Fundraising Voku for the Abbas Family in Gaza

Leading to our upcoming 7.0. issue Between Bodies & Homes, we Soapbox, in collaboration with the radical leftist student collective tahyafalasteen_, are delighted to invite you to join us for a vegan fundraising community dinner in support of the Abbas family in Gaza. This event is a call for reflection on the contemporary mass dispossession of housings and “homes,” conditioned by all sorts of hegemony. With Gaza as our locus of attention, we stand in solidarity with the people under mass displacement and the grassroots movements in creating new forms of “homes.” The dinner will be followed by a screening of the film Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971), where filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao follow the Japanese Red Army and the Palestine Liberation Front in Lebanon during their training. “Declaration of World War,” echoes Leila Khaled’s articulation that “all our struggles are one single struggle.” On that premise, Masao and Koji’s documentation examines how ‘home’ can be and become a space produced by shared ideologies of anti-colonial resistance. All profit from the dinner will be directed to the Abbas family, in order to help them evacuate to safety and cover urgent medical care for Sara, one of the family members who was injured in an airstrike. You can find more information about them at abbas_evacuateThe screening will be starting at 20.00. NieuwLand is wheelchair accessible but the toilets are not. The nearest public spaces with larger toilets are Wereld Museum Amsterdam (open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 17) and hotel The Manor (open 24/7)