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

Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah (Vacarmes, 2020)

Sunday 3rd December 2023, Movie night – Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah (Vacarmes, 2020). 81 min. Documentary with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.

Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah traces the course of an indefatigable Arab Communist and fighter for Palestine. From the Palestinian refugee camps that shaped his conscience to international mobilizations for his release, we will explore the situation of one of the longest-held political prisoners in Europe.

Synopsis: For over 35 years, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has been imprisoned. A Lebanese communist engaged in resistance alongside Palestinian fighters, he has been imprisoned by the French judicial system and successive governments since 1984. Beyond the judicial harassment to which he has been subjected, this documentary film will trace the political course of Georges Abdallah and seeks to show how his ideas and struggle are still vital and necessary.

This film about the critically important case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah includes interviews with Samidoun international coordinator Charlotte Kates, Samidoun Europe coordinator Mohammed Khatib, Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat coordinator Khaled Barakat and many others, including Robert and Maurice Abdallah (Georges’ brothers), Jean-Louis Chalanset (Georges’ lawyer), Suzanne le Manceau (co-founder of the Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (CLGIA)), Bertrand Sassoye (former political prisoner) and Jean-Marc Rouillan (former political prisoner).

The film takes us to Lebanon, to the Palestinian refugee camps, where he forged himself politically. We follow his engagement in the Palestinian resistance and against the Israeli occupation with the FARL (Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions), a commitment that will take him to France in the 1980s, where he will be sentenced for complicity in murder. Through a series of interviews (in France, Lebanon, Belgium and Germany), we go to meet his family, his lawyer, his supporters, his friends and people who have rubbed shoulders with him. With them, we trace a life of resistance to imperialism and Zionist occupation.

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

Radical Sunday School: Germany, Europe and Anti-Antisemitism, Or: why you are not supposed to criticise Israel

Sunday 3 December 2023, Radical Sunday School: Germany, Europe and Anti-Antisemitism, Or: why you are not supposed to criticise Israel, from 18:00 till 20:00.

Why is it so difficult to criticise Israel in Europe even as the country’s government is conducting genocide? In this session, we are going to look at how Germany in particular, but colonial Europe more generally, require Israel to justify their ideological hegemony. How is the Holocaust and the subsequent founding of Israel, declaration of human rights, etc. used to silence Europe’s (post and neo) colonial responsibility? How can Europe – as it so often does – present itself as the bearer of human rights and dignity as it funds yet another genocide?

Sharing experiences is highly welcome; Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and any other racisms are not.
If you’d like to get involved at RSS, collaborate with us as a collective, or propose a topic for a meeting, mail us at radicalsundayschool [at] proton [dot] me […Lees verder]

Benefit VoKu for The Freedom Theater in Jenin

Thursday 23 November 2023, Benefit VoKu for The Freedom Theater in Jenin. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Freedom Theatre is located in Jenin Palestinian refugees camp. For years the theatre has been working according to the principle of ‘resistance through art’. Its presence and activities are fundamental for the children, women and people of the camp. Their aim to change the narrative and to give human and artistic dignity to the people of Jenin is inspiring activists and artists not only in the occupied Palestinian territories but also around the world. […Lees verder]

Palestinian movie night: Homage by Assassination (Elia Suleiman, 1992), Aisheen, Still Alive in Gaza (Nicolas Wadimoff, 2010)

Sunday 5 november 3023, Palestinian movie night: Homage by Assassination (Elia Suleiman, 1992), Aisheen, Still Alive in Gaza (Nicolas Wadimoff, 2010). Free admission. Doors opens at 20:00, films start at 20:30

Homage by Assassination – Short film by Elia Suleiman – 1992 – 23 minutes – Arabic with English subtitles
A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.

Aisheen, Still alive in Gaza – Documentary by Nicolas Wadimoff – 86 minutes – 2010 – Arabic with English subtitles
Synopsis: « Where is the ghost town? », asks the little boy to the theme park attendant. « It’s there, right there. But it has been bombed… Do you want to see it? » It is with these words that the film, « Aisheen», begins – an impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza after the war. And the ghost town? Gaza is the ghost town.
Clowns that try to make children forget the bombing, armed with rubber balloons; a beached whale, “as big as a building” that feeds the fantasy; a scrawny, stuffed lion, bizarrely hanging in a cage at a zoo as if it were a trophy. A woman, at the side of the road, who has already been waiting for three weeks for a petrol delivery…
“Aisheen” (Still alive in Gaza) tells the story about the wait after the disaster. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world.
Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. “Aisheen” is a tribute to life…
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/240881521

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

Radical Sunday School for Palestine

Sunday 5 november 2023, Radical Sunday School for Palestine, from 15:00 till 19:00.

It’s time for some good care. Radical Sunday School is aided by some lovely Palestinian folks and other comrades to serve some delicious food (feel free to donate a little), have a some Palestinian live music on the Oud at 5:00pm, and a short talk on education in times of crisis, but we also simply want to offer a space to share how we feel. We hope to create a warm and caring space for anyone who would like to join us for the day and enjoy delicious mujaddara. […Lees verder]

Samidoun benefit voku

Monday 18 september 2023, Samidoun benefit voku. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Laatste bericht van Samidoun op hun website (17 augustus 2023) : Palestijnse overwinning in Nederlandse rechtbank: from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Op dinsdag 15 augustus heeft het gerechtshof in Nederland bevestigt dat de slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” valt onder de vrijheid van meningsuiting en niet strafbaar is. De uitspraak van de rechtbank betekent een overwinning voor de Palestijnse beweging in het algemeen, en in Nederland specifiek. Uitingen voor Palestijnse bevrijding kunnen niet zomaar bestempeld worden als antisemitisme.

De aanklacht werd in juni 2021 ingediend door een zionistische activist tegen Samidoun Nederland-lid Thomas Hofland. Zijn gebruik van de slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” in een speech die hij gaf tijdens de jaarlijkse Nakba-demonstratie een maand eerder, zou zogenaamd antisemitisch zijn. Het is een valse beschuldiging die met regelmaat door zionistische organisaties, media en politici wordt gebruikt tegen Palestina activisten internationaal.

Zowel de officier van justitie als de advocaat-generaal hadden de aanklacht binnen een jaar ongegrond verklaard. “Feit niet strafbaar,” concludeerden zij. Echter, de behandeling van de zaak duurde in totaal ruim twee jaar, omdat de klager telkens in beroep ging. Met deze laatste uitspraak van het hof is bevestigd dat het rechtvaardig is om op te roepen voor de bevrijding van Palestina van de rivier tot aan de zee.

Willem Jebbink, Hofland’s advocaat, zei het volgende over de uitspraak:

“Het gerechtshof is erg kort van stof geweest. Maar de uitspraak is glashelder: de frase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free’ is niet antisemitisch. Ook niet haatzaaiend, opruiend of bedreigend. Daarmee heeft het hof de vrijheid van meningsuiting erkend. Dat is juist in het Palestina-Israëldebat van belang. Misschien wel meer dan ooit. Personen die zich tegen de aanhoudende mensenrechtenschendingen door Israël uitspreken worden vaak op lichtzinnige gronden antisemitisch genoemd. Een doorzichtige redeneertruc die slechts de functie heeft om de aandacht van de inhoud van het debat af te leiden, van wat in de bezette gebieden gebeurt.

Het is elementair dat wij in onze samenleving zonder gevaar voor criminalisering scherpe kritiek op het beleid van Israël kunnen hebben. Dat de Palestijnen als vrije en gelijkwaardige burgers in hun thuisland moeten kunnen wonen. In de geografische en historische eenheid tussen – inderdaad – de zee en de Jordaan, vrij van onderdrukking door Israël of enig Arabisch regiem of wie dan ook.”

Als Samidoun Palestijnse Gevangenen Solidariteitsnetwerk zijn we blij met het ongegrond verklaren van de aanklacht tegen ons lid. Het is een overwinning voor alle Palestijnen en Palestina activiste. En et is het resultaat van decennialang actievoeren voor de onvervreemdbare rechten van het Palestijnse volk, om Palestina te bevrijden en ernaar terug te keren.

Tegelijkertijd moeten we doorgaan met het verdedigen van activisten voor Palestina internationaal. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk zitten activisten van Palestine Action gevangen. In Frankrijk loopt nog steeds een zaak om Collectif Palestine Vaincra, een lidorganisatie van Samidoun, te verbieden. In Duitsland roepen zionistische politici en media op om Samidoun te verbieden. En in Nederland werden onlangs twee activisten gearresteerd vanwege hun financiële steun aan Palestijnen in vluchtelingenkampen.

Vrijheid voor alle Palestijnse gevangenen!
Vrijheid voor Palestina van de rivier tot aan de zee!

https://samidoun.net/nl/

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.

Benefit VoKu for The Freedom Theater in Jenin

Monday 24 July 2023, Benefit for The Freedom Theatre in Jenin brutally attacked by the Israeli army. With video call with the theatre’s directors. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Freedom Theatre is located in Jenin Palestinian refugees camp. For years the theatre has been working according to the principle of ‘resistance through art’. Its presence and activities are fundamental for the children, women and people of the camp. Their aim to change the narrative and to give human and artistic dignity to the people of Jenin is inspiring activists and artists not only in the occupied Palestinian territories but also around the world.

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.