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PLEASE help! urgent!

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info/callout for support!!!
URGENT! until 16.00  today (wednesday, 20.4.2021)
De Samenscholing – in short
De Samenscholing is not too busy with social media, but they are busy with the neighborhood, self autonomy and DIY. You might follow the Opstand (anarchist bookplace with free cookies and queer people running it always :)P) or Water en Brood (@water.en.brood),the vegan organic restaurant, or you were at the free shop (Weggeefwinkel Bea-nix on FB) to get a small impression of the many things happening there!
After lengthy renovations of the building, which de samenscholers sort of won from a struggle for an alternative-cultural center with the municipality of The Hague, the first events started to happen in 2018, spaces got established, etc.
The Free shop, weekly outside affordable bar evenings, concerts of underground bands, a bookspace with anarchist library and political events, movie screenings, a vegan and organic restaurant, DIY language courses, artist studios, workplace… And always open for more ideas, a space where you can organise an event as well.
Anti-capitalist, and for social profit instead of monetary profit!
What’s happening now:
De Wethouders of the city (Van Asten vor culture and  Bruines for economy) are pushing for the cancellation of the usage contract of the building on the Beatrijsstraat 12 – to gentrify and redevelop it to an ‘economisch verzamelgebouw (‘economische broedplaats’) voor de maakindustrie’, so a building for what they call ‘small businesses’, with rents up to 100€/m2.
And all this in the middle of a small social housing neighborhood, in a space where right now kids play and the neighborhood gets together to share stuff and support each other.
**see links for documents in dutch below**
!!! The urgency: !!!
Next week Thursday (21.4.2022) the municipality will vote on two things: the cancellation of the contract of the users of the Beatrijsstraat 8-12 (Helikopter artist studios and De Samenscholing Vrijplaats) and the Proposal for the redevelopment of the building situated there.
There one can make use of one’s democratic right: ‘inspreken’. (calling by video or coming in person for talking or making a point in their discussions for 3 minutes max.) More details below.
This is the only leverage we still have right now for the neighborhood and the the people and collectives involved and all those who in the future would like to organise cool stuff for free, have a place to try themselves out and not get poor going out etc…

How to inspreken:

you need to speak dutch. (but you actually don’t need to speak, you can also play a song or rant)
You can be there in person or call in via phone or videocall. tell them at the registration.
you need to call +31 70 3533131, or mail griffie@denhaag.nl and sign up with your last name for the agendapoint O of the Raadsvergadering on 14.02.2022. There’s also a webformulier, you can find it on the bottom of this page: https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/bestuur-en-organisatie/gemeenteraad/stad-in-de-raad.htm
you have 3 minutes usually (less minutes if more people signed up)
However you do it: make it a point that this is not supposed to happen!
YOU CAN ALSO GIVE YOUR TIME TO SOMEONE ELSE! just sign up and say you give them to marian from the weggeef or anyone else you know that is speaking. 4minutes are shorter than you think 🙂
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opzegging contract gebruikers
https://denhaag.raadsinformatie.nl/document/11297442/2/RIS311870+Opzegging+gebruikers+Beatrijsstraat+8-12
voorstel voor herontwikkeling
https://denhaag.raadsinformatie.nl/document/11297615/2/RIS311871+Voorstel+van+het+college+inzake+Investeringsbesluit+herontwikkeling+Beatrijsstraat+8-12+voor+de+maakindustrie
bijlage 1 (ruimtelijke verkenning economische broedplaats maakindustrie)
https://denhaag.raadsinformatie.nl/document/11359617/1/RIS311871_Bijlage_1
bijlage 2 ( Openbare bijlage bij Vastgoedexploitatie –
herontwikkeling Beatrijsstraat 8-12)
https://denhaag.raadsinformatie.nl/document/11359612/1/RIS311871_Bijlage_2
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Talking about Caliban and The Witch, meeting #6!

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Reading together #6 Caliban and the Witch

Talking about Caliban and The Witch, meeting #6!
February 3th we’ll meet at 7pm to talk about everything until and including chapter 5. (more like chapter  or as far as we have come collectively)
Opstand is open from 6pm, you can come and have food with us from @water.en.brood if you want.
we have facemasks and cookies!
If you don’t have the book yet, you can find it under  //libcom.org/library/caliban-witch-silvia-federici or under https://anarchivists.gitbooks.io/caliban/
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
You don’t need to have any prior experience with the topic to join the reading group, just willingness to discuss and learn from each other. If you are planning to join us, please send us a message to let us know that you are coming, so that we can account for the number of people attending because of higher covid19 cases. Bring your facemask please, otherwise we have some here in case you forgot yours!
Accessibility: The entrance of the Opstand is not wheelchair accessible, but there is a way when you go into the main entrance of the Samenscholing/Water en Brood. The door will be open. In doubt, just call for Max, they’ll come and assist if needed. There is also a suitable toilet.
Next tramstation is Anna Bijnslaan. Parking in the evening is only handy for bikes!
What is “Caliban and The Witch” about? 
“Caliban and the Witch” is a marxist-feminist classic that explores the transition from feudalism to capitalism, a transition that, Federici argues, could only be achieved through the brutal subjugation of women. Moving from medieval peasant revolts through the European witch hunts to the colonisation of America and the transatlantic slave trade, Federici shows that capitalism did not come into existence naturally: it was built on violence. She brings to light that women were often at the forefront of resistance against the new capitalist order, both in Europe and in the colonies, and that capitalism’s birth required the creation of a new kind of patriarchy.
Some of us have already read this book; it is mind blowing and extremely interesting, but also very dense and complex. That is why we want to read it together, to be able to understand it through conversations which each other, and perhaps also to critique it, to be able to formulate our own opinions. What is the connection between witch hunting and capitalism? Where do current patriarchal norms come from, and what purpose do they serve the capitalist powers? We will discuss these questions (and more) while reading this fascinating book.

The Virosexuals, Orion J. Facey

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come check it out!

Manchester, UK. 2080.
It is a subculture whereby people are sexually attracted to the idea of transmitting and receiving STI’s. It started as a counter-culture against computer algorithms that determine every aspect of people’s lives, from careers to romantic interests, where they live, all over the world. The Virosexuals decided to alter their own bodies in order to subvert the algorithm. Now treated as non humans and thus ignored, Virosexuals like Amygdala are left to survive on their own…

The Virosexuals is an all new queer science-fantasy book published by an all queer independent collective.

https://pssss.co/books/the-virosexuals

Hello world!

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We didnt make a specific agenda for this month, but here are the regular dates for next month!!
3rd of march we will read the last chapter of caliban and the witch!

 

take a mask with you or have a free selftest at the opstand 🙂

 

xx

 

[image: a transfeminist big purple logo in different shades is the background, based on the shapes of it there is a lot of text. the header says ‘anarcha boekenplek’ and fat letters form the word opstand. below there are three lines with white and black text on purple and yellow background. on the bottom there is a link to the library and a tiny illustrations of a book and playful letters saying’ anarchists care about books’. all the detail of the flyer can be found in the text.]

letter writing for prisoners not happening tomorrow

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the letter writing for prisoners event is not happening tomorrow because of the increased infection risk concerning the chr*stm*s holidays!

We hope to see you next month, in january, in the new year, for the reading club, for some tea or the movienight or the next letter writing.

We’ll keep you posted here and on inst*gr*m about any special events or changes 🙂

 

 

Film night: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

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Let’s watch a short documentary and learn and discuss about the struggles in Northern Ireland past and present.

This Thursday 9th Dec at 19.00 in the Opstand

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey:
Irish revolutionary, Civil rights activist, Feminist
Politically active 1968 – present day

Brought up in a cathlolic working class home in Northern Ireland, she radicalized participating in the Civil Right’s movement and was subsequently excluded from university.
Aged 21, not intending to win the elections she became the youngest woman ever elected into parliament only to realize that “… by coming to the british parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom”

Involved in the famous “battle of the bogside” she helped organize a neighborhood to defend themselves against unionist paramilitaries and the police. They held the barricades 48 hrs and surrendered only when they brought in the military.
“it is of no relevance who starts the stone throwing in these occasions but what does matter is that it always ends up with an invasion of the catholic slum area by the police”
She subsequently spent 6 months in prison for inciting riots.

“I’m just one of a number of people who grew up in a society we didn’t want to grow old in.
It’s a sick society.
I just wish that other people would try top put themselves in my shoes.
Not as bernadette devlin but as one 22 year old girl from a working class background living in northern ireland.
there’s millions, at least hundreds of bernadette devlins in the North of Ireland.
who have no adress to the british public, aren’t newsworthy
they don’t know what to do either
they can’t live in the society they find themselves in
they don’t know how to change it
and in conscience they can’t leave it and forget about it
we’re the people they call extremists”

She never stopped organizing politically.

Events December 2021

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Anarcha Boekenplek Opstand  – Events/evenementen December 2021:

Elke dinsdag en donderdag vanaf 18 tot 21.00 zijn we open voor onze bieb, om boeken met radicaal inhoud te verkopen of te lenen, we hebben zines en patches en thee en gezelligheid.

Deze december hebben we reading group, caliban and the witch chapter 3, een arrestatie en verhoorworkshop in het nederlands op de 16e (graag aanmelden via onze email boekenwinkelopstand.riseup.net tot 13.12.2021) en Letter writing to prisoners/gevangenen briefjes schrijven op de 28de.

Elk evenement begint om 19.00, maar open zijn we van 18-21!

Hou deze dagen in de gaten, want we hebben vanaf nu elke 1e donderdag, 2de donderdag en 4de dinsdag van de maand reguliere evenementen!

Onze catalogus van de bibliotheek kunnen jullie vinden op librarything.com/catalog/opstand_denhaag.

 

a transfeminist big purple logo in different shades is the background, based on the shapes of it there is a lot of text. the header says 'anarcha boekenplek' and fat letters form the word opstand. below there are three lines with white and balck text on purple an dyellow background. on th ebottom there is a link to the library and a tiny illustrations of a book and playful letters saying' narchist care about books'. all the detail of the flyer can be found in the text.

Arrestatie en Verhoor: Workshop 16.12.2021 (aanmelding vereist))

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Arrestatie en Verhoor:
Workshop
de arrestantengroep geeft een workshop over voorbereiden op arrestatie, verhoor, en je rechten bij een arrestatie. Daarbij zit een verhoortraining en het onderling delen van ervaringen met arrestatie. Start 19:00 uur.*
Meld je vooraf aan via boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net (tot 13.12.2021, 13:12) want vanwege covid zijn er beperkte plaatsen beschikbaar.
Locatie: Boekwinkel Opstand, beatrijsstraat 12 in Den Haag.
Datum: 16 december 2021, start 19:00
In Nederlands!
* in verband met de covid maatregelen kan de tijd wijzigen.
Kom op tijd!

Regular: Letter writing to prisoners (1st edition next tuesday! 23rd nov!))

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Writing Letters to Prisoners [ a black contour of a prison fence in the background on white. On top you there arelight purple and violet paper planes flying over the fence, and the header says ‘ letter writing to prisoners’. On the bottom of the image there are two light violet text fields, ‘ every 4th tuesday of the month, 19.00’ and ‘Anarcho Boekenplek opstand, Beatrijsstraat 12A’

Join us in the Opstand on Tuesday for a nice cup of tea and for writing some letters. People in prison are faced with isolation and disconnection from the rest of the world. From the outside, we can try to break the routine of repression with some colourful letters. Letter writing seems easy but we often don’t take the time to sit down and do it, or we don’t know where to start… So let’s do it together, with solidarity, tea, and cookies.
We will provide letter writing material and a list of addresses, but feel free to bring more!

Writing letters to prisoners happens every 4rd Tuesday of the month at Anarchistische Boekenplek Opstand, Beatrijsstraat 12a Den Haag.

[ a black contour of a prison fence in the background on white. On top you there arelight purple and violet paper planes flying over the fence, and the header says ‘ letter writing to prisoners’. On the bottom of the image there are two light violet text fields, ‘ every 4th tuesday of the month, 19.00’ and ‘Anarcho Boekenplek opstand, Beatrijsstraat 12A’]
[the same background image as the first image, with a purple text field on top with the text of the caption above]