Dear people, this November Joe’s Garage * organizes a small series of events around housing struggles in the capitalist city.
We are welcoming people from Berlin to screen with us a very recent film about the ‘Rent Rebels’ (http://mietrebellen.de) in Berlin, a quite popular and diverse movement that emerged in the last couple of years and struggles against massive gentrification and forced evictions of renters that take place at high pace. The events shall serve as space for discussion and exchange with the people from Berlin, about experiences being made in struggle, the urban restructuring that goes on in Berlin, and the self-organisation of all kinds of people to fight it.
Besides of being inspirational the events shall also be a space to come together and exchange ideas and experiences related to the unacceptable housing situation in Amsterdam and necessary housing struggles. Descent housing in its various forms and shapes and the city itself is not for profit but for us, the people, and a basic need of everybody independent of social status.
Share this invitation with your friends and comrades and get together! Below you can find the agenda.
* Joe’s Garage is a squatted autonomous social center in Amsterdam Oost.
Joe’s Garage
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Mo/Ma. November 10th 2014, 19:00 @ Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat, Benefit Voku Volkseten Vegazulu: Rent Rebels, against the sale out of the city.
http://www.joesgarage.nl/events/benefit-voku-renter-rebels
Fr/Vr. November 21st 2014, 19:00 @ Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat, Rent Rebels night, film screening and discussion
http://www.joesgarage.nl/events/renter-rebels
Sa/Za. November 22nd 2014, 15:00 @ Pluk van de Senecaflat, Confuciusplein 14, Rent Rebels afternoon, film screening and discussion.
http://www.joesgarage.nl/events/renter-rebels-2
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Monday November 10th @ Joe’s Garage
Tonight Joe’s Garage is cooking for the info and experience exchange days we plan in November on the 21th at Joe’s and the 22th at the Pluk van Senecaflat. We will screen short films about housing struggles in Berlin, Cologne and Madrid during the evening.
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Friday November 21st @ Joe’s Garage
19:00:
Screening of “Rent Rebels – Resistance against the sell out of the city”, 2014, by Gertrud Schulte Westenberg and Matthias Coers, German with English subs). Documentary about the housing struggle against forced evictions in Berlin.
Afterwards:
Discussion with activists from Berlin: Let’s talk about the experiences made in Berlin and necessary housing struggles in Amsterdam.
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Saturday November 21st @ Pluk van de Senecaflat
15:00:
Screening of “Rent Rebels – Resistance against the sell out of the city”, 2014, by Gertrud Schulte Westenberg and Matthias Coers, German with English subs). Documentary about the housing struggle against forced evictions in Berlin.
Afterwards:
Discussion with activists from Berlin: Let’s talk about the experiences made in Berlin and necessary housing struggles in Amsterdam.
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If you want to organize other screenings, get in touch with the directors: http://mietrebellen.de
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Made possible by mietrebellen.de, joesgarage.nl, Pluk van de Senecaflat, Zielona Gora (berlin) and friends.
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Benefit Voku 10th of November 2014 ( http://www.joesgarage.nl/archives/10087)
Tonight Joe’s Garage is cooking for an info and experience exchange days we plan between on the 21th at Joe’s and the 22th of November at he Pluk van de Senecaflat. Then we are welcoming people from Berlin to screen with us the very recent film about the “Rent Rebels” in Berlin, a quite popular and diverse movement that emerged in the last couple of years and struggles against massive gentrification and forced evictions of renters that take place at high pace. That weekend shall serve as space for discussion and exchange with the people from Berlin, about experiences being made in struggle, the urban restructuring that goes on in Berlin, and the self-organisation of all kinds of people to fight it.
Besides of being inspirational the events shall also be a space to come together and exchange ideas and experiences related to the housing situation in Amsterdam, the gentrification, housing speculation and office building madness, that goes on with no real plan or actions to stop it, the criminalization of squatting since 2010 and the fact that people are drawn out from their homes, neighborhoods and social networks (not the ones at Facebook) if work is precarious or wages are too low to afford the high and rising rents, even in the social housing sector, while so called housing corporations like Ymere or De Key (just to name a few) intentionally empty their houses from low income renters in order to make more profits by privatizing or renovating them for a upper class renter or buyer segment.
The city’s politicians and parties are obviously neither interested nor capable in regulating this situation and apparently prefer that Amsterdam becomes an even more elitist city, whose urban development is solely drawn by economic factors and that propagate as the solution for those on the losing side the myth of the almost “natural” matter of fact that people should move around every couple of years if life becomes too expensive. In that way we are further individualised by not being capable of building any relevant local networks that supports a meaningful struggle against this conditions.
Descent housing in its various forms and shapes and the city itself is not for profit but for us, the people, and a basic need of everybody independent of social status. We hope to come together with our various backgrounds as renters, precarious and unemployed workers, students, renter activists and renter committees, squatters, radicals, refugees, thus basically all of us that are negatively affected by the neo-liberal development of Amsterdam and to get organized in order to propose and realise alternatives and to resist the social cleansing that is threatening us.
http://mietrebellen.de/
Joe’s Garage Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
http://joesgarage.nl hosted by Squat!net [http://squat.net]
Ma/Mo: 19.00 Volkseten Vegazulu
Di/Tu: 11.00 – 15:00 Lonely Collective Day Cafe
Di/Tu: 20.00 – 21.30 Kraakspreekuur
Wo/We: 15.00 – 18.00 Lonely Collective Day Cafe
Do/Th: 19.00 – Volkseten Vegazulu
Za/Sa: 14.00 – 18.00 Weggeefwinkel
Zo/Su: 20.00 Filmavond/Infoavond