The planned blockade of the A10 highway as part of a climate protest planned by Extinction Rebellion (XR) for Saturday, December 30, will have an enormous impact on the safety of Amsterdam, and will greatly disrupt the capital, said Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. "And I am really concerned about that," Halsema said during a City Council committee meeting on Thursday afternoon.
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Sex workers, business owners, and residents from De Wallen, the neighborhood in Amsterdam that includes the Red Light District, marched to City Hall on Thursday afternoon in protest against a proposal to shut dozens of windows used by sex workers. Instead, the city wants to open an erotic center outside of the city center with about a hundred placements for sex workers.
Sex workers, business owners and residents from the Wallen neighborhood, as well as the Zuid and Noord districts, will protest on Thursday against the proposed erotic center. Through this protest march, they aim to express their disagreement with the city's plans to relocate the window brothels from the Red Light District to an erotic center situated in a different part of the city. The march is being organized by Mariska Majoor, the founder of the Prostitution Information Center."
Police in Poland have arrested a Canadian neo-Nazi who projected an antisemitic message onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam at the behest of the Dutch authorities. Officers from the Amsterdam criminal investigation department were present on Tuesday morning when their Polish colleagues arrested Robert Wilson, a 41-year-old Canadian citizen and a former resident of