Calais Migrant Solidarity benefit, Call for international solidarity and action, info night about the situation in Calais

By: börek - February 1st, 2014  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 10th 2014, Calais Migrant Solidarity benefit, Call for international solidarity and action, info night about the situation in Calais, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

In Calais, hundreds of migrants are facing a collective punishment, a daily harassment and humiliation from the French state. They are regularly counted, photographed, id checked or taken away to the foreign police and detention centres. Riot and border police are constantly patrolling a city in decay. One building on ten would be empty. The racist Calais mayor has been inciting fear amongst the local population and launched an appeal asking residents to inform on migrant shelters and activists. Cops evicted almost every single squatted building. Tensions run high when refugees have nowhere to sleep except in park bushes, under bridges or in overcrowded squats that are constantly under threat. Migrants are living off one meal a day and are carrying everything they own, while spending days and nights at the hands of cops who chase them around the city and mafia who exploit and steal everything they have.

Check this out: Calais Migrant Solidarity https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/ […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: The Society of the Spectacle

By: börek - February 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 9th 2014, Movie night: The Society of the Spectacle. Director: Guy Debord. Writers: Guy Debord (book), Guy Debord (screenplay), 90 minutes, French videocopy with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the most influential figure in the Situationist International, a small experimental group that played a key role in catalyzing the May 1968 revolt in France. The Society of the Spectacle (1973) is Debord’s film adaptation of his own 1967 book. As passages from the book are read in voiceover the text is illuminated, via direct illustration or various types of ironic contrast, by clips from Russian and Hollywood features (Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Shanghai Gesture, Johnny Guitar, Mr. Arkadin, etc.), TV commercials, publicity shots, softcore porn, street scenes, and news and documentary footage, including glimpses of Spain 1936, Hungary ’56, Watts ’65, France ’68, and other revolts of the past. Intertitle quotes from Marx, Machiavelli, Clausewitz or Tocqueville occasionally break the flow. […Lees verder]

Benefit for legal costs of an attempt to prevent arrest

By: börek - February 1st, 2014  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 3rd 2014, Benefit for legal costs of an attempt to prevent arrest, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Recently some friends of ours attempted to prevent the arrest of 2 so called “illegal” refugees. Luckily, the refugees did not get arrested. It was a spontaneous and direct act out of solidarity, which unfortunately resulted in huge legal costs. Now we don’t want that our friends (or ourselves, or anyone else) refrain from repeating such actions because of fear for fines. Fortunately there’s a thing called mutual aid: Come eat at Joe’s, to share the load, to support (y)our friends, and to support all refugees! No borders, no nations! […Lees verder]

Movie night: Ex Drummer (2007)

By: börek - February 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 2nd, Movie night: Ex Drummer by Koen Mortier, 2007, 104′, in flemish with english subtitles. Exceptionally, the film will start at 10pm. Door opens after 9pm.

Flemish film directed by Koen Mortier, Ex Drummer is an underground classic of punk overkill. The film is based on a novel by Belgian author Herman Brusselmans.
Three drug-addled, misfit punk rock musicians are looking for a drummer. They approach Dries, a well known writer whose arrogant self assurance and yuppie lifestyle make him an unlikely candidate, but the fact that he can′t play the drums appeals to the band′s punk sensibility. Fascinated by these dysfunctional characters, Dries joins the group. His arrival awakens the personal disputes and family feuds latent in the band. A shocking, hardcore, blood-spattered depiction of small time rock musicians losing the plot rather than living the dream. […Lees verder]