“Environmental activism” is a term that evokes in many an extreme, slightly negative image: people chaining themselves to train tracks, or spraying fake blood on coats made from real fur. Two Amsterdam University College (AUC) students are now trying to break that stigma.

Science Park is soon to have its own climate youth summit, following a well-received pitch in the dorms of Amsterdam University College (AUC).

As of October 2016, the EU considers Afghanistan to be a safe country, and has signed an agreement with the Afghan government that allows for the deportation of 80.000 refugees back to their country of origin.

By Helen Conway Editor’s note: This news story is part of a collaboration between The Herring and AUC’s journalism course. The story was entirely reported, written, edited, and fact checked by members of the journalism course. Some material may have been altered by The Herring’s editors to fit its style guidelines. —Upon arriving at AUC…

On March 11, a group of AUC students came together to partake in the national Women’s March in Amsterdam. Together with approximately 15,000 other participants, the students marched from Dam Square to Museumplein in order to stand up against discrimination and demand equal rights for all human beings.

By Luuk van der Sterren — Thirteen months have passed since riot police forcefully ended the Maagdenhuis occupation, during which University of Amsterdam (UvA) students and faculty took over the university’s administrative building. Their protest mainly targeted what they called the “financialization” of higher education. A number of students and staff from AUC were involved…

By Tamar Bot and Maxime Garcia Diaz — After staging an action at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) Open Day on March 12th, where she distributed the latest issue of Folia while topless, second-year AUC student Matilda Medard has been receiving sexually graphic messages from strangers through email and Facebook. The Folia issue in question…

By Maxime Garcia Diaz — On January 23rd, three AUC students and one AUC professor were arrested by Spijkenisse police while protesting at a Geert Wilders event. In the Spijkenisse market, Wilders was handing out so-called ‘resistance sprays’ to women, for protection against sexual assault from refugees. Thirteen women, among them the three AUC students…

 By Ina Schebler  – Sheyi greets the men unloading shopping carts and carrying the stuff up the wooden stairs that make it possible to enter the parking garage. He passes by them and walks into the dark staircase that leads several floors up to his room. The stairs are dirty, the walls smeared with letterings often…

By Eleonora Boguslavskaia — Starting on the 17th of October, Simona Zagoricnik, Pleun Andriessen and Andrea Haefner, second year AUC students, spent six days at the Serbian-Croatian border providing humanitarian aid to thousands of refugees waiting to enter Croatia. As European Union’s officials struggle to agree on a strategy to manage the crisis, the number…

By Tamar Bot — On Tuesday, October 27th, a group of students interrupted a Who’s in Town lecture that was given by Gert Wim Ter Haar, social media hub manager at KLM. The students read out stories of refugees that were deported, part of which they blame on KLM, as the Dutch flag carrier provided the transportation….

By Julia Vié and Ivana Solar — Luana Carretto walked down the stairs in AUC after class in her long flowery skirt, her dreadlocks curled up into a large knot on her head. She is only 25 years old but already an inspiration for many AUC students to believe that change is possible as long as…