Open Discussion and benefit dinner: Migrant rights in the Mediterranean
Thursday October 29th 2015, Open Discussion and benefit dinner: Migrant rights in the Mediterranean. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Migrants coming to Europe flee conflict, brutal political regimes, poverty, and fear. Many of them are harmed on the way either by state or non-state actors and thousands die. A number of questions arise: Who is responsible for harms to migrants in the Mediterranean? How do powerful actors evade their responsibility? What is the role of corporations? What is Frontex and what role does it play in the Mediterranean? What can we do?
Let’s try to find the answers together.
Taste Before You Waste will prepare the dinner, which will be served with a kindly donation for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), treating newly arrived migrants in Greece.
Speakers:
Theodore Baird,(researcher and migrant rights advocate, VU University Amsterdam
Mariana Gkliati, researcher, Leiden University
Pim Fischer, lawyer and advocate for the Wij Zijn Hier group
Yasmine Soraya, Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Union (IMWU)
Commentator: Abulhassan Al-Jaberi, activist and media critic
Moderator: Patrick van Berlo, researcher, Leiden University
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchen, every monday and thursday, 7pm, vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation.
We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. Enjoying it is a must. If you want to know which days are still available in the schedule, send an email to joe [at] squat [dot] net and book yourself the night. You can, of course, also participate by rolling up your sleeves and doing the dishes.
Benefit and Info-night about JAAN (Jakarta Animal Aid Network)
Monday October 26th 2015, Benefit and Info-night about JAAN (Jakarta Animal Aid Network). Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Thousands of animals in Indonesia live sad lives. They are often chained, caged, neglected, tortured and abandoned. JAAN is a non-profit organization that strives to reduce their suffering and provide them better living conditions. They believe that no animal deserves cruelty and no wild animal should spend its life in captivity.
Tonight, some members of the organization will join us and gives us more information about the ongoing campaigns and their work in Indonesia.
JAAN operates solely on donations from individuals and does not receive any financial support from the government so all the benefit from the evening will go to support them on their work.
Movie Night: Buffet Froid (1979)
Sunday October 25th 2015, Movie Night: Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier, 1979, 89 minutes). Door opens at 8pm, film begin at 9pm. Free admission.
Whilst well received in France, Bertrand Bliers films are hardly known abroad. Starring Bertrand Bliers own father and the ambitious Gerard Depardieu, Buffet Froid holds the middle between an absurdistic theatre play and a cynical comedy film.
The characters are victimised by their own personalities, leaving unclear wether it is fate or their stubbornness that eventually does them in.
This movie never ceases to surprise you, larded with theatrical dialogue and a fair share of sarcasm. It is one of those little treasures of French 1970s cinema.
“Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears : he is Alphonse’s wife’s murderer… Bizarre and unreal.” […Lees verder]
Bellies beyond borders, benefit for Guerilla Kitchen Amsterdam
Thursday October 22nd 2015, Bellies beyond borders, benefit for Guerilla Kitchen Amsterdam. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.
Armed with a camera and cooking gear, two girls will go for a peaceful fight against foodwaste and borders. Bellies beyond borders is a creative foodwaste kitchen-on-wheels to welcome refugees in Europe!
Kilos of ugly carrots, one-day-old bread and other abandoned food are rescued from the container by Guerilla Kitchen Amsterdam over the last months. In partnerships with local stores and supermarkets, surplus products are collected to share with the community. Big cooking sessions and free supermarkets fed hundreds of friends and strangers.
This is a story to be continued.. Two girls will leave the headquarters of Guerilla Kitchen Amsterdam to continue the mission on a global scale: Fill bellies not bins – beyond borders!
Whilst people in other parts of the planet struggle to fill their bellies, the West fills up bins with foodwaste. Whilst refugees run away from unsave situations, European governments block their route with walls to protect the Western comfort. The world upside down!
Time to reverse this system and create a scenario of sharing and caring. The female guerilla fighters will share their pots and pans their recepies, and creativity with refugees all over Europe. […Lees verder]
Cinema of the Dam’d presents: Hell House
Sunday October 18th 2015, Cinema of the Dam’d presents: Hell House. Directed by George Ratliff, 2001, USA, 85 minutes. Shorts at 20:30, feature at 21:00. Free admission.
This disturbing documentary takes viewers on a terrifying tour of a Halloween “hell house” in suburban Texas. Every year, the teenage members of Trinity Church stage a Christian version of a haunted house, filled with the real life “horrors” of abortion, homosexuality and drug use. The film follows the church group as they audition, rehearse and finally scare the bejesus out of visitors, all in an attempt to save them from eternal damnation. The scariest film about fundamentalist Christianity you will ever see. Rare screening!
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/T57Dv6NcJWY
Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Doors open at 8pm, film begins at 9pm, free entrance. You want to play a movie, let us know: joe [at] squat [dot] net
Benefit for We Are Here
Thursday October 15th 2015, Benefit for We Are Here. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm. One woman from We Are Here will take the microphone and sing!
On May 29th 2015, after a long juridical battle, Wijn Zijn Hier was leaving the Vluchtgarage in Zuid Oost. Police used excessive violence against demonstrators protesting in front of the city hall, arresting 7 refugees. Before this incident, on April 15th, another building was liberated on the Sande Bakhuijzenstraat 2, in West. This new home was known as the Vlutchttoren. A verdict had stated that this building could be used until end of August. On June 4th, 80 refugees from Wij Zijn Hier squatted Pieter Calandlaan 1, a former city council office in Slotervaart. On August 23rd, a former art school on the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam Oost was squatted and taken over by Wij Zijn Hier. The group of refugees was asked by the owner, the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK), to leave the building before September 1st. So they did and as soon as they were gone, the owner moved in a few anti-squatters. On September 30th, Wij Zijn Hier was leaving the Vluchttoren and are now looking for housing.
On Friday October 16th, the Wij Zijn Hier refugees are calling for a demonstration at 13:00 in front of the Vredespaleis in Den Haag. Between 14:00 and 16:00, there will be an exhibition about the situation in Yemen.
Wij Zijn Hier http://wijzijnhier.org/
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchen, every monday and thursday, 7pm, vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation.
We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. Enjoying it is a must. If you want to know which days are still available in the schedule, send an email to joe [at] squat [dot] net and book yourself the night. You can, of course, also participate by rolling up your sleeves and doing the dishes.
Benefit Dinner for Refugees in Lesvos Greece
Monday October 12th 2015, Benefit Dinner for Refugees in Lesvos Greece, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm
Refugees are people fleeing violence, persecution and death. The journey may involve risking these things too. The destination should not.
During the last months the volumes of refugees coming to Lesvos has raised to around 1500 daily. State, European or other NGO initiatives are either desperately poor or non-existing. Local volunteers along with many coming from abroad are trying to provide help concerning basic needs of the refugees like shelter, food, clothing and medical care.
This benefit dinner aims to provide the donations to PIKPA in Lesvos, which is a squatted old camping area run only by volunteers. Currently in this self-organized camp there are around 160 refugees living in tents and wooden dorms. There is a grassroots group called “The village of all together” doing its best to host as many possible in this place. Still, many crucial needs need to be covered.
Here is the online donation campaign for those who can’t make it on Wednesday and details about where the money go: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/33854-support-refugeesgr-in-lesvos-greece
Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchen, every monday and thursday, 7pm, vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation.
We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. Enjoying it is a must. If you want to know which days are still available in the schedule, send an email to joe [at] squat [dot] net and book yourself the night. You can, of course, also participate by rolling up your sleeves and doing the dishes.
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