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Anti-discrimination bureau doesn’t want to criticise Utrecht mayor for taking part in yearly blackface parade

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How are complaints handled about the mayor of Utrecht taking part in a blackface parade? What happens when a complaint about this mayor was made to the anti-discrimination bureau Art. 1 Midden Nederland? And what happened when the complaint was made directly to the Utrecht city council? The complaint about the mayor, made to the anti-discrimination bureau The parade called

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We can’t turn the tides by promoting a change of attitude on the individual level

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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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Antifascism must acquire a broader and deeper meaning than merely ‘opposition to fascism’

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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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Mariët van Bommel: “Stop the violence in Sudan! Open the borders!”

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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. Mariët van Bommel from Doorbraak held the second speech. Here are the video and the text of her talk. Hello, I am Mariët van Bommel and I work at Doorbraak. Doorbraak is a revolutionary left wing organization and we

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Arms trade, EU border security and Sudan

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Op het Plein.

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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May 1, Amsterdam: jobless and flex workers block at the May 1 demonstration of FNV

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The pamphlet (bigger version below).

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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Desintox: malheureusement les électeurs néerlandais n’ont PAS rejeté Geert Wilders

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Petition.

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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Dutch voters did NOT reject Geert Wilders

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Petition.

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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Rutte et Erdoğan: que la peste frappe vos deux maisons!

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Tomorrow Rutte and Wilders will be facing each other in a one-on-one televised debate.

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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