March 2012
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LESHJAE - The Romanee art in Brazil.
Born on the initiative of Roma, the group LESHJAE have three years, with the propose to show the dance, music and Roma poetry, without borders, because we know that Gypsies walked (and walking) around the world, introducing in its outstanding features of each culture where people passed.
We play music and dance with gypsy folk influences, and classical compositions of folk gypsy.We also...
February 2012
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Hungarian village helps itself out of poverty →
(Reuters) - Laszlo Jaroka herds swine for a living in eastern Hungary, at the furthest edge of the European Union - employed by his village under a unique scheme to help struggling locals make ends meet.
Rozsaly, near the border with Romania and Ukraine in one of the country’s poorest regions, pays local workers to grow crops and raise livestock to help the village feed itself and ease the...
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Hate Has No Home In Hungary →
On February 23 it was exactly three years to the day that Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son Robert Csorba Jr. lost their lives in Tatárszentgyörgy. Their brutal murder was part of a spree of violent hate crimes against the Roma that swept across Hungary in 2008-2009.
Over 150 memorial services were held, not only in Hungary but all across Europe as Roma and non-Roma remembered the tragic...
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Hammarberg publishes 47 country report on Roma and... →
Blatant racism continues to blight the life of Europe’s Roma people, who remain far behind other communities, according to a new report published today.
The 47 state, 254 page survey confirms that Roma and Travellers are still denied basic human rights. They remain far behind others in education, employment, access to decent housing and health. Their average life span is shorter and infant...
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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..
lookingforadoctor:
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...
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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
golden-zephyr:
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...
golden-zephyr:
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 →
golden-zephyr:
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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