Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen

Thursday September 5, 2024, Benefit Voku for a Sudanese refugee family, by SKRAPS Solidarity Kitchen. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, and by that showing solidarity with national and international resistance initiatives.

On this Thursday we are cooking a wonderful vegan meal (yes, there will be dessert) from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, raising money for our friend Mohammed and his family, who had to flee the war in Sudan and are trying to build a new life abroad.

In April 2023 a horrible war broke out in Sudan and it has been raging ever since. The humanitarian situation in the country is deteriorating, making it almost impossible to survive. One of the affected people is Mohammed from Al-Qadarif. He and his family lost everything in the war: friends and colleagues, their homes, their jobs. Luckily, the whole family was able to flee Sudan and is now in Egypt. But life as a refugee is hard. They are trying to move on but lack the financial means to build a new life abroad. We are raising money to support for Mohammed and his family to ease their current circumstances and plant the seed of a new beginning. […Lees verder]

VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective

Monday September 2nd, 2024, VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Progetto20k is a self-organized collective actively struggling since 2016 against the border system. It is located in the region of Ventimiglia, on the Italian side of the coastal border with France. It aims to support People on the Move who face the violence of the European racist migration policies.
The collective has the aim of being a horizontal, anti-racist, transfeminist and anti-capitalist project that takes decisions in assembly. This past months it has been active directly at the border for monitoring and information, and in the city campement of Via Tenda, opening the self-organized space Upupa. Progetto20k has been trying to bring forth their autonomous politics in the struggle, working alongside several humanitarian organizations active on the territory.
The collective recently had to stop their activities this summer, but there is always money needed for house repairs and possibly re-starting again after using this break for internal reflections.
Come along for a delicious meal because the only good nation is a donation 😉

Ventimiglia, dove la violenza del confine è strutturale https://www.meltingpot.org/2022/11/ventimiglia-dove-la-violenza-del-confine-e-strutturale/

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.

Radical Sunday School: Demands, Limits and Ethics of Activism

Sunday September 1st, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Demands, Limits and Ethics of Activism. From 18:00 till 20:00.

Activism can be seriously demanding. In our fight for all that is right we tend to impose heavy demands on ourselves as well as on others: the fight is never-ending, no cause too great, no action too steep. Many of us (aspiring) activists will recognize the constant (inner) call for action, while also at the same time feeling helpless at the excruciating limits of our own activism – it just never seems enough.

This heavy (self-)imposed burden can create unhealthy, unsustainable, toxic, and even outright dangerous situations.

Tonight’s session is inspired by the book ‘Joyful Militancy’. During this session we would like to explore these pitfalls in activism, the demands and the limits. So that we may better protect ourselves against them, and engage in more healthy, communal, sustainable and, above all, joyful ways of activism.

Open to battle-scarred veteran activists, newbies, and anything in between or beyond that.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

September 2024 at Joe’s Garage

Proxy Cafe

Wednesday 28 august 2024, Proxy Cafe. Door opens 18:00

A place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, workshops.
Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Benefit voku for Disgraça in Lisbon

Monday August 26, 2024, Benefit voku for Disgraça in Lisbon. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

News from Disgraça, Lisbon https://disgraca.com/ : as you may have heard, after 9 years of horizontal, autonomous, anti-authoritarian mischief, we’re making an effort to buy Disgraça!
It all started on 11 September 2015. Atop one of Lisbon’s hills, the doors of Disgraça opened in a former school. From the vapid white walls, from the empty, echoing rooms, from the multitude of wills that converged in that place, this restless project blossomed. Walls fell, walls rose, walls were scribbled on. And as if it were a spring of insubordination from the depths of the city’s subsoil, we materialised, room by room, each one’s community potential. Moved by common dreams, desires and needs, we built a canteen and community space, a library, a DIY concert hall, a workshop where chaos reigns, a rehearsal room and a screen printing room, a gym (the tidiest place in the building), the free shop Desumana, and, from the memory of an empty shop front, a cosy anarchist bookshop – Tortuga.
Disgraça https://radar.squat.net/en/lisbon/disgra%C3%A7a

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.

Extended distended openended revolutionary sunday movie

Sunday 25 August 2024, extended distended openended revolutionary sunday movie. Doors open at 19:30. Intro at 20:00. Film from 20:15 to 23:00. Free entrance, donations welcome.

This is a documentary about the years where the music scene was gearing up to get political as fuck. It is astounding, and beautifully crafted with a wonderfully sharp jazz music score. The problem with a lot of documentaries is they can be flat or stereotypical, and therefore are not actually offering an alternative. This one is something else—it flies and stirs the imagination.

This is an ‘essay film’, a special style that was born with French filmmaker Chris Marker in the 60s, and was jazzed up by Adam Curtis in England in the 90s, A whirlwind of thoughts and information, executed with intelligence and exhilaration.

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

Solidarity VoKu for BANGS

Monday 19 August 2024, Fundraiser voku for BANGS Festival at Joe’s Garage. Come to support and eat with us! Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Amsterdam BANGS is an autonomous, politically charged theatre and performance festival, joyriding all over Amsterdam!
GET READY for the first edition of AMSTERDAM BANGS, an autonomous theatre and performance festival taking place all over Amsterdam during September 19-22, 2024. When we mean all over Amsterdam, we really mean it. Get ready for clownery and witchcraft taking over the squats, streets, supermarkets, ING help desks or whatever you wish, or open up your own home!
The OPEN CALL has just opened (finally!). Anyone is welcome to propose a show, performance, or workshop. Let’s make this city ours. Get ready for a BANGING festival!!
Amsterdam BANGS
info [at] amsterdambangs [dot] nl
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/amsterdam-bangs
https://amsterdambangs.nl/
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