Arno                                                                                                                 Axelle Red                                                                      

The initiative for the free open air concerts comes from Tom Barman, front man of the Flemish band dEUS. Barman says that the concerts are intended to blast away racism and promote tolerance.

It's no coincidence that the concerts are being staged one week before the local elections. All eyes will be focused on the performance of the far right Vlaams Belang that hopes to capture Antwerp City Hall, but also in Brussels and Charleroi the far right Front National is expected to pick up many votes.

Ghent is an example of a city that seems to have successfully stemmed the advance of the far right extremism.

The events were covered yesterday afternoon on TV and radio.
For Belgium, 100.000 people is huge.
So there is some hope.


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)