Eight weeks to go for the Valreep. Mayor van der Laan was getting too impatient to evict the Valreep, social centre squatted since 24 july 2011. At the end of April, after yet another proposal by the squatters to legalise the building, the eviction letter was delivered not by some random cop but by Leen Schaap himself, the nostalgic police chief, commanding police forces during every eviction in Amsterdam. Schaap did not hesitate to climb the fences to make his way to the Valreep. “How do you feel about this?” dares he to ask while handing the letter. Idealen ontruim niet! (You can’t evict ideals!) announces the Valreep website. […Lees verder]
May news
Iraq War 11 Years On: What’s the Real Story
Thursday May 29th 2014, Iraq War 11 Years On: What’s the Real Story, Volkseten Vegazulu, exceptionally at 6pm.
The US led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its ongoing aftermath may be remembered as the worst tragedy of the early 21st century. It is estimated that Iraq has witnessed over 1 million excess deaths, 4.2 million injured people and 4.5 million refugees since the invasion.
– How may we understand the current situation in Iraq?
– What were the reasons and interest behind the invasion?
– What is the role of oil and multinational corporations?
– What is the role of the Netherlands?
– May we speak of Western neo-imperialism?
Join us for a lecture and lively discussion with Ali Al-jaberi.
Al-Jaberi is a political scientist and has worked as a lecturer of International Relations and journalist in Iraq.
The lecture will start at 7pm. Be there at 6pm if you would like to taste our vegan cuisine. The event is organized by Reinform in association with Kritische Studenten Amsterdam. […Lees verder]
Info-night and benefit “Surround the Parliament”, Barcelona
Monday May 26th 2014, Info-night and benefit for people arrested after “Surround the parliament” action in Barcelona, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
On 15th June 2011 thousands of people gathered at the gates of the Park de la Ciutadella in Barcelona to demonstrate their opposition to the deeply antisocial proposals being voted on that same day inside the Parliament of Catalonia. The mobilization was a decision taken during the open, transparent and horizontal debates in the massive public assemblies that were taking place at that time.
In the first week of October of that same year, the Catalan Police, the Mossos d’Esquadra made 20 random arrest. People were held for hours in cells in different police stations when the only motive for their arrest was to summons them to appear before the National High Court in Madrid, accused of a “crime against the institutions of the State”.
Almost two years after these arrests, in April and May of this year (2014) the trial will take place at the National High Court, in San Fernando de Henares, close to Madrid. The 20 defendants are facing between 3 and 8 years in jail. […Lees verder]
Movie night: Cravan Vs. Cravan (2002)
Sunday May 25th 2014, “Cravan Vs. Cravan”, a documentary by Isaki Lacuesta, 2002, 100 minutes, with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
Chic, chemical, whore, drunk, musician, worker, painter, acrobat, actor … Coward, hero, black, monkey, Don Juan, ruffian, Lord, farmer, hunter, industrial, fauna and flora. I am all things, all men and all animals Arthur Cravan
In 2002 Isaki Lacuesta presents his “film-essay” about Arthur Cravan, a poet-boxer who dedicated his life to make fun of the world, until he disappeared in 1918 in the Gulf of Mexico while he was travelling to Argentina, where he was supposed to meet his partner, Mina Loy.
The documentary begins in Lausanne, Switzerland, in an exhibition about Cravan, in which nosey bodies and experts discussed his life toasting with champagne in a bourgeois environment that surely himself would have despised. Later on, the also boxer Frank Nicotra, appears driving a car on a road that takes you to the ruins of what used to be the old home of Arthur Cravan. Nicotra, as a sort of researcher, will follow the traces of Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, his real name , from Switzerland to Mexico via Paris, London and Barcelona.
As far as it is known, I will never be civilised. Arthur Cravan […Lees verder]
Benefit Migratie-beleid.nl
Thursday May 22nd 2014, Benefit Migratie-beleid.nl, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Migratie-beleid.nl is a new project from Buro Jansen & Janssen. The website will publish as many government documents about migration as possible, whether these were made public voluntarily by the Goverment themselves or through freedom of information requests (via the Wet Openbaarheid van Bestuur WOB and Wet Inlichtingen en Veiligheidsdiensten).
The website is an online platform for critical research on migration in the Netherlands and Europe. Initially it will focus on the Netherlands, but later also on European Union migration policy. In addition to public documents, the website will have analysis, publications and research. Research not just on recent developments, but also over the last decades. Anyone can contribute by making freedom of information (WOB) requests, writing analyses, or scanning archives. […Lees verder]
Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998)
Sunday May 18th 2014, Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Directed by Guy Ritchie , 1998, 107 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” is like Tarantino crossed with the Marx Brothers if Groucho had been into chopping off fingers, and it’s a bewilderingly complex caper film, set among the low-lifes of London’s East End.
Irreverent, violent and wickedly clever, this smart-mouthed UK crime picture concerns four nice lads who get into some bad company and must get themselves out before things get really ugly. […Lees verder]
Benefit for International Conference of social actors in Congo DRC
Thursday May 15th 2014, Benefit for International Conference of social actors in Congo DRC, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Since 1996 a war torns, rapes and kills people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Several conferences of different political views have been organized without success. A big UN mission said to stabilize the region has been operating over the last ten years while the situation is only getting worse.
Thus, not to be responsible for non-assistance to people in danger facing history, we have seen fit to organize an international conference on social actors with the aim of creating a permanent social body in all of its aspects in order to promote social dynamics at the national level and lobbying at international level.
This conference will bring together the Congolese living in Europe and those living in Congo. We will associate partners of the African, American and European civil society as to benefit from their expertise in the peaceful resolution of problems.
All Included / Afrique-Europe Interact
http://www.allincluded.nl/posts/conference-congo/
http://www.afrique-europe-interact.net/?article_id=113&clang=1 […Lees verder]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Silence (1963)
Sunday May 11th 2014, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock: The Silence (Tystnaden). Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1963, 96 minutes, in Swedish with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
Considered by most to be the final statement of Ingmar Bergman’s so-called “loss of faith” trilogy, it is also considered to be one of the most erotic films of Bergman’s career. For me it unfolds almost like a sci-fi film, about the lack of community we have these days, and the dark sinister forces that we no longer speak out against. A deep-rooted angst is at the core of the film, a kind of paralysis. But I must say that although that is sincerely my gut response to this film, it can also be interpreted in loads of other ways. […Lees verder]
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