A list of recent and upcoming demonstrations, workshops, meetings and political tours in Tel Aviv. Download the full DIY Tel Aviv Guide for a full list of alternative community centres, grassroots organisations, study tours, volunteering opportunities and more.
If you’re coming to Israel as part of Birthright, please consider going to this event as well. It’ll help you see what Israel is really like in so many ways. Here’s the info, taken from the Facebook page. If you’re...
Tomorrow (27/11/10) at the Rogatka, instead of the usual vegan brunch, there will be a potluck to celebrate Buy Nothing Day (which is actually today). Turn up with a vegan dish you made yourself from 1:00PM to join in, eat...
Tomorrow is international Fur-free Friday. There will be events happening all around the world to protest against the vileness that is the fur trade. In Tel Aviv, the day will be marked by an anti fur demo at noon tomorrow....
Black Friday? Try Buy Nothing Day! Yes, that’s right. This year’s Buy Nothing Day invites you to not buy anything all day to counteract the effects of the busiest shopping day of the year in the Western world. Seeing as...
On Nov 23rd, dinner and a movie event at Rogatka will feature the first ever Israeli screening of Riot Acts – flaunting gender deviance in music performance, as part of Transgender Remembrance Week. Riot Acts is a feature length documentary...
This Friday (12 Nov 2010) there is a study tour organised by Combatants for Peace to the rural area around Bethlehem. This is a safe, legal tour that’s open to everyone and will allow you to learn firsthand the daily...
Salon Mazal is one of those rare places that this city really needs. It’s an alternative community space that runs all kinds of workshops and acts as an info point for a lot of really really good things, including some...
The nice people at Rogatka are running a weekly vegan cooking workshop, so you can learn how to make yummy vegan food for you or for your vegan friends. Tomorrow evening it’s all about spreads, pates and stuff like that....
Yes, the olive harvest is still going on, in spite of the various problems caused by the government, the settlers, etc. You can personally help Palestinian farmers harvest their olives alongside Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and the people of...
OK, I said this was today, but apparently it’s tomorrow, Friday. In my defence, it was on my Facebook wall 4 times, as the person who originally put it in for today realised their mistake and made 3 other ones...
On Friday at 1:00PM there’s going to be a little free market / swap meet thing at Salon Mazal. Bring stuff you don’t need and pick up stuff you do – all free of charge. Anything from clothes, books, random...
The Palestinian queer party is back and said to be one of the most fun things to go to in town. Early times so you can start your weekend early and go on to somewhere else after. Friday 29.10.2010 17:00...
If you want to join peace organisation Shovrim Shtika and see with your own eyes what’s going on in the occupied territories, then you can join one of the upcoming study tours. Here’s the catch, though (apart from heading into...
Shovrim Shtika (breaking the silence) is an Israeli non-profit currently shortlisted for a Freedom of thought awards from the EU parliament. It’s an extremely important organisation founded by former IDF soldiers who want to expose human rights violations on the...
There are some really dark things happening in Israel right now. There is no other way to say it. There are laws being passed that would make Mussolini proud, and I am actually self-censoring right now and not saying what...
Here is an interesting one from the Olive Harvest Coalition. You can join in and help Palestinian olive growers harvest their produce, ensuring a peaceful and productive harvest. Because of the government’s policy of taking land away from the Palestinian...
Who said vegans can’t eat junk food? This Saturday (16th) you can get a vegan happy meal at the Rogatka bar. Because Sat marks the international day of action against McDonald’s, the weekly themed branch will include a vegan burger,...
on the 5th of October from 8:00PM you can enjoy a super cheap vegan dinner at the Rogatka as usual, accompanies by a film (Dinner and a movie night, it’s called). This week. the film is The Witness. Here’s some...
If you can’t get to Jerusalem and the weekly Friday Sheikh Jarrah demonstration but want to find out about the struggle to reclaim the occupied Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood from the illegal Jewish settlers, you can head down to the Peace...
On Friday the 24th, from 5:00PM-11PM there will be a queer Palestinian party at the Comfort club organised and in support of the LGBTQ Palestinian organisation, Alqaws. There’ll be Arabic music and drag shows, as well as a chance to...