Photo: Louise Rasmussen
A few hundred people gathered on the Museumplein in Amsterdam on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against anti-Asian racism and discrimination.
The event was prompted by the Atlanta shootings on March 16 and follows an earlier demo at the end of last month. ‘We felt that we have the responsibility to raise awareness in the western world about Asian hate’, Wendy (22), one of the organisers said.
Wendy, who is studying communication and media, has lived in the Netherlands for the past 4 years, and has personally experienced several racist incidents since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
After organising the first protest on March 27, she and her co-organisers wanted to mobilise an even wider public: ‘With the previous campaign, we really wanted to raise awareness in the white society in the Netherlands. It’s really nice that a lot of white people have joined today’s protest, because they’re our main target audience.’
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