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As we do every year at the beginning of January, we have taken inventory of our stock. This also means we remove older books from our shelves to make room for new ones. The older titles are now heavily discounted in our sale. There are more than 200 titles with substantial reductions. On Monday, January

Zoals elk jaar begin januari hebben we onze voorraad opnieuw geïnventariseerd. We halen dan ook oudere boeken uit de voorraad om plaats te maken voor nieuwe. De oude boeken gaan dan voor grote korting in de uitverkoop. Er zijn er ruim 200 titels met forse korting. Maandag 5 januari gaan we pas om 14:30 open,

Evening Starts at 19hThe talk will be in EnglishStamps, envelopes, letters, and guidelines on how to write will be made available. The Fort van Sjakoo will host a letter-writing event for political prisoners facing decades in prison in the US, amidst an ever-increasing state of fascism and repression there. It will act as a gathering

When: November 29, 19.00 h.Free entrance. Language: Dutch. The history of Amsterdam is a history of rebellion and resistance. Break the Canon and travel through the untold history of the city of free Frisians, iconoclasts, Anabaptists, provos, and squatters. This lecture is a journey through 750 years of Amsterdam based on rebellion throughout the centuries. We

Friday November 28th @ Fort van Sjakoo. With Marianne Dagevos (Podium voor Palestina). Start 16.30h. Quotations from novels, (excerpts from) short stories, and poems by Palestinian writers and poets are discussed. Together, they provide a picture of the diversity, quality, and relevance of Palestinian literature. There will also be ample opportunity to ask questions and

Fundraiser for an anarchist and anticolonial approach to the climate crisis: https://www.firefund.net/pathstoecorevolution “We want to strengthen our ties and learn from one another. We want to show the world that we can all unplug ourselves from this Machine that destroys life. We want to make it plain that the State, the capitalists, the experts, the

Friday October 10 at 18:00 h the newspaper ‘De Vrije Stem will be presented in het Fort van Sjakoo. Below is the announcement in Dutch, as the event will also be held in Dutch: Komt dat lezen. Vers van de pers onze krant voor de verziekingen, eh verkiezingen. Teven kunt u dan wat beelden verwachten

Friday 19 September 17:00 ~ For the Love of a Kashmiri & Vanishing Acts, part of Amsterdam BANGS autonomous theatre and performance festival. The evening starts with poetry inspired by our solidarity with Palestine, extending to include Kashmir. Then a story about love in a mesh of unfreedoms, followed by a talk using extracts from

Friday June 2o from 5.30pm: presentation/launch of Hackers&Designers’ 7th bulletin. This bulletin is designed with Octomode, an open-source collective editing and design programme for creating PDFs that uses Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask. H&D worked on a new version of Octomode in collaboration with Learning Palestine: a group of artists, academics, intellectuals and community members whose