Dam Daily w/ Chris | 3 Oct

Crowds expected for the Red Line protest this weekend, more local news stories, Amsterdam chat, plus Chris’ 🎶 music picks.

Listen back on the mixcloud player above to this edition of our Dam Daily show. Also rerun on our radio station 17-19h, Friday.

Stories included:

• Extra trains and a rescheduled timetable will be put into place this coming Sunday 4 October due to large crowds expected for what will be the third Rode Lijn Protest, and the first in Amsterdam. The demonstration begins at 13:00, setting off from Museumplein and the protest route of about 6km will eventually take people to Vondelpark with things expected to finish around 6pm.
• The bus permits issue is back again.
• AD has published the first part of a poem from City Poet, Ellen Deckwitz.
• Have you had a note with QR codes through your door, trying to sell you PARTY STUFF? A lot of people have who live in Amsterdam West and the party stuff means hard drugs. Amsterdam police traced the QR codes and the websites and raided a home in Amsterdam West where they found supplies of hard drugs. Three people were arrested.
• The IAMSTERDAM letters are to return this time to Dam Square and with a slight difference.
• FACEBOOK |European watchdog has ruled on the recent Meta algorithm case.

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