Solidarity Week with Ukraine – Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives + screening: “Where Russia Ends” (Oleksiy Radynski, 2024)

By: börek - February 20th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Filmavond, Volkseten/Voku

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, February 24 – March 3, 2025

Monday March 3, 2025,Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives & screening of “Where Russia Ends” by Oleksiy Radynski (2024). Volkseten Vegazulu, food served from 7pm, no reservation. Movie from 21:30.

Solidarity Collectives call out: As we enter the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the urgency to act has never been greater. The situation grows increasingly dire, with the toll of the war deepening both on the battlefield and within the fabric of Ukrainian society. So today we need your voices, your solidarity, and your actions to amplify our actions for justice and resistance.

From 24 February we call on all our friends, partners and all anti-authoritarian groups in all parts of the world for a week of action! We encourage you to organise rallies, fundraisers, and public events that draw attention to the Ukrainian resistance struggle against Russian imperialism. Whether it’s a public demonstration, a direct action (the case of squatting in a Russian oligarch’s mansion inspires us), a music concert, a movie screening or an art exhibition, a fundraising campaign or a panel discussion, your efforts are vital to keep Ukrainians’ struggle visible and supported. The topic of the Russian shadow fleet and its environmental impact or international security challenges could be topics of such discussions. You could paint graffiti in the street of your city and send us a picture of it or even make a series of photos. We would be grateful for any kind of participation.

The alarming rise of far-right movements around the world demands that we stand together to counter these forces to fight imperialism and oppression. Supporting Ukrainians fighting Russian imperialism should be one of the priorities of the anti-authoritarian movement, and this goes hand in hand with supporting all refugees and immigrants in the West.

We believe that we should exchange practices and ideas internationally in order to develop our common struggles. And our team is ready to participate in your events, exchange knowledge, discuss difficult issues and assist in any way we can to make your initiatives impactful. Together, we can build a global network of solidarity that echoes beyond borders and languages.

Where Russia Ends by Oleksiy Radynski – Ukraine | 2023 | Short film / Documentary | 25’
In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film rolls were rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This fascinating archive is the starting point for a cinematic essay that addresses Russian imperialism, the exploitation of raw materials, environmental destruction, and the ongoing oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples in the remote areas of Siberia.

Solidarity Collectives
https://radar.squat.net/en/solidarity-collectives
https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/ […Lees verder]

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Solidarity Week with Ukraine, movie night: Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa, 2018)

By: börek - February 19th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 2, 2025, Solidarity Week with Ukraine, movie night: Donbass * fiction by Sergei Loznitsa * 2018 * in Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, Week of action, February 24 — March 3: https://squ.at/r/b2j6 […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: Za dvoma zaytsiamy – Chasing Two Hares (Viktor Ivanov, 1961)

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 16, 2025, За двома зайцями * Za dvoma zaytsiamy * Chasing Two Hares * directed by Viktor Ivanov * 1961 * 77 minutes * in Ukrainian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * film starts at 20:30

This comedy is an adaption of play by Mykhailo Starytsky that tells the story of Svyryd Holokhvistyi, a barber who tries to get rich by marrying a wealthy bourgeois woman, Pronia Sirko, while at the same time courting a poor, beautiful girl, Halia. The story raises the problem of social inequality and ridicules the life of Ukrainian Russified bourgeoisie in Kyiv.
The title of the movie is “Za dvoma zaytsiamy” which means the “to chase two rabbits”. In English, they use the phraseology – “to chase two birds” a person’s desire to do two things at once and result is rhetorical.
The film was shot in Ukrainian at the Dovzhenko Film Studios, as it was originally rated second category and was planned to be shown only in the Ukrainian SSR. Later, when the movie gained huge popularity, it was partially re-dubbed into russian by the same actors, and was launched in all-Union distribution. The original soundtrack in Ukrainian was long thought to be lost, but was found in the Mariupol film fund in 2013. On October 27, 2013, the film with the original Ukrainian-language was presented to the public in Kyiv.

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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Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

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]

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Benefit voku for Street Aid Daily Odesa, Ukraine

By: börek - December 2nd, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

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]

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Movie night: Famine 33 (Oles Yanchuk, 1991)

By: börek - November 27th, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

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

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Movie night: 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)

By: börek - January 10th, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

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

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Voku benefit for Solidarity Collectives

By: börek - November 10th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

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]

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