The demo in Amsterdam was marvelous. Over 200,000 demonstrators and 40,000 or more were stuck on trainstations and in trafficjams. The demo was organized by our trade unions. It wasn't a heavily politics driven demo, but one where everyone could find something which is important for himself. But everybody was against the plans of this legislation. The all over the world praised so called -polder-model, a constructive working on the well being of the Netherlands on political, economical and social issues by trade unions, employers and Government is being ruined by the latter. The legislation (the 3 parties in power have a majority in politics) doesn't understand the importance of patience, transparent policies. Nothing of this, is only arrogance the politicians show. People in the street don't know the facts, they're told. As if the facts are not clear enough for the average man, as if the man in the street didn't study, didn't visit University.
We yelled our lungs out on the ritm of the protestmusic.
Since 1983, the Dutch disease, the protest against nuclear missilles, Amsterdam had no such demo.
We waved our flags and clapped our hands to the hospitalized minister president of our country. He should be ashamed!!!
And our anger is not over yet... we go on, continues relay strikes and protestmanifestation and demonstrations in the country will remember the men and women in power who have real power.... In Holland WE, the people are in power.
Okay that's my protest, after that I went to the Van Gogh Museum. The museum with the largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh: it houses more than 200 paintings, including many famous masterpieces.
I saw a beautiful collection of art. Famous paintings, one of the sunflowers, the Irisses, the potato eaters, selfportraits of him on a row, his bedroom in France. His Arles period with the yellow house. I saw beautiful paintings of Paul Gauguin, and other painters who were considered as Vincents friends,
But also there was an exhibition of Edouard Manet, titled impessions from the sea. He painted "the battle between the U.S.S Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama".
It happened on the shore near Cherbourg in 1864, the American Civil war. Why did they fight so far from home? I don't know.
But also I saw works of Claude Monet and many others.
All together wonderful paintings, postcards of an ancient past, like yesterday.
If you visit Amsterdam you should go to the Anne Frank house and see the Van Gogh museum. In the world there are no other places to see what you can see there
Yeah, it felt good to be back in a worldcity, also because of the all the beautiful enthusiastic women .....
Latest news I heard about the Kerry-Bush campaign is that Kerry jumped over Bush in the preliminary polls. The elections need that!!!
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