oktober 2017 - HOX Projects

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100K for Amsterdam slavery museum

Voorpagina The Daily Herald 16-10-2017

Amsterdam city council reserves €100K for feasibility study on Slavery Museum

By Marvin Hokstam AMSTERDAM — The City Council of Amsterdam will be allocating 100,000 euros in its budget to carry out a feasibility study on establishing a National Museum for the Slavery Past, it has been reported. Council member Simion Blom (Groen Links) who proposed the

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Opinion on hurricanes and the colonizer’s responsibility (Herald, September 2017)

I REFUSE!

I remember in 2003 or so I was still living in St. Maarten. I was visiting in the Netherlands and I noticed that they had placed a huge heap of sand in the center of a certain roundabout. It irritated me because it was stupid: it

About hurricanes and the responsibility of the colonizer

By Marvin Hokstam You know what gets to me the most these days? The stories about the heroics of the Dutch (French, British) marines who have been sent to the islands to assist in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria. Don’t get me wrong; I