Benefit Alerta Alerta Festival

By: börek - April 1st, 2016  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Alerta_Alerta_FestivalMonday April 11th 2016, Benefit Alerta Alerta Festival, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Alerta Alerta Festival is a three day antifascist benefit event coming up on 6/7/8 May 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Expect three days of music, workshops, talks, films, art and food.
We want to bring together different cultures and music styles under one united antifascist front plus to provide a platform for antifascist folk to get together, have fun, meet and discuss. Especially now that we can see far right groups developing all across Europe including the Netherlands. We have seen across Europe that organised ultra-nationalist and Neo-Nazi movements are growing and pose a threat to anyone that opposes their world view.
The idea is to create an event that is open to everyone and we hope to achieve that by providing a multifaceted event that combines talks/lectures with self defence workshops/kickboxing to kids activities and tattooing plus more.
All the proceeds from the benefit at Joes Garage will go towards the organising costs of the festival such as printing promotional material and merchandise. The festival itself will be a benefit for AFA Nederland and local antifascist causes/prisoner support (tba).
Alerta Alerta Festival: https://alertaalertafestival.wordpress.com […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Norma Rae

By: börek - April 1st, 2016  Filed under: Filmavond

Norma_RaeSunday April 10th 2016, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Norma Rae, 1970. Directed by Martin Ritt, 114 minutes. In English with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begin at 9pm. Free admission.

Man, few films will show how the world has changed since the 70s than this gutsy drama. Once upon a time there were things called unions. They were formed by collectives of workers who risked their jobs for the benefit of all. Today the word ‘union’ is a pretty negative one, and they have all but vanished from the social map… but at the same time salaries in the western world are at their lowest since the ’80s, worker’s rights have been all but totally eliminated, while corporations are reporting record profits.

In a bold career-changing move, actress Sally Fields stars as a textile worker in North Carolina, who bucks the damn system and throws her life on the line. Why? Because she believes in something, and refuses to be a slave. But that’s a pretty big decision. Despite what the mainstream media tells us, most of the people who have exposed the American dream as a fraud have been attacked, blacklisted, denounced, blackballed, imprisoned, assassinated, victims of smear campaigns, and erased from social history (just as thoroughly as in any so-called communist regime). Our 20th century history is a shambles, a mess. Why? Because the real motivators of change, whether they were fighting for black power, gay rights or even unions, have been banished from the history books.

So this is a film about a normal person who decides to fight back. And its not Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson… it’s a woman. And once again we have a big film with a powerful message, that sneaked in through the Hollywood door at the end of the 70s – the kind of film that would be impossible today. Sally Fields gives a walloping performance, and it won her an academy award for best actress. The bittersweet theme music is by Jennifer Warnes, which picked up the Oscar for best song. […Lees verder]

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Freedom of Movement! Equal Rights for All! All Included Benefit

By: börek - April 1st, 2016  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

NLbloedneusMonday April 4th 2016, Freedom of Movement! Equal Rights for All! All Included Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

All Included is a small campaign organization in Amsterdam that struggles for free migration and sustainable development. We support the migrants’ movement that fights for its rights.

The current developments on the EU-borders demonstrate the power of migration that breaks the illusion of Europe as an island of equal rights, civilization, democracy and welfare(state). We support the migrants who come to our borders and welcome them. The EU has always pretended to be in control of the border security without degenerating into a Fortress Europe. Given the large numbers of migrants entering ‘irregularly’ today, the EU broke out in panic while portraying migrants as a threat and migration as a crime. A deal like the one with Turkey is not new. Other buffer states such as Morocco, Libya, Mauritania, Senegal have had to sign those deals in the past where migrants, irrespective of flight pattern, are kept outside the EU. Human rights are violated outside the EU in return of a bag of money. The war against immigrants is just more visible because it is clear that the EU cannot control the migration at its borders. We support migrants breaking through borders and confronting the image of the EU as an tolerant civilization.

All Included is involved in Afrique-Europe Interact, a partnership between African and European grassroots organizations that support free migration and sustainable development. Contacts are mainly in Western Europe (Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso, Senegal) and North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia). Themes are deportation, freedom of movement, land grabbing, corruption. All Included is also active in Watch the Med http://www.watchthemed.net/) and Alarm Phone (http://alarmphone.org/en/), a 24-hour emergency phone for those who cross the Mediterranean. Undocumented migrants in Amsterdam are where possible supported by All Included. […Lees verder]

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The Black Panthers: Vaguard of the Revolution (2015)

By: börek - April 1st, 2016  Filed under: Filmavond

black_panthersSunday April 3rd 2016, Movie night: The Black Panthers: Vaguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson, 2015, USA), 120 minutes. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm. Free admission.

“What is clear from this sober yet electrifying film is that the power of the Panthers was rooted in their insistence — radical then, radical still — that black lives matter.” A.O.Scott, NY Times

Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, whit supporter and detractors and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4316236/
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