{"id":89664,"date":"2018-09-14T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=89664"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:05","slug":"demonstratie-tegen-hogere-studieschulden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/09\/14\/demonstratie-tegen-hogere-studieschulden\/","title":{"rendered":"Furious students on the move: we’re not dairy cows"},"content":{"rendered":"

About two hundred students demonstrated today in Amsterdam protesting the increase on the interest rate for student loans. “Education is a right, not a privilege,” they chanted.<\/p>\n

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The demonstrators walked with banners and signs from the Dam to the Nieuwmarkt. The original plan was that they\u2019d go to the Spui, but the organisers found out just in time that a book market was going on.<\/p>\n

The students are furious that Minister Van Engelshoven wants to raise the interest on student loans, which means that former students will have to pay off more in the future. Students are not dairy cows, states the slogan.<\/p>\n

Soy milk<\/h2>

That equation, unfortunately, offended some animal rights activists: you can\u2019t milk cows, they wrote on Facebook, and certainly not in the bio-industry. You better drink soy milk.<\/p>\n

But that comment was not to suppress the willingness to act. The demonstration is the initiative of the political youth organizations of SP, GroenLinks and PvdA, together with union FNV Jong, the Amsterdam student union ASVA and action group WakeUp.<\/p>\n

GroenLinks and PvdA are both responsible for abolishing the basic grant, together with VVD and D66. A demonstrator raised a photo of GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver with the reproach: who is now to blame?<\/p>\n

Yet the young people of PvdA and GroenLinks are present today. Removing the basic grant is not that bad, seems the thought, but then you should not raise the interest on student loans. \u201cThe social loan system is being demolished and replaced by an anti-social loan system,\u201d says chair Julia Matser of DWARS, the GroenLinks youth organisation.<\/p>\n\n\t

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