The Roma shantytowns in Slovakia are seeing high levels of infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, jaundice, and now mosquito borne diseases.
– Prečo má východné Slovensko také veľké problémy s epidémiami chorôb (mapy). In: Aktuality. 22.08.2018. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/615828/preco-ma-vychodne-slovensko-take-velke-problemy-s-epidemiami-chorob-mapy/ [link-preview url=”https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/615828/preco-ma-vychodne-slovensko-take-velke-problemy-s-epidemiami-chorob-mapy/”]
Nothing to be proud of, but the Belgians are applying the same failed policies as their southern neighbour in the case of Roma: Repeated expulsions.
Bad …
– Neder-over-Hembeek : le groupe de Roms installé dans la rue des Prés Communs a été expulsé ce jeudi. In: BX1. 23.08.2018. https://bx1.be/bruxelles-ville/neder-over-hembeek-groupe-de-roms-installe-rue-pres-communs-a-ete-expulse-jeudi/
– La police évacue un camp de Roms rue du Pavillon à Schaerbeek. In: BX1. 20.08.2018. https://bx1.be/news/police-evacue-camp-de-roms-rue-pavillon-a-schaerbeek/ [link-preview url=”https://bx1.be/bruxelles-ville/neder-over-hembeek-groupe-de-roms-installe-rue-pres-communs-a-ete-expulse-jeudi/ “]
Rastislav Trnka, in early July, the president of Kosice Self-governing, filed a criminal complaint regarding a bribe he was offered and for the intimidation he has been subjected to related to the mismanagement of funds in the case of an education program in Sečovcia, which belongs to the Unesco School in Dobšin. Trnka said the operation of program was too costly for the region and there were suspicions of breaching the law. It is unfortunately a program aimed at integrating Roma …
– Trnka o elokovanom pracovisku v Sečovciach: “Nechcem zrušiť vzdelávania pre Rómov. Prekáža mi množstvo porušení zákona a plytvanie peniazmi nás všetkých”. In: Hlavne Spravy. 24.08.2018. https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/trnka-elokovanom-pracovisku-secovciach-nechcem-zrusit-vzdelavania-romov-prekaza-mi-mnozstvo-poruseni-zakona-plytvanie-peniazmi-nas-vsetkych/1500940
– Keď rozum nepustí… In: HN Kommentare. 24.08.2018. https://komentare.hnonline.sk/komentare/1798603-ked-rozum-nepusti [link-preview url=”https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/trnka-elokovanom-pracovisku-secovciach-nechcem-zrusit-vzdelavania-romov-prekaza-mi-mnozstvo-poruseni-zakona-plytvanie-peniazmi-nas-vsetkych/1500940 “]
A report on the fears and lives of Roma in the Ukraine following the numerous attacks they have been subjected to by far-right extremists.
– ‘They wanted to kill us’: masked neo-fascists strike fear into Ukraine’s Roma. In: The Guardian. 27.08.2018. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/27/they-wanted-to-kill-us-masked-neo-fascists-strike-fear-into-ukraines-roma [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/27/they-wanted-to-kill-us-masked-neo-fascists-strike-fear-into-ukraines-roma”]
A retrospective of Josef’s Koudelka’s photograph can be seen in Prague. Besides having documented the Societ invasion of 1968, he also did an iconic work on Roma.
A must see.
– JOSEF KOUDELKA – UNE VIE SACRIFIÉE À LA PHOTOGRAPHIE. In: Radio Praha. 25.08.2018. https://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/literature/josef-koudelka-une-vie-sacrifiee-a-la-photographie [link-preview url=”https://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/literature/josef-koudelka-une-vie-sacrifiee-a-la-photographie”]
An editorial on the debate about child social money in Germany, saying with right that Roma and Sinti are collectively presented as guilty …
– KINDERGELD-DEBATTE: UND WIEDER WERDEN SINTI UND ROMA KOLLEKTIV ZU TÄTERN GEMACHT. In: Belltowers. 24.08.2018. http://www.belltower.news/artikel/debatte-um-kindergeld-und-wieder-werden-sinti-und-roma-kollektiv-zu-taetern-gemacht-14122 [link-preview url=”http://www.belltower.news/artikel/debatte-um-kindergeld-und-wieder-werden-sinti-und-roma-kollektiv-zu-taetern-gemacht-14122″]
Next show … Tpday
– http://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/roma-armee/ [link-preview url=”http://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/roma-armee/”]
Not many news this week on Roma. In the North, the headline asks what alternatives there are to shantytowns. Warranted question in France, where the very same 20’000 people get pushed from one to the next precarious lodging. Then, a camp closure in Lille; an aggression of firemen as they came to the rescue of a person in a Roma camp in Montpellier (Bad); in Lyon, an expulsion ith the expulsed people squatting in a square; and finally in Lyon, the insertion village closure, after a really successful period seing all the Roma having found a job an housing.
– Quelle alternative aux bidonvilles ? In: La Voix du Nord. 21.08.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/435458/article/2018-08-21/quelle-alternative-aux-bidonvilles
– À Lille, les Roms du carrefour Pasteur ont levé le camp. In: La Voix du Nord. 20.08.2018. http://lavdn.lavoixdunord.fr/434582/article/2018-08-20/lille-les-roms-du-carrefour-pasteur-ont-leve-le-camp
– Les Roms du carrefour Pasteur n’ont pas attendu le face-à-face avec la police. In: La Voix du Nord. 19.08.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/434550/article/2018-08-19/les-roms-du-carrefour-pasteur-n-ont-pas-attendu-le-face-face-avec-la-police
– Montpellier : Les pompiers agressés dans un camp de Roms alors qu’ils venaient secourir une personne. In: Actu 17. 21.08.2018. https://actu17.fr/montpellier-les-pompiers-agresses-dans-un-camp-de-roms-alors-quils-venaient-secourir-une-personne/
– Montpellier : des pompiers agressés au camp de Roms, une plainte déposée. In: Midi Libre. 20.08.2018. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/08/20/montpellier-des-pompiers-agresses-au-camp-de-roms-une-plainte-deposee,4679290.php
– Expulsion à Lyon : des familles précaires à la rue. In: Lyon Capitale. 22.08.2018. https://www.lyoncapitale.fr/actualite/expulsion-a-lyon-des-familles-precaires-a-la-rue/
– Lyon : des familles roumaines et moldaves expulsées installées place Sathonay. In: FR3. 24.08.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/rhone/lyon/lyon-familles-roumaines-moldaves-expulsees-installees-place-sathonay-1530084.html
– Le village d’insertion de St-Genis-les-O. ferme, la plupart des Roms ont trouvé travail et lodgement. In: Le Progrès. 25.08.2018. https://www.leprogres.fr/rhone-69-edition-ouest-lyonnais/2018/08/25/le-village-d-insertion-ferme-la-plupart-des-roms-ont-trouve-travail-et-logement [link-preview url=”https://actu17.fr/montpellier-les-pompiers-agresses-dans-un-camp-de-roms-alors-quils-venaient-secourir-une-personne/ “]
A new book on Roma in Hungary, and lots of falsehoods on their origins and arrival in Hungary.
– Emberevő cigányok és újmagyarok. In: Index. 22.08.2018. https://index.hu/techtud/tortenelem/2018/08/22/emberevo_ciganyok_es_ujmagyarok/ [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/techtud/tortenelem/2018/08/22/emberevo_ciganyok_es_ujmagyarok/”]
A reportage from the Slovenian RTV on Roma education and inclusion.
– IZOBRAŽEVANJE ROMOV IN VKLJUČEVANJE. In: RTV4. 20.08.2018. https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/slovenska-kronika/174557591 [link-preview url=”https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/slovenska-kronika/174557591″]
Two articles on the dangers of “neo-fascism” and populism for minorities and refugees.
Scary.
– Vom unrentablen Menschen. In: Junge Welt. 22.08.2018. https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/338373.vom-unrentablen-menschen.html
– Mojca Širok, novinarka in pisateljica. In: Mladina. 24.08.2018. https://www.mladina.si/187001/mojca-sirok-novinarka-in-pisateljica/ [link-preview url=”https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/338373.vom-unrentablen-menschen.html “]
Roma Spirit, now in its tenth year, is a program that aims at presenting successful examples of integration in Slovakia. The Roma Spirit 2018 award is awarded in seven categories – Personality, Culture, Town and City, Society and Employer, NGO, Media and Cinema of the Year.
– Jubilejný Roma Spirit predstaví dobré príklady integrácie Rómov. In: SME 22.08.2018. https://domov.sme.sk/c/20898016/jubilejny-roma-spirit-ma-predstavit-dobre-priklady-integracie-romov.html [link-preview url=”https://domov.sme.sk/c/20898016/jubilejny-roma-spirit-ma-predstavit-dobre-priklady-integracie-romov.html”]
A Slovak sociologist, Jarmila Lajčáková, Center for Research on Ethnicity and Culture says that gifted young Roma often do not go to college because they lack money or self-confidence. she created a program to help Roma prepare for admission exams and then graduate from the University of Economics in Bratislava.
– Sociologička Lajčáková: Samotná snaha mladých Rómov nestačí, potrebujú pomoc. In: SME. 22.08.2018. https://domov.sme.sk/c/20897952/sociologicka-lajcakova-snaha-romov-nestaci-treba-pomoc-rozhovor.html [link-preview url=”https://domov.sme.sk/c/20897952/sociologicka-lajcakova-snaha-romov-nestaci-treba-pomoc-rozhovor.html”]
A review of two recent books on Roma in the UK. One by Fabian Le Bas and one, more historical, by David Cressy.
– Gypsies by David Cressy and The Stopping Places by Damian Le Bas review – the truth about life on the road. In: The Guardian. 22.08.2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/22/gypsies-david-cressy-stopping-places-damian-le-bas-review [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/22/gypsies-david-cressy-stopping-places-damian-le-bas-review”]
No comments – and a nice acknowledgement.
– ‘Hell on Earth was a German creation,’ says Foreign Minister on visit to Auschwitz. In: The Local (DE). 20.08.2018. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz [link-preview url=”https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz”]
A German priest, Arnold Fortuin, is being remembered by the Sinti community. During the Nazi times in Germany he protected many Sinti.
– Illingen erinnert sich an Arnold Fortuin. 21.08.2018. https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313 [link-preview url=”https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313″]
A long article in the New York Times on a con-woman and a tale of deception and violence. What is bad is that the woman in question is a Kalderaškinja who seems to have bene adept at her game.
Not the best advertising …
– A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood. In: The New York Times. 21.08.2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/a-new-wife-a-secret-past.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/a-new-wife-a-secret-past.html”]
An article about the theatre troupe “Giuvlipen” and one of their plays.
– Romania’s Roma rise up with revolutionary theatre. In: Thomson Reuters Trust. 17.08.2018. http://news.trust.org/item/20170817110826-2loti/ [link-preview url=”http://news.trust.org/item/20170817110826-2loti/”]
In Mukachevo, Roma are given food that is supposed to stop or prevent tuberculosis. Really??? This is nuts, especially since tuberculosis in those countries are often resitant to all antibiotics.
– На Мукачівщині ромів годують їжею, яка пригнічує туберкульозну паличку (ВІДЕО). In: ZAK Depo. 14.08.2018. https://zak.depo.ua/ukr/zak/na-mukachivschini-romiv-goduyut-yizheyu-yaka-prignichuye-tuberkuloznu-palichku-video-20180814821684 [link-preview url=”https://zak.depo.ua/ukr/zak/na-mukachivschini-romiv-goduyut-yizheyu-yaka-prignichuye-tuberkuloznu-palichku-video-20180814821684″]
A simple argument between children at a pool in the Czech Republic turned into a brawl between Roma and Gadže. Here’s the view from the Romni whose child was involved in the initial dispute.
– Czech media, police accuse Romani family of inciting brawl with non-Roma at children’s pool, Romea.cz first to report the Romani mother’s testimony. In: Romea. 13.08.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-media-police-accuse-romani-family-of-inciting-brawl-with-non-roma-at-children-s-pool-romea-cz-first-to-report-the [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-media-police-accuse-romani-family-of-inciting-brawl-with-non-roma-at-children-s-pool-romea-cz-first-to-report-the”]
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