Rebetiko songs, traditional Greek songs

By: börek - March 2nd, 2015  Filed under: Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

YannisQarabaEnsembleMonday March 2nd 2015, Rebetiko songs, traditional Greek songs. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm. Concert after the food.

Rebetiko songs, traditional Greek songs, with Charis Konstantinou and Υannis Karampatzias from Qaraba Ensemble.
http://qaraba.cz/music/
https://soundcloud.com/hellash

Qaraba was founded in 2012 in Prague by Yannis Karampatzias. He performs on a variety of Greek and Turkish traditional stringed instruments including saz baglama (taburas), lavta (Constantinople lute), tzuras and baglamas. In 2013 together with violinist Milan Jakes (CZ), guitarist Thomas Opata and Geraldine Baar on koboloi they formed the Qaraba Ensemble. The repertoire includes traditional folk music from the Asia Minor to the Black Sea focusing on melodies from Smyrna (Izmir) and Constantinople (Istanbul) of the early 1900’s, Rebetiko songs (undergound musical genre that was born at the end of the 19th century in hash dens and prisons of the Greek urban centers), Byzantine and Ottoman classical compositions emphasizing on the art of taxim (form of improvisation on non-occidental musical scales known as ‘makams/maqamat’).
Qaraba Ensemble: http://qaraba.cz/music/
[…Lees verder]

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Benefit for Apatris, Greek anarchist newspaper

By: börek - January 1st, 2015  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Apatris_issue_26_page_1Monday January 5th 2015, Benefit for Apatris, Greek anarchist newspaper. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

The street newspaper APATRIS began in 2009 from Heraklion (Crete) and for a year was distributed only locally. In 2010, comrades from other places in Crete began to collaborate with the project. Since then and for about 2.5 years APATRIS has been issued as a Pancreatan anarchist newspaper. The next issue will be published in the second week of October 2013 and it has a nationwide character, i.e. it is based on the collaboration of comrades throughout Greece.

The basic standpoint of the initial editorial team, according to the editorial of the first issue (March 2009), referred to the inability of existing information structures to be used as reliable means of news broadcasting and free expression and therefore any attempt with a reformist character would not be effective. As a means of counter-information, APATRIS may contribute to the co-production of an independent social discourse. As a result, the individual responsibility of each author is stressed. They claim that: “The purpose of this publication is not to shape a common line or agenda that suggests the soundest solution. Our aim is to hear opinions not necessarily in complete agreement with each other, views and events carefully buried by the mass media and altered under the weight of authoritarian interests, but also to perceive the developments around us in order to develop our texts and our actions”. […Lees verder]

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Info-night and benefit for Prosfygika occupied neighbourhood in Athens, Greece

By: börek - October 1st, 2014  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Solidarity, Volkseten/Voku

Monday October 27th 2014: Info-night and benefit for Prosfygika occupied neighbourhood in Athens, Greece, Volkseten Vegazulu, 19:00.

“Prosfygika”, or otherwise refugee homes, is a complex of residential flats built in 1930’s to house refugees resulting from the Asia Minor conflict between Greece and Turkey. The buildings are situated on a central avenue of Athens, surrounded on either side by the police HQ and the supreme court, in a heavily gentrified area . After years of abandonment, Prosfygika has been increasingly reclaiming its original purpose as many refugees, migrants, poor, greek and foreigner working class people have sought to resolve their need for housing by squatting the empty flats.

For some years now, people from the neighbourhood have organized on the basis of collective procedures and communal resources in order to meet the daily and particular needs of the neighbourhood. The ceaseless activity of the community of Occupied Prosfygika includes building maintenance, baking bread, collective cooking, laundry facilities, making soap, a school for migrants and locals and hosting refugees on emergency basis. The evolution of the self organized community has emerged from the initiatives of an assembly with horizontal procedures (which has been active in the neighbourhood since 2011). This assembly participates in the movement of class and social struggle expressing its solidarity in a number of ways. […Lees verder]

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Contra Info solidarity event with anarchist comrades in Greek prisons

By: börek - March 23rd, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Debat, Infoavond, Solidarity, Volkseten/Voku
2013_04_12_Contra_Info_solidarity_event_ Joe's_Garage_Amsterdam

Friday April 12th 2013: Contra Info solidarity event with anarchist comrades in Greek prisons at Joe’s Garage, 7pm.

In the context of an everyday struggle against the existent, and aiming at the diffusion of factual solidarity with anarchist prisoners in the Greek dungeons, members of Contra Info [http://contrainfo.espiv.net/] translation counter-information network will carry out a series of events in various European cities, spreading information on cases of imprisoned comrades.

We want to make these gatherings an opportunity to strengthen the antagonist infrastructure of counter-information, to extend and multiply the solidarity gestures with our brothers and sisters behind bars, and to promote direct action and subversive praxis.

On Friday, April 12th, 2013, we meet at Joe’s Garage in Amsterdam. There will be a collective vegan kitchen at 7pm and at around 8pm we’ll start the talking. We are looking forward to your presence and invite you to share your ideas so as to find a common perspective towards the destruction of all prisons and the system that maintains them.

Stay tuned for upcoming events in other European cities.
SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS ALL AROUND THE WORLD!

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Solidarity assembly for Villa Amalias

By: börek - December 24th, 2012  Filed under: Assembly, Events

Saturday December 29th, 6PM, Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam

On December 20th 2012, riot police raided and evicted Villa Amalias in Athens, an anarchist social center squatted for 23 years. Hundreds of people took down the streets to protest against this escalation. The 8 people arrested inside the building have been released on Monday 24th.
We can discuss further solidarity actions for Villa Amalias and other comrades facing repression in Greece. […Lees verder]

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14N, Vaga General Benefit

By: börek - October 19th, 2012  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Do./Th. 15 november 2012, 19:00pm, Volkseten Vegazulu, 14N, Vaga General Benefit

On november 14th 2012, a general strike will take place in Spain, Portugal and Greece. A hot day in south Europe. People will take the streets. This benefit is for the people that will get arrested that day.
The 14th November European Strike – Call Out: http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/10/14th-november-european-strike-call-out/
Volkseten Vegazulu is every monday and thursday, 19:00pm, vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation

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The Story of the Tower

By: börek - May 14th, 2008  Filed under: Filmavond

14 May 2008 – 20:00 – The Story of the Tower

A zero budget 100% DIY production from a squat in Greece. -A modern tale of old times-
A group of young people decides to shelter their dreams in a building, but its owners have other plans. Disturbed by the group’s “illegal” activities they want to kick them out. Their means are powerful. They are more. But the Corsairs love life and will not surrender as easy. Many will happen in the course… http://evagelismos.squat.gr/

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