Benefit for OccupyUvA

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 9th February 2023, Benefit for OccupyUvA. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

On January 16th 2023, the Amsterdamse Academische Club, building from the UvA (University of Amsterdam) on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal 235, was occupied by a wide coalition of different (student) groups, among them Autonomous Student Struggle (ASS), Decolonization club, Students for Justice in Palestine, Activisten Partij UvA, University Rebellion, Mokum Kraakt, End Fossil Occupy NL, and Rood Amsterdam. Their main demands: UvA cuts ties with Shell, UvA reveals all ties with the fossil fuel industry. Autonomous Spaces for students and staff for discussion and education on Decolonization, Decarbonization and Democratization. The same evening, riot police evicted the Amsterdamse Academische Club and arrested 28 people. Those arrested inside are accused of breaking domestic peace. For such an occupation and future actions, some costs were made. Donations will go towards these costs.

– Students and staff occupy UvA! 16 January 2023 https://indymedia.nl/node/52949
– ASS statement about the UvA occupation, 24 January 2023 https://indymedia.nl/node/52979
– University Rebellion http://universityrebellion.nl/occupation-at-uva/

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.

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Esperanto Film Night: 1910 de Exploring Esperanto (2022)

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond, Workshop

Merkredo 8 Februaro 2023, Filmovespero: 1910 de Exploring Esperanto (2022)
Speciala evento de la serio Esperanto-Atelieroj en Ĝogaraĝo! Ni kunspektos “1910,” filmon el la teatraĵo kiu premieris dum la 107-a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto en Montrealo, 2022.
Pordoj malfermiĝas je horo 18:00 por kuna vespermanĝeto (bv kunporti ion!), kurso por komencantoj komenciĝas strikte je horo 18:30, progresantoj je horo 19:30. Poste ni kunspektos la filmon 1910. Scivolemuloj ĉiam bonvenas.
Dufoje monate merkrede: 18-21:30, Esperanto-kurso

Wednesday 8 February 2023: Esperanto Film Night: 1910 de Exploring Esperanto (2022).
Doors open at 18:00, beginner’s course starts at 18:30 (strict), film starts at 20:30 (strict).
Special night at Joe’s Esperanto Workshops! This evening, we will watch together “1910,” presented by Exploring Esperanto, a film of the play which premiered during the 107th World Esperanto Congress in Montreal in 2022.

As usual, we have courses at two levels: absolute beginners and intermediate. We learn the Esperanto language along with its culture. Sometimes fluent speakers join in, do not miss the occasion; you will listen to advanced speakers with their wonderful Esperanto life stories. Official synopsis:
British Esperantist William Mann travels through time to the year 2022 to tell the congress members in Montreal about his own experience traveling to America with Dr. Zamenhof on the huge ocean liner George Washington for the 6th International Congress of Esperanto more than a century ago. Written and Produced by Yevgeniya (Ĵenja) Amis Directed by Alena Adler Filmed and Edited by Alexander Vaughn (Alekso) Miller Actors : Mr. Mann: Garry Evans Mary: Alena Adler Introduction: Nicolas Viau Musicians : Piano: Étienne (Stefano) Laflamme Soprano: Kristina Miroshkina
Absolute beginners and curious persons are always welcome!
Every two wednesdays at Joe’s Garage: 18-22:00, Esperanto workshop

Benefit for No Border Kitchen Lesvos

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 2nd and Monday 6th February 2023, Benefit for No Border Kitchen Lesvos. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Two benefit diners for shipping cost to supply No Border Kitchen with winter clothes to distribute to refugees stuck on Lesvos. The situation on Lesvos in the Greek archipelago is getting worse and worse. It has being criminalized to help people, so we still try to do what we can. For instance to send them winter clothes.
At the moment there are a lot of refuges trying to cross from Turkey to Lesvos. A lot of them are being pushed back by Frontex and the Hellenic coast guard. The prime minister of Greece Mitsotakis from the right-populist party Neo Demokratia, is denying it’s hapening and saying “these rumors are anti Greek propaganda made by the Turkish state. The push backs are very violent where the rubber boats full migrants are being pierced and the motor gets taken and then pushed back in Turkish territorial waters. The ones actually do make it and set foot on European land are then faced a lot of repression and by bureaucratic measures are forced to be stuck on Lesvos. To help these people is being more and more criminalized and you can now up to face two years in prison for saving someone from drawning, with the charge of human trafficking.
One of the things NBK (No Border Kitchen) is still able to do, is providing people with food and clothing. These benefit events are to raise money to ship the winter clothes to Lesvos. So people that are suck there don’t have to suffer by the cold as well.

STOP PUSH BACKS. FUCK FRONTEX. NO BORDERS

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.

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Cinema Italia: Not Of This World (Giuseppe Piccioni, 1999)

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 5th February 2023, Cinema Italia: Fuori dal mondo [Not Of This World] (1999) * Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni * 100 min * In Italian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30. After the film, please engage in sharing comments, ideas, and inspiration with the host(s) of the evening.

What does it mean to become a nun in Italy by the end of the 20th century? Caterina has taken temporary vows and is walking in a park. One day she meets a man who gives her an abandoned baby. This encounter will change her life forever. Giuseppe Piccioni introduces us to a secret world of the Roman Catholic Church with a gentle touch and a sharp eye. We are invited to think about the relationship between individual choices and the society we decide to live in.
Far from being only an unusual portrait of Italy — with a soundtrack by Ludovico Einaudi –, this feature film has a universal message about the reasons why we are in this world and what our purpose is in life. Not Of This World is a forgotten jewel of Italian cinema, almost neglected in Italy because of the topic, which is, in many ways, still taboo in the country.
Winner of 5 David di Donatello, including best actress to Margherita Buy, in one of her more complex roles ever.

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

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February 2023 at Joe’s Garage

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Poster archive