Voku for Maria Cristina

By: börek - March 6th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 9, 2026, Voku for Maria Cristina. Second edition, food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Call out for solidarity with our trans sister María Cristina

We are calling for solidarity on behalf of our friend and sister María Cristina, who is currently being held in custody in the Stadelheim prison in Munich! María Cristina was violently arrested as a Black trans migrant woman. As always, the racist and transphobic judicial system is particularly structured against queer BPoCs (Black and People of Color). Individuals such as Maria Cristina find themselves in extremely precarious and unprotected situations.
At this moment, we know little about the accusations held against her and her current conditions. She is being detained in the male section of the prison. For a trans woman, this is a violent act and puts her in acute danger of physical, mental and emotional unsafety. She might also be more vulnerable because of her immigration status. Maria is such an important person to many in our community, she is an amazing housemate, friend and great cook and she makes life so much brighter for all of us. Our heart is hurting knowing that she is detained and we are very worried for her.
We are organizing letters of solidarity for Maria Christina, please write some warm words – preferably in Spanish, but English is also possible. Put the letter in the feedback box or behind the bar at the lesbian-queer center Lez (Müllerstrasse 26, Thursday 18-22 h, Friday and Saturday 18-23 h) or in the queer feminist bookstore Glitch (Barerstr. 70, Tuesday – Saturday, 11-19 h). You can also post letters to both addresses!
If you are not able to send post you can also send your letters to careemiko [at] gmail [dot] com and we will make them arrive.
If you can, please also donate some money, which we will send to her in prison or use for the costs of the lawyer.
Paypal: libertad_para_maria_kristina [at] posteo [dot] de or bank transfer to Libertad para Maria Kristina, IBAN: DE32 5003 1000 1087 9710 11 […Lees verder]

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Voku for Maria Cristina

By: börek - February 17th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday February 19, 2026, Voku for Maria Cristina. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Call out for solidarity with our trans sister María Cristina

We are calling for solidarity on behalf of our friend and sister María Cristina, who is currently being held in custody in the Stadelheim prison in Munich! María Cristina was violently arrested as a Black trans migrant woman. As always, the racist and transphobic judicial system is particularly structured against queer BPoCs (Black and People of Color). Individuals such as Maria Cristina find themselves in extremely precarious and unprotected situations.
At this moment, we know little about the accusations held against her and her current conditions. She is being detained in the male section of the prison. For a trans woman, this is a violent act and puts her in acute danger of physical, mental and emotional unsafety. She might also be more vulnerable because of her immigration status. Maria is such an important person to many in our community, she is an amazing housemate, friend and great cook and she makes life so much brighter for all of us. Our heart is hurting knowing that she is detained and we are very worried for her.
We are organizing letters of solidarity for Maria Christina, please write some warm words – preferably in Spanish, but English is also possible. Put the letter in the feedback box or behind the bar at the lesbian-queer center Lez (Müllerstrasse 26, Thursday 18-22 h, Friday and Saturday 18-23 h) or in the queer feminist bookstore Glitch (Barerstr. 70, Tuesday – Saturday, 11-19 h). You can also post letters to both addresses!
If you are not able to send post you can also send your letters to careemiko [at] gmail [dot] com and we will make them arrive.
If you can, please also donate some money, which we will send to her in prison or use for the costs of the lawyer.
Paypal: libertad_para_maria_kristina [at] posteo [dot] de or bank transfer to Libertad para Maria Kristina, IBAN: DE32 5003 1000 1087 9710 11 […Lees verder]

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Chaos Kitchen Voku for Migreat

By: börek - December 16th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday December 18, 2025, Chaos Kitchen Voku for Migreat . Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

A world where all human beings are free to move and receive equal treatment and equal rights wherever they are. That’s all we’re asking for! For people to be truly free and equal, we need to abolish passport Apartheid. We want to work towards a world where migration is not a privilege, but a right.
Join us for a voku organized by Chaos Kitchen to raise funds for MiGreat, an organization dedicated to advocating for the freedom of movement and equal rights for all human beings.
MiGreat is working to change power structures that systematically oppress and exploit people, mainly from the global South. They campaign against the brutal border regime, which is ineffective, harmful and deadly, and against Dutch migration policies, that systematically lock people up and deport them. Alongside campaigning for regular migration opportunities and against violent border policies, MiGreat supports refugees and migrants transiting towards the EU. […Lees verder]

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Voku for Solidarity With Migrants & book presentation ‘The Light of the Beast’ by Pablo Allison

By: börek - February 5th, 2024  Filed under: Book presentation, Filmavond, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 15 February 2024, Voku for Solidarity With Migrants & book presentation ‘The Light of the Beast’ by Pablo Allison. Door opens at 7pm with food. The book presentation from Pablo Allison starts around 20:30. No reservation.

The Light of the Beast is the culmination of six years work documenting migrants traveling from Central America, through Mexico and into the USA as the final destination. Since 2007, British-Mexican artist Pablo Allison has tried to understand life and its intricacies, by documenting migration and its consequences.

‘The Beast’ or ‘La Bestia’ as migrants call it, is a freight train that carries goods between Canada, the United States of America and Mexico. As most people who leave their countries travel with no money, ‘La Bestia” represents the only way to get to the USA border, despite this being forbidden by Mexican authorities.
This journey is tough and it can be extremely dangerous for people to travel this way, for a number of reasons. These travellers often referred to as migrants, run a high chance of being kidnapped, mugged, extorted or ending up dead in the desert before they reach their destination.
The majority of migrants that use this mode of transport come from countries with the highest levels of violence in the world. Places like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are examples of countries where the situation is so untenable that undertaking this potentially devastating journey is an only option for survival.
The vast amount of migrants that leave their countries are forced to, due to the oppression and extreme violence caused by delinquent groups that dominate entire communities. Violence in these countries is a product of decades of poverty and a lack of decent and fair policies from governments in Central America as well as from US interventions over many decades. https://www.pabloallison.co.uk/

The benefit for this voku is Solidarity With Migrants, an open assembly in solidarity with migrants in Greece consisting of locals, internationals and migrants against racism, fascism, and capitalism.
Our speech and actions are against the war against migrants waged by the states, capitalism and all kinds of racists and fascists, focusing on the anti- migration policy of the Greek state and the dehumanising camp system. We seek the communication between and connection of the struggles of locals and migrants against our common enemies, in the context of international struggles against all forms of oppression and devaluation of our lives. People attending and participating in the assembly come from different backgrounds and are often faced with different forms of oppression and violence (racist, gender violence, sexism, classism etc). Many of us are also involved in political movements, antifascist, antiracist, antisexist and other struggles. We want all to be equal and we also want society to become fair and free for everyone. This is the basis of everything we do.
We are not an NGO nor in another way an official organization so we don’t get funded from anyone and we are also totally independent from refugees organizations, the greek government and the European Union. According to our political standpoint of opposing all these, refusing funding by them is essential.
Solidarity With Migrants: solidaritymigrants [at] riseup [dot] net […Lees verder]

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