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Leiden Canal Pride – Why the municipality did not provide an objective answer about police violence

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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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Leiden Canal Pride – Its buried background and history

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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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Tsolin Nalbantian at Leiden University sit-in: “We have the solution: an international academic boycott of Israel”

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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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Neither peaceful, nor de-escalating

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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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“Let’s be clear” – spoken word by Eman Khasawneh at the protest against Israeli president Herzog

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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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BPW: “The visionless woonvisie is just throwing oil onto the fire”

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The speech by Lila of BPW, yesterday at the protest in Rotterdam against the new local “Woonvisie”. Hello, I’m Lila and I am standing here today on behalf of Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW), a national association that supports tenants who live in temporary and precarious conditions to demand their housing rights. I am speaking in English, because these discussions also

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“If we burn” – a short review

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I recently read Vincent Bevins’ “If We Burn” (2023), which gives an impressive overview of the many mass mobilisations and uprisings that emerged across the world during the past decade (2010-2020). It raises the question why most of these movements eventually “led to the opposite of what they asked for”. The book has strong merits: it is largely interview-based and

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Today Antonio Negri passed away

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Earlier today Antonio Negri passed away at the age of 90. Negri was one of the most influential radical political theorists of the post-War generation, and he arguably shaped the political world view of at least two generations of activists and theorists on the anti-authoritarian Left. Negri was born in 1933 in Padua and joined a progressive Roman Catholic youth

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Why is Greta unsafe on the stage of the Climate March?

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On Sunday, November 12, Greta Thunberg, while on the stage of the Climate March, was besieged by a white man wearing a bright green jacket. He enters the stage, bypasses security, grabs Greta’s microphone and says, “I come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view.” No one from the climate march organization takes any action, leaving it up

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Unsolicited Advice from A Jewish (Mother) for European Activists

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In the past few weeks, many Jews do not speak out publicly against Israel because of antisemitism, and many non-Jews do not speak out about their criticisms of Israel because they are afraid of being labelled antisemites. Fear of antisemitism is what fed Herzl’s Zionist dream. A dream that has now become a nightmare. Fear of antisemitism feeds the current

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