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Q&A with the department's mascot!

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Q&A with Mokum 🐊 - the one and only mascot of DWARS North Holland -...

Support our congressional motion on housing!

DWARS North Holland - Flevoland and JS North Holland desperately need your help! Over the past moon...

An important message from the Board (regarding COVID-19)

Dear DWARSers,

The board of DWARS Amsterdam has a difficult, but unfortunately necessary decision to...

DWARS Amsterdam seeks new board!

This coming year (2020-2021), DWARS Amsterdam needs a new board again! Therefore, we are looking for...

[Press release] Youth organisation GroenLinks to Amsterdam municipal elections with its own list

AMSTERDAM, 1 April 2020 - DWARS Amsterdam, the local political youth organisation affiliated to Groe...

Announcement: until 1 June only online activities at DWARS Amsterdam

In our previous update, it was mentioned that all activities at DWARS Amsterdam will be held until 31 March...

Announcement: meetings cancelled until 31 March due to corona

In line with measures taken by DWARS nationwide, upcoming activities until March 31 will...

New board

Last Tuesday 18 June, a new board was elected at the General Branch Meeting!

Pres...

Already, an opinion piece on the Red Light District has appeared in the Parool supported by DWARS Amsterdam....

Open letter: Preserve the Lutkemeer polder

This Wednesday, the Amsterdam City Council will meet to discuss building on the Lutkemeerpolder, the laa...

Waiting is not an option!

Long waiting lists in the mental health sector are unacceptable and there needs to be a concerted regional approach to...

Macron and the illumination, Trump and the FBI, Buma's switch to the Short-Term Party and nationalism/patriotism

Media digest #2

It's a week later and here is the second media digest! Now that I happen to pre...

First media digest with: #Keizergate, Vega/flexitarianism, the EU/Scotland/Ireland and Big Capital!

Media digest #1

Of course, the members of DWARS Amsterdam chat a lot with each other; they do ...

Plan DWARS “Weed on roof Stopera: green and profitable” in the Parool!

Check out the article in the Parool here!

“Weed on rooftop Stopera: green and profitable”

We, G...

Press release: “Stop ban on honking taxis in city centre? Feeble solution to a big problem”

Stadsdeel Centrum brought out good news: honking taxis on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal and...

Press release: When Mark Rutte shouts “fuck off”, it becomes the norm on the street, research shows

Today, the Meldpunt Discriminatie Regio Amsterdam reported that in the past year, the number of complaints...

Press release: “In-depth investigation” into nightlife discrimination - 28 February 2017

A council survey on discrimination at the door in nightlife found that of d...

DWARS Amsterdam in the media

Reports on our actions regularly appear in the media. Below is an overview.

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