Black Cat Cine presents Citizenfour & Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden

By: börek - January 1st, 2016  Filed under: Filmavond

citizenfour_flyerSunday January 10th 2016, Black Cat Cine presents Citizenfour & Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden. Both films with English subtitles. Door opens at 20:00, movie starts at 20:30! Free admission.

Joe’s Garage screens two documentaries about Edward Snowden, the NSA whistle blower who shocked the world by revealing thousands of classified documents showing how far our privacy is invaded by our governments. A must see for everybody who wants to know what’s really going on behind all the smokescreens and disinformation.

CITIZENFOUR

Edward Snowden – hero or traitor? Filmmaker Laura Poitras paints a terrifying picture of the loss of liberty involved in the widespread government gathering of all our communications on a daily basis. Alarming and essential – anyone with a phone should see it. (Laura Poitras, USA, 2014, 1:53, English subs)

TERMINAL F: Chasing Edward Snowden

Covers the escape of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to Russia, after leaking information about surveillance programs used to spy on people around the world. Presents the journalists who had access to Snowden and also members of WikiLeaks, who helped him get away. (John Goetz & Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Danmark, 2015, 0:58, English subs)

Movie starts at 20:30!

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Doors open at 8pm, free entrance. You want to play a movie, let us know: joe [at] squat [dot] net

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Benefit for the legal costs for the 6 arrested people on June 13th

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

niculpThursday September 17th 2015, Benefit for the legal costs for the 6 arrested people on June 13th 2015. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Call for solidarity! In recent months a wave of repression has hit Spain. A package of laws, limiting basic human rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of assembly has been passed, the so-called ‘Ley Mordaza’ (‘gag law’). Two massive police operations, ironically named ‘Pandora’ and ‘Piñata’ have resulted in multiple arrests, house raids, confiscation of electronic equipment and several charges of terrorism. As a response, several anti-repression demonstrations have taken place, with the most recent resulting in 6 arrests and charges including civil disobedience and possession of explosives.
In addition to this, there has been a series of evictions of social centers and harassment from police, which has made fund raising all the more difficult. The situation has reached extremes in which, for example, anti-repression fund-raising accounts have been blocked. International solidarity is needed, especially at a financial level.

Nuestra mejor arma: La Solidaridad!
Abajo los muros de las prisiones!

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchen, every monday and thursday, 7pm, vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation.

We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. Enjoying it is a must. If you want to know which days are still available in the schedule, send an email to joe [at] squat [dot] net and book yourself the night. You can, of course, also participate by rolling up your sleeves and doing the dishes.

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Benefit for the people recently arrested by the Spanish State

By: börek - January 2nd, 2015  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

20150112_Joesgarage_benefitMonday January 12th 2015, Benefit for the people recently arrested by the Spanish State, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

Statement released by Riseup on January the 6th 2015
Security is not a crime – On Tuesday December 16th, a large police operation took place in the Spanish State. Fourteen houses and social centers were raided in Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa, and Madrid. Books, leaflets, computers were seized and eleven people were arrested and sent to the Audiencia Nacional, a special court handling issues of “national interest”, in Madrid. They are accused of incorporation, promotion, management, and membership of a terrorist organisation. However, lawyers for the defense denounce a lack of transparency, saying that their clients have had to make statements without knowing what they are accused of. “[They] speak of terrorism without specifying concrete criminal acts, or concrete individualized facts attributed to each of them”. When challenged on this, Judge Bermúdez responded: “I am not investigating specific acts, I am investigating the organization, and the threat they might pose in the future”; making this yet another case of apparently preventative arrests.
Four of the detainees have been released, but seven have been jailed pending trial. The reasons given by the judge for their continued detention include the possession of certain books, “the production of publications and forms of communication”, and the fact that the defendants “used emails with extreme security measures, such as the RISE UP server”.

We (Riseup) reject this Kafka-esque criminalization of social movements, and the ludicrous and extremely alarming implication that protecting one’s internet privacy is tantamount to terrorism.

Riseup, like any other email provider, has an obligation to protect the privacy of its users. Many of the “extreme security measures” used by Riseup are common best practices for online security and are also used by providers such as hotmail, GMail or Facebook. However, unlike these providers, Riseup is not willing to allow illegal backdoors or sell our users’ data to third parties.

The European Parliament’s report on the US NSA surveillance program states that “privacy is not a luxury right, but the foundation stone of a free and democratic society”. Recent revelations about the extent to which States violate everyone’s right to privacy show that everything that can be spied upon will be spied upon. Furthermore, we know that criminalizing people for using privacy tools also has a chilling effect on everybody, and human-rights defenders, journalists, and activists, in particular. Giving up your basic right to privacy for fear of being flagged as a terrorist is unacceptable. […Lees verder]

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