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		<title>‘Zuidoost is like Volendam’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Ristie is involved in all kinds of things &#8211; ‘including keeping my fingers crossed for the Dutch team’. However, he did not attend the official slavery remembrance at the Oosterpark. “I haven’t yet reached that point in my personal development”. Last week, News from Amsterdam wrote that there seems to be reconciliation between the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=108&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a real calamity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Traffic & Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zuideramstel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlagebrug]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the Berlage Bridge will be closed off due to a calamity, the sign says.  One might suspect a conspiracy: for how do they know there will be a calamity tonight? The truth is rather more prosaic: it has been found that a particular part of the bridge has been rusting faster than expected. Tonight, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=106&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Money wasted on vague social cohesion initiative’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiers Bakker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Smile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willem Paquay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 21 June, United Smile distributed 2,500 ‘pass-on roses’ at the Dappermarkt. The SP in Oost criticizes its own alderman for spending 11,000 euro on a ‘vague’ initiative. Council member Tiers Bakker says the initiative is simply too expensive. He argues that the district should spend its money on measures that have a concrete and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=104&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zuidoost wants cheaper heating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henk de Boer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mart van de Wiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muriel Dalgliesh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Zuidoost district council wants power company Nuon to put a ten-euro per month price increase for district heating on hold. Nuon argues the price increase is a consequence of higher fuel prices. The PvdA is going to ask visitors of the popular Summer Festival to sign a petition against the higher tariff. The council [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=102&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Centrum to support bat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D66]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Centrum district is going to promote the use of special tiles and bricks that provide shelter to bats. A motion to that effect was adopted unanimously by the district council last night. The issue was raised by Gerrit Brunink (D66). &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t seen bats that often myself, but I discovered that there&#8217;s actually a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=100&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists must behave</title>
		<link>http://newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/tourists-must-behave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traffic & Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bicycle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tourists are welcome, provided they do not scream, give money to beggars, use the street as a toilet or cycle on the sidewalk. This is the message on a city map that will be distributed by hotels, round-trip boats and the police. The map further suggests that the police can search people as they please. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=98&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown on truants put on hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[De Baarsjes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arco Verburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lodewijk Asscher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high-profile campaign against truancy in de Baarsjes has been put on hold. District chairman Arco Verburg (photo) backed down after a majority of the council openly criticised the approach. In a joint action of police and school attendance officers, under-23s were asked what they were doing on the street. Truants were brought to school [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=96&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welfare agency sends 290 apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Centrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oost]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The welfare agency (DWI) has mistakenly sent about 290 social assistance recipients a letter threatening to cut their benefits, because they would have failed to submit their monthly income statement. One of the regional DWI offices recently moved to the Weesperstraat. The new office does not yet have a grey letterbox in which to deposit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=94&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation over slavery remembrance</title>
		<link>http://newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/reconciliation-over-slavery-remembrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Renfrum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Surinameplein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, Amsterdam will remember its role in the slave economy that was abolished 145 years ago. After years of rivalry, there seems to be reconciliation between the official remembrance at the Oosterpark and its ‘radical little brother’ at the Surinameplein. There have been annual remembrances at the Surinameplein for fifteen years. When the national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=92&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycle cities compete with Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/bicycle-cities-compete-with-amsterdam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dirkklo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Traffic & Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bristol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fietsersbond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British are supposed to hate cyclists, but the city of Bristol has launched a plan to compete with Amsterdam as the cycling capital of Europe. The city has a bike shed with showers and plans to promote cycling in low-income neighbourhoods. &#8216;The British hate cyclists&#8217; ran the headline of a recent article in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromamsterdam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3799524&amp;post=90&amp;subd=newsfromamsterdam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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