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11/1 Jurists want to stay in Oudemanhuispoort

8/2 Mayor’s portrait

8/2 Websites for social cohesion

7/2 Spreading tourism proceeds with difficulty

7/2 GroenLinks on districts: Be a man

6/2 Zuideramstel opens new office on Sabbath

5/2 The truth about integration

4/2 Wilders has little support on Amsterdam

3/2 Elite involved in neighbourhood

2/2 Johnnie Walker avoids taxes in Amsterdam

1/2 Rotterdam to tinker with district councils as well

31/1 Wooden rowing boats to disappear from Amstel

31/1 ZeeburgTV launched

27/1 Privacy activists to mess up loyalty card system

27/1 A few were still coughing, but that was an act

27/1 Chrisis in de Baarsjes

26/1 Youth have positive view of districts

24/1 Action groups call for Carmel and Jaffa boycott

24/1 PvdA members dismiss plan for districts

23/1 KLM takes on crisis with new uniform

23/1 District office not squatted

21/1 Merge districts

20/1 Closing squat bar Vrankrijk not necessary

20/1 Cleaners welcome new Schiphol director

18/1 Palestine at the Jewish Historical Museum

18/1 What is the right size for a district?

17/1 PvdA Oost against fewer districts

16/1 Committee: 7 districts by 2010

15/1 Soldiers may attend Afghanistan debate after all

15/1 Bait bike leads to arrest

14/1 Youth for Christ to republish vacancies

13/1 Paintings of the Zuidas

13/1 New Youth for Christ contoversy

11/1 Social cohesion initiative raises eyebrows

10/1 Fewer districts in 2010

10/1 Zuidas: People feel that we are losers

9/1 Fun on the ice - but not for all

9/1 Supermarket coupon fraud thwarted

9/1 I Amsterdam must remain exclusive

8/1 Use term Apartheid in every discussion

8/1 No city kiosk in Amsterdam yet

7/1 Snow

7/1 Fatima Elatik to run Zeeburg

7/1 Municipal managers to return to shop floor

4/1 Police: take photo of strange people

3/1 Gaza protest criticises politicians

1/1 Thousands to protest against attacks on Gaza

1/1 Mustapha Laboui leaves district council

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‘As long as it’s a Democrat’

9 January 2007 - Americans living in Amsterdam can help elect the Democratic candidate for the presidency by participating in the Super Tuesday Global Primary, to be held on 5 February at de Balie. “Some of us are a bit concerned about Obama, because he’s so young”.

On Super Tuesday, primaries will be held in over twenty states. The 3,700 Americans living in Amsterdam can either vote in the state in which they lived before leaving the US, or they can participate in the Global Primary organised by Democrats Abroad in Amsterdam and in 33 other countries.

According to Bryna Hellmann, press officer of Democrats Abroad Netherlands, the election is very important to Americans in the Netherlands. “Oh, absolutely. The winner of the November election has to be a Democrat, so everybody is busy mobilising other Americans to participate”.

Iraq and the economy are among the issues that concern Americans living here, she says. “Above all, I think that Democrats find it important that the person to become the new president is competent and honest enough to take an entirely new course. That’s why some of us are a bit concerned about Obama, because he’s so young. He’s clearly a very fine young man, but he’s very young and inexperienced, so it’s unclear whether he’ll be able to hold his ground in Washington”.

Democrats Abroad does not have an opinion as to which candidate should win. Asked about the members’ favourite candidate, Hellmann says: “I think that any Democrat in the world will say: it doesn’t matter who it is, as long as it’s a Democrat”.

Members of Democrats Abroad can cast their vote at de Balie on 5 February between 5 and 9 pm. Guest speakers will be Ruth Oldenziel (University of Amsterdam), Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam), Willem Post (Clingendael Institute) and Russell Shorto (John Adams Institute). Entertainment will be provided by Boom Chicago’s Greg Shapiro.

Image: Barack Obama and his family (photo Wikipedia / Ben Stanfield). Democrats Abroad

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