Monday December 23, 2024, Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
This evening, we come together to cook, eat and raise money to support Solidarity Collectives, a group of Ukrainian anarchists fighting against the Russian invasion.
This is a SOBER EVENT, meaning we will have an alcohol/smoke-free evening. Please smoke on Steve Bikoplein if you need to smoke!
Solidarity Collectives: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/ […Lees verder]
Thursday December 5, 2024, Benefit voku for Street Aid Daily Odesa, Ukraine. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Benefit for Street Aid Daily, a collective that provides direct aid/mutual aid and political education in Odesa, Ukraine. Street Aid Daily (САД/SAD) is a leftist outreach collective helping homeless people in Odesa. SAD is employing intersectional lens in talking about homelessness, taking in account class, gender and race of the people they’re reaching out to. This allows them to develop more ethical and non-hierarchical approach in helping homeless people. Their approach is “Solidarity, not charity”. […Lees verder]
Saturday November 30, 2024, Movie night: Голод-33 * Famine-33 * 1991 * Directed by Oles Yanchuk * 115 minutes * In Ukrainian with English subtitles * doors opens at 18:30 film starts at 19:00.
This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.
Pick up the Small Soviet Encyclopedia, 1940 edition, open it and under the letter “U” read what is written in the article “Ukrainian SSR”.
It is a document and there you will see in black and white, although in fine print, that Soviet Ukraine according to the census of 1927 had a population of 32 million and in 1939 (twelve years later) — 28 million.
Only 28 million? What happened to 4 million people after 1927? Where is the natural increase which in 12 years should have been at least 6-7 million? That means more than 10 million! What happened to those 10 million of the Ukrainian population? What happened to them in the “land of flourishing socialism?”
Made in 1991, deals with one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century, namely the forcible collectivization in the Soviet Union in the early 30s and the following hunger that affected above all Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It should be remembered that this topic was (and in some way still is) the greatest Communist taboo. The mere mentioning of this topic guaranteed brutal repressions for the one who dared raise it. The official propaganda made some works about it (the most important one was Virgin Soul Upturned (Podnyataya Zelina in Russian) by Mikhail Sholokhov and any other views of the subject were forbidden. It should also be mentioned that some Western leftists supported it and helped spreading Stalin’s lies about it all over the world.
I know that it is almost impossible to explain to a Westerner what life under Communism is, but this fact makes context all the more necessary.
The most important thing is that all these horrors and sadistic acts were man-made and not natural. They are the inevitable results of the non-human Communist ideology.
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
Sunday 21st January 2024, Movie night: 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023). Documentary with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.
During the Russian siege in 2022, unspeakably gruesome and bloody images of the countless dead and wounded victims of bombings and shootings in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol were seen around the world—thanks in part to the work of Ukrainian AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov. With great difficulty in this city lacking electricity and internet coverage, he managed to share these shocking and now-iconic images, such as the pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher from a bombed-out maternity clinic.
This documentary offers an even more powerful and mind-boggling impression of the siege—if such a thing is possible. The crystal-clear quality of the video footage makes for an almost 3D viewing experience. The camera captures the entry into the blasted clinic, the hurriedly dug mass graves containing dead children, and emotional exclamations from the doctors working in operating rooms.
The footage is pin-sharp, though sometimes jittery due to the explosions. In his soft-spoken voice-over, we hear Chernov talking about his emotional response to the 20 days that transformed this normal city into a shattered ruin.
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
Monday 27 November 2023, Voku benefit for Solidarity Collectives. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Solidarity Collectives (former: Operation Solidarity) is an anti-authoritarian volunteer network that unites several individual and organizational grassroots initiatives united to help the Ukrainian resistance movement and people affected by the russian invasion.
Actively supports fighters and citizens of Ukraine in three main areas. On the military front, providing anti-authoritarian activists who have joined military units with necessary equipment, including bulletproof vests, helmets, night vision devices, medical supplies, and more. On the humanitarian front, organizing the delivery of medicines, clothing, food, and other aid to various cities. In the media sector, collaborating with journalists and participate in conferences and debates to explain the importance of supporting the Ukrainian resistance movement for all anti-authoritarian forces worldwide.
So this evening we are waiting for you, show your solidarity now!
We are gonna cook a delicious vegan borscht that will be served at 19:00.
Directly and any time you can support Solidarity Collectives: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/support-2/ […Lees verder]
Thursday 19 May 2022, Benefit dinner for Ukrainian refugees in Amsterdam. Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Ever since Russia instigated an invasion on Ukraine, many war refugees have fled to Western Europe, Amsterdam not being an exception. Together with the university collective called Students 4 Ukraine x AUC, we would like to improve their experience and quality of life in the city, by raising money through this people’s kitchen, with which we would buy/repair bikes and provide them to the refugees, as the city is tightening up its policies regarding public transport for Ukrainians. We will be providing bikes to refugees who live in Java Eiland and Science Park areas for their daily commutes to language courses and work.
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.
Monday 28 March 2022, Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine, Operation Solidarity fundraiser. Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Various social spaces in Amsterdam are expressing solidarity with people affected by the war in Ukraine by organising benefit nights. With the Russian military invasion continuing, more and more people are facing difficult conditions, either on the move or staying amid the war. With each new day of attacks, the need for support is increasing. All donations from these events will go to Operation Solidarity, a Ukraine based anarchist initiative formed right after the attacks in February 2022.
At the moment Operation Solidarity is busy with organising and building structures of direct support for people who’ve been affected by the war as well as with arranging supplies for anti-authoritarian defense forces. The funding that the project is receiving goes to grassroots initiatives that are arranging basic supplies in places where there are shortages of food and medicine, organising transportation to and from the borders and finding temporary accommodation for people who are fleeing. Operation Solidarity doesn’t differentiate providing aid between European and non-European people.
This war, just like any, is a product of borders and authoritarian societies. We refuse to accept the ideals of nation states and stand in solidarity with the people who are refusing to bend under dictatorship.
All profits from the events will support the horizontal volunteer project Operation Solidarity, an anarchist collective that is currently establishing mutual aid networks with Ukraine.
Operation Solidarity https://operation-solidarity.org/
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.
Monday 7 March and Monday 28 March 2022, Benefit voku for mutual-aid groups in Ukraine. Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
All benefits will go to ABC Dresden to be then distributed to groups on location. Vegan food.
ABC Dresden published this callout on 24 February: Support the Anarchist Community in Ukraine during the war. At 5 AM on Thursday, February 24th, 2022, Putin started the invasion into Ukraine. Explosions have been reported throughout the largest cities in the country. This clearly shows that this is not just about the eastern provinces of Lugansk and Donezk.
Now it is time for us to support our friends and comrades. People have begun to organize in order to support people directly.
You can help people bring their relatives and friends into safety, support people who need to leave the country and find a new home, to organize resistance in city neighbourhoods and to acquire general as well as medical care in order to survive. Furthermore there are many people from other countries of the region such as Belarus or Russia, who have sought shelter in the Ukraine for the last few years. With the Russian invasion they are again no longer safe within Ukraine, as it was the Russian government from which they fled in the first place. Please donate to support our friends in Ukraine or here to the given account with reference to UKRAINE. https://abcdd.org/2022/02/24/unterstutzt-die-anarchistische-community-in-der-ukraine-wahrend-dem-krieg/
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.
