Another article, showing that the “DPS-New Beginning” is edging ahead in the Roma vote in the current Bulgarian elections.
The story of a small village, Žehra with a gothic church, confronted now with tombstones with a colorful, life-size likeness in black marble are a novelty at the cemetery in, which local Roma build for their deceased.
Another “Roma Vakeren” in Czechia. This time on Patrik Banga’s a Roma journalist book “on the way to America” snd on the Czech Television’s documentary cycle Me Som presenting Roma personalities, here Elena Gorolová, a fighter for compensation for involuntarily sterilized women.
An article about the Roma community in South Eastern Slovenia. Here, the article focuses on a program for teenagers and young mothers at the Brezje – Žabjak. The young mothers agree that their children should go to kindergarten, but not to a Roma kindergarten, but to a normal kindergarten, where they get to know other children and learn the language at the same time.
The Slovenian government has allocated funds to municipalities where Roma live in Slovenia as part of the National Program of Actions for Roma for the period 2021-2030. In the municipality of Krško, they allocated 80’000 euros of their 700’000 allocation to raise awareness among the residents of the Roma settlement of Kerinov Grm. Apparently, the money went straight to a long-time builder for the municipality and a Roma councillor. This is not quite the purpose of these grants …
Two articles in the Slovak press about this new initiative of a school where teaching will be done in Romanes. This is presented a good idea in Slovakia and esopecially so by the government. The result will be a segregated school whose standards will be rock-bottom.
Anti-Roma rhetoric is on the rise in Slovenia, echoed by the media and fueled by politicians of all persuasions, following several incidents involving members of the community in the south-east of the country. While Roma are the most discriminated against minority in Slovenia, there are solutions to improve integration. An interview with a Roma activist.
More news this week about Roma in France. First, a photography exhibition about Roma in the Balkans. The issue, they speak of “nomad” populations, which is totally wrong in the Balkans. Second, it shows the usual pictures of poverty and many children, which is a result of exclusion, not Roma traditions. In brief, these exhibitions strengthen stereotypes.
A reportage in Nantes focuses on a new camp near the city and the controversies that it generates there. The story of a premature baby who was abbducted by its parents recently made the headlines in France. The parents were later stopped in Belgium. Here, the article says that the father and mother are Roma, that the father is a petty criminal and the mother a toxicoman.
The other news are more common: A camp near Paris and one near Toulosue were dismantled.
An article whereby a Romano “baron” threatened the journalist Maria Tsantsarova from B TV after she had been investigating vote buying.
The Bulgarian Police raided the Sliven Roma district “Nadezhda” and blocked all exits for several hours. They apparently found notebooks with names and money amounts pointing to possible vote buying in the upcoming Bulgarian elections.
It is a common theme that Roma vote are there to be bought in Bulgaria.
Following the murder of a taxi driver in the region of Cheliabinsk, a murder that was bamed on Roma, a pogrom took place in the Roma neighbourhood.
Bad.
In its report on Lithuania, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) said the country should better promote LGBTI equality and Roma inclusion.
On October 21st, 1981, an incident occurred in Oświęcim that quickly turned into a series of acts of violence directed against Roma families. The argument between Roma and non-Roma over their place in the queue escalated to such an extent that the townspeople formed a committee to “expel the Gypsies” from Auschwitz. Houses were set on fire, cars were destroyed, and physical violence was committed. Over 100 people were forced to leave the town and eventually the country. Instead of passports, the Roma were given so-called travel documents, which allowed them to leave Poland but did not allow them to return.
A conference on Roma settlements and houses by the political scientist Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski will be held on the 26 of October in Łodź.
The city of Padua received 1 million euros for th integration of Romane children and adolescents. That’s nice, but that is also not much …
An article about the top 8 influencial people helping Roma the most in Slovakia.
According to the articles, many children from the Podtatra Roma community speak exclusively Romanes at home. When they start school, they may therefore have a problem with understanding the Slovak language. This is already a false premise, Roma are dual language speakers from early on.
The pilot project in the village of Rakúsy aims to improve this situation thanks to the first national school, where teaching will also be in the Romani language. In the village, 74 percent of the over 2,000 inhabitants claim to be Roma. The most used language is Romanes.
Well, this will result in a segegrated school, whose standards will drop, and will contribute to further marginalisation.
The now 40-year-old Bogdan Miklič, a Rom from the village of Stranska vas pri Novem mesto in Slovenia, had a promising career as a journalist at RTV Slovenia, and he is also active in his Roma Civil society. Among others, he was the president of the association Gypsies once – Roma today, and still is the legal representative or president of the Roma Association for Dolenjska.
According to the article, he is nowadays most often seen in court for fraud and theft, and in this particular case, for threatening his farmer neighbour.
Whatever he did, this kind of articles does not further the Romani cause.
The RomanoNet platform, covering more than fifteen Roma and pro-Roma organizations, is launching a new online campaign called “50 shades of anti-Roma racism in the Czech Republic”. The main goal of the campaign is to fight against prejudices, stereotypes and expressions of hateful behavior directed against the Roma.
The Museum of Roma Culture in Slovakia has been actively involved in research, documentation and presentation of the rich cultural heritage of the Roma since 2004. “The exhibition will introduce visitors to the history of the museum and its predecessor – the Documentation Centre of Roma Culture, its development and professional activities, as well as the importance of preserving the cultural identity of the Roma through museum activities,” said Kiripolská.
The Exhibition is titled “Hin amen museum!” –[We have a museum].
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