Benefit VoKu for Phoenix

By: börek - March 15th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 30 march 2023, Benefit VoKu for Phoenix. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Phoenix is a safe space and peer support community under het Wereldhuis run by and for LGBTQI+ people in forced displacement. Benefits will be used to support the members for travel costs. Also there will be a short talk on Phoenix and how you can support.

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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Movie night: The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985)

By: börek - March 15th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 26 March 2023, Movie night: The Official Story / La historia oficial (Luis Puenzo, 1985) * 112 minutes * In Spanish, subtitles in English. Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30.

A classic of outspokenly political cinema, The Official Story is so ‘classic’ in its form that it even won the oscar for best foreign language film at the academy awards. It was the first time that the yankees ever deigned to acknowledge the existence of cinema, really strong cinema, in their Latin American backyard.

How could this happen at the height of Reaganism? Perhaps because this film put a bourgeois family at the centre of the (official) story, so it was easy for American audiences to relate to them. It also kind of presents an easy badie: the evil military junta (1976-1983) obscuring the business interests that supported it from way up north. Spectators with a bit more historical perspective could read this between the lines, others could just cringe-watch what these banana republic folks got up to, from the airheadedness of their candied popcorn.

Personally I think Argentinean cinema has been great at stealing 1940s Hollywood form (arguably a German invention) and packing powerful stories inside it. It’s been doing this ever since Puenzo’s feat at the oscars, persistently beating Americans at their own game. If you ask me what my favourite Hollywood movie is, I’d probably say this one.

What else does it do apart from denounce political crimes? It shifts our Che Guevara image of the guerrillero to include women. Pregnant young women were targeted very specifically because there was a market for babies in the ranks of the military junta and among middle class supporters of the regime. Why that was is a matter of some speculation that we hope to discuss before and after the movie. Maybe we’ll also read a poem or two by Juan Gelman, who became the poster boy for grandparents in search of the lost children of the desaparecidos.

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 from the Future

By: börek - March 15th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 23 March 2023, Voku Benefit from the Future. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Crash bang catastrophe collapse! The timelines have been corrupte- —d d. This is no ordinary VOKU. You might have heard a group of time travellers from 2123 have found their way to the present day. How they did it? We don’t know, but they are here to serve you and tell you tales of times to come. Be dazzled. The future has arrived – but is it here to stay?

The time travellers’ first order of business in their task to save the timeline from the potential collapse of all existence will be a benefit event for a present day comrade stuck in debt to her landlord and unable to visit a sick relative. Since time travel comes at a price, a small portion of the money raised will go to materials and super-intergalactic-timewizard-woah fuel, the majority though to the cause. Remember: there is no better time to save time than this very time.

Please note, it is of utmost importance, that this is a TIME POLICE FREE EVENT. There is reason to suspect the Time Police might crack down on the time travellers and might infiltrate the Voku. Be vigilant, so time may be on our side.

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.

Movie night: Fight with Care (Bhargay & Ourratul Ain, 2023)

By: börek - March 13th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond, Infoavond

Sunday 19 March 2023, Other indias Watch Party #3. Movie night: Fight with Care (Bhargay & Ourratul Ain, 2023). Documentary film (30 mins) + discussion. This film is in Tamil with English subtitles. Doors open at 8:00 pm, film and presentation start at 8:30 pm. Films followed by discussion with one of the film maker.

Fight with Care brings unheard voices of fisherwomen from the coast of South India, who maintain their delicate ecosystems through everyday acts of care. As expanding ports and industries threaten wetland environments along the coasts of India, artisanal fishing communities are organising protests to bring attention to these ecologies, critical for climate change adaptation and local livelihoods. This film presents the anti-port actions of indigenous fisherwomen, raising their voices against one of the richest men in the world – Adani.

This watch party will be hosted by other indias – a space for discussion, reflection and (cultural, political) action relating to contemporary India. The watch parties constitute our monthly activities that are geared towards building and sustaining a community in the Netherlands which reflects the plurality and complexity of India, which respects differences and upholds a coalitional approach to overcoming inequalities.

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, child reunification costs for a lesbian refugee

By: börek - March 13th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 16 March 2023, Voku benefit, child reunification costs for a lesbian refugee. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The benefit dinner is for Harriet, a lesbian refugee, who came to the Netherlands in 2016. She was initially rejected out of asylum because they did not believe her sexuality, and was made irregularised. During her time without legal residency, in 2020 Harriet co-founded a self-led community for/by LGBTQ+ people in forced displacement based in Amsterdam, and grew it to over 130+ members from scratch. Harriet was finally recognised as a refugee a year ago.

Currently, Harriet is balancing between supporting her children living situation back in her country-of-origin, raising the necessary funds to ensure their reunion, and is also working on starting a self-led non-profit foundation to promote recognition of LGBTQ+ people in forced displacement.

As a result of Dutch Immigration officials (IND) attempts at restricting refugees’ right to family reunification, the procedure is taking longer. Harriet has been separated from her kids for almost seven years now, while at the same time supporting them from across the world the entire time.

With previous efforts from Harriet and previous communal fundraising, we have managed to raise enough to ensure their travel costs. However, the IND is now demanding a court document from her country to prove her guardianship with her foster children. We are raising funds with this dinner to cover the legal fees to prove her guardianship, and to make sure all of Harriet’s children don’t need to be separated from Harriet nor each other any longer.

We believe the right to family life and reunification belongs to everyone and should not be made conditional to the financial situation someone has. Feel welcome to join our efforts.

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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Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars

By: börek - March 13th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday 15 march 2023, Proxy Cafe, making maps, importing calendars, from 18:00 to 22:00.

How to make a map with several layers? uMap [https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/] lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site. Also on the program of this Proxy Cafe, managing your own Thunderbird calendar, importing calendar feeds [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-new-calendars]. And if you’re still using Proton mail, Google and Hotmail, it’s not too late to move to something else. We’ll be playing with all these tools. Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

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Voku benefit for legal costs

By: börek - March 13th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 13 March 2023, Vegan voku benefit for legal costs. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

After new years eve 2022, two comrades/people got arrested in Belgium. They are being held accountable for organizing an illegal rave or free party. To come clear, they had never been involved in the organisation. And anyhow the actions of a collective should never fall onto the shoulders of an individual.
Our friends/comrades have been in trial since the 4th of january and we cannot predict till when this trial could possibly last before they will get prosecuted/ a verdict. The legal costs of their lawyers rising up to thousands of euros, so every collected euro, cent counts.
As their friends, we deeply feel for our comrades. And while their stuck in a time capsule, we will have to do anything to make it more bearable for them.
Show solidarity and support (y)our people!!

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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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963)

By: börek - March 8th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 12 February 2023, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Billy Liar * 1963 * directed by John Schlesinger * 98 minutes * In English with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.

Based on a novel by Keith Waterhouse, this dark comedy is fundamentally about a young bloke who doesn’t want to give up his dreams, causing mayhem in the Manchester community where he lives. The entire film is a breath of fresh air, since its concept hasn’t been repeated a thousand times in Hollywood. This film is too quirky, too satirical, and its message too relevant. It follows the path of a young desk clerk called Billy Fischer who lies endlessly, and therefore throws chaos into the real world. Billy has a wild imagination, and his fantasies blur his sense of reality. But that also makes sense…. it’s a natural defense against a world that is way too boring, and that tries to kill him spiritually.

This is an early work directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), made in England during the first half of the 60s. It stars an energetic Tom Courtenay and a very young Julie Christie. Its fluid style is influenced by the French New Wave, and it also taps into the rebellious spirit of that movement. It has a sense of irony and black humor that kicks back against the conservative landscape of post-war England, just on the edge of being transformed into the swinging sixties. In a world like today when everything is so heavily templated, it’s a wonder to see a movie like this unfold, where the sharpness of the dialogue matches perfectly the playful wit of the visuals. In a way it has a punky attitude that was picked up later in the 80s by the indie Manchester band The Smiths… who even lifted sentences from this film and turned them into song lyrics.

This will be a high-definition screening.

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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