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We are moving and call for donations

Because of space reasons, we are currently looking for a new house.
Our ideal Ⓐ-casa would have a one big room, suitable for hosting events, a nice functional kitchen, at least two other rooms with separate entrances, a courtyard and storage space. Unfortunately, finding a house in Cluj is not so easy, so if you know any tips or woul like to help in any way, please write to us at casa.fara.nume@riseup.net

Also, because Ⓐ-casa runs on donations, any help received in this period when we cannot organize so many events is highly appreciated. Financial support as well as donations in objects, materials or your time will make the future Ⓐ-casa even better!

house planning

 

About Ⓐ-casă

About Ⓐ-casă

Ⓐ-casă collective is an anti-authoritarian group that. through non-hierarchical organization tries to find sustainable ways to get out of the tyranny for the capitalist system. Through self-organizing and helping eachother we want to advance the struggle for social change while maintaining anti-capitalist and feminist principles, respecting the environment, other beings and humans regardless of gender, race, class, abilities, religion and sexuality.

We imagine a different social order that is based on the free exchange of ideas, things and services, where individuals and communities support each other, and where money isn’t the drive of everything.

Ⓐ-casă is a common, self-managed space that functions and support itself through voluntary donations and activities. It’s a safer space that emerged out of the need for a place friendly to free political discussions and where we can exchange ideas and skills. Until now, Ⓐ-casă has hosted movie projections, debates, workshops, fundraising parties, events with and about healthy food.

Organize an event Ⓐ-casă

The space is open to all groups/individuals who want to hold a presentation, workshop, debate, meeting or any other event that aligns with the collective’s principles.

If you want to organize an event in the space contact us before hand to arrange all the details about communication and technicalities. If it’s necessary, we can provide simultaneous interpretation for foreign speakers.

Permanent Ⓐ-casă activities

Library

In our library you’ll find books, brochures, zines, magazines and albums on political, social, environmental and misc. themes. Every material you can read here is a contribution of an individual or a group. We encourage you to support the library through donations, making your own zines and brochures, translating texts and contributing to a place of critical thought.

Free shop

We encourage the free exchange of things, abilities and knowledge. You can pass by the Ⓐ-casă freeshop to leave things you don’t need and take the ones you do.

DIY

You can make your own stencils, patches, banners, flags, print bags and do all sorts of other stuff. you can find most of the things you need here, but any donations are welcomed.

Also, here you can find tools to repair your bicycle. By learning from one another we can take better care of our bikes. You can contribute with tools or give your own DIY bike-repairing workshop.

Gardening

We believe that producing your own food and saving traditional seeds are the most powerful ways ensure food sovereignty.

The Ⓐ-casă collective is involved in maintaining several community gardens in Cluj. If you want to learn more about urban gardening, saving seeds, permaculture, healthy food or you just want to work in a veggie garden, contact us.

Brewing beer

The small Ⓐ-casă brewery started from the desire to gain more autonomy from mass industrial production and detach from the marketing  mechanism of big companies. Using simple methods and recipes we want to step out of being labeled simply as consumers, in a society based on mass production, profit, invented needs and irresponsible consumption.

If you want ot learn how to homebrew beer, you can attend a workshop held periodically Ⓐ-casă. Write us an email and we’ll let you know when’s the next one.

Homemade bread

We have wood-fired oven where we make bread and pizza. If you are curios about baking, contact us.

 

Supporting other initiatives in Romania and East Europe

Ⓐ-casă can support other social change from Romania or abroad with infrastructure for organizing big events (camps, international forums, meetings)

-Mobile vegan kitchen

-Infrastructure and logistics (tents, temporary constructions)

-Simultaneous interpretation of multiple languages DIY equipment

Hosting

The Ⓐ-casă space is commonly used by multiple groups so we would like to avoid hosting people overnight.

Please

-respect the space’s schedule

-keep it clean (do your dishes, sweep or mop the floor if necessary, leave the toilet clean, and, because it is a common space, please do not leave your personal belongings scattered)

-put things you took back to their place

-do not come with pets in the yard and don’t feed Betty (our white dog)nostru alb)

 

*Contact

E-mail: casa.fara.nume@riseup.net

Blog: acasacluj.noblogs.org

Adresa: str. Somesului, nr. 45, Cluj-Napoca

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(we love receiving mail, but because A-casa is an informal group, please let us know if you want to send a package. the romanian postal system won’t let us get packages sent to the group)

CrimethInc. speaking tour: “After the Crest”

After the Crest: What We Do between Upheavals
[RO]În ultimii ani, multe locuri au fost martore unor erupţii de proteste unde oamenii au inundat străzile. Acestea au luat diferite forme: proteste anti-austeritate în Europa, mişcarea Occupy in SUA şi de peste tot, protestele pentru transportul public din Brazilia, resistenţa Gezi din Turcia, revoltele din Bosnia şi cel mai recent – şi cea mai problematică – revoluţia naţionalistă din Ucraina. Dar toate acestea au trecut fără a chiar rezolva cu adevărat problemele care au fost scânteia protestelor. Care au fost limitele care le-au atins şi de ce e nevoie să trecem peste aceste limite? Dacă o singură revoltă nu va distruge capitalismul, trebuie să ne întrebăm care e aspectul important ale acestor culmi ale luptei: ce speraţe avem de la ele, cum se potrivesc pe plan îndepărtat şi cum să profităm de perioada care urmează după ele. În această prezentare, participanţi la luptele sociale din Slovenia şi Statele Unite vor vorbi despre experienţele lor şi vor ridica nişte probleme. Haide pregătit pentru discuţii! Acest turneu e parte dintr-o investigaţie pe tema „After the crest” (Dupa apogeu), organizat prin colectivul Crimethinc.

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Over the past few years, many places have witnessed sudden eruptions of protest in which everyone pours into the streets. This has taken many forms: anti-austerity protests in Europe, Occupy in the US and elsewhere, transportation protests in Brazil, the Gezi resistance in Turkey, the uprising in Bosnia, and most recently—and problematically—the nationalist revolution in Ukraine. But all of these have passed without solving the problems that gave rise to them. What limits have they reached, and what would it take to go beyond these limits? If a single upheaval won’t bring down capitalism, we have to ask what’s important about such high points of struggle: what we hope to get out of them, how they figure in our long-term vision, and how to make the most of the period that follows them. In this presentation, participants in popular struggles in Slovenia and the United States will speak about our experiences and pose questions. Please come ready to discuss! This tour is part of an ongoing investigation on the theme “After the Crest,” organized through the anarchist collective CrimethInc.

http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2013/09/09/after-the-crest-the-life-cycle-of-movements/

afterthecrest

f_antifa în germania. prezentare şi conversaţie cu oleg

[ro] [hu] [eng]

Dacă Antifa, AFA şi 161 au devenit o parte indispensabilă a vocabularului şi repertoriului de concepte ale stângii radicale din toată europa în ultimii 30 de ani (cum a fost, de exemplu, congresul european antifa care-a avut loc la atena in aprilie anul acesta, la care au venit participanţi din aproximativ 20 de ţări), alte forme mai degrabă locale de organizare şi conceptuafantifa.imaginelizare ale politicii radicale de stânga sunt mult mai puţin cunoscute. Una dintre acestea este mişcarea f_antifa din ţările vorbitoare de germană. f_antifa înseamnă antifa feministă sau antifa a femeilor şi implică politică militantă la nivelul ierbii, la interfaţa dintre feminismul radical şi antifascismul autonom, de la sfârşitul anilor 1980 şi până astăzi. După o prezentare a preistoriei şi a poveştii f_antifa in perioada anilor 1990, vom vedea care sunt practicile şi exemplele de politică f_antifa de astăzi.

prezentare şi conversaţie în limba română sau engleză, în funcţie de participante/-ţi.

vineri, 29 august, de la ora 8 seara.

la infoshopul Ⓐ-casă se poate răsfoi straßen aus zucker / routes sucrees, publicaţie inter-/antinaţională de stânga editată de grupul TOP berlin (Gruppe Theorie, Organisation, Praxis)

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Amíg az elmúlt 30 év során az AFA (Antifasiszta Akció), a 161 nevei nélkülözhetetlen elemeivé lettek az európai radikális baloldal szótárának és fogalmi repertoárjának (példa erre az idei, áprilisi athéni Európai Antifa Kongresszus, amelyre 20 országból érkeztek résztvevők), más, inkább lokális szintű önszerveződési formákat megtestesítő radikális baloldali fogalmak kevésbé ismertek. A német nyelvű országok egyik ilyen önszerveződése az f_antifa, azaz a feminista antifa vagy a női antifa mozgalom, amelyik grassroot szinten folytat militáns politikát a 80-as évektől kibontakozó radikális feminizmus és az antifasiszta akciók koncepcióinak határán mozogva. A 90-es évekhez kapcsolható f_antifa proto-történetének és történetének bemutatását követően, szó lesz a mozgalom mai politikai tevékenységéről és módszereiről is.

Augusztus 29, péntek este 20:00 órától

Az Ⓐ-casă infoshopos sarkában pedig böngészhető-lapozható a straßen aus zucker / routes sucrees lap, ami a TOP (Gruppe Theorie, Organisation, Praxis) berlini csoport nemzetközi kiadványa

 

[eng]

Whereas Antifa, AFA and 161 became an integral part of the radical left-wing vocabulary and repertoire of concepts throughout Europe during the last 30 years (see for example the European Antifa Congress in Athens this April, with participants from around 20 countries) other rather local forms of organizing and concepts of radical left-wing politics are much less known. One of these is the fantifa movement in the German speaking countries. Fantifa means feminist antifa or womens’ antifa and stands for militant grassroots politics at the interface of radical feminism and autonomous antifascism since the end of the 80s until today. After telling the prehistories and the story of the fantifa in the 90s we’ll take a look at practices of and examples for fantifa politics today.

Boicotati circul cu animale!

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Ieri, 6 august 2014, o brigadă formată dintr-o maimuță, o văcuță și un porc, alături de companionii lor umani, au protestat la deschiderea Circului Bellucci împotriva cruzimii față de animale.

Acțiunea s-a desfășurat la poarta circului, pe trotuar, unde au împărțit pliante cu informații despre condițiile violente în care multe specii de animale sunt private de libertate, drepturi și viață fericită, pentru divertismentul câtorva oameni. Scopul acțiunii a fost, dincolo de a-i informa corect pe cei care mergeau la spectacol că, și acela de a da o voce animalelor chinuite.

Protestul a fost pașnic, la fel ca animalele care l-au realizat și a avut și caracter cultural. Protestatarilor li s-a alăturat și un personaj cinematografic celebru, Gelmina, din filmul lui Federico Fellini. Din cei care s-au oprit să citească „Cruzimea nu e divertisment. Boicotați circul cu animale”, mulți și-au exprimat solidaritatea.

Jandarmeria Română a legitimat porcul, vaca și maimuța, avertizând că vor primi amenzi. Când au părăsit protestul, unul din jandarmi le-a spus animăluțelor: „Băieți, o zi bună!” „Muuuuuuuu”, i-a răspuns vaca.

Circul Bellucci se desfășoară încă 12 zile, lângă Cora, aproape de ieșirea din Cluj spre Oradea. Invităm toate speciile planetei să se alăture acțiunii și să îi spună pe nume realității urâte din spatele cortinei.

În alte țări, circul cu animale a fost interzis: Cipru, Grecia, Croaţi, Columbia, Austria și altele. Este timpul să fie interzis peste tot, animalele au dreptul să fie libere, iar noi nu avem dreptul să le chinuim pentru distracția noastră egoistă.

BOICOTAȚI CIRCUL CU ANIMALE!

Cruzimea asupra animalelor nu este un spectacol! Urmariti VoceaAnimalelor.