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Protest in Utrecht against a blackface children’s show

Zwarte Piet is racisme

Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen recently initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here’s a new one. (You can also still read the first, second and third update.) A protest will take place this Saturday in Utrecht, against a

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Third update on the campaign against the Dutch government subsidizing blackface on children’s television

Zwarte Piet is racisme

Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen recently initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here’s the third batch. (You can also still read the first and second ones.) RTL is a commercial television station that recently decided to change Zwarte

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Second update on the campaign against the Dutch government subsidizing blackface on children’s television

Zwarte Piet is racisme

Doorbraak activst Jennifer van Leijen recently initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here’s the second batch. (Read the first here.) We have more than a thousand signatures, from people who care. But we know from the struggle for

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Update on the campaign against the Dutch government subsidizing blackface on children’s television

Zwarte Piet is racisme

Doorbraak activst Jennifer van Leijen recently initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Thousand people already signed. Here are some updates by Van Leijen in which she also comments the Amsterdam mayor who said he’s going to phase this racism out, instead of effectively and immediately eliminate it

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23 October, Nijmegen: meeting about anti-fascism and migrant struggles in Greece

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The original text in Dutch On October 23th Doorbraak organizes a meeting in Nijmegen with the Assembly for the Circulation of Struggles (SKYA). Members of this Greek organization are active in a range of struggles against capitalism and migration control. Among others, they support the struggle of refugees, and they are actively resisting workfare. On the meeting two members of SKYA

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27 October, Amsterdam: meeting about the struggle against budget cuts and workfare in Greece

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The original text in Dutch On October 27th Doorbraak organizes a meeting in Amsterdam with the Assembly for the Circulation of Struggles (SKYA). Members of this Greek organization are active in a range of struggles against capitalism and migration control. Among others, they support the struggle of refugees, and they are actively resisting workfare. On the meeting members of SKYA

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εισήγηση της συλλογικότητας Doorbraak για την εκδήλωση που διοργανώθηκε στις 22/9/16 στο Αυτόνομο Στέκι

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Ευχαριστούμε για την πρόσκληση και την φιλοξενία στην Αθήνα. Χαιρόμαστε πολύ που βρισκόμαστε εδώ. Αρχικά θα μιλήσουμε για την συλλογικότητά μας και πώς ασχοληθήκαμε ενεργά με τους αγώνες ενάντια στην επιβεβλημένη εργασία στους άνεργους και τις άνεργες. Έπειτα θα εξηγήσουμε το σύστημα της επιβολής της εργασίας στην Ολλανδία και τις τάσεις του καπιταλισμού με τις οποίες συνδέεται. Στη συνέχεια θα

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On forced labour in the Netherlands

Skya's logo.

Yesterday evening two Doorbraak activists gave a talk in Athens on workfare and forced labour in the Netherlands. The meeting was organized by SKYA and some seventy people attended. The debate afterwards was very inspiring. In October SKYA activists will come to the Netherlands to give two talks. In Nijmegen they will speak about the refugee and antifascist stuggles in

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DZB “successfully” bullies the unemployed

Het oude logo van DZB. Het dakje dat ooit stond voor het sociale en beschermende karakter van het bedrijf is al ruim een jaar geleden uit het logo verwijderd. (Hier werden we onlangs door een kritische medewerker op gewezen.)

If you read the annual reports and other stories by the reintegration company DZB in Leiden you regularly come across the word “success”, often without any explanation of what is actually meant by this. So what is success in the reintegration industry, according to DZB and according to us? The original text in Dutch Translated by Jet As a naive

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Spring 2016: an unexpected movement

A call for more protests.

French social climate warms up From the beginning of the year, following the announcement of the labor code reform (“El-Khomri law” or “labor law”), presented to the Council of Ministers on March 9, several demonstrations have been called by the unions. If the CFDT (1) (followed by the CFTC, UNSA and CFE-CGC – the last union modifying its position later) was

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