Part Two: The Banner Wars: How Dutch Squatters Fought Far-Right Immigration Policy

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues her conversation with Samantha McVey about the motley and international assortment of activists who refused to let a fascist off the hook.

Sources:

The Banner Wars, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2005

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/international/europe/11-die-in-fire-at-dutch-airport-detention-center.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20051210182413/http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2005/cohen.html

https://noborder.org/archive_item.php%3Fid=353.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blast-damages-muslim-school-in-southern-netherlands-532504.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/world/europe/arson-suspected-at-dutch-mosque.html

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-height-by-country

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/10/amst-o28.html

https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/report_fire_schiphol_oost.pdf

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-right-wing-government-dick-schoof-mark-rutte-party-for-freedom/

https://apnews.com/article/migration-netherlands-wilders-asylum-38a5149bf59fad91d2368350405ba9dd

https://www.visaverge.com/news/dutch-parliament-enacts-strictest-asylum-policy-in-history/

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.9	Cool Zone Media.
0:09.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people did cool stuff.
0:11.6	Your weekly reminder that when people do bad things,
0:14.4	there's people around trying to do good things.
0:16.6	And one of the people, who I think is often trying to do good things,
0:20.5	is Samantha McVeigh.
0:22.0	Hi.
0:22.8	Oh, that was such a nice introduction. Thank you.
0:26.5	You might know Samantha from Stuff Mom Never Told You.
0:30.9	And you might know Samantha from a lot of episodes of this very show, including some of the first ones.
0:37.5	I actually, the Jane one that is so burned into my brain as like one of the foundational
0:40.9	recordings and like, oh, this show is going to be fun and good.
0:44.2	It was like that recording.
0:46.4	But so I actually don't remember each other, but even on like four.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.3	So one of them was an Asian one in which you had told me after the fact that you were like,
0:55.6	I host something at the nose I'm not doing this episode just because.
0:59.9	Yeah, I overthink this shit.
1:02.1	Which I was like, no, no, because they were about having their own village for those who were,
1:08.7	I think, bipolar and schizophrenic or any type of.
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