Protesting Shell has always been on trend. Halfway through the 80s people turned against the multinational as it kept on trading oil with South African. Because of its government’s Apartheid regime, the United Nation had imposed a trade embargo. Shell ignored it, and so SuZA was born, a movement that demanded Shell’s departure out of South Africa.

Finding true North

The blockade of Shell’s laboratory in April of 1989was the pinnacle of the SuZA protests, and the first cropping up of that decade’s protest movement in Noord. Noord and northerners weren’t exactly popular yet with the Amsterdammers from below theIJ. Nor vice versa. The blockade was a tough one and lasted for three days.