Benefit VoKu for fire victims in Mumbai’s “squatted” settlements

By: börek - April 22nd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 24 April 2023, Benefit VoKu for fire victims in Mumbai’s “squatted” settlements. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

On 13th March, a fire broke out in one of Mumbai’s informal settlements called Appapada. Ground reports from activists state that 2000 families, or 10,000 people have lost their homes. Appapada, located amidst a forest, is home to the most socially marginalised communities of the city, including indigenous forest dwellers and other minorities. They have been struggling for their housing rights for decades, and faced several rounds of violent evictions from the state. This month, the poor living conditions in the settlements have once again been highlighted. Houses made of plastic sheets and scrap wood easily catch fire. Join us to raise money for replacing basic supplies of fire victims such as kitchenware, roof sheets, mats, clothes, sanitary napkins, and school books for children. All proceeds will go to Muse Foundation, a local youth group working directly with fire victims.

Food: Indian, vegan

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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Proxy Cafe, film subtitling and captioning

By: börek - April 14th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

SUBTITLING AND CAPTIONING WORKSHOP [for tecchies, activists & film-loving wordwranglers]

Wednesday 19/4 (19:00) at Joe’s Garage: overview of all the different free tools that have emerged (and agonized) through the ages, with clues as to which one to use for what purpose. Bring your laptop (+mouse, +headphones, +pendrive) if you want to dive right into it and play around with them after the presentation.

Sunday 23/4 (14:00) at Joe’s Garage: more of the same on Sunday, but with ideas about ‘correct’ language, ‘faithful’ translation, ‘readable’ lines, etc. Why are all these things in scare quotes? Because there are rules about them, of course. Mountains of rules. Impossibly contradictory rules. It’s a tyranny out there, sister.

Wednesday 26/4 (18:00) at Filmhuis Cavia has just added an extra session for projectionists on Wednesday 26, at 18:00, plus a little ‘graduation ceremony’ on the big screen.

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

The first 30 minutes are for landing in the space, despairing about forgotten chargers or headphones, minimal introductions, and running to the shop for frozen pizza (or byo veggie leftovers).

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Language Cafe – Taal Cafe

By: börek - April 14th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

New weekly event starting in april 2023, every sunday from 4 till 6pm, Language Cafe. First edition on sunday 2nd april 2023.

This language cafe is all about language exchanging and learning through socializing!

Come hang out with us where we help each other improve our skills and meet new people. We’re open to all languages and levels, whether you aim to practice Dutch, English, Arabic, German, or any other language!
Click on the link below to indicate the language you desire to learn or practice and which one you would like to teach!
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/qzUnTVyAynCQthtcXpqylWt27l6CN+An52I3LQDwl+w/

This week’s session will serve as an introduction to see everyone’s preferences, we will set together to chat over a cup of tea or coffee, and feel free to bring any game or material you would like to use.

From next week we can start matching individuals and groups with similar interests!
Join us every Sunday from 16:00 to 18:00 for some language learning fun.

Every week will include different sorts of activities and games to make language learning an exciting experience!
Attention: This is not a class and there are no teachers so don’t hesitate to jump in whenever you want.

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Radical Sunday School

By: börek - April 14th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

New weekly event starting in april 2023, every sunday from 6 till 8pm, Radical Sunday School. First edition on sunday 2nd april 2023, Introduction // On Teaching.

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paolo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

The first session will be introductory, and we will gather ideas collectively on how we would like to run future sessions. This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

If it so goes, there is one thing already planned that we can discuss for the first session, if we choose to do so, and it is a bit of an unorthodox mesh of things. Centering on the question of whether teaching is even possible, we can discuss the role education plays in our lives, the moments we teach and are being taught, and how different educational theories view teaching differently. It might be interesting to look at Danish Folk High Schools, their history and emergence as voluntary “schools for life”, their use of myth, story, and practical labour. It might even be interesting to think of Christian mystic and anarchist Simone Weil’s ideas on education and the practice of attention. Or Paolo Freire’s emancipatory and dialogical education aiming to stimulate a critical consciousness. Attention might drift elsewhere and we needn’t discuss this necessarily. It is merely a suggestion. Let’s see where we land together!

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ROSA benefit

By: börek - April 12th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 13 April 2023, ROSA benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are part of ROSA (Radical Organisation of Students in Amsterdam), a group of radical leftist students. For international women’s day we held a week of action: we hosted a movie night on the pro-choice movement in Argentina, invited a speaker to discuss socialist feminism, and held a menstrual product drive to donate to rejected refugees in the Netherlands. Tonight we are raising money to cover the costs associated with posters, banners, flyers, etc. Come join us.

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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Benefit dinner, screening and info talk in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

By: börek - April 7th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Filmavond, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 10 April 2023, Benefit dinner, screening and info talk in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Soli-event for the International 41bis Mobilization. The 41bis Mobilization started in support of the hunger strike that Alfredo Cospito started in october 2022.
The soli-money goes to Cassa AntiRepressione delle Alpi occidentali and La Lima. These are the anti-rep groups based in Italy who support anarchists that are under repression around the mobilization of 41bis.
On the event the documentary ‘Until my last breath’ will be shown. There will be a small infotalk discussion about insurrectionary anarchism in the South of Europe and South America.
We have 3 propositions to discuss insurrectiony anarchism in the North European context, but feel free to bring your own propositions in addition, or to change the course of discussion!
Date & Time:

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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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: La comunidad (Álex de la Iglesia, 2000)

By: börek - April 7th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 9 april 2023, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: La comunidad * 2000 * (Common Wealth) * Directed by by Álex de la Iglesia * 110 minutes * In Spanish with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.

After the dictator Franco died in the mid-70s, Spain became a democracy and people celebrated. But catchwords like ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ can be tricky, and are often just a feel-good ruse for capitalism. In his own special way, Spain’s enfant terrible film director Álex de la Iglesia turns to Alfred Hitchcock to expose the darker aspects of the new Spain.

The premise of this black comedy is dead simple… when a middle-aged real estate agent (Carmen Maura) is sent to sell a Madrid apartment, she accidentally discovers a small fortune (300 million pesetas) a dead neighbor had stashed away. She secretly takes the money, and thinks she has hit a gold mine. This already shows a kind of Hitchcockian twist, revealing the murderous greed under the surface of bourgeois everyday life. But when it turns out the neighbors also had their eyes on the cash and were just waiting for the old man to croak, things really go nuts, turning the tale into a brutal farce of secret plots, dirty deals and backstabbing.

Director Alex De Iglesia has a reputation for conjuring up his own brand of madness, cranking his movies so tight they become over-the-top absurd. This approach goes against the grain of most flicks these days that wallow in a cesspool of graphic violence. When De Iglesia uses violence there is always an aspect of flamboyant panache that saves it from becoming too serious. In the end this is a punchy black humored critique of neo-liberal capitalism, bordering on a horror film. Winner of 3 Goya awards, including one for the lead actress Carmen Maura.

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

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Benefit Voku for Mapuche Community “Lof Buchile/Oyarzo- Calfú”

By: börek - April 1st, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 3rd april 2023, Benefit Voku for Mapuche Community “Lof Buchile/Oyarzo- Calfú” in El Bolson- Patagonia. The anti-authoritarian collective Ajo Negro is cooking, food served from 7pm, no reservation.

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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