A couple of years ago a small group of people in Copenhagen gathered to discuss money, how we could have more of it, share more of it and collectively improve our lives. One of the experiments that started a year ago is a Rotating Savings and Credits Association – a ROSCA. Some members of the group will give a presentation on the project in Lymy on August 12th, 2024.
Globally a ROSCA is a commonplace practice for saving and loaning money in communities, but in Northern Europe it is more rare and unknown. It is a rather simple financial practice that enables loans and savings without or in spite of banks and it can make possible life choices that hegemonic institutions rob or exclude us from.
The comrades from Copenhagen will give a presentation on what a ROSCA is and share some experiences and lessons learnt from their first year of the experiment.
Doors open at 17.30 Presentation is 18.00-19.30 with time for questions and discussion
Tervetuloa lukemaan Karl Marxin Pääoman ensimmäistä osaa Lymyssä (Pengerkatu 6)!
Ensimmäinen tapaamiskertaa on tiistaina 8. lokakuuta klo 17-19. Lukupiiri kokoontuu tästäeteenpäin joka toinen tiistai samaan kellonaikaan.
Ensimmäisellä kerralla kirjailija ja podcastaaja Pontus Purokuru alustaa Pääomasta ja miten sitä kannattaa lukea. Alustuksen jälkeen on tilaa kysymyksille ja keskustelulle Marxin lukemisesta.
Johdantona lukupiiriin voi halutessaan katsoa David Harveyn Pääomaa käsittelevän luentosarjan ensimmäisen osan: Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 – Class 1, Introduction (2019) https://davidharvey.org/…/reading-marxs-capital-vol-1…/
Lukupiirin koollekutsujana toimivat Juho Narsakka ja Katri Jurvakainen.
Ensimmäisellä kerralla sovitaan kirjan lukutahdista ja lukupiirin yhteisistä käytännöistä. Osallistuminen ei edellytä aiempia pohjatietoja aiheesta – kiinnostus Marxin klassikkoa kohtaan riittää. Lukupiiri on suomenkielinen.
Jos lukupiiristä tulee kysyttävää etukäteen voi olla yhteydessä Juhoon sähköpostiin juhonana[ät]gmail.com
Welcome to our spring clothing swap on Friday May 10 at 17-20 this time with drinks! The idea is simple: bring nice clothes to share and/or take cool clothes to wear. B–)
You’re also welcome to sit down for a drink while you wait for new arrivals.
Left-over clothes will be saved for the next clothing swap or donated away. You may also take your pieces back at the end of the clothing swap.
Luetaan yhdessä Toni Negrin kirja Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse. Lukupiiri alkaa tiistaina 9.4. klo 17:00 ja kokoontuu Lymyssä (Pengerkatu 6) kahden viikon välein.Ensimmäiselle kerralle luetaan kirjan johdannon ja ensimmäinen luku (Lesson One. The Grundrisse, an Open Work). Tervetuloa!
This is an English translation of one of the most crucial documents in European Marxism since . . . well, since maybe ever. The work of Antonio Negri, as part of the variegated movement on the Italian left known most easily as Autonomia, brings to realization an overwhelming new set of possibilities in the theory and in practice of class struggle. No political movement in the world in the 1970’s opened up more revolutionary potential for liberation than the Italian Autonomia, and no expressions of its history exceed Negri’s in transformative power and conceptual brilliance.
Antonio “Toni” Negri (1933-2023) oli italialainen vallankumouksellinen, joka toimi autonomisissa yhteiskunnallisissa liikkeissä. Hänen autonomimarxilaisella ajattelunsa ja kirjansa ovat vaikuttaneet maailmanlaajuisesti. Voit lukea Negrin elämästä ja vaikutuksesta suomalaisiin liikkeisiin Komeetassa julkaistusta muistokirjoituksesta.
On the Saturday after Friends’ Day we invite you to Lymy from 12–4 pm to join us in a casual celebration of friendship, camaraderie and love. We’ll sell vegan waffles and coffee drinks including our spicy seasonal specialty.
“Friends do not share any ‘thing’ (an emergence, a law, a place, a taste): they are always already shared through the experience of friendship. Friendship is the sharing which precedes all sharing because what it shares is the simple fact of existing, life itself. And it is this partition without object, this original consent that constitutes politics.” — Giorgio Agamben, L’amitié (2007)
Lymy + Solidarity Minded present a support weekend of film screenings featuring independent shorts from Kurdistan (Iraq), Lebanon, and Ukraine – all of which are places where Solidarity Minded volunteered in 2023. DIY films from previous editions of the anticapitalist Copenhagen Underground Film Festival, the group from which SM was born out of, will also be featured in the programme. Solidarity Minded itself is a mutual aid collective providing free therapy and mental health support in places where it is scarce to non-existent.
In 2024, Solidarity Minded will collaborate with Repair Together and other local recovery and rehabilitation initiatives in Kyiv to provide free therapy, education, art, workshops, and cultural events for those impacted by the fascist full-scale invasion and temporary occupation. The collective anticipates reaching volunteers, journalists, displaced persons, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, active fighters, and more with its psychosocial support programmes.
To read more about SM, you can visit: solidarityminded.cargo.site/projects | Interested in joining the collective and volunteering? You can meet one member (Rayan) on the nights of the events or can contact us at: solidarityminded@riseup.net
Entry is donation based, and all funds raised will support basic living costs to make full-time, year round mutual aid on the ground possible. Solidarity Minded volunteers full time and has no other source of income, every penny counts and goes a long way! We recommend a donation in the range of 2 – 15 euros.
Schedule:
Friday 26th – Lebanon:
18:30 doors open
19:00 Perhaps Today [dir. Nadine Asmar / 6']
19:30 There Must Be Something Wrong [dir. Karim Nadr / 17']
20:00 Anywhere But Here [dir. Charbel Couchany / 7']
20:30 In The Absence Of Light [dir. Charbel Chouchany / 6']
Saturday 27th – Kurdistan:
18:30 doors open
19:00 Qelershk (Raven) [dir. Shukri Mahmood / 2016 / Iraq / 21']
19:40 My Clayey Conception [dir. Zanyar Muhammadineko / 2017 / Iran / 3']
20:00 Evan: A Survivor’s Story [dir. Rafiqfuad Yarahmadi / 2018 / UK/Kurdistan / 18']
20:30 Nu Jin (New Life) [dir. Veysi Altay / 2015 / Kurdistan / 48']
Perhaps Today / dir: Nadine Asmar / 6:20 A woman in Beirut repeats the same routine each day hoping for something different
There Must Be Something Wrong / dir: Karim Nadr / 17:10 In the midst of a pandemic, a Lebanese man experiences a dystopian isolation catalyzed by Kafkaesque technology and virtual relations
Anywhere But Here / dir: Charbel Couchany / 7:23 A young Lebanese man in Sicily is stuck in a surrealist loop… in his underpants
In The Absence Of Light / dir: Charbel Chouchany / 6:00 A failed actor in Georgia in his mid-20s is torn between joining a burgeoning resistance movement or to pursue his dream
Films from Kurdistan:
“Qelershk (Raven)” Shukri Mahmood | 2016 | Iraq | 21′ A Yazidi painter who, after escaping ISIS captivity in 2014 but not their daily threats, continues devoting his life to art and portraying the living history and memory of his people in Kurdistan.
“My Clayey Conception” Zanyar Muhammadineko | 2017 | Iran | 3′ A short video portrait of a Kurdish veteran of war who finds peace in his work with clay.
“Evan: A Survivor’s Story” Rafiqfuad Yarahmadi | 2018 | UK/Kurdistan | 18′ After fleeing Kurdistan from ISIS as a journalist covering the Peshmarga front lines, this documentary (created and also directed by his translator) shows the difficulties of today’s asylum seeking process and the stress it bears on families who are kept apart by borders and unjust immigration practices.
“Nu Jin (New Life)” Veysi Altay | 2015 | Kurdistan | 48′ Nu Jin is centered around a YPJ battalion in Kobane and tells the stories of the everyday women who have dedicated their lives wholly to revolution in the mid-2010s.
Films from Ukraine:
Strong In Spirit – 23:02 | Dir. Slavik Bihun (2018) | The harrowing survival story of one of the first political prisoners following Maidan and the Russian occupations of 2014. The documentary retells the corruption, false imprisonment and torture of Yuriy Yatsenko and the lengths in which he had to go to in order to survive and return home.
Unavailable (Tera) – 27:12 | Dir. Nikon Romanchenko (2018) | Lyuba works at a confectionery factory in a small town in the West, her son is in the war zone in the East of the country and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory.
Charcoal – 18:42 | Dir. Anastasiya Maksymchuk (2020) | “She draws with charcoal to get the memories out of herself, she parties hard to kill the taste of trauma, until one mysterious phone call forces her to face it all again. “Charcoal” has an aesthetics of a dark nightmare and is based on the interviews of Ukrainian political prisoners, documenting their experiences of captivity in the hands of the Russian occupants in Donbass.”
“‘Burning Down the House’ […] was a metaphor for destroying something safe that entrapped you.” – David Byrne on the Talking Heads song title
Join us in celebration of the approaching winter solstice over some seasonal coffee drinks and pastries this coming Saturday (December 16) at Lymy (Pengerkatu 6) from noon to 4 pm.
Food, fundraising and a presentation about the current antiauthoritarian movement in Ukraine and about opportunities for international support.
There will be drinks & baked goods, both savoury and sweet served for a small donation as well as ukrainian made t-shirts sold by and for HWV – help war victims.
Welcome to our winter clothing swap on Saturday December 2 at 12-16. The idea is simple: bring nice clothes to share and/or take cool clothes to wear. B–)
You’re also welcome to sit down for a coffee while you wait for new arrivals
Left-over clothes will be saved for the next clothing swap or donated away. You may also take your pieces back at the end of the clothing swap.
