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Francisca Pattipilohy: Tidak Ada Investigasi atas Ilegalitas Pendudukan Belanda (dengan video)

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Francisca Pattipilohy

Malam ini, dalam pertemuan terbuka kedua dari penelitian perang kolonial Belanda melawan Indonesia, Jeffry Pondaag angkat bicara. Bersama dengan Francisca Pattipilohy, dia adalah inisiator surat terbuka dengan daftar panjang keberatan atas penelitian “Dekolonisasi, kekerasan dan perang di Indonesia 1945-1950”. Dalam pidatonya, Pondaag juga menampilkan pesan video dari ibu Pattipilohy. Dibawah kami masukkan juga text dari pesan beliau berikut videonya. In

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Prefiguration

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Occupy Oakland

In 2011 and the ensuing years, the world witnessed a global wave of assembly movements such as Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish Indignados, the Turkish Gezi Park protests and Nuit Debout in France. What distinguished these various movements is that they often did not seek to acquire state power, and in many cases refused to even engage with the existing

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Social Impact Bonds: disciplinary system against people at the bottom of society

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Cover of an ABN AMRO brochure

Are you jobless, on the dole, a drop-out, homeless, a refugee, seriously ill, a debtor or an ex-offender? If so, there is a good change that, during your debt assistance, integration or reintegration project, you will have to work for a bank, such as the Rabobank, a health ensurer such as CZ, or a subsidy fund, such as Oranje Fonds.

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European Parliament considers complaint about Dutch governments subsidy of racist television aimed at schoolchildren admissible

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In 2016 Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 12.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 18 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and

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Housing justice groups will participate in May Day-demonstration in The Hague

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On May 1, International Workers’ Day or May Day, the Dutch trade union FNV will organize a national demonstration in The Hague (2:00 pm at Malieveld). Together with Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW), Doorbraak is planning a radical block within this demonstration, focussing on unemployed, flexworkers and flex tenants. This article is based off interviews with Abel of BPW and Aindriu

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Weekend long protests after blackface at Cal Poly

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

In 2016 Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 12.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 17 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16).

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Blackface racism not taken seriously during local council elections

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

In 2016 Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 12.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 16 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15). The

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“I will live in your office”

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"We want to live wíth you"

On Thursday, March 15 demonstrators from Utrecht housing action group We Want Housing (We Want Woonruimte) and Bond Precaire Woonvormen gathered at the Janskerkhof to publicly present their list of demands to the university, municipality, and housing corporation. Comprised of both students and residents of Utrecht, the groups organized Thursday’s protest as a result of a housing crisis in the

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Short comment on the Italian elections

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Hoofdkwartier van Casa Pound

Today are the parliamentary elections in Italy. Things are not looking good: according to the polls, the coalition of Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini is likely to win a majority of seats. It would not only mean Berlusconi’s return to power (although he will not be able to take up the premiership himself, as he’s been convicted of corruption). As

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Photo report of the protest against the deportation of Afghan refugees

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After the book "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini: the kite as a symbol of freedom.

Yesterday was the international day of action against the expulsion of refugees to Afghanistan. Approximately three hundred people attended in Utrecht, including a considerable number of Afghan refugees. Besides Utrecht there were also demonstrations in Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Maastricht. And there were campaigns in various other European countries, such as Sweden, Germany, Poland, Austria, Ireland, Latvia and Belgium. Altogether thousands

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