Thursday September 25, 2025, Chateau Simba Voku for Legal Costs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
We are raising funds for the legal costs for our lost squats in the centre, and a water fountain for our cat Simba. Please come and enjoy a lovely vegan meal and support your local squat! […Lees verder]
Thursday September 11, 2025, Food served from 19:00, talks and info about the Koukaki Squats Community, live music between 20:30 and 22:00 with Rainbow Monk (anarcho queer hip hop, Utrecht) and Esens (hip hop, Greece). No reservation
No squatter in prison! Campaign for the court expenses of Koukaki Squats Community
It was March 2017 when we first opened the door of 45 Matrozou str. and began repairing the building so that it could house our struggles, desires, needs and bodies. And when these, a few months later, could no longer fit in one building we opened two more buildings that were rotting abandoned in the neighborhood of Koukaki, 21 Panaitoliou str. and the Blue House (3 Arvali str.). This is how Koukaki Squats Community was created in the center of Athens.
From then until 2020, Koukaki Squats Community had been a political community that combined anarchist struggle with communal life. The doors of its houses were open for those who wished to fight back against state violence and injustice, for people who needed shelter or wished to use its public structures, for those who sought a collective way of life. It was also an open political and social space accessible to the inhabitants of one of the most gentrified neighborhoods in Athens. Τhe community participated in struggles of the squatting and anti-fascist movement, in solidarity with political prisoners, against gender violence, patriarchy, racism, exploitation of nature, against the gentrification of the neighborhood and the privatization of the nearby Philopappos Hill. In addition to political assemblies and events that were hosted, a number of public structures were operating in the houses, such as a lending library, public baths & laundries and a free clothing bazaar.
Our political position and action had been the reason why we faced arson attacks from fascist groups several times, as well as the state repression. The last one occurred in the form of evictions in three waves, 2018, 2019 and 2020, when at last the community lost the buildings once and for all. On all occasions the community mounted combative resistance to state attacks and tried to reoccupy the buildings.
The repressive forces used rubber bullets, flash grenades, physical violence and chemical weapons in the buildings and throughout the neighborhood, in response to our resistance. Neighbors and comrades that stood in solidarity were arrested as well. Most of the evictions led to courts with plenty of accusations, intending to intimidate the squatters while exhausting them psychologically and economically.
We should refer especially to the last eviction of Matrozou building in 2020, when the cops hired lawyers (including a member of the government) to support the charges in court. The court of first degree convicted our comrades to 6,5 years of imprisonment without suspension, based on 3 misdemeanor charges. Τhis was the result of a great mediatic campaign carried on by the state, where even the president of greece was publicly asking for the felony “attempt of murder” to be charged to the detainees. The sentence is only suspended until the appeal court. It’s the first time in history of Greece that squatters are at risk of going to prison, and the first time that political activists in general are at risk of going to prison without being charged with felonies. The appeal court will be happening on December 2, 2025, and we call the international squatting and anarchist movement to solidarity action for political support.
We believe that this maneuver serves the government’s purpose to eliminate the squatting movement in Greece, when at the same time inaugurates a “new reality” – connected to the New Penal Code, 2024 – where anyone who resists may be imprisoned for any charge.
For all the court cases we have gone through [which are 5 in number] we have already paid more than 10.000 euros of expenses, which have been covered by solidarity events we organized, as well as through the contribution of the comradeship of collectives and individuals. Two out of five court cases ended with an acquittal, but the rest three led to conviction and they have been appealed to a higher court.
We are now called upon to solve the problem of covering the court costs for the remaining three cases, which are estimated to total an enormous amount of 25.000 euros. This includes court fees, lawyers’ fees, as well as the court expenses in case of final conviction. For this reason we created this campaign to inform comrades and collectives in Greece and abroad, as all kinds of contribution and solidarity are important. We are available to share more details on court expenses or/and the progress of the cases. We are also open to remotely support any initiative of organizing informative events about the squats and state repression against them.
We are here and we will keep fighting. Solidarity is our weapon !
With comradeship,
The Koukaki Squats Community
https://en.squat.net/tag/koukaki-squats-community/
https://www.firefund.net/koukaki
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.
Monday August 25, 2025, Villa Mina Voku. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Help Villa Mina squat stay! Villa Mina is a squatted house at Kanaalstraat 128 in Amsterdam, the city which is flinta* centered. it has been squatted since May 2023 and has been a home for many flinta folks over the two years. we would love to keep our house alive 🙂 In order for this, we need funds for bills and general maintenance.
https://en.squat.net/tag/villa-mina/ […Lees verder]
Monday August 4, 2025, Villa Mina X MN’FA Collective fundraiser & Voku. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Join us in this joint fundraiser for Villa Mina & MN’FA Collective. We can’t wait for you to join us in supporting Villa Mina and the queers living in it! Your participation will help us cover essential bills and develop some much-needed funding. Get ready for a delightful evening filled with delicious vegan food made with love and the uplifting sounds on Arabic music. It’s going to be a fantastic experience you won’t want to miss!
Mn’Fa is a non-hierarchical collective of queer migrants, undocumented people, refugees and allies aiming to document, analyze and raise awareness about the struggle of migrants in the Netherlands navigating the racist colonial structure of the asylum system. https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/mnfa-collective
Villa Mina is a squat at Kanaalstraat 128 in Amsterdam. On May 14, 2023, the building was squatted by the Anarcha-Feminist Group Amsterdam (AFGA).
https://en.squat.net/tag/villa-mina/ […Lees verder]
Monday July 14, 2025, Little fish fighting cargo ships – benefit for utility costs of a huisje. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!
While a certain big fish enjoys living in the center of London, one of his houses in Amsterdam, left alone for 11 years, was squatted in March of this year. Sadly, the big fish does not want to pay the electricity bill and the little fish with little money are left with a big bill to pay.
Will you help them out?? Come to the voku, enjoy the food and company, and help us get out of a couple hundred euro debt! […Lees verder]
Thursday June 12, 2025, Voku for Joe’s Repairs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!
Voku for Joe’s Repairs. Come support joe’s garage maintenance costs by getting a tasty vegan tuscan meal. In order to keep this great space up and running, we sometimes need to fix some stuff, and that isn’t always free. The food will be delicious and you will leave with a full belly and a smile. […Lees verder]
Monday June 9, 2025, Voku for Lenna squat legal costs and floor repairs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!
What is Lenna? Lenna is not just our squat dog. Lenna is also a building on Oetewalerstraat 8, liberated from supposedly “non profit” social housing organization Ymere. Almost two years passed since the last residents have been forced to relocate and this former social housing has been left to rot waiting for the new landlords privatization. Oetewalerstraat 18, also from Ymere, used to be squatted for more than 10 years.
So continuing a long tradition of reclaiming social housing around the neighborhood and Oetewalerstraat itself, Oetewalerstraat 8 has been squatted by a friendly active group almost two months ago. However, we are already engaged in legal conversations and we are succeeding in it!!! At least until we can pay our lawyer…
The ground floor is as messy as Ymere itself. We would like to share our ground floor and our back yard with the community, but apparently we have no floor in the ground floor. These fixing projects requires a bit of funds which we don’t really have. […Lees verder]
Thursday March 27, 2025, Voku benefit for Huis Vrederiks. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!
Huis Vrederiks was squatted on December 30, 2024. Since then, people have been living there and a social centre, Begane Grond, has been established. Come and eat with us to help raise funds for Huis Vrederiks. Your donations go to electricity and plumbing costs!
Huis Vrederiks, Frederiksplein 52, Amsterdam
https://en.squat.net/tag/huis-vrederiks/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/begane-grond […Lees verder]
