Vermoord door politie, gedekt door politiek : Hans Kok.

Poster shows the arrest of Hans Kok only fifteen hours before his death of a drug overdose while in police custody in Amsterdam. He is surrounded by a group of people on Schaepman Street where squatters were protesting widespread evictions from affordable housing to make way for demolitions to free...

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Language:Dutch
Published: [Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [1985]
Series:Leftist political posters collection.
Radicalism posters collection.
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Physical Description:1 poster : color ; 60 x 43 cm
Variant Title:
Hans Kok : vermoord door politie, gedekt door politiek [Other title]
Format: Poster
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Poster shows the arrest of Hans Kok only fifteen hours before his death of a drug overdose while in police custody in Amsterdam. He is surrounded by a group of people on Schaepman Street where squatters were protesting widespread evictions from affordable housing to make way for demolitions to free up land for urban renewal projects. This poster is in support of Johannes (Hans) Kok, a Dutch punk musician and squatter who died November 11,1985. Ink is black and red.
Note:Title from poster recto.
Text from lower half of poster: "Laatste 5 jaar in cel 32 doden! ; Tientallen buiten de cel, honderden mishandelingen ; gedenk Jan Weggelaar, Metha Hofman, Steven Ho a Chin, Hmidou Takrihfa, Hans Kok en alle anderen."
Call Number:MSS 719-058