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Glasgow – a school full of Rroma

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Glasgow – a school full of Rroma

The fate of a school in Glasgow where almost none of the 222 enrolled children speaks English and where the majority of them (181) are Rroma children from Slovakia and Romania makes the headlines in the UK.

While the Times is relatively neutral, the Daily Mail and others are really rabid. Rroma are being used to influence the vote in June, no doubt.

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A Movie on Rroma …

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A Movie on Rroma …

A polemic started in France because of a planned moive by a French humourist – Christian Clavier – called “Sivouplééé” – a play on the French “please” as pronounced by Romanian Rroma beggars. This movie shows a leftist intellectual who has to open his home to a family of Rroma. And of course, all stereotypes are present.

Toni Gatlif, the French Rroma movie maker simply finds this disgusting, and we share his point of view.

SHAME !!!

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World Bank Condemns Romania

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The World Bank issued a statement condemning Romania acts of racism against Rroma while the US State department slams the country for corruption and discrimination of Rroma.

Well done.

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Romania: Anti-Rroma Graffiti.

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Racist graffiti in Romania on a tent erected for the 8th of April celebration of the Rroma day has been criticized both from within the country as from outside.

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Sports and Slurs

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Sports and Slurs

Last time it was a football player, this time a tennis one. The sult is the same “Gypsy Sh*t” … When will sports start condemning these kinds of statements more seriously?

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French Journalists Trying to Understand Rroma

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French Journalists Trying to Understand Rroma

A few French journalists from the Bourgogne region went to Romania to try to understand a bit more about Rroma… If only they would open up on the fact that Romanian Rroma are not necessarily representative of the entire community …

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Camps near Rome

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Camps near Rome

An article about the shanty towns and camps near and around Rome where where one estimates that 8’000 people live, a large majority of them Rroma from former Yugoslavia and from Romania but also Italians and South Americans.

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Not Acceptable !

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Not Acceptable !

An article in the Canadian Press is mixing some historical facts (Indian origin, since at least 900 years in the Balkan, etc.) with some gross mistakes – Rom comes from Romania. But then, there are totally racist statements. Judge by yourself:

  • No patriotism (gypsies have never been tied to any lands unless by force)
  • There is no spirit of solidarity (gypsies express such feelings of solidarity only in cases that serve their interests of the moment)
  • There is no punctuality and a sense of order (gypsies are Bohemian, indifferent to history, they are perennial pilgrims)
  • There is no respect for the law (in gypsy society the law is made by the “stabor” and the “bulibasha,” similar to Muslim tribes and their Sharia Law)
  • Gypsies build a state within a state, supported by the force of the occult.

Please protest!

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French Chronicle …

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This week, French news are not dominated by the closure of camps or petty criminality … Main news are the fight against discrimination and racism. This is much better!

News on an exhibition in Roubaix, in the North on racism; “living books” aka story tellers in Lille; 200 people manifesting against the expulsions in Lille; and a portrait of an activist in Marseilles.

Expulsions are also in the press: Near Paris where 600 people were expulsed; and in the North where a camp awaits the verdict of the courts on its eviction.

Then, there is crime … With the collaboration of the French and Romanian police (bad, as the latter are really racist); and with arrests for theft among Rroma.

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Romania: Evictions have to Stop!

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Romania: Evictions have to Stop!

The European Human Rights Court is asking Romania to stop the eviction of Rroma in the Southern city of Eforie. These Rroma currently live in containers on the edge of the town and have been threatened with eviction due to unpaid utility bills. There have been other expulsions recently in Romania.

Bad …

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I am a Rromni

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I am a Rromni

Interesting … News in Romanian about a series of cultural events on European Roma art. The whole thing taking place in Vienna, Austria. There will be film screenings, exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances which will show the public a picture of what it means to be Roma and specifically a Rromni. It also mentions – a first – invisible Rroma, i.e. integrated Rroma. There is progress J

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Outrageous !

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Outrageous !

An outrageous article in the British Sun tabloid (and also in the Express). Shows the low level of journalism, all the prejudices and stereotypes. It is also clearly serving a political purpose, namely EU exit… So by depicting Rroma as thieves and raiding social security one drives people towards Brexit …

SHAME and BAD!

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Garbage …

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Garbage …

A story of Rroma “selling” their daughter to another family in Spain. In fact, a tradition of arranged marriages found among Vlax (originally Romanian Rroma) dating back to slavery. You had to pay the owner of the girl to have her go with the husbands family.

BAD … Usual stereotypes without any thoughts.

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Romania and Holocaust

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The Elie Wiesel Institute condemned the nomination of a Romanian journalist, Oana Stanciulescu, to the board of national television. She condemned the law that makes it a criminal offence to deny the Holocaust. Jews and Rroma were victims of the Holocaust in Romania…

No Comment.

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Of Romanians and Rroma

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Of Romanians and Rroma

An article by a UK tabloid on Romanian and Rroma … Oh well, what could one expect. Sterotypes. The first sentence says all about the prejudices …

“So, the good news, I tell the first Romanian I interview, is that a British newspaper wants to print a story about Romania that isn’t about immigrants stealing their jobs or Gypsy beggars getting their teeth fixed free on the NHS.”

SHAME …

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