May 31, 2005
Defend the barricades
I generally try to avoid Rokin. Its just too ugly. But today I was in a hurry to get to Amsterdam Central to catch a train to the Hague so wouldn't you know it, ventured along Rokin for the first time in months AND without my digital camera. Obviously just tempting fate!
So, the eviction of squatters from the old Waterman building, the massed 'SWAT' teams, the burning barricades, the watercannons, the paint bombs, the molotov cocktail, the booming Black Flag, the detouring of all trams and traffic for hours on end, and the good-old-fashioned-squatter-politics-theatre WILL not be seen in pictures here.
A brief english report can be seen here although it seems a bit inaccurate. One tram was delayed? Three hours after the action started there were still no trams travelling along Rokin.
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