Last month, on September 27th, Swiss voters rejected an initiative that would have written neutrality into the Federal Constitution as “perpetual and armed”. Over 70% voted no. If the initiative had passed, Switzerland would have been constitutionally barred from imposing economic sanctions against warring nations outside UN Security Council mandates, and prohibited from engaging in…

By Cadence Chua and Komari Machida This article is the second part of a piece on the No Kings protests in Amsterdam, published here.  Protests against the Trump administration, also known as the No Kings protests, were held on 28 March around the world, including in Amsterdam. A few hundred demonstrators had gathered at Museumplein…

By Cadence Chua and Komari Machida On 28 March, protests were organised globally against the Trump administration in the US, including here in Amsterdam. Known as the No Kings protests, the Dutch iteration brought together hundreds of demonstrators in front of the US Consulate General at Museumplein. They used homemade signs and raised voices to…

By Garvan Ó Deaghaidh “UvA UvA, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!”  At 12:15 p.m. on the 29th of September, streams of AUC students filtered out of their classes and gathered outside the Academic Building. Chants began, being led by a megaphone. Demands rang out through the science park. “What do we want? Cut the…

By Koko Christiaanse On Monday, June 1st, thousands of protestors filled Dam Square to protest against racism despite Coronavirus regulations. We reached out to some of the AUC students who joined them to make a stand. The protest was part of an international movement sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who…

By Adriana Leila Rocks I recently got a text message from a friend: “You’re literally experiencing history! So interesting.” I guess it’s “interesting” to see fires outside my window and riot police storming my campus to assault kids I knew last week as classmates. It’s said there’s an ancient Chinese curse that goes: “May you…

Opinion By Sofia Bifulco — In the past four weeks Chile witnessed its largest national-scale social mobilisation in recent history, with a record-breaking number of participants: according to official reports on October 25 in Santiago alone 1,300,000 people marched. Following a strike for the price hike in metro fare on October 19, people have been…

By Adriana Leila Rocks — With their faces hidden beneath masks and goggles and carrying umbrellas drawn like weapons, black-clad student protesters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) endured the brutal sun today. They crouched under boogie boards held like shields, making Molotov cocktails in soda bottles, which they hurled over barricades made…

By Koko Christiaanse ⁠— Waking up before dawn, packing a sign, strapping on the prepared backpack, and biking to the Rijksmuseum in the brisk October air; this is what morning looked like for AUC students who participated in the Extinction Rebellion protest on Monday, October 7. The afternoon, however, looked very different. For some, it…