06-06-2008: Today the mayor of Maastricht told us that they are not going to give us a permit, the needed official permission to let the Landbouwbelang Kraak festival take place next week. They have a few stupid arguments:
- there will be several events in the city that weekend and they believe the city doesnt have enought policemen available in case there would be any emergencies\problems.
- the other reason why they wont have enough policemen available is because they are spending a lot of time on the problems with the so called drugrunners, there is no budget available for our festival.
- the waterfront next to the building wont be safe enough for the festival, they ignored any solutions we offered them for this problem.
- the same weekend will be a festival in Utrecht called the Days of Rage (about the G8 summit in japan), the city council is afraid that radical groups might travel down to maastricht to come to the festival and cause chaos.
- the noise level would cause to much inconvenience for the neighbourhood
OFCOURSE WE DONT AGREE
We are working hard on finding a way to still hold the festival. there is a chance we succeed in this. Were putting pressure on the city council through the local politicians, are looking at legal steps and are even thinking of hosting the festival in a different city. Untill today we were always under the impression that there wouldnt be any problems with the permit, there was only discussion about the use of the waterfront. We had almost everything ready for the festival and are heavily disappointed.
This is all we can tell you so far, as soon as we have more and hopefully better news we will let you know.
if you have any ideas or questions, let us know,
bron: www.kraakfestival.nl

fucking gemeente, oubollige speknekken alleen geinteresseerd in de oude van dagen of kleuters van Maastricht.. wederom een dikke fuck you van mij naar de gemeente iig..