Esperanto course #7, #8, #9

By: börek - March 29th, 2022  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 2nd, 16th and 30th March 2022, Esperanto course. Three times this March. Door opens at 6pm, lesson starts at 7pm, until 9pm.

Esperanto was invented in 1887 by a Polish ophthalmologist named L.L. Zamenhof, who hoped his creation would help to bridge differences which stem from language barriers. Zamenhof saw a turbulent world divided by language, and he believed that the languages people already spoke were over saturated with history, politics, and power, making it impossible to communicate clearly. Esperanto was a fresh start, a technology that would allow its speakers to sidestep the difficulties of natural languages altogether.
He made it as easy to learn as possible, with no irregular verbs, a vocabulary adapted from Romance language roots, and a simple, genderless, almost caseless grammar.
Come and learn the basics of Esperanto and experience for yourself how easy it is to learn!
There´ll also be some proficient Esperanto speakers (esperantistoj) present at the event so you´ll have a chance to hear what a conversation in Esperanto actually sounds like!
Join to the free Esperanto course.

Tags:

Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine, Operation Solidarity fundraiser

By: börek - March 21st, 2022  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 28 March 2022, Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine, Operation Solidarity fundraiser. Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Various social spaces in Amsterdam are expressing solidarity with people affected by the war in Ukraine by organising benefit nights. With the Russian military invasion continuing, more and more people are facing difficult conditions, either on the move or staying amid the war. With each new day of attacks, the need for support is increasing. All donations from these events will go to Operation Solidarity, a Ukraine based anarchist initiative formed right after the attacks in February 2022.
At the moment Operation Solidarity is busy with organising and building structures of direct support for people who’ve been affected by the war as well as with arranging supplies for anti-authoritarian defense forces. The funding that the project is receiving goes to grassroots initiatives that are arranging basic supplies in places where there are shortages of food and medicine, organising transportation to and from the borders and finding temporary accommodation for people who are fleeing. Operation Solidarity doesn’t differentiate providing aid between European and non-European people.
This war, just like any, is a product of borders and authoritarian societies. We refuse to accept the ideals of nation states and stand in solidarity with the people who are refusing to bend under dictatorship.
All profits from the events will support the horizontal volunteer project Operation Solidarity, an anarchist collective that is currently establishing mutual aid networks with Ukraine.
Operation Solidarity https://operation-solidarity.org/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Tags: , ,

Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork (Eyal Sivan, 2009)

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 27 March 2022, Movie night: Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork (Eyal Sivan, 2009), 86 minutes, English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, Film starts at 20:30.

In deconstructing the world famous ‘Jaffa oranges’ brand and probing its iconographic history director, Eyal Sivan delves into orientalist fantasies of the Holy Land and the Zionist promise of a “desert” that colonists would be bringing to “bloom”. Sivan uses photographic and filmic archives, poems and paintings, to narrate the history that goes back to a once economically thriving Arab Jaffa, whose prolific and profit-generating orange groves attracted local and neighboring labor in droves for picking, packaging and export. After the Nakba and the expulsion of the Palestinian population, the Israeli state rebranded ‘Jaffa’ as a symbol of an Arab-free Israel. Sivan interviews historians, political analysts and workers, retracing how an orange harvest, once the site of a cooperation, transformed gradually into a symbol of the escalating conflict and war.

Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris. Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem. After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc.
Presently Sivan in an Honorary Fellow at Univerty of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.
http://eyalsivan.info/

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

Tags: , ,

Proxy Cafe, Tails OS workshop

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 23 March 2022 from 18:00 to 22:00, Proxy Cafe, Tails OS workshop.

Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship. Enjoy the Internet like it should be.
Shut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Tails leaves no trace on the computer when shut down.
Tails includes a selection of applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely. Everything in Tails is ready-to-use and has safe defaults.
You can download Tails for free and independent security researchers can verify our work. Tails is based on Debian GNU/Linux.
https://tails.boum.org/

Who uses Tails? Activists use Tails to hide their identities, avoid censorship, and communicate securely. Journalists and their sources use Tails to publish sensitive information and access the Internet from unsafe places. Domestic violence survivors use Tails to escape surveillance at home. You whenever you need extra privacy in this digital world.

Proxy Cafe. Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam
Twice a month on wednesday from 18:00 till 22:00 @ Joe’s Garage and randomly @ LAG.
https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Tags: ,

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Die endlose Nacht (Will Tremper, 1963)

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 20 March 2022, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Die endlose Nacht (Will Tremper, 1963), 83 minutes. In German with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30.

There is thick fog over Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, and an announcement is made that all flights to West Germany are canceled. Since the airport is in East Germany, many people are not allowed outside and so they are left stranded, hoping in the morning things will clear up.

This film follows six of the people who are caught up in the building, walking aimlessly through the near empty airport. The film is made up of their encounters, and their attempts to make something interesting happen. In some ways, it has a bit of the mood of the pandemic and all the lockdowns… suddenly thrown into a void, a bit lost, with plenty of time to kill, and not knowing how long it will take.

The people who are drifting around are from both sides of the Iron Curtain, and therefore meeting each other for the first time, both suspicious of the other side. To further this East-West connection, the theme song is a tune by the Andrzej Trzaskowskí Quintet, a wicked Polish jazz band featuring the vocals of Wanda Warska.

This will be a high-definition screening.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

Tags: , ,

The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 13 March 2022, Movie night: The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), 90 minutes. Doors open at 20:00, Film starts at 20:30.

Romantic comedy-drama staring Dunye as Cheryl, a young black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during the period. The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film directed by a black lesbian and is considered a landmark in New Queer Cinema. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

Tags:

Proxy Cafe, DNS workshop

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 9 March 2022 from 18:00 to 22:00, Proxy Cafe, DNS workshop.

Domain Name System is a hierarchical and decentralized truth base that is primarily used to link domain name with network address. We will explain both the infrastructure of the System and how are queries run though it. Moreover we will discuss DNSSEC which is a pack of security extensions for the original protocol.

Proxy Cafe. Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam
Twice a month on wednesday from 18:00 till 22:00 @ Joe’s Garage and randomly @ LAG.
https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Tags:

Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 7 March and Monday 28 March 2022, Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine. Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

All benefits will go to ABC Dresden to be then distributed to groups on location. Vegan food.
ABC Dresden published this callout on 24 February: Support the Anarchist Community in Ukraine during the war. At 5 AM on Thursday, February 24th, 2022, Putin started the invasion into Ukraine. Explosions have been reported throughout the largest cities in the country. This clearly shows that this is not just about the eastern provinces of Lugansk and Donezk.
Now it is time for us to support our friends and comrades. People have begun to organize in order to support people directly.
You can help people bring their relatives and friends into safety, support people who need to leave the country and find a new home, to organize resistance in city neighbourhoods and to acquire general as well as medical care in order to survive. Furthermore there are many people from other countries of the region such as Belarus or Russia, who have sought shelter in the Ukraine for the last few years. With the Russian invasion they are again no longer safe within Ukraine, as it was the Russian government from which they fled in the first place. Please donate to support our friends in Ukraine or here to the given account with reference to UKRAINE. https://abcdd.org/2022/02/24/unterstutzt-die-anarchistische-community-in-der-ukraine-wahrend-dem-krieg/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Tags: ,