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Friday, May 29, 2009
YezWeCan - Denk Tank Sociale Wat?
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
YezWeCan - Motivatie TV
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
YezWeCan - Kick en Thaiboks Dojo Amsterdam
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Het Flevopark Festival - The Making Of
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De Indische Buurt heeft een zeer diverse bevolkingsamenstelling en biedt onderdak aan meer allochtonen dan autochtonen en deelt dan ook samen met de aangrenzende Transvaalbuurt en Oosterparkbuurt veel van de sociaal maatschappelijke problemen die een dergelijke demografie met zich meebrengt.
Na 2001 ontstond vanuit de buurt initiatieven om de cohesie van een buurt met zo veel diversiteit te verbeteren. In 2008 is een daarvan uitgemond in Het Flevopark Festival. De Stichting Indische Buurt Wereldwijk en een leger aan vrijwilligers hebben vanaf begin dit jaar koortsachtig samengewerkt om het feest te bouwen, voor de buurt en voor de stad. Hier maak ik een documentaire over " Het Flevopark Festival - The Making Of ". Verwacht eind 2008. Het is dus nog in de maak - maar hier is alvast een trailer.
Ron Langdon
Monday, March 19, 2007
A Scream in the wind for Theo van Gogh
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Luckily one thing has not changed - the immense inertia of the much-cherished Dutch bureaucracy. After two and a half years of nation-wide disagreement, debate, discussion, court cases, bad tempers and general unpleasantness a monument to Theo, his life, his work and above all his championship of free speech was unveiled just a stones throw from where he was murdered. This was obviously another attempt to strike while the iron is just rusting away.
The sculpture, created by Jeroen Henneman, represents the layered profile of a scream. The outside layer is screaming whilst the innermost layer is silent.
Big Up to Theo
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Politicized #1
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Whilst I type, the Dutch TV exudes more political debate between primary candidates of the major parties. It is more of the same appalling and meaningless "€10 this way" - "€20 that way" ;-"Yes you did" - "No I didn't" provincial pre election bla bla spiced up unintelligible statistics having ultimately a marginal influence on the real quality of life.
I certainly heard no mention of a report published this week by leading marine biologists concluding that with the present rate of deterioration of marine life there will be virtually no fish left in the seas by the year 2050. Integration; presently the country's most pressing issue has been demoted to an empty sociological buzzword. Nor have they mentioned how they aim to tackle the deepening international divide between east and west. The concept of culture, as in the arts, has certainly no place in these Dutch pre election battles, nor the pending European reliance on unstable Russian energy sources.
Of all the wasted hours of Dutch pre election BS I have witnessed in the last weeks the governments Foreign Policy was not mentioned once and I would have to go to great lengths to recollect mention of an issue such as Global Warming. Nor even the fact that Nation of China undoes all the annual environmentally friendly measures taken by the EU collectively in a mere 84 days....or even the passionate romance flowering between Africa and China....or the fact that Global Warming is warming Africa the most.
Since the murders of Pim Fortyn and Theo van Gogh Holland has become hopelessly lost, polarised and politically fragmented in every conceivable political hue and the politicians scramble - as if in the most undignified way they possibly can - to secure, if not kidnap the votes of an undecided segment which has never been so large, confused and volatile……so without any sign of visionary leadership on the flat Dutch horizon I wish them goodnight…….and good luck.
Meanwhile the Dutch media coaches laugh all the way to the bank and Holland gets the politics it deserves!