tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157Wed, 05 May 2010 16:31:14 +0000News about the Rom/Roma/Gypsy along with environmental, wildlife and animal news and alerts.http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/gypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)Blogger629125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4895413678168969687Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:02:00 +00002010-03-29T08:02:27.967-05:00ChildrenGypsyChildren CrimeEuropeGypsy crimeBy Mark BannermanUpdated Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:13am AEDT One of Romania's most powerful criminals has warned his country must do something to stop the wave of Gypsy child crime that is sweeping Europe or face a backlash against Romanians. Simply known as Breliant, he freely boasts a pedigree rich in thieves. But this week on Four Corners he explains that unless gangs run by his countrymen stop usinghttp://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/gypsy-child-crime-wave-grips-europe.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-2583160141389327204Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:52:00 +00002010-03-29T07:52:44.483-05:00HungaryRomaCrimeGypsyGypsy Discrimination(Reuters) - The scenario is classic. Hungary's economy is in crisis, its large Roma minority is an easy scapegoat, and a far-right party blaming "Gypsy crooks" and "welfare spongers" is set to be the big winner. READ MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62S1CU20100329 http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/far-right-gains-could-put-hungary.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-2019311909223314191Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:33:00 +00002010-03-27T15:33:32.653-05:00racial profilingCrimeGypsyEuropeBy NICK WILSON WASHINGTON (CN) - As illegal immigration has increased in Europe, so have the "ineffective and counterproductive" racial profiling practices of European police, said experts at a Monday meeting of the Helsinki Commission. "Ethnic profiling is targeting people because of who they are instead of what they have done," Rachel Neild said.      Neild from the Open Society Institute, http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/racial-preconceptions-profiling-higher.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-6761084417609020233Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:27:00 +00002010-03-27T15:27:31.791-05:00TravellersTravellers SitesGypsyGypsy CampThursday, March 25, 2010, 07:40 A SHAKE-UP in planning rules will cut the time it takes to evict Gypsies and travellers from unauthorised developments. Last autumn three Gypsy families were given six months to quit after Plymouth City Council planning committee turned down two retrospective applications to stay on plots on Ridge Road, Plympton. The council admitted later that http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/shake-up-will-lead-to-faster-gypsy.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-8426452898807863302Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:17:00 +00002010-03-27T15:17:30.942-05:00TravellersTravellers SitesGypsyGypsy Camp<!-- #BeginEditable "content" --> <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <!--editorial@hamhigh.co.uk--> 24 March 2010By Mike Brooke BORIS Johnson wants to cut by half the target for the number of Gypsy and Traveller sites London must provide. The original target of 538 included in the Mayor’s draft London Plan highlighted doubts that the target could be met, following public http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/boris-wants-to-cut-targets-for-london.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-8648308222562509234Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:44:00 +00002010-03-22T11:04:07.804-05:00SerbsRomaGypsyKosovo Friday, 19 March 2010 12:57 Written by Rick Rozoff March 17 marked the sixth anniversary of a concerted assault against Serbs and other ethnic minorities in Kosovo that resulted in 800 Serbian homes and thirty five Orthodox churches and monasteries being destroyed, 4,000 Serbs and Roma (Gypsies) forced to flee their homes, 900 hundred people injured and 19 killed. http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/11-years-later-nato-powers-prepare.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-582275809938528191Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:17:00 +00002010-03-22T09:19:45.735-05:00UKGypsyJobs9:10am Sunday 21st March 2010 Education minister Leighton Andrews has announced a new £4.6million initiative aimed at helping young people from gypsy traveller communities into employment. Pembrokeshire County Council’s learning and future employment project will receive £2.5m from the Convergence European Social Fund (ESF) through the Welsh Assembly. Read More: http://http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/25m-for-pembrokeshire-county-councils.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-2351157626783918772Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +00002010-03-22T09:15:03.439-05:00Gypsy QueenGypsyQueen CleoRadio host to stake out cemetery to prove myth By JESSICA CUFFMAN • The Marion Star • March 20, 2010 MARION - A local radio host will stake out a local cemetery to determine whether legends surrounding a part of Marion history are true. Scott Spears, WMRN 1490 personality, has been interested in the story of the "Gypsy Queen" since hearing former WMRN host Madge Guthery talk about it at a http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/do-travelers-visit-queen-cleos-grave.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-5269260692209153107Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:09:00 +00002010-03-22T09:09:59.175-05:00UKGypsyGypsy CampScottish councils to share £2m to upgrade amenities for gypsy travellers By Ross Davidson Published: 22/03/2010 Millions of pounds have been given to Scottish councils to upgrade campsites for travellers. Local authorities have shared £2million in the last two years to improve sites set aside for gypsy travellers. Upgrades to come from the Scottish Government grants http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/cash-to-improve-campsites.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-1653148624122808365Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:07:00 +00002010-03-22T09:07:09.060-05:00UKGypsyGypsy CampCouncil Officials reported over treatment of members By Iain Ramage Published: 22/03/2010  THREE Highland councillors accused of bullying senior staff, while trying to get the authority to deal with unlawful gypsy encampments, have lodged a counter-complaint. The councillors allege they have been harassed by the senior officials involved. Inverness area members John http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2010/03/harassment-claim-by-trio-of-councillors.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3130181030920881483Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:48:00 +00002009-09-07T09:51:32.291-05:00Roxy FreemanGypsy EducationRacismChildrenGypsyGypsy FamilyRoxy Freeman never went to school. But at the age of 22, she decided to get a formal education, forcing her to face up to the prejudices that blight her Gypsy community – and to shackle her wandering spirit.Roxy FreemanThe Guardian, Monday 7 September 2009 The receptionist looked at me with disdain when I walked into Suffolk College asking to enrol. Their access course for mature students didn't http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/my-gypsy-childhood.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3127979185657030962Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:39:00 +00002009-09-07T09:42:15.653-05:00United StatesGypsy CultureRomaGypsySonia MeyerWilderness House Literary Review announces a one hour lecture by noted Gypsy (Roma) scholar Sonia Meyer at 7:00 P. M. on October 14, 2009 at the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tickets are $5.00 at the door. Topic is "What Americans can learn from the Gypsies."Littleton, Massachusetts (PRWEB) September 6, 2009 -- Wilderness House Literary Review is pleased to announce a one http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/what-americans-can-learn-from-gypsy.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4305882151441833650Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:16:00 +00002009-09-07T09:19:08.277-05:00FilmsThe Gypsy Film FestivalRoma MusicNYCby Paul Caine September 1, 2009Gypsies. The subject of much lore, fear, and confusion—think organ grinders, caravans, and petty theft—they make up an ethnic group (the Romani) that most folks don't know much about, but which has a major presence across Europe and Asia and an artistic legacy that deserves wider acclaim.Luckily, people are starting to catch on, and expunge any memory of terrible http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/gypsies-invade-new-york-bring-with-them.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4969852836296253627Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:06:00 +00002009-09-07T09:08:01.459-05:00RomaniaGypsy ChildrenGypsyBy Kelsey Abbruzzese/Daily News correspondentTue Sep 01, 2009, 08:46 AM EDTA Rivers School senior hoping to return to Romania and help abandoned and disabled children there is holding a benefit concert in Holliston to raise money for her trip.Alicia Palmisano, who grew up in Holliston and now lives in Natick, first went to Romania as part of a school service trip in March 2008. After playing withhttp://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/student-holds-benefit-concert-in.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4068692342443156215Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:58:00 +00002009-09-07T09:01:02.968-05:00CrimeGypsy ChildrenGypsyChildren CrimeGangsSpainBBC NEWSBy Sam BagnallThis WorldAcross Europe thousands of Roma (Gypsy) children are being forced onto the streets to beg and steal, and law enforcement agencies are seemingly powerless to prevent it.Cash machines in Madrid are a particular target for street crime. The cardholder is distracted at the crucial moment by one person, allowing a child to dive in, grab the money and run http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/how-gypsy-gangs-use-child-thieves.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4545873840902308839Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:51:00 +00002009-09-07T08:53:32.904-05:00TravellersFilmsUKTravellers SitesGypsyGypsy CampThu, 27 Aug 2009 By Emily TwinchA media charity has produced a film promoting the need for more Gypsy and Traveller sites.The Rural Media Company’s DVD, Sites and Rights, features a series of interviews to try to dispel prejudices.It starts by saying 150,000 Gypsies and Travellers live in houses or on unauthorised sites in England and Wales and that a recent audit revealed nearly 4,000 families http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/gypsy-and-traveller-film-to-challenge.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-6370372803787092683Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:36:00 +00002009-09-07T08:45:33.261-05:00UKRacismGypsyGypsy Camp1:55pm Monday 24th August 2009By Michael PurtonA FARM owner has hit back at criticism of her decision to rent a field to gypsies, saying the complaints are racist.Last week Beverley Smit rented one field of her 50 acre home, Cranbourne Farm in Sole Street, to a travelling pentecostal gypsy church.Around 300 people in almost 200 caravans stayed in the field off Copt Hall Road until Sunday (August http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/sole-street-complaints-about-gypsies.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-256045071027313134Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:28:00 +00002009-09-07T08:31:48.426-05:00RiotsGypsySpainNigerian"This is open urban warfare".These were the excited words of the President of the Orson Welles Neighbourhood Society, Ginés Quiñonero Solano, after more than a thousand people rioted today in Palma de Mallorca, leading to running battles between ethnic Gitano (Gypsy) groups and African Immigrants, mainly Nigerian. Police battled to keep control, and three people were left seriously injured. Most http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/riots-between-gypsy-and-nigerian.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3694936214711468056Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:14:00 +00002009-09-07T08:23:09.162-05:00HungaryRomaGypsy ViolenceGypsyBy NICHOLAS KULISHPublished: August 21, 2009The Hungarian police arrested four people early Friday in connection with a series of killings of Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, that have shaken the Roma community and raised ethnic tensions across Hungary. The police said the suspects were arrested at a bar in Debrecen in eastern Hungary. A half-dozen Roma have been killed over the past year http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/09/hungary-4-detained-in-gypsy-killings.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-1402784806418789808Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:01:00 +00002009-08-27T08:02:55.739-05:00MadonnaRomaGypsyGypsy DiscriminationBucharestAP: BUCHAREST, Romania – Thousands of fans have booed pop star Madonna after she spoke out against the discrimination of Gypsies in eastern Europe during one of her concerts.Madonna paused in the two-hour concert to say that Gypsies, also known as Roma, were discriminated against in eastern Europe. She said that made her "sad" and nobody should be discriminated against.Thousands in the crowd of http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/madonna-booed-in-bucharest-for.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-1755545514802884736Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:31:00 +00002009-08-19T10:33:25.590-05:00FilmsRomaRomaniachild traffickingLiviu TipuritaGypsy crimeThis World: Gypsy Child ThievesWednesday 2nd September 7.00pm BBC2Produced/Directed/Presented by Liviu TipuritaFrom Madrid to Milan to London, European cities have experienced a surge of street crime since the accession of Eastern European countries to the European Union in 2007. Much of it – pick pocketing, theft from bags, stealing from cash machines – is carried out by Romani Gypsy children http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/gypsy-child-thieves.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-8907795874272013761Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:53:00 +00002009-08-19T09:56:20.261-05:00MoneyGypsy ViolenceGypsyLoan SharksSea GypsiesRAWAI, PHUKET: Threats of beatings and electrocution by loan sharks have abated for scores of Moken sea gypsies since a Phuket-based community organization stepped in to help.The ‘Poor’s Right to Develop Phuket Network’ (PRDPN) paid off debts worth more than half a million baht for 162 Rawai sea gypsies earlier this month.Nevertheless, hundreds of residents of the sea gypsy village near Rawai http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/community-group-helps-pay-off-phuket.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3421964832586083783Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:41:00 +00002009-08-19T09:38:41.898-05:00RomaActivistGypsyGypsy DiscriminationRoma NGOA young activist is on a mission to debunk stereotypes and end discrimination against one of the worst-treated ethnic groups in Europe.By Brian Salmi for Southeast European Times in Podgorica -- 17/08/09Clean-cut, dressed nattily and well-groomed, Jaha Samir is about as far away from the Gypsy stereotype as he can get. He is educated, articulate and industrious -- a poster child for a new http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/roma-not-dirty-word.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-8037527472278660091Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:36:00 +00002009-08-19T08:38:39.742-05:00Gypsy ViolenceGypsyCzech RepublicPublished: Aug. 17, 2009 at 4:13 PMPRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Czech police are seeking an ultra-rightist who likely orchestrated racially motivated assaults on Gypsies, a Czech lawyer said.Four men, all in their mid-20s, last week were charged in an arson attack that police described as the "attempted murder" of a Gypsy family, but attorney Markus Pape told the Czech news agancy CTKhttp://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/czechs-seeking-gypsy-attacks-mastermind.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4997260705939755892Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:05:00 +00002009-08-17T15:22:00.967-05:00United StatesDjangoColoradoGypsy JazzDjangoFest Colorado Brings Gypsy Jazz to Mt. Crested Butte Concerts & workshops slated for Labor Day weekend, September 5 - 6GUNNISON-CRESTED BUTTE, CO - DjangoFest Colorado celebrates the tradition and spirit of Django Reinhardt, the great French/Belgian gypsy guitarist, and returns to Mt. Crested Butte for the second consecutive year over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 5 - 6. The two-day festival http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/djangofest-colorado-brings-gypsy-jazz.htmlgypsyadvice@yahoo.com (Allie)0