A festival in Rezé in Western France on the 21/22 of April is meant as a be a cultural exchange, featuring music, food, and meetings.
– Le festival RomàRezé… à Rezé. http://www.lesonunique.com/content/le-festival-rom-rez-rez [link-preview url=”http://www.lesonunique.com/content/le-festival-rom-rez-rez”]
As usual … A short presentation of Roma by l’Express mixes a few correct facts (Indian origins) with total BS, assimilating the Roma as a whole to the Vlach Roma from Romania, stating that they starting arriving in Europe in the 1980’s (in fact they arrived about 80 years earlier) etc…
This is supposed to be informative …
– Roms: quatre lettres pour comprendre. In: L’Express. 08.04.2018. https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/roms-quatre-lettres-pour-comprendre_1998299.html [link-preview url=”https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/roms-quatre-lettres-pour-comprendre_1998299.html”]
A movie screening on Roma in Paris. Difficult to know what the movie actually says and shows, but the French have very definitive views on Roma …
Will be screened on the 17th of April.
– Les Roms des citoyens comme les autres. In: Le Courrier de l’Atlas. http://www.lecourrierdelatlas.com/agenda/les-roms-des-citoyens-comme-les-autres-11173 [link-preview url=”http://www.lecourrierdelatlas.com/agenda/les-roms-des-citoyens-comme-les-autres-11173″]
Few news this week on Roma in France. The main one is the one of a video which is a fake and purportedly shows a Rom aggressing a bus driver in the North of France before being beaten up. The video was shared over 240’000 times! Near Paris, a drunken mayor was arrested after having threatened Roma. He was drink, wore a Japanese sword and had a gun with him.
The rest of the news are more like the usual ones: A camp on Triel sur Seine will be dismantled, the illegal dump attributed in part to Roma in the Yvelines is still a hot topic, and also near Paris, a fight between Roma has one of them landing in a hospital.
– «Gitan vs chauffeur de bus de Denain», la vidéo est bidon. In: La Voix du Nord. 12.04.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/357148/article/2018-04-12/gitan-vs-chauffeur-de-bus-de-denain-la-video-est-bidon
– Essonne : alcoolisé et muni d’un sabre japonais, un maire menace des gens du voyage. In: RT France. 09.04.2018. https://francais.rt.com/france/49551-essonne-alcoolise-arme-sabre-japonais-maire-menace-gens-voyage
– Triel-sur-Seine : les Roms installés en bordure de la D 1 bientôt expulses. In: Le Parisien. 11.04.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/triel-sur-seine-les-roms-installes-en-bordure-de-la-d-1-bientot-expulses-11-04-2018-7658886.php
– Triel-sur-Seine : le camp de Roms va être démantelé. In: Evasions. 12.04.2018. https://www.evasionfm.com/actualite-34032-triel-sur-seine-le-camp-de-roms-va-etre-demantele.html
– Gravats, radiateurs, plaques d’amiante : une “mer de déchets” dans les Yvelines provoque la colère des riverains. In: France TV Info. 13.04.2018. https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/environnement/gravats-radiateurs-plaques-damiante-une-mer-de-dechets-dans-les-yvelines-provoque-la-colere-des-riverains_2702666.html
– Champs-sur-Marne ► Bagarre entre deux Roms ivres : l’un finit à l’hôpital. In: Mag Journal. 09.04.2018. http://www.magjournal77.fr/champs-sur-marne-bagarre-entre-deux-roms-ivres-lun-finit-a-lhopital/ [link-preview url=”https://francais.rt.com/france/49551-essonne-alcoolise-arme-sabre-japonais-maire-menace-gens-voyage “]
A report of the first Roma Biennale in Berlin in the Maxime Gorki Theatre.
– 1. Roma Biennale: Gypsy Eyes. In: Artmagazine. 10.04.2018. http://www.artmagazine.cc/content102249.html [link-preview url=”http://www.artmagazine.cc/content102249.html”]
This can only be qualified as science fiction or pure propaganda. Turkey is “continuing” to support Roma to improve their living standards.
Well, this is one of the most racist societies in Europe and they have ben evicting Roma from the centre of the cities (like the Roma neighbourhood of Sulukule in Istanbul etc.). Police has been conducting violent raids in other places and so on. The list is long.
– Turkey continues to support Roma people. In: AA. 12.04.2018. https://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-continues-to-support-roma-people/1116332 [link-preview url=”https://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-continues-to-support-roma-people/1116332″]
Turkish president Erdogan wows to resolve the Roma housing problems. Sounds good, doesn’t it? The residents of the oldest Roma settlement in Sulukule in Istanbul where all Roma were thrown out under Erdogan’s direction will certainly appreciate the irony. They had a house, now none …
– President Erdoğan vows to ‘solve housing problems of Roma citizens’. In: Hürriyet. 11.04.2018. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/president-erdogan-vows-to-solve-housing-problems-of-roma-citizens-130163 [link-preview url=”http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/president-erdogan-vows-to-solve-housing-problems-of-roma-citizens-130163″]
A brutal fight between football fans and Roma occurred during the night of Saturday to Sunday in Cornella de Llobregat near Barcelona. Several Roma were hospitalised. Reasons for the brawl are not known yet.
– Brutal street fight erupts ‘between Barcelona football fans and gypsies’ as they brawl with bottles and poles in Spanish town centre. In: The Sun. 10.04.2018. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6014735/video-barcelona-football-fans-gypsies-fight-spain/ [link-preview url=”https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6014735/video-barcelona-football-fans-gypsies-fight-spain/”]
In spite of the small number of Roma in Finland, prejudice and stereotypes are prevalent. Roma are fighting against it.
– Roma minority asks Finns to look beyond the stereotypes. In: YLE. 08.04.2018. https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/roma_minority_asks_finns_to_look_beyond_the_stereotypes/10150192 [link-preview url=”https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/roma_minority_asks_finns_to_look_beyond_the_stereotypes/10150192″]
Stolipinovo is the largest “mahala” or Roma neighbourhood in Plovdiv. Many of its residents are now working on a regular basis in Germany – generally short term manual work in construction. And this has an influence on Stolipinovo itself. A story of two worlds!
– How the ‘Germans’ are changing the largest Roma enclave in Europe. In: Deutsche Welle. 08.04.2018. http://www.dw.com/en/how-the-germans-are-changing-the-largest-roma-enclave-in-europe/a-43298822 [link-preview url=”http://www.dw.com/en/how-the-germans-are-changing-the-largest-roma-enclave-in-europe/a-43298822″]
Angelo Debarre – together with the very beginnings at the Rose Fleurie in Paris. [link-preview url=””]
Mateo Salvini, the current Italian leader of the Lega Nord – the far right party which won a large number of seats in the recent Italian elections found nothing better than to comment on the International Roma day by saying:
“if many of them worked more and stole less, if many of them sent their children to school instead of teaching them to steal, then it really would be something to celebrate”.
No further comments.
– Italy’s far-right League marks International Roma Day by telling them to “work more and steal less”. In: Il Globo. 09.04.2018. http://ilglobo.com.au/news/38209/italys-far-right-league-marks-international-roma-day-by-telling-them-to-work-more-and-steal-less/
– Try stealing less, League head tells Roma. In: Pulse Live. 08.04.2018. http://www.pulselive.co.ke/news/world/try-stealing-less-italian-league-head-tells-roma-id8222907.html
– Try stealing less, Italian League head tells Roma. In: The Malay Mail. 08.04.2018. http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/try-stealing-less-italian-league-head-tells-roma
– Try stealing less, Italian League head tells Roma. In: Le Journal du Cameroon. 08.04.2018. https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/try-stealing-less-italian-league-head-tells-roma/ [link-preview url=”https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/try-stealing-less-italian-league-head-tells-roma/”]
Another piece of trash journalism – this time from the Daily Mail. A former reality star turned petty criminal. The number of stereotypes is just mind boggling.
– Gypsy Sisters star Mellie Stanley is charged over using bogus coupons scam to obtain thousands of dollars’ worth of goods from Toys R Us. In: The Daily Mail. 06.05.2018. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5585195/Mellie-Jeanette-Lee-star-reality-Gypsy-Sisters-charged-Toys-R-coupons-scam.html#ixzz5Bxs6EQ5q [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5585195/Mellie-Jeanette-Lee-star-reality-Gypsy-Sisters-charged-Toys-R-coupons-scam.html#ixzz5Bxs6EQ5q”]
An event to attend if in Berlin!
– „Phral mende – Wir über uns“. In: Heinrich Böll Stiftung. http://calendar.boell.de/de/event/phral-mende-wir-ueber-uns [link-preview url=”http://calendar.boell.de/de/event/phral-mende-wir-ueber-uns”]
Several Romnja are fighting prejudice through art, be it acting or other means. They all will participate in the first Roma Biennale opening this week end at the Maxim Gorki theatre in Berlin.
– Not just housewives and whores: Roma women fight prejudice with art. In: Reuters. 05.04.2018. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-roma-art/not-just-housewives-and-whores-roma-women-fight-prejudice-with-art-idUSKCN1HC042 [link-preview url=”https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-roma-art/not-just-housewives-and-whores-roma-women-fight-prejudice-with-art-idUSKCN1HC042″]
The Festival “Welcome en Tziganie” (not the best name, really) will soon open in South Western France near Auch.
– http://www.welcome-in-tziganie.com [link-preview url=”http://www.welcome-in-tziganie.com”]
The Documentation Centre of the Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg just opened a new web portal on the history of the minority, with a focus on Holocaust and on the continuing discrimination in post-war Germany.
– Webportal dokumentiert Geschichte der Sinti und Roma. In: DlF24. 03.04.2018. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/verfolgung-von-minderheiten-webportal-dokumentiert.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=868126 [link-preview url=”http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/verfolgung-von-minderheiten-webportal-dokumentiert.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=868126″]
The Berlin theatre “Maxim Gorki” will open the first Roma Biennale on April 7th. The Biennale will showcase Roma artists and will also organise a Roma Parade through Berlin on April 8th, the International Roma Day.
– Maxim Gorki Theater Erste Roma Biennale startet in Berlin. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 02.04.2018. https://www.mz-web.de/kultur/maxim-gorki-theater-erste-roma-biennale-startet-in-berlin-29954504 [link-preview url=”https://www.mz-web.de/kultur/maxim-gorki-theater-erste-roma-biennale-startet-in-berlin-29954504″]
A review of the movie “A Ciambra” of the Italian-America filmmaker Jonas Carpignano on a friendship of a young Rom with a man from Burkina Fasso in a small town in Southern Italy.
– A Ciambra ou le pénible passage à l’âge adulte. In: El Watan. 03.04.2018. http://www.elwatan.com/culture/a-ciambra-ou-le-penible-passage-a-l-age-adulte-30-03-2018-365377_113.php [link-preview url=”http://www.elwatan.com/culture/a-ciambra-ou-le-penible-passage-a-l-age-adulte-30-03-2018-365377_113.php”]
An editorial in a Finnish paper highlights the inherent discrimination encountered by Roma. According to the paper one Romni sent 400 application letters, and received only 4 negative answers. Another cannot graduate as he cannto find a job placement required for his diploma.
Bad…
– Thursday’s papers: Million-euro pay packets, Metro staff disquiet and Roma discrimination. In: Yle Utiset. 29.03.2018. https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/thursdays_papers_million-euro_pay_packets_metro_staff_disquiet_and_roma_discrimination/10138505
– Kun sukunimi on väärä – miltä tuntuisi, jos lapsesi ei olisi tervetullut mihinkään? In: Helsingin Sanomat. 29.03.2018. https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000005621588.html [link-preview url=”https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/thursdays_papers_million-euro_pay_packets_metro_staff_disquiet_and_roma_discrimination/10138505 “]
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