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Stolpersteine in Salzburg

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A report on the “Stolpersteine” in Salzburg, the small stones on the pavement commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In Salzburg, there are a dozen of stones devoted to Roma, even though they were the largest victim group in that city.
Needless to say, these memorials are still controversial in Austria.

– Austrians tread carefully as underfoot Holocaust memorials remain controversial. In: The Times of Israel. 11.08.2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/ [link-preview url=”http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/”]

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French Chronicle …

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Dire statistics on Roma in France: 4’382 Roma were expulsed in France in the first six months of the year from 50 camps or squats, 2’689 by the police, 867 after a fire, and 796 “voluntarily”… they haven’t been re-lodged, which is against the French law. This cat and mouse play has been lasting for serval years. In Marseilles, an article shows the impact of such constant expulsions on the families, while in Paris, the Roma in Montreuil are still on the street, a year after their expulsion. The fate of a family from Montenegro which will be expulsed gives a face to these policies.

– Des milliers de Roms toujours expulsés chaque année sans relogement. In: Boursorama. 10.08.2017. http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a
– Marseille : la descente aux enfers, à force d’expulsions. In: La Marseillaise. 07.08.2017. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/societe/62667-la-descente-aux-enfers-a-force-d-expulsions
– Montreuil : une année d’errance pour les familles Roms de la Boissière. In: Le Parisien. 10.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/montreuil-93100/montreuil-une-annee-d-errance-pour-les-familles-roms-de-la-boissiere-10-08-2017-7186014.php
– Des familles monténégrines, bientôt expulsées, vont se retrouver à la rue. In: La Voix du Nord. 11.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/203322/article/2017-08-11/des-familles-montenegrines-bientot-expulsees-vont-se-retrouver-la-rue [link-preview url=”http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a “]

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Xavier Raufer and Roma

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An extremely disturbing article by the French essayist Xavier Raufer (a pen name since 1979 with his true name being Christian de Bongain). In this article he stresses the increase of break ins in France (a fact) and attributes it almost exclusively to Roma (a fantasy). Facts to that effect he doesn’t have. This is pure speculation and actually incitation to hate.
Not surprising for a man who spent his formative years in an extreme rightist movement called “Occident” …

– Hausse continue des cambriolages en France… mais qui en sont les auteurs ? In: Politico. 12.08.2017. http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html [link-preview url=”http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html”]

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Equality?

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Welsh travellers in Cardiff are billed up to three time the average water costs of a family in Wales… Really?

– People on a Cardiff traveller site are angry they pay three times more for water than an average home. In: Wales Online. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715 [link-preview url=”http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715″]

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Travellers and Roma

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An article about the “fear of the Gypsies” in Germany, following the arrival of Irish Travellers in Düsseldorf.

– Die Angst vor dem “Zigeuner” In: RP Online. 12.08.2017. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763″]

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Twitter, Hate Speech and Art

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Shahak Shapira did an action in front of the Twitter Headquarters in Germany: he printed many racist comments found in Twitter about which he regularly complained on the pavement. Watch …

– This artist graffitied the worst tweets he could find, right outside Twitter’s office. In: Upworthy.com. 11.08.2017. http://www.upworthy.com/this-artist-graffitied-the-worst-tweets-he-could-find-right-outside-twitters-office
– Israeli artist trolls Twitter with hate graffiti outside headquarters in Hamburg. In: i24. 08.08.2017. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg [link-preview url=”https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg”]

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UK Press

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And here we go. Father sells his daughter into slavery in the UK. And this in the Times.
BAD.

– Roma girl, 12, was sold by father to work for British family. In: The Times. 11.08.2017. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw”]

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Irish Travellers

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A German article on Irish Travellers. Why? Simply because they travel way beyond the borders of Ireland and are often to be seen iN Germany and Switzerland over the summer.

– Wer sind die Irish Travellers? In: RP Online. 11.08.2017. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irische-landfahrer-in-duesseldorf-wer-sind-die-mysterioesen-travellers-aid-1.6998811 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irische-landfahrer-in-duesseldorf-wer-sind-die-mysterioesen-travellers-aid-1.6998811″]

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UK and Travellers

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A testimony of travelling Roma in the UK and the issues they face, especially in Leeds.

– ‘I’m a Roma Gypsy – and a proud and responsible Loiner – and I’m fed up of all the negativity about my community’ In: The Yorkshire Evening Post. 09.08.2017. http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/i-m-a-roma-gypsy-and-a-proud-and-responsible-loiner-and-i-m-fed-up-of-all-the-negativity-about-my-community-1-8694300 [link-preview url=”http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/i-m-a-roma-gypsy-and-a-proud-and-responsible-loiner-and-i-m-fed-up-of-all-the-negativity-about-my-community-1-8694300″]

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Austria: Traditional Pilgrimage

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The traditional Roma pilgrimage of Mariazell in Austria will be taking place next Sunday, August 13th.

– Traditionelle Roma-Wallfahrt mit Weihbischof Scharl nach Mariazell. In: Mariazell.at. 07.08.2017. http://www.mariazell.at/2017/08/07/traditionelle-roma-wallfahrt-mit-weihbischof-scharl-nach-mariazell-475/ [link-preview url=”http://www.mariazell.at/2017/08/07/traditionelle-roma-wallfahrt-mit-weihbischof-scharl-nach-mariazell-475/”]

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UK: Social Workers and Roma

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Tips for social workers working with Roma… And lots of stereotypes in them.

– Tips for social workers supporting east-European Roma families. In: Community Care. 04.08.2017. http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/08/04/tips-social-workers-supporting-east-european-roma-families/ [link-preview url=”http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/08/04/tips-social-workers-supporting-east-european-roma-families/”]

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France – The Rat Story

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The story and video of the Roma trying to rob a person by dangling a dead rat in their face surfaced in France and Belgium after having been shown in the UK press. There is a definitive summer hole in the news in France for them to use old stories …

– Ils exhibent un rat mort pour l’effrayer et lui voler sa carte bancaire (vidéo). In: RTL. 05.07.2017. http://www.rtl.be/people/potins/ils-exhibent-un-rat-mort-pour-l-effrayer-et-lui-voler-sa-carte-bancaire-video–941966.aspx
– Paris : Des adolescents agressent une femme au distributeur avec un rat mort. In: Minute News. 04.08.2017. https://www.minutenews.fr/actualite/faits-divers/paris-distributeur-rat-mort-217719.html [link-preview url=”https://www.minutenews.fr/actualite/faits-divers/paris-distributeur-rat-mort-217719.html”]

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Domari Refugees

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An article and video of Syruian Domari refugees in France. Domari are part of the same migration from India as the Roma, but never crossed into Europe and remained in the Middle East. They have been victims of the ethnic cleansing by IS and displaced by the war.

– Vidéo : les Doms de Syrie, ces migrants considérés comme les “Roms du Moyen-Orient”. In: Info Migrants. 03.08.2017. http://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/4440/video-les-doms-de-syrie-ces-migrants-consideres-comme-les-roms-du-moyen-orient [link-preview url=”http://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/4440/video-les-doms-de-syrie-ces-migrants-consideres-comme-les-roms-du-moyen-orient”]

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One Family

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An interesting project – photos from one single Roma family taken over a period of 20 years – is presented in Arles, in Southern France.
Clearly, as usual, there are clichés in the pictures, but the scope is quite unique.

– LES GORGAN – PORTRAITS D’UNE FAMILLE ROM PAR MATHIEU PERNOT. In: Focus Numérique. 28.07.2017. https://www.focus-numerique.com/portfolio/dossiers/les-gorgans-portraits-d-une-famille-rom-par-mathieu-pernot-20607.html [link-preview url=”https://www.focus-numerique.com/portfolio/dossiers/les-gorgans-portraits-d-une-famille-rom-par-mathieu-pernot-20607.html”]

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French Chronicle …

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Summer pause on the news in France on Roma. A fire in a camp near Paris blocked one highway; in Triel sur Seine, a camp can stay – at least temporary; in Ivry, near Paris, 60 Roma were evicted from a squat; 13 families who were evicted a year ago in Montreuil are still on the street; in the North, an association is trying to find a suitable spot for a camp; and in the southwest, in Toulouse, residents complain of migrants squatting in their courtyard.

– Gennevilliers : La nationale 135 coupée à la circulation à cause d’un incendie dans le bidonville roms. In: Paris Vox. 31.07.2017. https://www.parisvox.info/2017/07/31/gennevilliers-nationale-135-coupee-a-circulation-a-cause-dun-incendie-bidonville-roms/
– Triel-sur-Seine : le démantèlement du camp de Roms reporté. In: Le Parisien. 25.07.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/triel-sur-seine-78510/triel-sur-seine-le-demantelement-du-camp-de-roms-reporte-25-07-2017-7156092.php
– Le démantèlement des camps de Roms repoussé. In: 79 Actu. 25.07.2017. http://www.78actu.fr/le-demantelement-des-camps-de-roms-repousse_51564/
– Ivry-sur-Seine : 60 Roms évacués d’un squat. In: Le Parisien. 28.07.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/ivry-sur-seine-94200/ivry-sur-seine-60-roms-evacues-d-un-squat-28-07-2017-7163436.php
– Les treize familles roms de Montreuil vivent depuis un an à la rue. In: Médiapart. 28.07.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/280717/les-treize-familles-roms-de-montreuil-vivent-depuis-un-la-rue
– Le Collectif solidarité roms suggère de créer un camp sur la friche IFTH. In: La Voix du Nord. 29.07.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/197994/article/2017-07-29/le-collectif-solidarite-roms-suggere-de-creer-un-camp-sur-la-friche-ifth
– Depuis presque un an, des migrants dorment dans la cour de leur immeuble. In: La Depeche. 01.08.2017. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/07/31/2620765-toulouse-depuis-presque-an-migrants-dorment-cour-immeuble.html [link-preview url=”https://www.parisvox.info/2017/07/31/gennevilliers-nationale-135-coupee-a-circulation-a-cause-dun-incendie-bidonville-roms/ “]

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More on Anina Ciuciu

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A lengthy article on Anina Ciuciu, candidate to the senatorial elections in France.

– ANINA CIUCIU SERA PEUT-ÊTRE LA PREMIÈRE SÉNATRICE ROM EN FRANCE.In: Cheek Magazine. 01.08.2017. http://cheekmagazine.fr/societe/anina-ciuciu-senatoriales-rom/
– Romstorie : Anina au Sénat. In: Médiapart. 28.07.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/280717/romstorie-anina-au-senat [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/280717/romstorie-anina-au-senat”]

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Bad Publicity …

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A bad article on petty criminals – this time Roma kids in Paris trying to get the pin of someone withdrawing money from an automated teller.
In the mind of the journalist – all Roma are like this.
BAD.

What dirty rats! Gang of child thieves use dead RODENT to distract and rob terrified woman at Paris cashpoint. In: The Daily Mail. 28.07.2017. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739720/Child-thieves-use-dead-rat-try-rob-woman.html [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739720/Child-thieves-use-dead-rat-try-rob-woman.html”]

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Bohemians

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A bit of fun and etymology of the term “Bohemian” that originated in France being given to the first Roma who arrived there in the early 1400, with passports granted to them by King Sigismund of Bohemia …

– How a 15th century French migration gave us the term ‘Bohemian’. In: 6sqft. 27.07.2017. https://www.6sqft.com/how-a-15th-century-french-migration-gave-us-the-term-bohemian/ [link-preview url=”https://www.6sqft.com/how-a-15th-century-french-migration-gave-us-the-term-bohemian/”]

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France: Montreuil en Belay

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An article and a book on the Holocaust of French Roma and a some pictures and documents on the French concentration camp of Montreuil en Beley, where Roma were interned during World War Two (by the French – not the Germans …)

– Screen/Print #60: Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty on the contradictory nature of reparation politics. In: Archinect. 28.07.2017. http://archinect.com/features/article/150019196/screen-print-60-suzannah-victoria-beatrice-henty-on-the-contradictory-nature-of-reparation-politics [link-preview url=”http://archinect.com/features/article/150019196/screen-print-60-suzannah-victoria-beatrice-henty-on-the-contradictory-nature-of-reparation-politics”]

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A Romni Senator?

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Anina Ciuciu, a young Romni and laywer is a candidate to the elections in the French Senate and could become France first Senator of Romani origins.
ALL THE LUCK!

– Possible first for French Senator who is Rom. In: West. 27.07.2017. http://www.west-info.eu/possible-first-for-french-senator-who-is-rom/ [link-preview url=”http://www.west-info.eu/possible-first-for-french-senator-who-is-rom/”]

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