Some background material …
– http://2august.eu [link-preview url=”http://2august.eu”]
Lety – again …
Will the pig farm move? On the 2nd of August, the question is still here.
– Roma activist hopes Czech pig farm moves away from camp site. In: The Prague Monitor. 03.08.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/08/03/roma-activist-hopes-czech-pig-farm-moves-away-camp-site [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/08/03/roma-activist-hopes-czech-pig-farm-moves-away-camp-site”]
A short overview of the 2nd of August
The background of the events of the 2nd of August 1944, the date that marks the Roma Holocaust remembrance day.
– AUGUST 3, 1944: 3,000 ROMA GYPSIES GASSED AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP. In: Oxygen. 03.08.2017. http://www.oxygen.com/blogs/august-3-1944-3000-roma-gypsies-gassed-at-auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp [link-preview url=”http://www.oxygen.com/blogs/august-3-1944-3000-roma-gypsies-gassed-at-auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp”]
Réfugiés
A short article about a young Hungarian Romni who fled to Montreal, in Canada.
– Se réfugier à Montréal pour fuir la violence. In: Ici Radio Canada. 31.07.2017. http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-15-18/segments/entrevue/33078/rom-montreal-danny-braun-frida-berki [link-preview url=”http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-15-18/segments/entrevue/33078/rom-montreal-danny-braun-frida-berki”]
One Family
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”]
French Chronicle …
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/ “]
More on Anina Ciuciu
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”]
Bad Publicity …
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”]
August 2nd is Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Bohemians
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/”]
France: Montreuil en Belay
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”]
Pennsylvania Again
More on the Roma refugees in the small town of California, Pennsylvania. Of course, they are dirty, they do not want to integrate, etc…
Really bad.
– In one Pa. town, history repeats itself with a clash of cultures: Editorial. In: Penn Live. 28.07.2017. http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/07/in_one_pa_town_history_repeats.html
– ‘People fear what they don’t understand’: Culture clash with immigrants divides Pa. town. In: Penn Live. 28.07.2017. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/roma_california_immigrants.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/07/in_one_pa_town_history_repeats.html “]
A Romni Senator?
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/”]
Greece: Resettlement
The Greek Parliament passed a resolution this week calling for the resettlement of thousands of Roma into 70 new camps, without any consultation …
BAD
Roma community reacts to resettlement plan. In: Ekathimerini. 28.07.2017. http://www.ekathimerini.com/220449/article/ekathimerini/news/roma-community-reacts-to-resettlement-plan [link-preview url=”http://www.ekathimerini.com/220449/article/ekathimerini/news/roma-community-reacts-to-resettlement-plan”]
Auschwitz through the Eyes of the Inmates
An exhibition in Poland shows Auschwitz through the eyes of its inmates in the form of drawings done by the prisoners.
– New art exhibit in Poland shows Auschwitz through inmates’ eyes. In: The Chicago Sun Times. 114.07.2017. http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/new-art-exhibit-in-poland-shows-auschwitz-through-inmates-eyes/ [link-preview url=”http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/new-art-exhibit-in-poland-shows-auschwitz-through-inmates-eyes/”]
Bibliography: Romani Rose
An article on the bibliography of Romani Rose, the president of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, about his combats for the recognition of the Holocaust on Sinti and Roma.
– Die erste Demo in ihrer Geschichte. In: TAZ. 25.07.2017. http://www.taz.de/!5425093/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5425093/”]
Karel Holomek
The Czech Roma activist Karel Holomek has been featured in a TV show honouring the elite of the nation. This is definitively a first in the Czech Republic.
– Karel Holomek is first Romani figure featured on Czech TV’s “Gallery of the Elite of the Nation” show. In: Romea. 25.07.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/karel-holomek-is-first-romani-figure-featured-on-czech-tv-s-gallery-of-the-elite-of-the-nation-show [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/karel-holomek-is-first-romani-figure-featured-on-czech-tv-s-gallery-of-the-elite-of-the-nation-show”]
More on Zoltan Balog
A longer analysis of the statements of Zoltan Balog Hungarian Minister of Human Resources who is suggesting to segregate Roma in schools. He’s been saying that for a long time …
– Minister Balog suggests officially segregating Roma schools. In: The Hungarian Spectrum. 25.07.2017. http://budapestbeacon.com/featured-articles/minister-balog-suggests-officially-segregating-roma-schools/49007 [link-preview url=”http://budapestbeacon.com/featured-articles/minister-balog-suggests-officially-segregating-roma-schools/49007″]
Ukraine and Roma
Many Roma were displaced by the combats in Eastern Ukraine and are struggling to find a place elsewhere in the Ukraine, as discrimination and prejudice is ripe.
They cannot go back either – nationalism and Roma are never friends.
– Strangers in Their Own Land. In: TOL. 24.07.2017. http://www.tol.org/client/article/27072-ukraine-donbas-roma-minorities-displaced-people.html [link-preview url=”http://www.tol.org/client/article/27072-ukraine-donbas-roma-minorities-displaced-people.html”]
Denmark and Begging
Denmark is now putting beggars for two weeks in jail after a lwa voted by the parliament in June. Bad…
Also bad that this paper specifically states that Denmark puts up laws against Roma – event though the law is against begging, equating all Roma with Beggars.
WORSE.
– Le Danemark légifère contre les Roms. Le Nouvelliste. 22.07.2017. http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/monde/le-danemark-legifere-contre-les-roms-686729 [link-preview url=”http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/monde/le-danemark-legifere-contre-les-roms-686729″]
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