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		<title>Christmas Market &#8211; Kerstmarkt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my last, rather dark posting prompted by the commercial merry-go-round that around Christmas reaches its speed limits and the difference between the &#8216;haves&#8217; and &#8216;have nots&#8217; seems even more painful than usual, I felt kind of guilty as there still is another face to this period of the year as well whereby families and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6482&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After my last, rather dark posting prompted by the commercial merry-go-round that around Christmas reaches its speed limits and the difference between the &#8216;haves&#8217; and &#8216;have nots&#8217; seems even more painful than usual, I felt kind of guilty as there still is another face to this period of the year as well whereby families and friends get together and enjoy each other&#8217;s company&#8230; So I took a stroll through the Christmas Market&#8230;</p>
<p>Na mijn laatste, nogal donkere post, ingegeven door de commerciële mallemolen die rond Kerstmis zijn snelheidslimieten bereikt en het verschil tussen diegenen die wel of niet kunnen volgen nog pijnlijker lijkt dan normaal, voelde ik me toch wat schuldig. Tenslotte heeft deze periode van het jaar ook een ander gezicht waarbij families en vrienden samenkomen en van dit samenzijn genieten&#8230; Zo ben ik dan maar even gaan wandelen op de Kerstmarkt&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>
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<p>Click below for SLIDESHOW <span style="color:#800000;">(once there F11 for full screen &#8211; again F11 to get back):</span></p>
<p>Klik hieronder voor de DIAVOORSTELLING <span style="color:#800000;">(Voor volledig scherm in de voorstelling F11 &#8211; nog eens F11 om terug te gaan ):</span></p>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May your Christmas shopping be fruitful&#8230; Mogen je kerstinkopen vruchtbaar&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8230;and the New Year full of bargains&#8230; &#8230;en het Nieuwe Jaar vol solden zijn&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6472&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>May your Christmas shopping be fruitful&#8230;</p>
<p>Mogen je kerstinkopen vruchtbaar&#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>
<p>&#8230;and the New Year full of bargains&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;en het Nieuwe Jaar vol solden zijn&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Light Parade &#8211; Lichtparade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas has arrived in Antwerp as well and has been welcomed by a Light Parade and the traditional Christmas Market that offers drinks, food and possible presents&#8230; On one of the coldest evenings so far and blown off my feet by the overly loud announcements and music I still persevered long enough to get a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6413&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christmas has arrived in Antwerp as well and has been welcomed by a Light Parade and the traditional Christmas Market that offers drinks, food and possible presents&#8230; On one of the coldest evenings so far and blown off my feet by the overly loud announcements and music I still persevered long enough to get a photographic impression <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Kerstmis is in Antwerpen aangekomen en werd verwelkomd met een Lichtparade en de traditionele Kerstmarkt waar drinken, eten en mogelijke geschenken worden uitgestald&#8230; Op een van de koudste avonden tot nu toe en omvergeblazen door de veel te luide meldingen en muziek heb ik het toch nog lang genoeg volgehouden om met een fotografische indruk thuis te komen <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1EB" target="_blank">For more click HERE&#8230;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1EB" target="_blank">Voor meer klik HIER&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Leftovers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restantjes&#8230; I was just in need of something different&#8230; Ik had gewoon even iets anders nodig&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6353&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Restantjes&#8230;<a href="http://nil1950.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/leftovers/leftovers/" rel="attachment wp-att-6354"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6354" title="Leftovers" src="http://nil1950.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/leftovers.jpg?w=590&#038;h=443" alt="" width="590" height="443" /></a></p>
<p>I was just in need of something different&#8230;</p>
<p>Ik had gewoon even iets anders nodig&#8230;</p>
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		<title>The Aftermath&#8230; &#8211; Na de Kap&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title might give you the idea that everybody went home and the slaughter of the Keyserlei (= Lindelei) trees is yesterday&#8217;s news. But nothing is further from the truth. First of all, each time I pass there, I am shocked anew to see the emptiness where once there was green life and I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6324&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title might give you the idea that everybody went home and the slaughter of the Keyserlei (= Lindelei) trees is yesterday&#8217;s news. But nothing is further from the truth. First of all, each time I pass there, I am shocked anew to see the emptiness where once there was green life and I am sure I am not the only one. Then, while Groen! is going the official way to keep the same scenario from repeating itself, the people who fought so valiantly for the Keyserlei trees got together as well with their own claim that the city should stop chopping down trees. And it is not an empty thought as other decades old and perfectly healthy trees have already been felled and more is planned, the newest I heard of being the trees at the riverside. The reason why they have to go? Simply that they are impeding the view on the quay and the river from the side streets&#8230;</p>
<p>It is not only in the city that things go very wrong. The Forest of St Anneke and Noordkasteel that has escaped already once from complete annihilation are still very much in the danger zone. Schoten, one of the green communities surrounding the city, may see 400 trees disappearing along the channel &#8211; and almost just around the corner from where I live, a whole forest bordering on the well-known Kalmthoutse Heide (Heath of Kalmthout), a safe haven for a lot of  animals and a passageway to another part of the heath for those same animals, has been sold to a contractor by the Province of Antwerp to be turned into a building site against the protests of many, the Kalmthout community included. And the list just keeps on growing&#8230;</p>
<p>In the meantime a short impression of yesterdays gathering that, I certainly hope, will be growing&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Misschien wekt de titel de indruk dat na de slachting van de Keyserleibomen (= Lindelei) bomen oud nieuws zijn. Maar niets is minder waar. Ten eerste, telkens dat ik daar passeer voel ik opnieuw de schok van de leegte te zien waar eens groen leven was en ik ben zeker dat ik niet de enige ben. Ten tweede, terwijl Groen! langs de officiële weg probeert om een herhaling van het Keyserlei-scenario te voorkomen kwamen gisteren de moedige vechters om het leven van de Keyserleibomen terug bijeen om hun eigen eis dat de kaalkap in de stad tot een einde moet komen, kracht bij te zetten. En het is zeker geen lege gedachte. Andere tientallen jaren oude, gezonde bomen zijn al tegen de vlakte gegaan en meer wordt gepland. Het laatste dat ik heb vernomen zijn de bomen aan de kaai van Antwerpen. Waarom? O, ze staan maar in het zicht vanuit de zijstraten&#8230;</p>
<p>Het is niet enkel in de stad dat het fout loopt. Het Bos van St Anneke en het Noordkasteel dat al eens aan totale vernieling is ontsnapt, zijn nog steeds heel dicht bij de gevarenzone. In Schoten langs het kanaal zouden 400 bomen kunnen verdwijnen &#8211; en ongeveer achter mijn hoekje, bij de welbekende Kalmthoutse Heide, is een heel bos dat aan de daar levende dieren een doorgang  naar een ander deel van de heide en een veilig onderkomen biedt, door de provincie verkocht aan een aannemer om er een woonzone van te maken &#8211; en dit tegen herhaalde tegenwerpingen en protesten in, o.a. van de gemeente van Kalmthout. En de lijst blijft maar aangroeien&#8230;</p>
<p>Ondertussen een korte indruk van de bijeenkomst van gisteren waarvan ik zeker hoop dat het een groeiend succes kent&#8230;</p>
<a href="http://nil1950.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/the-aftermath-na-de-kap/#gallery-1-slideshow">Click to view slideshow.</a>
<p>More <a href="http://fotogordon.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/groen-voor-een-betere-bescherming-van-waardevolle-stadsbomen/" target="_blank">HERE </a>by Flash (dutch text)</p>
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		<title>Keyserlei trees cut down &#8211; Keyserleibomen gekapt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I already knew before I left home that the trees were gone&#8230; but wanted to greet them a last time&#8230; Als ik mijn huis verliet wist ik al dat de bomen al gekapt waren&#8230; maar ik wou ze nog een laatste keer groeten&#8230; More photos / Meer foto&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6308&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I already knew before I left home that the trees were gone&#8230; but wanted to greet them a last time&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Als ik mijn huis verliet wist ik al dat de bomen al gekapt waren&#8230; maar ik wou ze nog een laatste keer groeten&#8230;</em></p>
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		<title>Keyserlei Trees Still in Danger&#8230; Keyserlei Bomen nog steeds in gevaar&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago I posted about the beautiful trees lining the Keyserlei in Antwerp, about the sword literally hanging above them due to renovation works. They are still bound to be cut down&#8230; Contestants started a vigil on and around the trees last monday and an official protest has been submitted to the court [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6211&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not so long ago I posted about the beautiful trees lining the Keyserlei in Antwerp, about the sword literally hanging above them due to renovation works. They are still bound to be cut down&#8230;</p>
<p>Contestants started a vigil on and around the trees last monday and an official protest has been submitted to the court to stop the cutting down before that. Though the first decision of the court was that no action should be taken by the contractor till the 11th of november and then till the 15th, the contractor already took steps to start the demolition on thursday in disregard of this decision. Thanks to actions of the activists the digging and cutting down could be stopped. It ended with the police having to intervene and to establish proof of the violation of a court decision.</p>
<p>Yesterday, in the late afternoon I had another look. The action had moved to the first tree that had been attacked last week. All kinds of covers, sleeping bags spoke of cold nights spent in the street with no comfort whatsoever. A petition was going around to be presented to the court today. Encouraging to see that people <em>did</em> stop to sign it, to chat for a moment. Young people, old people, kids, foreigners, migrants&#8230; But also saddening how so many more just passed by without even a look, not at the activists trying to draw their attention, not at the trees&#8230;</p>
<p>Today the court will decide&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Nog niet zo lang geleden had ik een berichtje gepost over de mooie bomen van de Keyserlei, over het zwaard dat letterlijk boven hun hoofd hangt door de renovatiewerken aan de Keyserlei. Ze lopen nog steeds gevaar, gekapt te worden&#8230;</p>
<p>Vorige maandag is een groep actievoerders een wake begonnen op en rond de bomen en nog daarvoor werd een officiële klacht aan het gerecht overhandigd om de boomkap te stoppen. Hoewel het gerecht eerst besloot dat niets mocht gebeuren voor 11 november en daarna voor 15 november, ondernam de aannemer vorige donderdag toch een poging om aan de boomkap te beginnen. Dit werd door de actievoerders verijdeld, de politie moest erbij komen en er werden PVs opgemaakt als bewijsmateriaal.</p>
<p>Gisteren, in de late namiddag ging terug even langs. De Actie was verhuis naar de eerste boom die vorige week de eerste aanval te verduren had gekregen. Een hoopje dekens, slaapzakken vertelden een verhaal van koude nachten op straat zonder enige comfort. Een petitie ging rond om vandaag aan het gerecht voor te leggen. Het was bemoedigend te zien dat mensen inderdaad stopten om te tekenen, voor een gesprekje. Jonge mensen, ouderen, kinderen, buitenlanders, migranten&#8230; Maar ook wel droevig hoeveel meer voorbij snelden zonder de activisten of de bomen een blik te gunnen&#8230;</p>
<p>Vandaag beslist het gerecht&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Photos/Foto&#8217;s:</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1xL" target="_blank">Keyserlei &#8211; An Impression/Keyserlei &#8211; Een Indruk</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/puCRu-1yD" target="_blank">First Protest/Eerste protest</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1CO" target="_blank">Action &#8211; Day 1 / Naar Dag 1</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1BI" target="_blank">Action &#8211; Week Later / Week Later</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/puCRu-1DK" target="_blank">A last salute/Een laatste groet</a></p>
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		<title>Recycling Sorting Center &#8211; Kringloop Sorteercentrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back it was Open House at the Sorting Centre supplying goods for the shops that sell recycled goods. I had a look around&#8230; &#8230;.. Een tijdje terug was het Open Deurdag in het Kringloop Sorteercentrum. Ik ging even kijken&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;. For more click HERE&#8230; Voor meer klik HIER&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6150&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back it was Open House at the Sorting Centre supplying goods for the shops that sell recycled goods. I had a look around&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;..</span></p>
<p>Een tijdje terug was het Open Deurdag in het Kringloop Sorteercentrum. Ik ging even kijken&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>
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<p>For more click <a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1ze" target="_blank">HERE</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Voor meer klik <a href="http://wp.me/PuCRu-1ze" target="_blank">HIER</a>&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Occupy Antwerp!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new generation stands up &#8211; oldtimers of &#8217;68 join them, all that agree join them&#8230; &#8220;Enough is enough! 99% op the people should not pay for what 1% wrought&#8221; is their message. An impression of the action in Antwerp&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Een nieuwe generatie staat op, 68-ers komen erbij, wie ermee akkoord is komt erbij&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6014&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new generation stands up &#8211; oldtimers of &#8217;68 join them, all that agree join them&#8230; &#8220;Enough is enough! 99% op the people should not pay for what 1% wrought&#8221; is their message.</p>
<p>An impression of the action in Antwerp&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#1b1b1b;">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p>Een nieuwe generatie staat op, 68-ers komen erbij, wie ermee akkoord is komt erbij&#8230; &#8220;Het is genoeg geweest! 99% van de bevolking moet niet betalen voor wat 1% heeft teweeg gebracht&#8221; is hun boodschap.</p>
<p>Een indruk van de actie in Antwerpen&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://jalbum.net/a/1065022/" target="_blank"><img src="http://jalbum.net/nl/static/icons/album/id/2217322/q/19/type/FEATURED/" alt="Occupy Antwerp" border="0" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jalbum.net/a/1065022/" target="_blank">Occupy Antwerp</a></p>
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<p>Voor de diashow klik op titel hierboven</p>
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		<title>Stop Poverty &#8211; Stop Armoede</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Day of Protest Against Poverty – and an action in Antwerp. The topic of the action &#62; equal opportunity for all children to get an education. It was a colourful mixture of all ages  and origins that had come together on the Groenplaats. Several speakers accentuated the fact that a good education was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nil1950.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7299228&amp;post=6005&amp;subd=nil1950&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>World Day of Protest Against Poverty – and an action in Antwerp. The topic of the action &gt; equal opportunity for all children to get an education.</p>
<p>It was a colourful mixture of all ages  and origins that had come together on the Groenplaats. Several speakers accentuated the fact that a good education was the first step to leave poverty behind, this including a good knowledge of the language in the case of migrants from foreign countries.  And as education does not come cheap there should be a coordinated effort to make a better future possible for the younger generations.</p>
<p>Though I agree with that point of view, looking around me I could not  help seeing that there are very different aspects to this problem. While concentrating on education, pointing to a future for the youngsters, there are also those who are homeless now, living in the streets or moving from one shelter to the other in winter, dragging around their few possessions around in bags, a cart, who themselves have fallen off the bigger cart already some time ago for so many different reasons as there are people. More and more of them as society seems to shake at its roots these years, excluded from what is considered a &#8216;normal life&#8217;. Or the unknown, unseen poverty that hides behind a window with drawn curtains, behind a smile or anger to hide the shame&#8230; also the hopelessness of someone who did have a good education but has the wrong kind of name to find a job he/she studied for&#8230;</p>
<p>Especially when an older woman, walking with a cane and at that moment dangerously swinging her cane around and shouting they did not know what poverty was, left the gathering disgusted with it all, I realized this action was but a drop on a big pile of hot stones. But then, every shower starts with a drop, does it not?</p>
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<p>For a slideshow click on title below</p>
<p>Voor een  diashow klik op de titel hieronder</p>
<p><a href="http://jalbum.net/a/1062768/" target="_blank">Stop Poverty &#8211; Stop Armoede</a></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#800000;">NEDERLANDSE TEKST:</span></em></p>
<p>Werelddag van verzet tegen armoede – een actie in Antwerpen. Thema van de actie &gt; gelijke onderwijskansen voor alle kinderen.</p>
<p>Het was een kleurrijke mengelmoes van alle generaties en achtergronden dat zich op de Groenplaats had gevonden. Verschillende sprekers legden er de nadruk op dat degelijk onderwijs de eerste stap is om uit de armoede te geraken waarbij goede kennis van de landstaal een grote rol speelt.  Daar onderwijs wel geld kost, zou een gecoördineerde inspanning voor een betere toekomst voor de jongere generaties moeten zorgen.</p>
<p>Hoewel ik het hiermee eens ben, toen ik even rond mij zag, werd het me weer eens duidelijk hoeveel  verschillende aspecten het probleem armoede heeft. Terwijl een groep zich (terecht) op het onderwijs en de toekomst richt, zijn er ook diegenen die nu op straat wonen, zich van een opvangthuis naar het ander slepen met het weinige dat ze bezitten in zakken of een karretje, mensen die al langer geleden de trein hebben gemist om zo veel redenen als er mensen zijn. Een groeiende groep nu de samenleving meer en meer wordt dooreen geschud, uitgesloten uit wat een ‘normaal leven’ wordt genoemd.  Of de onzichtbare armoede, verscholen achter gordijnen, een glimlach  of woede om de schaamte te verbergen… ook de hopeloze zoektocht van iemand die wel over voldoende kennis beschikt maar de verkeerde naam heeft om de job te vinden waar hij/zij voor heeft gestudeerd…</p>
<p>Vooral toen ik de oudere vrouw zag die haar stok gevaarlijk zwaaiend en woedend riep dat ze niet wisten wat armoede was en de samenkomst verliet, wist ik dat deze actie maar een druppel op een hoop hete stenen was. Maar – begint niet elke regenbui met een eerste druppel?</p>
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