December 2011
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onlytowardschaos:
I realize some people may not know this, but using the word gypped (sometimes spelled “gipped”) to refer to being cheated is a racial slur. It recalls centuries of prejudice and abuse against Gypsies, which is what the word comes from. It’s on the level of “Indian giver” (also offensive, in case you didn’t know). Romani and other Gypsy peoples have been abused, disenfranchised,...
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"G***Y MAGIC"
lionza:
so i just saw a phrase “g***y magic” and i googled it to get more sense of what “g***y magic” was referring to because it made me uncomfortable as fuck just looking at it. i found a large amount of wicca sites claiming to know the magic of the romani/dom people. i’m not familiar with wicca at all (asides from the little i remember when i was 10 and wanted to be a witch), so this whole...
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Czech media exaggerated reporting of brawl that... →
A violent clash between rioters and police in Varnsdorf earlier this year. Photo: Lukáš Houdek
News server Aktuálně.cz has revealed more detailed, precise information from the police investigation into a brawl earlier this year that was reported by the media as a racially motivated attack committed by Romani people against ethnic Czechs. Sensationalist reporting of the incident was a factor in...
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“Dul Ide Dul” by Roszetuz Együttes...
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Hungary's answer to unemployment: Manual labour →
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Gyozo Bara and his team start at 7.30 am.
A dozen men wielding chain saws are told to clear a dirt track leading from the village of Rozsaly to the Ukrainian border.
As trees and brambles are pulled back, discarded wood is thrown into large metal trailers dragged by tractors.
This is Hungary’s answer to unemployment.
Under a plan backed by parliament, thousands more jobless...
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Czech Supreme Court upholds sentencing in Vítkov... →
The perpetrators of the Vítkov arson in court.
The sentences handed down to the perpetrators of a 2009 arson attack on the home of a Romani family in Vítkov (Opava district) will definitively take effect. Petr Knötig, spokesperson for the Czech Supreme Court, told the Czech Press Agency today that the court has rejected the appeals filed by all four perpetrators. The men were previously sentenced...
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Czech Police complete investigation of racist... →
Police have completed their investigation into a racist attack perpetrated against a Romani family in Býchory (Kolín district) earlier this year. Four youths suspected of attempting to set fire to the Romani family’s apartment will be prosecuted in the near future.
“The charges of a racially motivated attack remain in the motion to prosecute,” Michal Mazánek, chief detective in...
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"O Šavoro Ando Veš / The Boy in the Woods"... →
T’ avel baxtale savorenge!
Tumenge si man cino dikhimo le mure projektostar “O Šavoro Ando Veš” ka me kerav. O komikso ande anglizicka šib, les si 13 patrina, thaj ande farbome kale thaj parne. Gindij te o komikso avla 30-40 patrina lungo kana gatajime.
Kade varijantos si došale risunki thaj unji bango hramomo/iskiripe ka me maj lašaro.
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Hi everyone!
I have a little peek...
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ROMA NATION DAY PROTESTS AGAINST ANTI-GYPSY RACISM →
FORTY YEARS after the lst World Romani Congress anti-Gypsy racism across Europe is at its worst. Not far from the London location of that historic gathering
riot police armed with stun-guns recently stormed the barricades of the Dale Farm estate.
That violent assault failed to break up the community and a hundred families continue to cling on to the land they own. Dale Farm is being gradulaly...
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Hatred
stfugadje:
helloimlulu:
So, today I opened my YouTube and noticed I had new comments. They were from one person and said:
“Cigan, Ciganka, Cigos, Gypsy. Whatever you call yourself your people and your culture is filth. There is NOTHING to be proud of in your bullshit blood. Go back to pakistan where you orginate from and take your tribe with you, noone in Europe wants you, and noone in...
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Romani children of Kholmok met Christmas eve with... →
50 Romani children met the approaching Catholic Christmas Eve for a festive Christmas dinner in the village of Kholmok, in Uzhhorod.
Yesterday, 23 December, the public organisation “Романі Черхень/Romani Čerxenj” (Romani Star) carried out a charitable act.
In addition to the holiday dinner for 50 children, the volunteers organised and held a small holiday programme. Then the young Roma read poems...
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Baxtalo Krečuno tumenge savorenge!
Happy Christmas everyone! С Рождеством!
Cheers, everyone, have fun and stay safe!
If you don’t celebrate (like me - I had a Hanukkah dinner) then I hope you have an amazing day anyway!
Aliska
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Bulgaria proposes new strategy to integrate Roma →
Picture: FOCUS News Agency
Sofia. Bulgaria’s government said it proposed a new EU-initiated strategy to parliament on Wednesday to improve the plight of its poverty-stricken and highly discriminated Roma minority, AFP reported.
The new scheme, as well as an action plan due to take effect next year and be fully up and running by 2020, aim to integrate all previous efforts to help the...
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USFers See Hungary From a Roma Perspective →
Edward Carpenter
Hungarian Roma teens pose for a photo.Photo by Will Neverman.
When William Neverman ’11 landed in Budapest as part of an immersion trip to study cultural conflict and human rights violations involving the Roma, he never imagined that his photographs would cause gallery-goers to break down in tears.
But that was the situation Neverman found himself in as part of a pilot course...
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Hospital compensates Romani woman for forced... →
Olomouc/Ostrava, North Moravia, Dec 20 (CTK) - Czech Romany woman Iveta Cervenakova has reached agreement with the Municipal Hospital in Ostrava on compensation for unwanted sterilisation she underwent in 1997, spokesman for the hospital Jiri Maler told CTK yesterday.
Courts were dealing with Cervenakova’s case for many years.
Both sides agreed not to disclose the level of compensation, but...
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MfD: Romani patrol in Nový Bor to end over lack of... →
Novy Bor, North Bohemia, Dec 20 (CTK) - The Romany patrol that has been helping the police keep the peace and security in Novy Bor will end its activities by Christmas over lack of money, the regional supplement to daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes yesterday.
It says the town hall got money from the Interior Ministry only by the year’s end and the town does not have means to subsidise the...
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