Benefit for the family of Moussa Balde

By: börek - January 10th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday January 13, 2025, Benefit for the family of Moussa Balde. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Todays voku will be to raise funds to allow Moussa Balde’s sister, brother and mother to take part in the first hearing of the trial of two responsible for his death. Moussa, originally from Guinea, was held as a non-European and irregular person on the territory, and for this reason he died in the isolation of a cell. Moussa’s death was neither “fatal” nor the fruit of a chain of inadvertence, but the consequence of structural racism. This hearing will be held in Turin on February 12.
The family members are represented by lawyers Gianluca Vitale and Laura Martinelli.
The funds are needed to pay for travel costs and the expensive visas for Italy, as well as the expenses while their stay.
During their visit to Italy of about a month, the family members would like to take part actively in various contestation events against CPR throughout Pemonte (Torino) and Liguria (Genova, Imperia, Ventigmiglia).

WHO WAS MOUSSA BALDE?

He was a friend and comerade, who died in the night between 22 and 23 May 2021 after 10 days spent in a cell in the isolation area, called Ospedaletto, inside the Turin CPR corso Brunelleschi. On May 9 he was beaten up in Ventimiglia by three Italians. After a short stay at the hospital he was held in the detention center, ignoring his serious physical and psychological condition.

To read more about the processes and his history, you can visit this blog (in Italian) under the category “Moussa Balde” https://parolesulconfine.com/ > Moussa Balde

NOW

On 12 February in Turin, the preliminary hearing of the proceeding for manslaughter will be held against the former director of the CPR and the medical director of the structure at the time of Moussa Balde’s death.
In February 2023, this very same CPR on corso Brunelleschi went on fire and remained closed until now. Yet it’s about to reopen.

Between June 2019 and December 2022, ten people lost their lives while being held in administrative detention. At the beginning of February 2024, the young Ousmane Sylla, who turns out to be a neighbor and friend of the Balde family, committed suicide in the CPR in Rome.

The presence of the family is crucial, not only for this legal procedure against this particular structure, it is also essential to strengthen a wide movement against the opening of more of these prisons in Liguria (as in Diano Marina) and in every Italian region.

AGAINST THE REOPENING OF TURIN’S CPR, WHERE MOUSSA BALDE DIED
AGAINST ALL CPR
FOR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
JUSTICE FOR MOUSSA […Lees verder]

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Benefit No Border Kitchen and Announcement Documentary Screening by ZZW & friends

By: börek - December 15th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday December 16, 2024, Benefit No Border Kitchen and announcement documentary screening by ZZW & friends. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

This Voku was initiated as a supporting event for the Sunday screening of the documentary “De Zinkende Rafelrand” by Mirte Jepma, Alberto Morbelli, Benjamin Vanderveen, and Marijn van der Eyden, which will be shown at Joe’s on Sunday December the 29th. The film deals with the pending eviction of the Neighborhood “Baaibuurt West” in Amsterdam, an undefined space that has naturally grown and developed over the past 40 years and is home to several individual communities, big and small, many plant and animal species, and plenty of free birds. The purpose of the Voku is to get together, have some good food, and possibly tell some stories about our part of this city which we’ll have to leave behind on December 31st. All profits will be donated to No Border Kitchen.

Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand […Lees verder]

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Solidarity Voku for squatted Prosfygika in Athens

By: börek - November 27th, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Thursday November 28, 2024, Solidarity Voku for squatted Prosfygika in Athens. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Fundraiser for the community of squatted Prosfygika in Athens
The Community – The building complex of Prosfygika was built in 1933 to accommodate refugees from Asia Minor. Thus, in these circumstances, a lively neighbourhood with community characteristics was established, consisting mostly of working class people. In 1944, the anti-fascist partisans used Prosfygika as a shelter against the Greek and British state army; the bullet marks can be seen on the facades of the buildings to this day, as well as the guerrilla monument which has been erected on the front of Prosfygika and reminds us daily of the history of the place. Today, it is one of the largest building complexes in the centre of Athens, which has not yet accepted the gentrification and exploitation that comes from big capital and the state apparatus. It is a place of strategic importance since it is located between two pillars of power – on one side the Supreme Court and on the other the General Police Directorate of Attica.
Find more info on their website: https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/english/the-community/

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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SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit voku for a Trans Queer Refugee’s Legal Expenses

By: börek - November 25th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday November 25, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit voku for a Trans Queer Refugee’s Legal Expenses. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This Voku is brought to you by SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity). On this Monday, we will cook a vegan three-course meal from rescued ingredients and raise money for the legal expenses of a trans queer refugee in the Netherlands.
R. is a 21 year-old immigrant trans woman from Azerbaijan, currently facing a terrible situation of systemic injustice and she’s in urgent need of help! She’s been living in the Netherlands from 3 years, where she’s been finally free to express her gender identity, but her Visa to stay in the EU is about to expire and she needs to face very high legal expenses in order to not get deported, risking her life back home. Her situation back home is extremely terrifying and unsafe: that’s why she needs to try her best to stay safe here in EU, navigating tons of bureaucracy and paperwork with the help of skilled lawyers. Our goal is to raise money to be able to pay immigration lawyers and for applying to the paperwork needed to not get her deported.
Azerbaijan is an extremely unsafe place for queer and trans individuals: ILGA-Europe has ranked the country as the worst state (49 out of 49) in Europe for LGBTQ+ folks, not only for its total absence of legal protection, but also for the active violence enforced by the state on trans people, which targets and persecutes and blackmails queer folks. Beside the terrible state repression, queer and trans people face every single day high rates of physical violence, harassment and discrimination.
The system we live in makes refugees’ and trans people’s lives impossible: no one should go through this just because they’re born in a certain country, or they’re queer.
SKRAPS ((Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity) : https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/skraps-solidarity-kitchen […Lees verder]

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Grasugga solidarity kitchen: Three Dishes inspired on the horrors of Dutch migration policies

By: börek - October 25th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday November 31, 2024, Grasugga solidarity kitchen: Three Dishes inspired on the horrors of Dutch migration policies. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit dinner for two refugee families* We are a new squat in Utrecht since October 5th, st. Gråsugga (Woodlouse), a little chaotic international collective of radical mischief enthusiasts. This VoKu is dedicated to two refugee families (from Burkina Faso and Somalia). We want to aid covering the health expenses after a traffic accident of one of the families. The other family is currently facing financial insecurity as immigration procedures in the Netherlands are ridiculously slow and not very helpful (fuck IND). The Netherlands is pushing increasingly hostile immigration policies systematically disabling people without documents from access to housing, education, healthcare, or labour rights. This is deliberate exploitation forcing people into situations in which they have to accept jobs far below minimum wage without (legal) security or protection. We are collectively responsible for responding to this with radical action and mutual aid alike. We hope to support these families by cooking a delicious dumpsterdived vegan dinner!! It will be halloween themed (as if the Dutch bureaucracy machine wasn’t enough of a scare), come by! […Lees verder]

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No Border Kitchen Benefit VoKu

By: börek - October 25th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday November 28, 2024, No Border Kitchen Benefit VoKu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Vegan food on donation in support of No Border Kitchen, a collective supporting migrants on the island of Lesvos (Greece) providing food, clothing and various forms of aid and advice.

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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Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea

By: börek - September 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 12, 2024, Solidarity VoKu for Memoria Mediterranea. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

“We are researchers, anthropologists, layers, psychologists, sociologists, mediators, and activists moving in the Mediterranean area to critically analyze the borders that limit it, the migration processes that run through it and the policies that regulate them.
In total adherence to the pleas of the families of those missing or killed attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea routes-particularly Tunisian and sub-Saharan mothers and sisters-we want to promote the defense of the fundamental rights of exiled people, their families and communities, promoting, in particular, the right to know, as well as advocating for initiatives in favor of the right to freedom of movement.
The Mediterranean is the space where we are radicatə, particularly in Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia, places where we operate on a voluntary basis, based on our knowledge of legal, psycho-social, research and reporting.

We believe in building a collective and active memory that is a practice of countering discrimination, racism and structural injustice, as well as a means of narrating-from the voices of those living on the borders-what is happening in the Mediterranean”.

Memoria Mediterranea https://memoriamediterranea.org/ […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen

By: börek - September 3rd, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday September 5, 2024, Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, and by that showing solidarity with national and international resistance initiatives.

On this Thursday we are cooking a wonderful vegan meal (yes, there will be dessert) from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, raising money for our friend Mohammed and his family, who had to flee the war in Sudan and are trying to build a new life abroad.

In April 2023 a horrible war broke out in Sudan and it has been raging ever since. The humanitarian situation in the country is deteriorating, making it almost impossible to survive. One of the affected people is Mohammed from Al-Qadarif. He and his family lost everything in the war: friends and colleagues, their homes, their jobs. Luckily, the whole family was able to flee Sudan and is now in Egypt. But life as a refugee is hard. They are trying to move on but lack the financial means to build a new life abroad. We are raising money to support for Mohammed and his family to ease their current circumstances and plant the seed of a new beginning. […Lees verder]

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