Proxy Cafe, movie screening: The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger, 2014)

Wednesday, 22 February

Proxy Cafe, movie screening: The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger, 2014)

Short url: 

https://squ.at/r/98q9

Ten years ago, Aaron Swartz, a young internet activist was found dead in an apparent suicide. The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.

The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger, 2014), 1h 45m.  Door is opening at 19:00, film starts at 20:30.

Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

Date & Time: 

Wednesday, 22 February, 2023 - 19:00

Category: 

  • discussion/presentation
  • film
  • meeting

Price: 

  • free
  • by donation

email: 

Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

Squat: 

Presently squatted

A place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, workshops, drinks with music with frozen pizzas.

Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat  or a drink!

categories: 

  • course/workshop / discussion/presentation

opening times: 

Usually twice a month on Wednesdays from 18:00 till 22:00 Joe's Garage and sometimes in different locations and why not in your social space, somewhere else than Amsterdam?!

Since June 2005, Joe's Garage is an autonomous squatted political social center, a meeting place in the Transvaal neighborhood for squatters and non-squatters, subsidy free, not for profit, self-organized and entirely run by volunteers.

categories: 

  • advice/help/office hours / book shop/info shop/library / course/workshop / discussion/presentation / exhibition / film / food / (free) shop/market / meeting / music/concert / theater

opening times: 


(March 2024)
Monday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Tuesday: 19-20:30, Kraakspreekuur Oost
Wednesday: 18:00 Esperanto Workshop or Proxy Cafe
Thursday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Friday: 20:00 Aman molli: Practice of Modal Music
Saturday: 14-18, Give Away Shop
Sunday: 18-20, Radical Sunday School
Sunday: 20:30, Movie night
Every 2nd saturday of the month, 19:00-20:30, Joe’s Garage open assembly