Benefit for Axiepot Haarlem

By: börek - January 1st, 2015  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

wgw_haarlemThursday January 8th 2015, Benefit for Axiepot Haarlem, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm [Nederlands beneden]

What is the Axiepot?
The Axiepot supports activism in Haarlem, from small actions to big demo’s. Donate and help us make Haarlem a diverse and lively place that is owned and run by the people that live there, not corporations and speculants!
De Axiepot has existed for many years and supports actions, demo’s and the squatting movement of Haarlem. They financially support social-cultural initiatives like a give away shop, small practice spaces for bands and workspaces for artists, but also smaller things like banner workshop, stickers and t-shirts. They also support the local squats with money for court cases, renovations and fines.
This benefit will also include a squatting update from Haarlem, which will focus on squatting in Haarlem after the squatting ban, the eviction of the Slachthuis and more.
http://axiepot.kraakgroephaarlem.nl/ […Lees verder]

Benefit for Apatris, Greek anarchist newspaper

By: börek - January 1st, 2015  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Apatris_issue_26_page_1Monday January 5th 2015, Benefit for Apatris, Greek anarchist newspaper. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

The street newspaper APATRIS began in 2009 from Heraklion (Crete) and for a year was distributed only locally. In 2010, comrades from other places in Crete began to collaborate with the project. Since then and for about 2.5 years APATRIS has been issued as a Pancreatan anarchist newspaper. The next issue will be published in the second week of October 2013 and it has a nationwide character, i.e. it is based on the collaboration of comrades throughout Greece.

The basic standpoint of the initial editorial team, according to the editorial of the first issue (March 2009), referred to the inability of existing information structures to be used as reliable means of news broadcasting and free expression and therefore any attempt with a reformist character would not be effective. As a means of counter-information, APATRIS may contribute to the co-production of an independent social discourse. As a result, the individual responsibility of each author is stressed. They claim that: “The purpose of this publication is not to shape a common line or agenda that suggests the soundest solution. Our aim is to hear opinions not necessarily in complete agreement with each other, views and events carefully buried by the mass media and altered under the weight of authoritarian interests, but also to perceive the developments around us in order to develop our texts and our actions”. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: Incendies (2010)

By: börek - January 1st, 2015  Filed under: Filmavond

IncendiesSunday January 4th 2015, Movie Night: Incendies (Scorched) by Denis Villeneuve (130 minutes, 2010). In Arabic and French, with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

People who have lived through noteworthy experiences – fascinating or tragic – have always inspired writers and filmmakers. Soha Bechara is one such figure. A militant with the communist resistance to the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, Bechara was imprisoned without trial when she was 21 for trying to assassinate Antoine Lahad, the leader of the Israel-backed South Lebanon Army. She spent 10 years in Khiam prison, six of them in solitary confinement.
Bechara’s story has captured the imagination of Lebanese filmmakers and since her release from Khiam in 1998, she has appeared in a number of documentary studies. Now, in the wake of these artful documentaries, the first of the fiction films has come: “Incendies”. Villeneuve’s film is based on the play of the same name by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad. The plot of “Incendies” revolves around the character of political activist Nawal Marwan, who lived through a harrowing detention before leaving her fictional home country for a life of exile in Canada. Her story is loosely inspired by Bechara’s own experiences. […Lees verder]

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