A mini-festival called “Roma Roots and Routes” features Roma culture and tradition, with a singing and dancing workshop, a performance by the Nadara band from Trasylvania, and a mini-market with goods and food “in the spirit of Roma traditions” whatever this may mean …
Following the statement from the police regarding travelling Roma in Austria’s Burgenland, which contained a wealth of sterotypes, there was an outcry in the press and among the Roma from the country.
This article is a reportage within this group of mostly french pentacostal Roma and comments by Roma activists. Worth reading!
The usual news this week in France regarding Roma. A fire in a camp near Nantes in Western France; a camp near Paris which “exasperates” neighbours; a criminal Rom cannot be expulsed from France as he is stateless; and finally, the case of a young Romani girl who disappeared near Paris in total indifference.
The Romani youth group PowerPeng! from Berlin meets the Romani media platform TUKE.TV from Brno. Through short films and a performance, they engage in dialogue and discuss how young Roma in Germany and the Czech Republic keep the memory of Sinti and Roma alive through their media work, how they shape resistance against the far right, and how they can maintain their place in the public consciousness.
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma intends to file criminal charges against the municipality of Teistungen in the Eichsfeld district. This was confirmed to this newsroom by the Council’s chairman, Romani Rose. The reason given was “deeply abhorrent and inhumane” statements in the municipality’s app.
Following an uproar surrounding a caravan camp in Ferna (Eichsfeld district), the municipality local app referred to “Gypsies” who were to be “gotten rid of.”
A very large number of articles in the Italian boulevard press about a police operation against “Sinti” gangs suspected in several criminal activities.
How about making as many comments on the ‘Ndrangheta or on the Mafia?
A video on the statements of some VOX politicians in Spain saying that “Gitanos” are not Spaniards. VOX is a populist extreme right party. Here, Roma are reacting.
One needs to note that Roma were in Spain before Spain conquered the entire country 1n 1492.
The “Inclusion and Integration of Roma, Sinti, and Caminanti Children and Adolescents (RSC)” project is an institutional initiative aimed at combating school dropout, educational poverty, and social exclusion, funded by the National Inclusion Programme and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+).
One of the oldest horse fair in the UK, the Wickham Horse Fair is taking place and resulrted in some road closures.
Two Ferraris worth over €200,000 ended up at the center of a complex scam involving changes of ownership and companies linked to the same family, apparently Sinti from the region. This is the case on which the Supreme Court ruled, upholding the seizure of one of the supercars and rejecting the appeal filed by a woman living in the Venice area.
Against the backdrop of the commandant’s residence at Camp Westerbork, Theater Group Komyounit performs an impressive rendition of The Voice of a Guitar. Roma were deported from this camp.
Not much this week in France about Roma. An article about the Roma anthem at the inauguration of the new Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar; two Roma being judged for burglary; and a meeting in Paris to commemorate the genocide of the Roma.
May 16th marks the 82nd anniversary of Romani Resistance Day. In 1944, Roma and Sinti resisted the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
What is not quite correct in the ORF Program is their statement that this uprising “saved thoudans of lives”. We simply do not know, and it did not prevent the destruction of the “Zigeunerlager” on August 2nd, 1944.
On May 16, 1940, police officers arrested approximately 1,000 Sinti and Roma in Hamburg and Northern Germany. At the memorial site at Hanoverian Station in Lohsepark in HafenCity, Roma and Sinti will commemorate the fact that their ancestors were deported to concentration camps by the National Socialists 86 years ago on Saturday. A wreath will be laid around 2 p.m. With this annual day of remembrance, they also want to remember the survivors who still have to live with the consequences of this injustice.
What contribution can art and culture make to remembering the genocide of the Roma and Sinti? This question will be addressed in the discussion in the context of the exhibition of the same name.
This collaborative event between the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Goethe-Institut brings together German and Czech stakeholders from civil society and the cultural sector, inviting them to reflect, discuss, and develop new perspectives for an inclusive and future-oriented culture of remembrance. The discussion takes place in conjunction with the photography exhibition of the same name, which will be on display on Kampa Island in Prague from May 27 to June 10.
Sinti and Roma experience brutal discrimination on the housing market, says Thomas Erbel from the Amaro Drom association. Even from neighbors. An Interview.
Less than a month before the beginning of the largest horse fair in the UK in Appleby on June 4th, the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma representative, Billy Welch, appleas to them not to come too early to the fair.
The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission has intervened following a letter from employees of the Neusiedl am See district police command warning the public about Roma and Sinti. Intended as crime prevention information to combat fraud, the now-deleted text of a Facebook post used “a term perceived as discriminatory regarding the Roma ethnic group,” the ministry stated.
Now the interior Ministry is also investigating.
Many articles this week about a very young mayor (23 years old) in Western France who is trying to get rid of a Roma camp on the coimmune, an conflict that boiled over with pro-Roma militiants and with opposistion politicians.
Other than that, near Paris, a new camp on private grounds, and also near Paris, the police is accused of violence against Roma after on policeman shot a young dog in the head during a perquisition in the camp.
Representatives of the Roma community have sharply criticized a letter from the Neusiedl am See district police command. The letter warns of criminal activities by the traveller community. The state police command condemns the wording of the letter and intends to conduct an internal investigation.
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