Khunth Fundraiser

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

Monday 18 december 2023, Khunth Fundraiser. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Khunth is a collective that’s been very recently founded, which is made by and for queer arabs. Our mission is to provide a safe space for queer arabs, and it’s important to mention that our space also extends to the queer bipoc refugee/immigrant communities, and the way we will provide this space is through organizing parties, gatherings, meet-ups and more events where we can get to know each other, connect with one another and build a community together, which is now more crucial than ever given the recent political events that have been terribly bleak to say the least. For this fundraiser, we are collecting money in order to be able to cover the price of train tickets for 15 to 25 queer asylum seekers, who live in camps, so they can come and join our upcoming event that will be taking place on the 13th of January at Vrankrijk. We highly prioritize queer asylum seekers and queer refugees and our community cannot exist without them, and that’s why they’ll also be able to join our events without any entrance fees, and at this upcoming event there will be dinner served which will be offered to them for free! Since we’re a new collective, we do not have enough funds to cover all those costs on our own, especially the train tickets, which is why we’re setting-up this fundraiser. Thank you for taking the time to read this and we hope we’ll get to see you there!

Khunth https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/khunth […Lees verder]

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Cinema Italia: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970)

By: börek - December 12th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 17 Dcember 2023, Cinema Italia: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [INDAGINE SU UN CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI SOSPETTO] (19709) * Directed by Elio Petri * 115min * 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!

This unique thriller tells the story of a Roman police inspector known as “Il Dottore” (The Doctor, starring Gian Maria Volonté at his best) who has to investigate a crime in which he is involved. The moves of the inspector transform the thriller into a sharp critique of the Italian government in the 1960s and, more in general, on the oxymoronic relation between the state power and its abuse by people who should carry public responsibility over their shoulders. The system is inescapable, but, at the same time, we cannot avoid to have one — or not? The chaos produced by The Doctor’s behaviour is an invitation to reflect on our current world situation and our place in it. What kind of society do we want to live in? In the first film of an ideal trilogy on the concept of nevrosis, Elio Petri, the director of this feature film, decides to start from Power. The film had a great success internationally at its time and it became a classic, as it has something to say even after over half a century from its release.

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 the Bushulo Mother and Child Speciality Center in Hawassa, Ethiopia

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

Thursday 14 december 2023, Benefit VoKu for the Bushulo Mother and Child Speciality Center in Hawassa, Ethiopia. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are a crew from former (and present) members of ‘Foodbank Maastricht’, where food is regularly rescued from being thrown away, given away, and transformed into three-course meals, saving hundreds of kilos of food weekly, and feeding hundreds in Maastricht.
On this Thursday, we are going to cook a wonderful three-course meal from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, raising money for the healthcare of mothers and children in the south of Ethiopia.
As part of the safe motherhood program, the „Bushulo Mother and Child Speciality Center“ in Hawassa supports women during and after pregnancy. Given that the mortality rate in young mothers as well as new-borns is still extremely high in Ethiopia, structures like this one are urgently needed. There, women are receiving information about hygiene and nutrition during pregnancy, as well as information on risks while giving birth. […Lees verder]

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Benefit voku for squatters legal defence fund

By: börek - December 8th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 11 December 2023, Benefit voku for squatters legal defence fund. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come and eat some tasty vegan food and donate to the squatters legal defence fund. We tried to beat Blackstone in court, sadly we lost because they argued they are so rich they can pay whatever the renovation will cost. Now we have to pay, please help us so we fill up the fund and squatters ain’t gotta be scared of the law ever because the solidarity is STRONG.

On October 21st, during the ADEV demo, Prinsengracht 804 and 806 were revealed as squatted. Blackstone took the squatters to court. Squatters lost the houses on November 10th. https://en.squat.net/2023/10/22/amsterdam-two-houses-owned-by-blackstone-squatted-during-the-adev-demo/ […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Nakba film

By: börek - December 4th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 10 December 2023, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Nakba film * free screening * doors open at 8pm * intro & film start at 8.30

At the beginning of this flick, the director comes across a man who tells the story of a secret that everyone else denies and says is a fabrication. But as audio tapes and photographs are taken out of cardboard boxes, the horrible truth of what happened in the village is reconstructed. Additional archival film material, including unused news material that was shot by the BBC, is also brought in to help uncover the tragedy.

Now a cosy gentrified place, the very name of the town becomes tainted, the place feels like a horror story. This is a dynamite documentary that almost feels like a detective story at times, and one that is absolutely crucial to understand current events today. Besides laying out historical events, we are set on a course to wonder at the power of collective amnesia, or rather the forced-amnesia of an entire population. So in that light, although the film is about Israel in 1948, it could also be applicable to many places around the world. For example, it’s similar to how people in America treat their history of the Native American Indians, or the dropping of atomic bombs on civilian targets in Japan. And since we are living in Holland, I would extend that also to how Jews were treated here during World War II when 82% of the Jewish population were sent to death camps, and yet Holland only likes to talk about its almost nonexistent “resistance movement”.

Events are not isolated. History is always contextual or not at all. One has to always look at the bigger picture and not simply emotionally respond to a single incident, otherwise it makes no sense. So in order to understand something that burst out two months ago in Israel and Palestine, you have to also take into account an incident that happened in 1948. Today, as Gaza shifts from an “open air concentration camp” to a death camp, it’s important to understand what kick-started the problem. In 1948 Israel waged its ‘war of independence’, which meant hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed to make room for the new state of Israel. This film examines one small village – – and uses it as a microcosm for a larger tragedy that happened all across Palestine known as “Al Nakba” – the disaster. The film also explores why recognition of the “Nakba” is taboo in Israeli society. And before we jump to any conclusions, let’s keep in mind that the director of this film is Israeli.

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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ORCA (Organized students for Radical Climate Action) with SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) Voku

By: börek - December 4th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 7 december 2023, ORCA (Organized students for Radical Climate Action) with SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) Voku. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This evening, ORCA (Organised students for Radical Climate Action) and SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) come together in a shared effort to cook a cheap, vegan dinner for you.
ORCA is a student group, primarily made up by UvA (Universiteit van Amsterdam) students that advocates for a vision of true climate justice that addresses the root causes of the crises. We share an intersectional, anti-capitalist, antifascist worldview and oppose any kinds of oppression and discrimination. This includes an abolitionist approach to borders, police and (neo)colonialism. We believe in bottom-up revolutionary organising and a new world based on mutual radical care, solidarity, and a regenerative culture. Our goals include the decarbonisation, democratisation, and decolonisation of the Dutch higher education system, and we reject the neoliberalisation of our society, including our educational spaces. Want to find out more? Come to the Voku & have a chat.
Students for Justice in Palestine Amsterdam is a democratic collective of Amsterdam students standing in solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We are a fully independent and autonomous group. Our activism is firmly rooted in anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and feminist principles.

ORCA (Organised students for Radical Climate Action) https://squ.at/r/9qpd
SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) https://squ.at/r/6015 […Lees verder]

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Proxy Cafe, DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux (Part 1)

By: börek - December 4th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 6 December 2023, Proxy Cafe, DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux (Part 1), from 18:00 to 22:00. Workshop starts at 20 o’clock.

How to DJ workshop with Mixxx on Linux and not only! Mixxx is a software for virtual DJing, which is free and opensource, available for GNU/Linux, Windows, Macos and Android. We will invite some DJs from Leftover Radio that will show you the program, basic of music mixing and some tricks! Bring your computer and a pair of headphones if you want to do some “hands on” exercises during the evening.
You can expect as always the Proxy Cafe vibes with music, people talking and chilling, hacking, computers fixing and our famous frozen pizzas 🙂
The second part of the workshop will be done in January 2024.

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

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LAG benefit voku

By: börek - December 4th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 4 december 2023, LAG benefit voku, Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

LAG is a hacklab that has been active for over 10 years, situated in the binnenpret. It is a space with many different focuses, that takes pride in not trying to define itself to much. Technology seems to be a pretty recurring subject though. You can find more information on the website: https://laglab.org […Lees verder]

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