A portrait on one of the major writer about the Polska Roma and the one who promoted the career of Papuša, the Romni poet. His books are still the bible on Roma in Poland.
Pictures of the commemoration on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety.
The president of the Czech senate attended the commemorations in Lety and stated that this is a message for tolerance towards minorities.
The treatment of Ukrainian Roma Refugees in the Czech Republic says a lot about the prevalent racism against Roma in the country.
An article on Roma employment or rather lack thereof in Slovenia. And all usual stereotypes are there, low education, they do not see the point to work and so on.
Only one thing is not mentioned: No Slovene will employ Roma …
The Roma community congratulated the recently nominated prime minister Abazović and asked him to help Roma and also to employ Roma in his prime minster office.
Well, if you are not white, you are not so welcome in Poland …
The president of the Czech Senate will attend the ceremonies commemorating the victims of Nazism on May 8th on the site of the former concentration camp for Roma in Lety.
Good, since the Czech are actually not really keen to acknowledge this part of history.
A few articles in the Balkan press on the celebrations of Erdelezi or Đurđevdan – simply Saint Georges day in the orthodox calendar – which fell on May 6th, and is celebrated by all Roma in the Balkans.
A statement from the Ukraine
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=1299720310556816
A help action organised for Romnja in the Ukraine.
https://www.facebook.com/radiochiriklo/posts/2564222220377173
A case of unlawful arrest and custody in Slovakia.
Two more articles on the fact that Roma refugees from the Ukraine were offered housing in detention centres, and some refused.
Bad.
Well, what could you expect from him in any case …
The fifth Roma Heroes Theatre Festival is taking place in Budapest.
Ukrainian Roma are looking for housing in vain. The last resort is the detention facility. And as some have a Hungarian passport, they are not welcome.
The story of a Roma family from the Ukraine, who, in spite of facing discrimination in the Czech Republic managed to get jobs and are now trying to find a more permanent place to stay.
The Murska Sobota Development Center has organized a first “international” Roma conference at the RIS Dvorec Rakičan, aimed at exchanging views on education and political and social inclusion of the Roma community. The director of the Office for Nationalities, Stane Baluh, estimated that in Slovenia the legal and formal issues regarding participation are well regulated, but they are lame in practice.
Effectively, Roma are segregated…
Poland is represented this year by the exhibition “Charming the world” by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. How was it created? And will it be possible to see it in Poland?
Roma culture is strongly associated with dance and music, but seldom with visual arts. This changes slowly, among others thanks to Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, who now represents Poland at the Venice Biennale – the most important event of this type in the world.
The artist is a Romni and has devoted all her work to date to the fight to change the historical narrative of the Roma community. Both the romantic one, showing the Roma people as free, dealing mainly with music and wandering around the world, and the ominous one – ascribing to them a tendency to cheat and trick others. She does it in an artistically original, intriguing and, above all, convincing way. – I don’t want to fight the whole world, naively thinking that it will suddenly change everything.
In Pleven, Bulgaria, Roma children will be included in sports clubs in football, tennis and basketball. The idea is to “socialise” children and students from ethnic minorities through sports, explained Ivaylo Lazarov, director of the Student Sports School (USS) in Pleven, which won funding for its project “To play sports together, albeit different”.
What this also implicitly says: Up till now, Roma children were not included … That says a lot.
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