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Many of my academic friends on Facebook have shared the blogpost “How to get rid of your academic fake-self?”, and I can see why. I as well sympathise with its message. Honestly, I wish more of my colleagues would be like its author. Their view of what academic work is really about, and what a university worthy of its name
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I was on vacation last week, when the awful news from Charlottesville reached me. A lot of sensible things have been said and written on these events, and on the need for a militant, broad, and international(ist) antifascist movement. It is often (and rightly) argued that such a movement also requires a stronger, physical presence on the streets – especially
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Yesterday in Utrecht some sixty people participated in a protest against MP Thierry Baudet’s sexism and racism. They shouted slogans and listened to speeches and raps by a number of activist women. Here’s the speech by Domi. We are here, because we are not going to let any misogynist racist come to our cities without our voices being heard. We
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Yesterday, the Darfur Union and Doorbraak organised a demonstration against the violence in Sudan and the EU policy of migration control. The first speech came from Mark Akkerman of Stop Wapenhandel, an independent research and campaign organisation against arms trade and arms industry. Here are the video and text of his talk. Imagine having to flee from or via Sudan,
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Doorbraak has taken the initiative to form a block of jobless and flex workers during the May 1 demonstration of the trade union FNV. The May 1 celebration of the trade union is all about “real jobs”. With this separate block, we want to make it clear that there are also “real” jobless and flex workers who organize themselves and
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C’est ridicule. Avaaz fait circuler une pétition pour remercier le “peuple néerlandais” (quel que soit le sens de ce mot) pour “avoir choisi l’espoir, l’unité et le dialogue contre la haine, la peur et la vieille rhétorique fasciste”. Ils prétendent même que “en rejetant Geert Wilders, vous avez contribué à arrêter partout l’ascension de l’extrême droite”. Plus généralement, la couverture
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This is ridiculous. Avaaz is circulating a petition to thank the “Dutch people” (whoever that may be) for “choosing hope, unity, and dialogue over hate, fear and old fascist rhetoric”. They even claim that, “by rejecting Geert Wilders you’ve helped stop the rise of the far right everywhere”. More generally, the coverage of these elections in the international press has
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Un ministre turc s’est vu refuser l’entrée dans le pays; une autre ministre a été de facto détenue pendant des heures par une escouade antiterroriste de la police néerlandaise, empêchée d’entrer au consulat turc à Rotterdam et finalement expulsée du pays; le gouvernement d’Erdoğan a menacé d’adopter de “sévères mesures de rétorsion”; et finalement, des émeutes massives ont opposé des
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A Turkish minister was refused entrance to the country; another minister was de facto detained for hours by an anti-terrorism squad of the Dutch police, prevented from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, and eventually kicked out of the country; Erdoğan’s government has threatened with “severe retaliations”; and eventually, massive riots emerged between Dutch-Turkish Erdoğan-supporters and the police. In short,
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