During the last months various squats were opened and closed in Amsterdam and surroundings. Yet, the eviction procedure is becoming easier for the cops. Recently, the police came out with an old trick, the speed- eviction: despite squatting being illegal, squatters still have the right to domestic peace, to get notified 8 weeks in advance, and to be able to start a court case to defend themselves. However, in the last weeks two office buildings in the Amsterdam’s surroundings were evicted by regular cops without any notice, just a few days after the occupation. The squatters were arrested and quickly released without charges.
Evictions without notice and without a court ruling are illegal, as they violate the right to domestic privacy of the inhabitants. The cops know this well, but too often they put themselves ‘above the law’ to serve the interests of private property owners.
To stop the trend of illegal speed-evictions, the Amsterdam squatting groups are about to sue the state, and made a call out to other groups of squatters for collecting cases of speed-eviction. […Lees verder]
Newsletter February 2014
Benefit dinner Stichting Kaikoesie
Monday February 24th 2014, Benefit dinner Stichting Kaikoesie, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Kaikoesie Foundation was founded on 19 November 1986 and it main goal is to protect the Indigenous people and heritage in Suriname by creating awareness of the disastrous environmental consequences of current practices of gold mining in Suriname. The Foundation is becoming more dynamic and wants to start new projects in 2014. Namely, a children and youth motivational program, a women empowerment program and a calling for a global awareness about the necessity to implement fair trade gold. To put this projects in practice we need to do many fundraising activities. Come to taste amazing food with a touch of Surinamese cuisine, get to know our projects and help us if you can. […Lees verder]
Movie Night: Spirited Away (2001)
Sunday February 23rd 2014, Movie Night: Eenhorn Filmavond presents Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001). Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. With the narrative drive of a live-action feature and the imaginative leaps of East Asian manga, Japanimation B.O. phenom “Spirited Away” is an out-and-out charmer. Spirited Away is a story that both kids and adults can tune in to, a Niponese “Alice in Wonderland” with a totally convincing world of humans, ghosts, animals and other beings in which a 10-year-old girl spends a short period. […Lees verder]
# # # DIY stencil workshop # # #
new session: Friday February 21st 2014, from 13:00 till 18:00.
The DIY stencil workshop in Joe’s Garage provides you tutorials, knowledge, tools, and materials to make your own stencil(s).
Learn how to use different materials and cutting tools, to perform several strategies of stencilling, and to design images on the computer with the graphic program GIMP.
You have the chance to create multiple layer stencils or big sized stencils as well as to use your own or already finished stencil(s) in varied ways – like making patches, printing, spraying, etc.
The workshop is open for beginners, and advanced and skilled stencilists who want to work on their projects.
Ongehoord benefit dinner
Thursday February 20th 2014, Ongehoord benefit dinner, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Ongehoord aims to protect all animals in the Dutch meat industry by publishing undercover research on their website; ongehoord.info. As any political group, they’re in a constant need of financial funds. As any ex-bourgeois critical, you’re hungry.
This evening, squatters and animal activists join forces in their quest for an egalitarian world. Put your money where your heart (or stomach) is, support Ongehoord and liberate yourself from hunger!
– the Ongehoord Cuisine Department http://www.ongehoord.info/ […Lees verder]
The Swamp benefit
Monday February 17th 2014, The Swamp benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm
We are 5 people living in the Swamp on Sumatrastraat 232. We have been occupying for the past month which has flown by and want our new house to be an open space. We have large comfortable spaces to express many artistic forms and skills. Starting slowly, as one of the largest rooms has suffered 3 years of water damage and neglect we want to build up to opening the space to dance classes, from pole fitness to salsa and break dancing. Language classes including Spanish, English and Dutch so everyone can improve their basics. Kick boxing workshops also have started and the give away shop will be open 2 days a week. Circus training and a place to practise for those who need it and want to meet others who do the same. Workshops will be run by people outside of the Swamp and we want to include the neighbourhood as much as possible, for them to introduce their own classes or ideas and take part. […Lees verder]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Out of the Blue (1980)
Sunday February 16th 2014, Movie night, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock: Out of the Blue. Directed by Dennis Hopper, 1980, 94 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
As a true low-budget independent work, this film delivers more art and honesty than most indie films before and after. The film opens with Dennis Hopper drunkenly driving his big truck with his daughter (Linda Manz- *Days of Heaven*) in clown make-up and asking her if he is sexier than Elvis. Then he crashes into a busload of screaming children, destroying the lives of the children, his daughter and himself. The film follows the wake of this incident and the black clouds that follow him and his daughter. The film climaxes with one of the most over-the top, crazed endings of any film. That final scene with Hopper and Manz has to have influenced Hopper’s role in David Lynch’s *Blue Velvet*. […Lees verder]
Tent City Benefit
Thursday February 13th 2014, Tent City Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Tent city’s this project started of as dignity village and has been a little village that consist of a few tents put together these villages are self-governed, drug and alcohol free, and built around principals of love and respect for self and others. There are a lot of tent city’s with different reasons housing refugees and people hit by the crisis with this benefit I want to raise money to help and support these projects.
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