On the weekend of the 21th and 22nd of November we are welcoming people from Berlin to screen with us the very recent film about the Renter Rebels in the Berlin, a quite popular and diverse movement that emerged in the last couple of years and that 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 against 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.
Why?
We would like 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 and 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 commitees, 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.
Friday November 21st, 19:00 @ Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam: Rent Rebels night, film screening and discussion.
19:00h Doors open and warm food.
19:30h Renter 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.
Saturday November 22nd @ 15:00 @ Pluk van de Senecaflat, Confuciusplein 14, Amsterdam: Rent Rebels afternoon, film screening and discussion.
15:00h Doors open.
15:30h Renter 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.
If you would like to organize another screening, get in touch with the directors: http://mietrebellen.de
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Kingdom of Demolishion [poster, flyer]
The city is not for sale [poster, flyer]
Koninkrijk van de sloop [poster, flyer]
De stad is niet te koop [poster, flyer]
Background information about Berlin
Rent Rebels/Huur Rebellen
mietrebellen.de/
Avert forced evictions/Gedwongen uitzettingen verhinderen
zwangsraeumungverhindern.blogsport.de/
Berlin’s list/Berlijnse lijst
http://berlinerliste.noblogs.org/
We stay all/Wij blijven alle
wirbleibenalle.org/
Dump Mediaspree
ms-versenken.org/
Mietenstopp/Huurstop
mietenstopp.blogsport.de/
Rentdossier/Huurdossier
mietendossier.blogsport.de
Refugeestrike Berlin/Vluchtelingstaking Berlijn
asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com
Background information about Amsterdam
Speculation research collective/Spekulatie Onderzoeks Kollektief
http://speculanten.nl/
Union for precarious housing/Bond precaire woonvormen
bondprecairewoonvormen.nl
Housing Amsterdam/Wonen Amsterdam
www.housingamsterdam.org/po_html/po_start.html
Housing manifest/Woonmanifest
www.huurdersverenigingcentrum.nl/standpunten/woonmanifest
We are here/Wij zijn hier
wijzijnhier.org
Betrayal of the people/Volksverraad (Amsterdam Groenmarkt)
www.volksverraad.nl
Renters revolt/Huurdersopstand
Face-book: huurdersopstand
Renter commision Haarlemmerpoort/Huurdersvereniging Haarlemmerpoort
haarlemmerpoort.nl/home/
Renter commision East/Huurdersvereniging Oost
huurdersverenigingoost.nl/
Renter commision Center/Huurdersvereniging Centrum
www.huurdersverenigingcentrum.nl/
Rent?Autonomy!
Mietshäusersyndikat
http://www.syndikat.org/en
Soweto Amsterdam
https://soweto.nl/nl
Squatting Hour East/Kraakspreekuur KSU Oost
ksuoost.squat.net
Squatting Hour South-West/KSU Zuid/West
molli.squat.net
Student’s squatting hour SKSU/Studenten kraakspreekuur SKSU
studentenkraakspreekuur.wordpress.com
Originally posted on https://www.joesgarage.nl/archives/10191
Joe’s Garage
Opening times:
Mo: 19.00 Volkseten Vegazulu
Tu: 11.00 – 15:00 Lonely Collective Day Cafe
Tu: 20.00 – 21.30 Kraakspreekuur
We: 15.00 – 18.00 Lonely Collective Day Cafe
Th: 19.00 Volkseten Vegazulu
Sa: 14.00 – 18.00 Weggeefwinkel
Su: 20.00 Filmavond/Infoavond
Joe’s Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
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