Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies

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

Thursday December 12, 2024, Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Gira Holanda warmly invites you to this benefit voku. We will share this meal in solidarity with our comrades from Perú, in the region of Cajamarca, who are and have been resisting for years against the violence of mining companies, such as Goldcorp and Newmont. These corporations seek to profit from the land and water of local communities, extracting gold and other minerals from the Andean mountains, leaving behind holes on the earth, desertified soil, and polluted water and wind.
With this dinner we aim to provide a little financial help to our comrades who are resisting there, and who have had to flee to Europe to protect themselves, and to create a little moment of awareness of the violence that mining involves. Mining for our technologies and our luxury in the “Global North”.

¡AGUA SÍ, ORO NO!
WATER YES, GOLD NOT!. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: Metaal en Melancholie (Heddy Honigmann, 1993)

By: börek - September 20th, 2022  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 25 September 2022, Movie Night: Metaal en Melancholie (Metal y Melancolía) from Heddy Honigmann, 1993, 80 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, Film starts at 20:30.

In Lima, the Peruvian capital of seven million, Heddy Honigmann shares a cab ride with the taxi drivers for whom this occupation is the only way of keeping poverty at bay. More often than not it is their second job, one that requires little more than a car – in whatever state – and a “taxi” plate, which is sold on every street corner. Determined, yet with a precise, measured sense of emotion, the director dissects their situation. A native of Peru, Honigmann returned to her place of birth after almost 20 years to make this film. Shot almost completely from inside the taxis, this documentary road movie reveals beautiful, moving anecdotes. Not only does the film portray these colorful and intriguing everyday people, but it also contrasts their dreams, hopes and disappointments to the state of Peru in the early 1990s. The economy is at an impasse, and teachers, soldiers, doctors and civil servants are part of the middle class in name only. In reality, their salaries are insufficient to feed their families; hence their need for second jobs. Still the rebellious and passionate drivers keep their spirits up, even if their vehicles often look less cheerful.

The film beautifully explores the disconnect between the peruvian people and their authoritarian government in the 90s. At the same time, the movie also explores the strange ways the lower class of taxi drivers experiences the ruling elite and interacts with them.

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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