February 2012
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Brasjlia
Backlands of Alagoas( norwest of the country) located 246km from the capital Maceió. The community led by Mr Fransisco Ferraz, living primarily of small businesses in markets around the region of Santana do Ipanema.
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The Minister of Culture Award 2011 for a... →
Bratislava 27 February (RPA) – Seven awarded professionals received the Minister of Culture Award 2011 at the end of this week. One of them was PhDr. Kristína Magdolenová, the executive director of the Roma Media Centre. She received this award from the Minister of Culture for her work in applying ethical principles in the media, for her film and TV works for and about Roma, and the increase of...
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Czech Republic: Yet another arson attack on a... →
The attack took place on Nádražní street in Aš. (Collage: Romea.cz, Czech Press Agency, Google)
Two masked, unidentified men threw Molotov cocktails at a residential hotel in the Czech town of Aš, home to two Romani families as well as non-Romani residents. One bottle struck a window and another struck the main door. Residents put the fire out themselves. Police are investigating the case as one...
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The History Of Australian Romanies →
PHOTO CREDIT: UNKOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, BRISBANE LIBRARY PHOTO
My name is Yvonne Slee and I ‘m a member of the Romani community in Coffs Harbour. I came to Australia from Europe and migrated here in 2005. I’ve been spending time as a writer, activist and educator since coming to Australia.
This picture of a Romani woman and her family was taken in 1907, just after their arrival in Brisbane...
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Gypsy...Punks..
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Just a quick bitch. It bothers me tremendously that Gogol Bordello has popularized the word “Gypsy.” They have non Rromani kids screaming “GYPSY PUNK!” at every turn and seem to be doing little to educate anyone on the history of that word?
If Eugene Hutz, who identifies as Rroma, wants to use that word..thats his...
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Gypsy...Punks..
golden-zephyr:
lisipuska:
golden-zephyr:
helloimlulu:
Just a quick bitch. It bothers me tremendously that Gogol Bordello has popularized the word “Gypsy.” They have non Rromani kids screaming “GYPSY PUNK!” at every turn and seem to be doing little to educate anyone on the history of that word?
If Eugene Hutz, who identifies as Rroma, wants to use that word..thats his choice. I say Gypsy...
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Jarmila Balážová says ParlamentníListy.cz case not... →
The case of the invented anti-Romani article published by the tabloid news server ParlamentníListy.cz is continuing to shake up the media in the Czech Republic. Rádio Česko’s “Week in the Media” program focused on Romea.cz’s revelations that several media outlets had made the mistake of republishing the false news. Jarmila Balážová, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Romano...
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The Hungarian Gov Is Launching A Rehabilitation... →
“The Hungarian Government is launching a comprehensive 4.7 billion-forint settlement rehabilitation programme using EU funds, for which local governments may submit their applications by 31 March 2012. The sub-measure coded 5.3.6.-11-1 within the Social Renewal Operational Programme (SROP, in Hungarian: TÁMOP) provides opportunities for social inclusion for those living in disadvantaged...
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Wayfaring Stranger - Gypsies in America
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There have been Gypsies in America since 1640 when entire families of English Gypsies called Romanichals were, for the crime of being Gypsy, enslaved or “indentured for life” alongside Africans on the Virginia plantations. German Gypsies arrived under similar duress. German Gypsies, who had “inhabited the Palatinate or Rhine County, for many centuries, wandering the entire...
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Memories of a Bosnian Roma →
20 years ago a group of Serb paramilitaries destroyed a Roma village in Eastern Bosnia, killing all the residents. A child survived and, today, he is asking for his people justice before the Belgrade’s War Crimes Prosecutor
Read the interview ►
(Source: Rossini, Andrea. “Memories of a Bosnian Roma Ita Eng.” Osservatorio Balcani E Caucaso. 10 Feb. 2012. Web....
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French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
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In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups with special camps can only bring to mind the...
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Romani children from Czech "practical schools"...
News server ČT24 reports that a study by the British organization Equality has shown that Romani children who attended “practical schools” (previously the “special schools”) in the Czech Republic have had no problems attending mainstream elementary schools in England. The organization studied 60 Romani pupils at eight schools throughout England.
The results of the study...
I just want to say thank you to the new followers of this blog! We’re very glad you’ve found us and decided to follow!
And I also want to apologise that things have been quiet here. We’ve both been pretty busy as of lately, but I will see later if I cannot make a post update of news missed, just linking to articles at the least.
Also, happy Valentine’s day :)
Cheers,...
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Official Terror for Hungary's Rroma →
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World Artists Initiative, Khetanes →
golden-zephyr:
Khetanes means “together” in Romani.
We, artists from the entire world, painters, poets, playwrights, actors, filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, dancers, musicians, sculptors and singers, unite against Romaphobia and any other expression of hatred against human beings. We don’t believe in the simplifications that lie at the bottom of stereotypes and the practice of...
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PhotoMythology - Romani Gypsies →
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This series of photographs and images are a visual story of the Romani I have known and their struggle to maintain Tradition in the face of Modernity and ongoing racism and persecution. HIghlighting children from California to the Camp lands of Italy and France, these images represent over twenty five years of our relationship. My intention has been to see beyond the...
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"Aj Řomale thaj Šavale!" first attempt pages, and...
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A lot of pages, so actually putting it under a cut!
I had been working on this for a while, but I have gotten stuck so often, that I decided that I shall simply start from the part that I know, and not the very, very beginning. Maybe have flashbacks to earlier parts. I doubt I will end up doing anything with these pages, and I’m not entirely happy with them now since I have figured...
January 2012
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Links on Roma and the Holocaust
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(note that some use the term “gypsy”)
ALSO—unrelated to the Roma victims of the Holocaust, but some of my favourite historical figures pertaining to this terrible period in history
An online exhibition about Chiune Sugihara
Frank Foley, forever my hero
Personal note to followers:
I am incredibly lucky that my family didn’t have to face the...
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Roma victims of the Holocaust
sallyjessyrofl:
A group of Romani prisoners, awaiting instructions from their German captors, sit in an open area near the fence in the Belzec concentration camp.
Romani (commonly but incorrectly called Gypsies) were considered by the Nazis to be social outcasts. Under the Weimar Republic—the German government from 1918 to 1933—anti-Romani laws became widespread. These laws required...
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EU becoming less tolerant, NGO says →
Tunisian migrants in Italy - not the welcome the Arab Spring refugees had expected (Photo: Valentina Pop)
BRUSSELS - Racist mobs in Greece and Hungary, mistreatment of Roma, Arab migrants and Muslim terrorist suspects and a feeble reaction by EU institutions point to a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union, according to US-based NGO Human Rights Watch.
The most shocking racist attack...
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Is there discrimination on Bulgarian labor market? →
Are all Bulgarians, looking for a job, equal? A research of the Open Society Institute answers that question, being a partner at the Equality as a Path to Progress Project. The other participants in the initiative are the ministry of labor and social policy and the commission for protection against discrimination.
The poll was conducted among 1,200 individuals across the entire country. Another...
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Czech exhibit on International Holocaust... →
The following is a press release from the organizers of an exhibition entitled “Do You Think It’s Behind Us?”. The exhibition at the Oblástní Galerie Vysočiny in Jihlava will run until 4 February.
For the most part, Czech society links the issue of fascism and Nazism with the period of the Second World War. This is a time period which most of us no longer remember and which has...
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Czech Romanies establish new party →
Prague - The new Equal Opportunities Party (SRP) wants to defend the interests of not only Romanies, but of all Czech socially weak citizens, Stefan Tiser, who was elected its leader at its constituent meeting today, has told CTK.
Tiser is a member of the Romany Holocaust Compensation Committee.
The posts of deputy chairpersons will be held by Cenek Ruzicka, chairman of the Romany Holocaust...
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Studying the Romani Experience in the Modern... →
Ethel Brooks couldn’t help but take it personally when she learned of a Romani, or Gypsy, community in London that was uprooted by government authorities to make room for the 2012 Olympics.
Brooks, a professor of sociology and women’s and gender studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, is of British Romani descent and has her own painful memories of community dissolution.
While growing up in...
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Czech Republic: 200 people attend anti-Romani... →
After a three-month hiatus, about 200 people met on the main square in the Czech town of Varnsdorf Sunday afternoon for yet another anti-Romani demonstration. Petr Heinrich, a resident of Varnsdorf, convened the event under the slogans “Law and order” and “The right to timely and truthful information”. Organizers also invited ultra-right extremists from the Workers’...