Not your average movie. It is a gay one, with rather middle aged protagonists, one of which is a Rom.
– Toronto Film Review: ‘Soldiers. Story From Ferentari’. In: Variety. 22.09.2017. http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/soldiers-story-from-ferentari-review-1202563207/ [link-preview url=”http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/soldiers-story-from-ferentari-review-1202563207/”]
The UK judge really went overboard in the sentencing of the traveller family who did use slave labour. The judge did not seem to understand that the deeds of one family do not necessarily reflect on all …
– Complaint over judge’s Rooney traveller family remarks. In: BBC News. 22.09.2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-41366565 [link-preview url=”http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-41366565″]
This village never ceases to pop up. It is a really good example of what can be done. Second article in the NYT.
– Shattering Ugly Roma Stereotypes. In: The New York Times. 22.09.2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/roma-stereotypes.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/roma-stereotypes.html”]
There was a march by Roma on the Capitol Hill on Thursday the 21st of September to protest against the living conditions in the camps into which Italy parks its Roma.
– Dai campi nomadi in marcia sul Campidoglio. L’ira di Sinti e Rom. In: Affaritaliani. 20.09.2017. http://www.affaritaliani.it/roma/dai-campi-nomadi-in-marcia-sul-campidoglio-ira-di-sinti-rom-500026.html [link-preview url=”http://www.affaritaliani.it/roma/dai-campi-nomadi-in-marcia-sul-campidoglio-ira-di-sinti-rom-500026.html”]
An exhibition of the vanished world of the Czech Roma and Sinti who were killed almst to the last one during World War Two.
– Exhibition “A Vanished World” about indigenous Czech Roma and Sinti again on display in Prague. In: Romea.cz. 17.09.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/exhibition-a-vanished-world-about-indigenous-czech-roma-and-sinti-again-on-display-in-prague [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/exhibition-a-vanished-world-about-indigenous-czech-roma-and-sinti-again-on-display-in-prague”]
Several UK policemen were using and posting on a Facebook page that contained racist statements against Travellers. They did not post these comments themselves but rather failed to react about them…
– Met police chat forum was used to post insults aimed at Gypsies. In: The Guardian. 21.09.2017. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/met-police-chat-forum-was-used-to-post-insults-aimed-at-gypsies
– ‘Breaching equality’ – Calls for London police officers who insulted Travellers online to face ‘misconduct’ punishment. In: The Irish Times. 21.09.2017. http://irishpost.co.uk/breaching-equality-call-london-police-officers-insulted-travellers-online-face-misconduct-punishment/
– Met police officers used Facebook page that contained insults about travellers. In: Yahoo News. 21.09.2017. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-police-officers-used-facebook-page-contained-insults-travellers-145416210.html [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/met-police-chat-forum-was-used-to-post-insults-aimed-at-gypsies “]
An interview of Brigitta Balogh, Romni, Law Student, and activist!
– Brigitta Balogh: Romani human rights campaigner and law student. In: Travellers Times. 20.09.2017. http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Brigitta-Balogh-Romani-human-rights-campaigner-.aspx [link-preview url=”http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Brigitta-Balogh-Romani-human-rights-campaigner-.aspx”]
In case you need even more clarity on what the AfD is planning: One of their candidates has a list of associations that are to be watched for links to the left. On his list, the association Amaro Foro, a Roma association that is engaged against discrimination, and the Ann Frank association which teaches about the Nazi crimes …
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– Ein Berliner AfD-Abgeordneter hat eine entlarvende Hassliste veröffentlicht. In: Vice. 19.09.2017. https://www.vice.com/de/article/7xkbw4/ein-berliner-afd-abgeordneter-hat-eine-entlarvende-hassliste-veroeffentlicht [link-preview url=”https://www.vice.com/de/article/7xkbw4/ein-berliner-afd-abgeordneter-hat-eine-entlarvende-hassliste-veroeffentlicht”]
Interesting portraits of Roma LGBTQ.
– Roma LGBTQ People Talk About the Challenges of Facing Double Discrimination. In: Vice. 19.09.2017. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw3zpg/roma-lgbtq-people-talk-about-the-challenges-of-facing-double-discrimination [link-preview url=”https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw3zpg/roma-lgbtq-people-talk-about-the-challenges-of-facing-double-discrimination”]
The Roma museum will be in charge of the new memorial museum in the Hodonin Roma concentration camp.
The memorial was to be opened last August but the opening was deferred due to a controversy on who would be running it going forward.
– Roma Museum to operate new memorial in Hodonín near Kunštát. In: The Prague Monitor. 19.09.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/09/19/roma-museum-operate-new-memorial-hodon%C3%ADn-near-kunštát [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/09/19/roma-museum-operate-new-memorial-hodon%C3%ADn-near-kunštát”]
Amnesty International is calling for justice for the victims of police brutality in the Slovak city of Moldova nad Bodvou. The police was acquitted and the victims are being currently sued for defamation …
– Amnesty International: We demand justice for the victims of the Slovak Police raid on the Roma settlement of Moldava nad Bodvou. In: Romea.cz. 19.09.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/amnesty-international-we-demand-justice-for-the-victims-of-the-slovak-police-raid-on-the-roma-settlement-of-moldava-nad [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/amnesty-international-we-demand-justice-for-the-victims-of-the-slovak-police-raid-on-the-roma-settlement-of-moldava-nad”]
Many Roma still have no access to drinking water, despite numerous recommendations, the ECRI commission, has now issued conclusions on the situation in Slovenia which highlight the precarious living conditions of Roma in the country. Access to water is one of the key points in the report.
– Nova graja, ker Romi še nimajo dostopa do vode. In: Delo. 18.09.2017. http://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/nova-graja-ker-romi-se-nimajo-dostopa-do-vode.html [link-preview url=”http://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/nova-graja-ker-romi-se-nimajo-dostopa-do-vode.html”]
An interview with a Roma King in Slovakia. This showcases stereotypes and present kings as part of the Roma culture – which they definitively are not.
– Stretol som sa s rómskym kráľom. In: Tyždeň. 16.09.2017. https://www.tyzden.sk/spolocnost/42506/stretnutie-s-romskym-kralom/ [link-preview url=”https://www.tyzden.sk/spolocnost/42506/stretnutie-s-romskym-kralom/”]
An article about the successful integration of Roma in the village of Spišský Hrhove. The village had been the subject of a long article in the New York Times (we cited it a while back).
– Láska v Spišskom Hrhove, ktorú si všimli v The New York Times. In: Dennik. 17.09.2017. https://dennikn.sk/882677/laska-v-spisskom-hrhove-ktoru-si-vsimli-v-the-new-york-times/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/882677/laska-v-spisskom-hrhove-ktoru-si-vsimli-v-the-new-york-times/”]
Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma will present an overview of the Roma civil right movement in Germany and discuss the challenges Sinti and Roma are now facing.
– Die Bürgerrechtsbewegung der Sinti und Roma – Erfahrungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen. In: Leipziginfo. http://www.leipziginfo.de/veranstaltungen/event/termin/die-buergerrechtsbewegung-der-sinti-und-roma-erfahrungen-und-aktuelle-herausforderungen-5576/
– Vorsitzender des Zentralrats Deutscher Sinti und Roma in Leipzig. In: Focus Info. 15.09.2017. http://www.focus.de/regional/stadt-leipzig-vorsitzender-des-zentralrats-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-in-leipzig_id_7598841.html [link-preview url=”http://www.leipziginfo.de/veranstaltungen/event/termin/die-buergerrechtsbewegung-der-sinti-und-roma-erfahrungen-und-aktuelle-herausforderungen-5576/ “]
The deputy minister Karel Novotny was disciplined for having stated that Roma are like jellyfish, being “a nuisance, good for nothing”.
Should he not have been condemned for racism?
– Deputy minister disciplined for calling Roma jellyfish. In: Prague Monitor. 18.09.2017. http://www.praguemonitor.com/2017/09/18/deputy-minister-disciplined-calling-roma-jellyfish [link-preview url=”http://www.praguemonitor.com/2017/09/18/deputy-minister-disciplined-calling-roma-jellyfish”]
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An interview of the authors of a new theatre piece that was shown in Berlin in the Gorki Theatre. The piece is called Roma Army Fraction (a play on the extreme leftist terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion), and its authors want Roma to get out of the victim role.
Well done!
– „Wir wollen aus der Opferrolle raus!“ in: TaZ. 16.09.2017. http://www.taz.de/!5445103/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5445103/”]
Even too toxic for the French extreme right party: Frank Sinisi, a FN representative in a town near Grenoble who suggested to take the gold teeth from Roma to cover the costs has been expulsed by the Front National.
Only problem … The facts date back to February 2017 … Not really fast from the FN.
– L’élu FN qui avait proposé de récupérer les “dents en or” des Roms enfin exclu par le parti. In: LCI. 12.09.2017. http://www.lci.fr/politique/isere-franck-sinisi-l-elu-fn-qui-avait-propose-de-recuperer-les-dents-en-or-des-roms-enfin-exclu-par-le-parti-2064154.html
– L’élu qui proposait de “récupérer les dents en or” a été exclu du FN. In: The Times of Israel. 15.09.2017. http://fr.timesofisrael.com/lelu-qui-proposait-de-recuperer-les-dents-en-or-a-ete-exclu-du-fn/
– L’élu FN qui voulait «récupérer les dents en or» des Roms exclu du parti. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 13.09.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/politique/2131615-20170913-elu-fn-voulait-recuperer-dents-or-roms-exclu-parti [link-preview url=”http://www.lci.fr/politique/isere-franck-sinisi-l-elu-fn-qui-avait-propose-de-recuperer-les-dents-en-or-des-roms-enfin-exclu-par-le-parti-2064154.html “]
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