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

Are you interested in helping organize events, taking a shift, or attending a meeting? We operate under principles of free association, allowing you to get involved as much or as little as you like. You can choose the tasks that interest you and take breaks or step back whenever you need to.

We are looking to add just one or two more people to our collective. If this sounds appealing to you, please get in touch with us via direct email.

Send us an email for the address.

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

The film is about the lives of LGBT people in the Weimar Republic and during the reign of Nazi Germany. The documentary film explores the titular Eldorado, a queer night club in Berlin.

When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time in his village of Bil’in, the Israelis begin bulldozing village olive groves to build a barrier to separate Bil’in from the Jewish settlement Modi’in Illit. The barrier’s route cuts off 60% of Bil’in farmland and the villagers resist this seizure of more of their land by the settlers. During the next year, Burnat films this struggle, army and police beating and arresting villagers and activists who come to support them.

Trigger warnings: violence

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!
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