The reason why I am against Zwarte Piet is not because it causes me pain, or negatively affects my self-esteem, I am against it because the figure of Zwarte Piet is, in fact, dehumanizing; it contests insidiously the humanity of Black folk. The court’s elaborate process to determine whether Zwarte Piet negatively affects Black folk, as well as its use
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Eind mei werd bekend dat minister Jet Bussemaker samen met de VVD, PvdA, D66 en GroenLinks overeenstemming had bereikt over de afschaffing van de studiefinanciering. In plaats van nog langer deze “stufi” te kunnen ontvangen moeten nieuwe studenten vanaf september 2015 de kosten voor hun opleiding bij elkaar gaan lenen en die lening na hun studie terugbetalen. Volgens Bussemaker is
Verder lezen 31 ReactiesIreland’s government has ignored the vast evidence of the welfare to work industry’s failure in the UK, and instead are on a path to repeat the same mistakes. We know, for example, that a harsher system of sanctions creates destitution and hunger. We know that forced, unpaid work placements lead not to more jobs but to more misery. We know
Verder lezen 2 ReactiesApparently it’s not the poorest Franco-French workers, unemployed or not, who vote most for the National Front but those who have a job, a small technical diploma (like the CAP – two years – or the “baccalauréat professionnel” – three years) obtained in a vocational school, who live far away from the poorest suburbs but fear losing their social status.
Verder lezen Reageren?Onlangs deed Doorbraak-columniste Lili Irani met de onderstaande inzending mee aan een columnwedstrijd van de gratis krant Metro. Ze behoorde helaas niet tot de winnaars. Toen ik nog een kind was en opgroeide in Teheran, de hoofdstad van Iran, kwam God altijd aardig op me over. Als ik een wens had, dan vroeg ik God om die te vervullen. Maar
Verder lezen Reageren?By 1998, nearly 40,000 New Yorkers were assigned to WEP, cleaning parks, streets, city office buildings, sanitation garages, and doing a wide range of clerical tasks… Getting rid of WEP does not mean stopping helping poor people enter the labor market. It means starting to do so, without exploiting welfare recipients and without displacing existing paid workers with unpaid labor.
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Het gesjoemel en gesol met de levens van de Amsterdamse “Wij zijn hier”-vluchtelingen bereikt deze week een nieuw dieptepunt. Morgen worden de vluchtelingen op straat gezet die in de Vluchtmarkt wonen, de panden aan de Ten Katestraat. En aanstaande donderdag dreigt de Vluchthaven aan de Havenstraat te worden ontruimd. In beide gevallen heeft de rechter daar toestemming voor gegeven, ondanks
Verder lezen 2 ReactiesWhat is broadly termed ‘workfare” has been in existence in some form or other since at least the mid-80s, but in its current form – six complementary work schemes – it can be understood as a key element of the restructuring of capital, with a specific role in disciplining and punishing the “reserve army of labour”, i.e. the unemployed. The
Verder lezen Reageren?Most of the current arrestees are very young, between 19-25. They are less burdened by the paralysing fear that silenced a previous generation. The old-style repression that demobilized two generations under Hassan II and nearly another one under Mohammed VI began to fade. With the massive protests in 2011, the genie flew out of the bottle. This is a different
Verder lezen Reageren?“This case is another massive blow to this government’s flawed and tawdry attempts to make poor people on benefits work for companies, who already make massive profits, for free”. So said Public Interest Lawyers yesterday after the High Court ruled that the government’s emergency retrospective legislation, introduced in 2013 – so as to apply thousands of unlawful sanctions to claimants
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