in a safe way. Part of that is establishing safe boundaries and a space for discourse and action by setting guidelines and establishing some consensus on acceptable preventative action and intervention. […Lees verder]