Tag: activists
Documentary about veteran activists Amelisweerd in the making
Jos Kloppenborg and Jan Korff de Gidts have been campaigning for years and are the protagonists in documentary. The two know each other from Utrecht University. As a psychology student,…
115 activists and human rights defenders released from prison
In Sudan, the Sudanese authorities have since Sunday released 115 activists who have been detained for weeks in several prisons in the capital. These demonstrators, members of resistance committees or…
Will Zeist pension fund collapse under pressure from climate activists? ‘There are no more excuses’
The office of the pension fund has been occupied by activists a few times. There is also pressure from Zeist itself. A number of concerned local residents are members of…
Climate activists occupy site of pension fund in Zeist, already tenth action
“There are between 10 and 20 activists on the site. Staff who were supposed to be at the office today were let in on foot. It is quite calm here,”…
In the occupied West Bank, Jewish settlers attack Palestinians and Israeli left-wing activists
New attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank occurred on Friday January 21 in Burin, near Nablus. Jewish settlers, masked, attacked Palestinians and a group of left-wing Israeli activists,…
three LGBT + activists accused of insulting the Virgin Mary definitively acquitted
In Poland, justice confirmed this Wednesday January 12 the acquittal of three LGBT + activists accused of insulting religious feelings after pasting posters of the Virgin Mary haloed with a…
12 activists on hunger strike for the rally of the left
More than 300,000 people have registered on the internet to defend the Popular Primary, an initiative that aims to nominate a common left-wing candidate for the presidential election next April.…
the four anti-racist activists acquitted
In the United Kingdom, they had unbolted a statue in Bristol, in June 2020, during a demonstration in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The sculpture depicted Edward Colston,…