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Introduction to the real story behind Piet Heyn’s ‘heroic’ deed “Piet Heyn!, Piet Heyn!, Piet Heyn zijn naam is klein,Zijn daden bennen groot, zijn daden bennen grootHij heeft gewonnen de zilveren vloot,Die heeft gewonnen, gewonnen de Zilvervloot.” These words will be familiar to many Dutch people, as they will have learned this song in school. Piet Heyn, the subject of
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Den Haag, 10. September 2024. Heute Morgen um 7:00 Uhr besuchten zwei Mitglieder der Den Haager Abteilung der Kampagne #WijReizenSamen den Streikposten der Beschäftigten des kommunalen Verkehrsbetriebs HTM. Im Anlauf zum Streik, der heute Morgen zwischen 4:00 und 8:00 Uhr stattfand, hatten #WijReizenSamen-Aktivisten in Den Haag mehrmals Flugblätter über den Streik an Reisende verteilt. Der Streik protestiert gegen die angekündigte
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On Saturday, September 2nd of last year, during Leiden Pride, queer activists were driven away and enclosed in the morning, and beaten by the police in the afternoon. The following week, the mayor lied about this in the city council, where five people spoke out about the police violence. This prompted Leiden activists, including those from Doorbraak who were present
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The Bijstandsbond [Association of Welfare Recipients] calls on all welfare recipients across the country to report the frequent poor treatment by client managers for a book of complaints, in which we aim to expose practices across various municipalities. In Amsterdam, we have observed that some client managers exert significant pressure on the sick and disabled to perform volunteer work. Although
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On Saturday, September 2nd of last year, during Leiden Pride, queer activists were driven away and enclosed in the morning, and beaten by the police in the afternoon. The following week, the mayor lied about this in the city council, where five people spoke out about the police violence. This prompted Leiden activists, including those from Doorbraak who were present
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On September 2nd last year, during the Leiden Pride, queer activists were driven away and enclosed in the morning, then beaten by the police in the afternoon. The following week, the mayor lied about this incident during the same city council meeting where five people spoke out against the police violence. This series of events prompted Leiden activists, including members
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The following is a speech given by Tsolin Nalbantian, associate professor of Modern Middle East History at Leiden University, at the sit-in organized by Leiden for Palestine that took place in front of Leiden University’s Law School Faculty on May 30, 2024. I am really grateful to be here today – and I want to take a moment to point
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We are a group of activists who were involved in the occupation of the Maagdenhuis in 2015. We see that the current pro-Palestine protests at UvA took off rapidly, but that the institutions and a part of the activist-movement are now openly calling for de-escalation. Behind this dynamic, we recognise a number of repressive tactics that caused great damage during
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In Gesprächen und in den sozialen Medien wurden in den letzten Monaten ab und zu Vergleiche angestellt, die Unbehagen hervorrufen können. Manchmal werden Zionisten oder Israelis als Nazis bezeichnet. Oder die aktuelle Situation in Gaza wird mit der im Warschauer Ghetto während des Zweiten Weltkriegs verglichen, wobei gesagt wird, dass Juden mit ihrer Geschichte es besser wissen müssten. Wir haben
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Last week we published the first three speeches that were held at the protest against Israeli president Herzog, who came to Amsterdam to open the new Holocaustmuseum. The demonstration was organised by the Jewish anti-zionist organisation Erev Rav, against this head of a state in the process of committing genocide (and of course not against the museum). At the protest
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