Solidarity Week with Ukraine: Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives + screening: "Where Russia Ends" (Oleksiy Radynski, 2024)
Week of action: February 24 — March 3
As we enter the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the urgency to act has never been greater. The situation grows increasingly dire, with the toll of the war deepening both on the battlefield and within the fabric of Ukrainian society. So today we need your voices, your solidarity, and your actions to amplify our actions for justice and resistance.
From 24 February we call on all our friends, partners and all anti-authoritarian groups in all parts of the world for a week of action! We encourage you to organise rallies, fundraisers, and public events that draw attention to the Ukrainian resistance struggle against Russian imperialism. Whether it’s a public demonstration, a direct action (the case of squatting in a Russian oligarch’s mansion inspires us), a music concert, a movie screening or an art exhibition, a fundraising campaign or a panel discussion, your efforts are vital to keep Ukrainians’ struggle visible and supported. The topic of the Russian shadow fleet and its environmental impact or international security challenges could be topics of such discussions. You could paint graffiti in the street of your city and send us a picture of it or even make a series of photos. We would be grateful for any kind of participation.
The alarming rise of far-right movements around the world demands that we stand together to counter these forces to fight imperialism and oppression. Supporting Ukrainians fighting Russian imperialism should be one of the priorities of the anti-authoritarian movement, and this goes hand in hand with supporting all refugees and immigrants in the West.
We believe that we should exchange practices and ideas internationally in order to develop our common struggles. And our team is ready to participate in your events, exchange knowledge, discuss difficult issues and assist in any way we can to make your initiatives impactful. Together, we can build a global network of solidarity that echoes beyond borders and languages.
Solidarity Collectives
Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives, food served from 19:00 + Movie Screening from 21:30, WHERE RUSSIA ENDS, directed by Oleksiy Radynski, in Ukranian with English subs. Ukraine, 2024. Documentary, 25 minutes.
Composed entirely of archive footage rediscovered in the Kyiv Popular Science Film Studios in 2022, this film interrogates Russian imperialism and the destruction of Indigenous land.
Where Russia Ends is an essayistic road movie that interrogates the overlooked histories of settler colonialism and environmental destruction in Russia-occupied indigenous lands.
In 2022, a number of previously unknown film materials had been discovered at the Science Film Studio in Kyiv, documenting several filmic expeditions undertaken in the 1980s by a group of Ukrainian filmmakers to various parts of Siberia and the Far North.
These materials are the starting point for the recovery of erased histories of multiple imperialist wars that the Russian state had waged against its current colonies.
Doors opens 19:00 with food
Movie starts : 21:30
