Brussels demo guide
Western Voices World News encourages all our readers in Europe to attend the Stop the Islamization of Europe demo in Brussels on September 11, 2007. We encourage our supporters to follow the rules and guidelines of the SIOE organizers and to stay safe: http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=677 will look for the slightest excuse to arrest anyone. Be aware that there will likely be a number of agents provocateur in the crowd aiming to goad people into committing illegal acts, “extreme” speech and behavior, etc.; Europe has become a police state for those people who oppose the multicult agenda. The rally has experienced a great deal of attempted disruption from government and special interests operating from within and without the campaign. The event going off as planned will prove that censorship efforts have been in vain. While we may have serious differences with the SIOE campaign leadership, the goal of awakening Europe to the Islamist issue is one to be supported across political lines.
Luxembourg Place is not large. The signal to move off from the assembly point will be stewards raising white objects in their hands at the allotted time.
Please use white cardboard for the rally cries for your signs:
STOP ISLAMISATION OF EUROPE!
NO SHARIA HERE! DEMOCRACY NOT THEOCRACY!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Good advice: Bring an umbrella. After the demonstration please don’t carry your signs around in the town. You’ll easily be recognised as a participant in the demonstration.
SURVIVAL GUIDE TO BRUSSELS
USEFUL NUMBERS:
Emergencies & Ambulance 112
Police 101
Red Cross 105
Legal help: 0475 47 24 55 Are you lost during the demo: 0474 89 53 73 or 0485 52 95 05 Remember: The phones are not open before tuesday morning
We will provide you with some more numbers Monday.
FOOD:
Restaurants are generally of a high quality and reasonably priced as long as you avoid obvious tourist traps.
Budget Eating:
The best value is a chain of self-service restaurants called LUNCH GARDEN.
There’s a good one in the INNOVATION Department store in the Rue Neuve, a pedestrian street parallel to Place de Brouckere. Go to the Lunch Garden grill counter and they’ll cook you a steak, pork chop or chicken piece in front of you.
Can be hectic at peak hours.
The local McDonalds imitation is QUICK BURGER. They’re everywhere.
They serve wine and beer too.
The local version of KFC is HECTOR CHICKEN. There’s one on the PLACE DE BROUCKERE (metro: Brouckere.)
Restaurants:
Steak and chips (‘steck-frites’) must be the national dish. Other local dishes include ‘waterzooi’ (soup with chunks of chicken) and ‘carbonade’(Beef stewed in beer.) Round off your meal with a waffle (‘gauffre’) with ice-cream or fresh cream.
The restaurants and cafes along either side of the BOURSE (the old stock exchange building that looks like a Greek temple) are mostly reliable and popular with locals as well as tourists. The FALSTAFF is a traditional place with a good reputation. A big meal around here should cost about £10/15 a head. Check out the daily Specials (‘plat du jour’) or set menu for bargains.
Avoid the restaurant area known as the ‘Ilot Sacre’ in the narrow streets around the Rue des Bouchers. It’s colourful but over-priced.
The back streets around the Grand Place have lots of bars and small restaurants too, including decent pizza places. Avoid kebab joints.
The area known as ST CATHERINE’S has more upmarket restaurants,many specialising in seafood.
DRINK
A white coffee is a ‘café au lait’. A creamy coffee is a ‘café crème’. A latte type milky coffee is known as a ‘lait russe’.
TRANSPORT
Brussels has a reliable transport system with a metro (underground), buses and some remaining trams. Any journey costs 2 Euros including changes in transit.
SAFETY
Brussels is generally pretty safe especially around the Grand Place district.
Watch out for pick pockets in tourist areas and on crowded buses and trains.
The areas around the Midi Station and North Station are best avoided at night.
Same for the area around the Botanical Gardens.
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