Opstand – Anarchistische Plek 070

We are hosting a boardgame night for people of all skill levels. Feel free to bring your own games. It will also be regular opening night, so you are free to check the library.

Tuesday April 15, 19:00
DM for the address.

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message is your accessibility needs are not covered.

On May 13th, we will discuss the first four chapters of the book “Practical Anarchism – a guide for daily life”, by Shuli Branson.

DM for copies and location.

📅 Tuesday May 13th.

⏲️ Time: 19h00

📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

WE INVITE YOU, THE PEOPLE, ON THE 11TH OF MARCH, 19:00 TO OUR NEXT FILM SCREENING!

The People’s joker, 2022, dir. Vera Drew, is the totally heart wrenching and devastating, NOT AT ALL COMEDIC story of an aspiring clown who’s grappling with her gender identity and has to fight some fascistic caped crusader! 😱 (we’ve all been there… honestly)

Letterboxd people (are they who this joker is for??? I havent seen the movie yet) have left reviews stating:
“⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ absolute cinema, how do you even come up with this i love gay people”
” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ hell yeahhhh”
“⭐️⭐️⭐️ much better than joker 2”
“⭐️⭐️ cool ideia but i got bored and dropped in the middle”
“Love the textures”
What all of this means? You tell me! But i have a suspicion it might be a bit… fruity…? Come find out at the screening! Maybe you could share your own letterboxd review with us afterwards 😏😏

(For those wondering: it is actually a comedy movie, i was lying to you earlier because im evil. Sorry.)

Content Warning: dead naming, abusive relationship, violence.

📅 Tuesday March 11th. Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30.
⏲️ Movie length: 1h30
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (DM or send us an email for the address)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

Did you know that 2750 people were forcibly deported from the NL in 2024? This is the 4th consecutive increase in deportations according to the DTenV. This has to stop!

In this workshop, we will dive into the Dutch migration and deportation regime and discuss concrete actions that YOU can take to stop deportations.

📅 Tuesday March 25th. Doors open 19.00, workshop starts at 19.30.

⏲️ Workshop length: 2h

📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

Come and celebrate International Women’s Day with us at ACU! 💜🖤

There will be a market full of queer anarchafeminist books, DIY jewelry, patches, sweets, mutual aid and politics.

The doors will be open at 15h and the market will be closed at 19h. Afterwards there will be rescued food by Taste Before You Waste.
The entry is on donation and the money will go to @femicide_niet_uit_liefde . They’ll also give a speech at the beginning so be on time!

TERFs AND SWERFs NOT WELCOME 💜🖤

Join us 25 February @opstand for this film screening!

Wild zero, 1999, directed by Tetsuro Takeuchi

A film ahead of its time. In this Japanese horror comedy only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.

*Trigger warnings: violence

Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30 and is 1h38m. After the screening we will have a short discussion. DM or email us for the location

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

On February 4th at 19:00 at De Opstand, we will discuss the rest of the book “Interviews with Radical Palestinian women”, including the interviews from 4 to 10 (pages 54 to 129).

DM for copies and location.

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

Join us 28 January @opstand for this film screening!

Laila’s birthday, 2008, directed by Rashid Masharawi.
The film is about Abu Laila, a former Judge now taxi driver in Ramallah. During his day his mission is to pick up a present and a cake for his seven-year-old daughter’s birthday celebration. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.

Laila’s Birthday is a Palestinian film that works on many levels and speaks of the difficulties of keeping your soul alive in an occupied country where inconvenience, frustrations, and dangers are ever present.

*Trigger warnings: violence*

Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30 and is 1h33m. After the screening we will have a short discussion. DM or email us for the location.

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

21 Jan, from 19h to 22h. Book presentation: Vele Stemmen Wild en Stil. Joke Kaviaar will read some of the poetry from the book (in Dutch). After the presentation, we will have a poetry writing session together (Dutch/English). You can have a copy of the book for €10.

About the book: “In the fervent hope that these poems and drawings contribute something to the fight against those who have declared war on Earth, Joke Kaviaar greets everyone who dares to speak out.”

More info on the artist and the book here:
https://jokekaviaar.nl/

Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available. Send us a message is your accessibility needs are not covered.

New round of book discussions with: Interviews with radical Palestinian women.

14th January at 19:00. We will discuss interviews from 1 to 3.

DM for copies and location.

PINK FLAMINGOS
Join us 26 November @opstand.denhaag !

Pink Flamingos, 1972, directed by John Waters
This is a dark comedy about notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine. This movie is 60% around sex or being the filthiest most depraved person alive and 40% hard to follow storyline. It is perverted.
*If you are sensitive and can be triggered easily, then think about if you rather skip this film screening and join us again the next time?

We want to show and discuss this film because we think John Walters is an unique artist that makes films from the sympathetic position of the villain. He goes against the normies and the sterilized beige society. He glamorizes the rogues of society. We would love to discuss his critique on society through the lens of Pink Flamingo.

Trigger warnings: sex & nudity, violence & gore, sexual assault, animal cruelty, cannibalism, drug & alcohol use, and many more. Please check www.doesthedogdie.com for full list of trigger warmings.

Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30 and is 1h33m. After the screening we will have a short discussion. DM or email us for the location.
Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

“In THE BALLAD OF A NEVER-ENDING ELEVATOR ACCIDENT M. Alberto presents a selection of performance poetry written and performed between 2020 and 2024. A collection of critical and meditative work, questioning late-stage capitalism, the city and its borders & the body and its limits – from a queer Black anarchist perspective.”

Send us an email for the location.

More info on the artist and the book here:
https://deb9bc1c-bed0-440d-b7eb-eb579774a322.usrfiles.com/ugd/deb9bc_92bbefb14ee94607a697ee36e5a450f1.pdf

Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available. Send us a message is your accessibility needs are not covered.

Cosy Radical Storytelling;
queer speculative fiction writing session

The stories we tell are constantly shaping our reality as we shape them. These stories move through us, metabolically nestled inside the body, until they are ready to diffuse back out into the world, maybe as new stories. Our storytelling muscles are essential for weaving the worlds we desire and need some training! Come along on the 22nd for a collective writing circle, where will spend time with your imaginations and hopefully write together stories of queer worlds of resistance and regeneration.

No prior writing experience is needed, but if you have an existing idea for a story please bring it along. Or perhaps you have an excerpt of an existing story or favourite speculative fiction book that you can to share with the group? Or an object that prompts imagination? We will propose some short writing exercises to get us started, otherwise we will work with the material you bring and the space will be open for whatever the collective mood invites.

See you for a cosy evening for queer imagination and storytelling.

Hosted by @queeredfutures___lab

Send us an email for the location.

Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available

We are kicking off a new round of book discussions with: Popular resistance in Palestine.

Send us a DM over instagram or an email for the location.

The main space is wheelchair accessible but to access the shelves with books you need to walk up one flight of stairs. We also provide face masks and keep the space well ventilated during opening hours.

A note on radical accessibility for future Opstand events. We recently moved the Opstand to the upstairs of the space, which makes consulting the books and zines less accessible. Although, the events still happen at the lower floor. At the same time, we have slowly moved towards ignoring Covid. There is not much we can do about the first but there is something that can be done about the second.

We will also keep the space ventilated and we encourage everybody to:
• Do a self test if you can (we also have some in the space)
• Wear a mask if you can
• Do not come in you have symptoms

This might come as surprise for some but the pandemic is not over. To give a few numbers, 10% of infected people develop long term symptoms and Japan had the highest death rate since the pandemic began at the start of last year. This post is about promoting mutual aid and taking care of each other. Including also the people that cannot mask. As anarchists, we pride ourselves in making our own decisions instead of just listening to politicians. Yet, in this topic, we seem to just blindly follow the state policy.

For a deeper discussion on the topic, this zine is a good start https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/zines/pandemic-praxis and here is the reference for the 10% of long covid https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7

Knowledge sharing about linux, android updates with lineageOS, security and privacy.

As Pride The Hague 2024 approaches, we want to shed light on ongoing discussions De Opstand and fellow collectives have had with the organizing pride team.

This year, cops are official partners of the pride week, and although we have extensively voiced our disappointment and worries about this, our concerns have not been meaningfully listened to.

We hope this open letter brings transparency to the issue, and we, once again, urge the organizing team to take our concerns seriously and reflect on their choices.

A different Pride is possible, and we will keep dreaming of it.

Pride Open Letter

We do not want police at pride

After extensive discussions with COC Haaglanden, regarding the presence of cops at Pride, we still don’t feel heard and our community needs are not respected.

Our position is clear, we do not want police at our pride. Police presence at queer demonstrations have only stood to further instigate violence against us, rather than protect us from it. This has been the case both historically and within the recent past. To our greatest disappointment, the police force will be present at pride walk and at the opening party at Pride The Hague 2024.

Recently, in canal pride Leiden, we have witnessed violence against our community during pride. History keeps repeating itself. We do not want that to happen here at Pride The Hague.

The police and the system of border controls are well documented to be institutionally racist and perpetuate hatred toward queer people of color and queer migrants. Queer and trans people of color and migrants in our community do not feel safe around the police.

It’s possible to not have police force at pride: New York, London have done it!

There is international precedent for ending police presence at Pride: following the spread of the second wave of Black Lives Matter actions in summer 2020, New York City’s Pride, Vancouver Pride, and Toronto Pride ended police presence at the 2021 parade. The same is also true for Trans Pride in London. We urge Pride Den Haag to follow similar principled steps.

We have high hopes for what a Pride march and activities for queer liberation would include. We hope that Pride The Hague’s organizers will move closer to what a shared vision of pride and queer liberation would look like.

This open later is co-signed by QLU (Queer Leiden University) https://www.instagram.com/p/C64R6slIrYt

Join us this Tuesday, the 13th of February, 18:00, to make banners together! AGAIN! After the beautiful banners we made last time, we just can’t get enough and are craving even more… let’s perfect the banners we made last time and make another one! And some nice art therapy never hurts muhahaha.

This event will be hosted at de Opstand (The Hague).
The banners are to be used for the coming sit-ins, marches, or other actions/protests etc!
Send a DM to de Opstand page on instagram or an email for the precise location.

Donations and/or food/supplies are welcome! Please bring cash! We will have prepared some of our own as well 🙂

Hopefully until then!
🖤❤️🤍💚
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Kom aanstaande dinsdag 13 februari, 18:00 uur, samen met ons banners maken! OPNIEUW! Na de prachtige banners die we de vorige keer hebben gemaakt, kunnen we er simpelweg geen genoeg van krijgen en verlangen we ernaar onze handen weer uit de mouwen te steken… laten we de banners die we de vorige keer hebben gemaakt perfectioneren en er nog een maken! En wat leuke kunsttherapie doet nooit pijn muhahaha.

Dit evenement vindt plaats in de Opstand (Den Haag).
De spandoeken zijn bedoeld voor de komende sit-ins, marsen of andere acties/protesten etc!
Stuur een DM naar de Opstand pagina of een email voor de exacte locatie.

Donaties en/of voedsel zijn welkom! Neem graag cash mee! Wij hebben natuurlijk wel het een en ander ook klaar liggen/klaar gemaakt :]

Hopelijk tot dan!
🖤❤️🤍💚

Nederlands onderaan

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since you heard from us. In January, we had to move out of our space at Beatrijsstraat 12 where we have been part of De Samenscholing for the past years. We are lucky enough that we can currently collaborate with a different space in The Hague, where we can temporarily organize.

Our first event after the move is happening this Friday, February 17th, from 6pm to 9pm. It will be open to anyone who identifies as queer or as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Shoot us a message for the location, and please stay tuned for more updates on our future opening times and events.

After having pressure put on them from many sides, the Municipality of The Hague has agreed to provide De Samenscholing with a new location. So far, they haven’t proposed anything viable, but we will continue to fight for a space where we can organize autonomously.

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Hoi allemaal, het is alweer een tijdje geleden dat jullie iets van ons hebben gehoord. In januari hebben we moeten vertrekken uit onze plek aan de Beatrijsstraat 12 waar we de afgelopen jaren deel hebben uitgemaakt van De Samenscholing. Gelukkig kunnen we momenteel samenwerken met een andere plek in Den Haag, waar we de Opstand tijdelijk kunnen voortzetten.

Ons eerste evenement na de verhuizing vindt aanstaande vrijdag 17 februari plaats, van 18.00 tot 21.00 uur. Het is open voor iedereen die zich identificeert als queer of als lid van de LHBTQIA+ gemeenschap. Stuur ons een berichtje voor de locatie, en hou onze socials in de gaten voor informatie over onze toekomstige openingstijden en evenementen.

Nadat er van veel kanten druk op ze is uitgeoefend, heeft de gemeente Den Haag alsnog toegezegd De Samenscholing een nieuwe locatie te gaan bieden. Tot nu toe hebben ze nog niets fatsoenlijks voorgesteld, maar we zullen blijven vechten voor een ruimte waar we ons autonoom kunnen organiseren.

We have added all the books from our library to the “library thing” website. You can now check out what we have from home. To make sure we haven’t lent the book that you like, send us an email first to confirm that we have in the store at the moment. The link is in the menu above and also here: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/opstand.denhaag