Radical Sunday School: Demands, Limits and Ethics of Activism

By: börek - September 1st, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

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/

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September 2024 at Joe’s Garage

By: börek - September 1st, 2024  Filed under: Poster archive

Proxy Cafe

By: börek - August 27th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

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/

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Benefit voku for Disgraça in Lisbon

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

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.

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Extended distended openended revolutionary sunday movie

By: börek - August 18th, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

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

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

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/ […Lees verder]

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Benefit for medicals costs of Lola

By: börek - August 5th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 12 august 2024, Benefit for medicals costs of Lola. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This evening we eat for Lola! For those who don’t know, Lola was a cat, our housemate, squatter, comrade and a friend. Lola got hit by a car/fat bike/motorcycle, we are never gonna know. And a big fighter managed with a broken jaw, and severe brain injury’s to come back home and ask for help. After 24 hours of fighting and 2 different hospitals, Lola passed away. We are crushed, and not only that we are left to deal with incredible sadness, we are also left to deal with a medical bills. We need your help, so come and eat for Lola! There are also gonna be patches available.

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.

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, 1934)

By: börek - August 5th, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday August 11, 2024, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: OUR DAILY BREAD * 1934 * Directed by King Vidor * 80 minutes * In English * free screening * doors open at 8.30 * intro and film start at 9:00.

This is a pretty unusual film for when it was made, and actually it’s a pretty unusual movie to be made in America at any time. It presents us with a situation that we are increasingly becoming familiar with – lack of housing, food prices rising like crazy, and not being able to afford anymore to live in big cities. The story takes place in the 1930s during the great depression, a time when the bankers went too far with their wheeling, dealing and money grubbing, causing a disaster.

Our main characters are a couple who have no place to live anymore but are offered a worthless piece of land in the countryside. Their idea is to create their own Eden, but when faced with difficulties they realize that they are city people and have no idea how to do things like farming. The solution to the problem is by inviting other unemployed people to join them, and thereby creating a cooperative.

A film about collectivism and community and alternative societies, I think we are sadly missing these days. It’s been called an anti-cynical film and no matter what you think of it, its enthusiasm whips up a semi-socialist alternative that includes exchange of labor, sharing food, bartering and solidarity. All of this is presented as an alternative to the dog eat dog capitalism and monopolization that was tearing apart the country. Some viewers have even aptly compared it to the early Russian-Ukrainian movies Alexander Dovzhenko.

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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