March 2011
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Romea.cz - European Roma and Travellers Forum:... →
According to the European Roma and Travellers Forum, the Czech Republic is heading toward institutional racism. The Fifth Plenary Assembly of the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) began yesterday at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and will run through Saturday… (Read more)
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“The blacker the berry is, the sweeter the juice.”
– Romani proverb
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I cried when I saw them marching →
Roma residents of a Hungarian village describe the far-right vigilante group that has been patrolling their streets… (Read more)
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Mário Bihári, Roma athlete and musician: "Blind... →
Mário Bihári (born 1977) is a Roma athlete and musician originally from Slovakia. At the age of eight he lost the capacity to see, which greatly influenced the rest of his life. As a young child he found himself at a boarding school for the blind in Levoč, far from his family, but despite this disability he dedicated himself to sports. In 1991 and 1992 he was a Europe-wide student champion in...
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An article I wrote about Eugene Hutz years ago
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What do gypsies and punk rock music have in common? The answer is Eugene Hutz. This mustached, Ukrainian musician is starting a world wide cultural revolution called Gypsy Punk.
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Ah, wonderfully written :)
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We Don't Want (Neo)Nazis in Ústí Initiative takes... →
The Workers’ Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti - DSSS) recently announced its intention to march through the small town of Krupka near Ústí nad Labem on 9 April. The announced march route was to have led directly through the part of Krupka most densely inhabited by Roma people… (Read more)
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“If you want to see a fish, don’t stir up the water.”
– Romani proverb
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Roma citizens allegedly offered €7 for reporting... →
Two political parties have offered Roma citizens living in Rimavská Sobota (Banská Bystrica Region) and Kráľovský Chlmec (Košice Region) money if they claim to be of Hungarian nationality in Slovakia’s May census, the chairman of the Roma Union Party (SRÚ), František Tanko, alleged at a news conference in Bratislava on Thursday, March 24. He did not name the parties, but said that the price...
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Czech census chaos: Roma assistants not being... →
The Czech Census of People, Houses and Apartments, which will take place over the next 18 days, is experiencing complications. One problem the Czech Statistical Office took note of already last week is the insufficient cooperation of the census commissioners with Roma assistants meant to facilitate communication with members of the Roma minority. Another problem is long lines at post offices. In...
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Partying with the Gypsies in the Camargue →
Every May, Gypsies flock to the French seaside town of Saintes-Maries, for a festival in honour of a black Madonna – the Gitan Pilgrimage… (Read more)
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Gypsies saved by cash row →
Locals are furious that the ten-year saga to turf out the travellers, some of whom starred in the Channel 4 hit Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, has been put off… (Read more)
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Czech civil rights activist and former dissident... →
The trial of John Bok, chair of the Šalamoun organization, will begin at the District Court for Prague 8 on Monday, 28 March 2011 at 9:00 CET in room no. 302 on the ground floor. Bok has been charged with “the crime of violence against an official” for standing up for a group of Roma people whom he believed were being groundlessly harrassed by members of the Municipal Police. Bok came...
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THE DEATH OF JAN SZAMKO →
A 2-page order, signed off by a Canada Border Service Agency supervisor, cited “faking medical condition” and “uncooperative” as reasons for transferring Jan Szamko from an immigration holding centre to the Toronto West Detention Centre. Szamko was found dead in his detention cell two days later… (Read more)
I’ve reblogged this story before, but it was a more...
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Karel Holomek: The census is about facts, not... →
I am hearing many people taking exception to the participation of Roma assistants with the census commissioner during the 2011 census. Jan Kysela, an expert in constitutional law, claims that the use of Roma assistants is a sin against the objectivity of the census because it will influence who people feel they are. Mr Kysela is grossly in error, because the census is about facts, not feelings. He...
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Hungary: Murders of Roma people were planned →
The perpetrators of attacks on the homes of Roma people in Hungary in recent years, during which at least six people perished, were planned “with military precision.” At the first hearing today in a Budapest court, dozens of prominent persons were present in the courtroom, including politicians, representatives of the Roma community, and relatives of the victims. Three persons are...
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This is about my project Aj Rromale thaj Shavale.
I just want to clear something up, but I have been having difficulties for a long time on trying to find something about it. Roma clans.
I say my Roma are Kalderash, though truly their village is a bit mixed up of Kalderash and Hungarian Kalderash or Lovari. But, I think, these are not “clans” but something else. I just remember...
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My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding got us kicked out of... →
TRAVELLERS say security staff tried to scupper their big gipsy birthday night out.
Jule Lee, 32, claims she and 13 female family members were told they were banned from the MetroCentre in Gateshead – because they were travellers… (Read more)
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Movie Review: ‘Korkoro’. Chaplin’s Grandson... →
They have been romanticized by some and vilified by far more. Once an enslaved people, their traditional lifestyle and culture reflects a unique commitment to freedom. They are the Romani people, or so-called Gypsies, the forgotten victims of the Holocaust… (Read more)
I want to see this film so badly(( I’ll need to wait until it’s released to DVD, I suppose.
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