{"id":147364,"date":"2022-11-30T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=147364"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:32","slug":"i-was-hoping-the-executive-board-would-come-and-speak-with-the-campaigners-over-a-bowl-of-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/11\/30\/i-was-hoping-the-executive-board-would-come-and-speak-with-the-campaigners-over-a-bowl-of-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was hoping the Executive Board would come and speak with the campaigners over a bowl of soup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of the people there attested that the staff and students from OccupyEUR did not cause any trouble. The campaigners\u2019 demands included the university doing more for the climate, but riot police cleared the building at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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A few minutes before they're asked to leave, students hand out pumpkin soup.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThe atmosphere was easy-going\u201d, says Pinar Co\u015fkun, project manager at the Erasmus Food Lab, of Monday\u2019s occupation of the Sanders Building. She and her colleagues made soup for the campaigners. She also cleaned the area being occupied. \u201cThe students are our children, so I want to take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Co\u015fkun thinks it\u2019s \u2018odd\u2019 that the Executive Board did not show up for talks. \u201cI was hoping they\u2019d come and speak with the campaigners over a bowl of soup\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n

Instead, riot police showed up in the early evening. \u201cI thought that was really strange\u201d, says Co\u015fkun. \u201cI\u2019m not much of an activist, so I\u2019d never seen riot police in action. It all looked very dramatic and threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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