The occupation of the P.C. Hoofthuis on the last day of the WOinActie week has drawn a lot of attention to the protest against the budget cuts affecting especially the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences. The occupiers’ goal was primarily to confront the Executive Board of the UvA with their concerns about the cuts’ consequences on the quality of education and to get answers to their more pressing questions…
“Activists broke into a UvA building, the P.C. Hoofthuis, on Friday morning,” read a UvA communicate at 9:30am in the university’s website. As a result, all classes in the building before 11am were to be cancelled, and neither students nor staff members were allowed to enter. However, by 11:30am, activists remained inside, and, according to their representative outside the building, they will continue the occupation until their demands are met.…
No Business As Usual: Staff and Students Strike at the UvA By Roshni Ravi | News | February 15, 2025 Cover Illustration: Frans Ruiter/Unsplash Reporter Roshni Ravi uncovers the significance of partaking into the protest movement against UvA ties with Israel from a staff and trade union member’s perspective. The Roots of the Protest: From Student Encampments to Union Action From the 9-12 December, around 300 members of staff at the…
Amsterdam’s Funniest Online Reviews By SEBASTIAN HEGMAR | May 13, 2020 Cover photo by iStock / Getty Images Plus I recently stumbled across a very entertaining YouTube series where Gus Johnson highlights some of the most terrible online reviews from his small town. It reminded me that there’s a huge gold mine of content out there just waiting for me, so I decided to do a little digging. My plan was simple:…
Activist Rudolf Valhoff Arrested After Protest Participation By ISABEL BONNET | April 16, 2019 Illustration by Sofia Romansky He was allegedly mocked by several police officers and sexually harassed. Rudolf Valkhoff, 65, worked as a History and Philosophy teacher at the University of Amsterdam for 30 years. In 2015, he participated in the Bungehuis and Maagdenhuis occupation during the student protest against the lack of democracy and spending cuts at…
About 100 Students Danced in Protest of the Budget Cuts on Education By JOSEPHINE SYLVESTRE | April 19, 2019 On Friday, April 12, about 100 students and residents danced from 2 pm to 5 pm in protest of the budget cuts on education. The ‘Outraved’ dance demonstration started at Binnengasthuisterrein by the Oudemanshuisport (OMHP) campus. It followed a meaningful itinerary, walking past Dam Square, PC Hoofthuis and Roeterseiland, and was led…
