tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:17:46 +0000News about the Rom/Roma/Gypsy along with environmental, wildlife and animal news and alerts.http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/gypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)Blogger619125tag: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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.com (Allie)2tag: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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.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@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-8851520607292039092Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:06:00 +00002009-08-14T12:09:17.084-05:00TravellersDomestic ViolenceGypsy WomenGypsyFifteen years after the UK's only refuge for Gypsy and Travelling women opened, a new generation is acknowledging the problem of violent relationships.Jill ClarkThe Guardian, Friday 14 August 2009For Kay, the beatings came three weeks into her marriage. She and her partner, both from Irish Travelling families, met on the road as teenagers before becoming pen pals. It wasn't until they settled http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/on-road-to-change-dealing-with-domestic.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3123825361950989767Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-08-14T12:04:43.124-05:00Gypsy CultureRomaGypsySonia MeyerGypsy HistoryFictionBy Doug HolderOff The ShelfI admit it. I was among the ilk that bought into the tired stereotype of the Gypsies as jobless vagrants, with a lot of kids, living in a tent camp, with the requisite dancing and fortune teller. I never took the time to think of them as anything more than stick figures. Being a Jew I heard from my relatives about the atrocities my family and the greater Jewish people http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/sonia-meyer-local-writer-who-throws.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-6248404604941982858Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:00 +00002009-08-12T11:03:13.925-05:00HungaryGypsy ViolenceGypsyracial tensionBUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom condemned assaults on Gypsies and warned such incidents could undermine the country's stability.Solyom was commenting on the Aug. 3 slaying of a 45-year-old Romany, or Gypsy, woman and the multiple gunshot wounding of her 13-year-old daughter in their home in Kisleta village, northeast Hungary.The president said the assault is http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/hungary-assaults-on-gypsies-hurt.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-6777876879862711576Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:53:00 +00002009-08-12T10:57:14.612-05:00SlovakiaDiscriminationRomaRacismGypsy Violenceracial tensionBy Jan Cienski in Warsaw and Tom Nicholson in BratislavaPublished: August 10 2009 03:00 Last updated: August 10 2009 03:00Tensions between Slovak nationalists and the country's large Roma minority escalated over the weekend when riot police had to break up an anti-gypsy march in the country's east.About 200 members of the far-right Slovenska Pospolitost (Slovak Brotherhood) pelted police with http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/slovakia-latest-flashpoint-for-anti.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3087257092725079868Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:33:00 +00002009-08-12T10:51:01.292-05:00HungaryRacismGypsy ViolenceGypsyracial tensionFuneralThe Associated PressFriday, August 7, 2009; 1:15 PMKISLETA, Hungary -- Hundreds of people gathered Friday to pay their respects at the funeral of a 45-year-old woman, the sixth fatal victim in a series of attacks against Gypsies in Hungary.Police say the attacks are linked, may have been committed by the same small group, and that the weapons used in Monday's shooting of Maria Balogh and her 13-http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/burial-for-victim-of-attacks-on.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-1122640053609759499Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:25:00 +00002009-08-12T10:28:57.362-05:00Gypsy CaravanUKGypsy WagonHartlebury Castle County MuseumGypsy8:24am Thursday 6th August 2009AN 80-year-old volunteer is building a scale model of a Gypsy caravan - with a little help from a teenage friend.Ced Lewis has been working at Hartlebury Castle’s County Museum on the two-thirds-size bow top wagon for more than a year.He has been supported by Aaron Bannister, 16, a member of the traveller community, who attends Baxter College in Kidderminster.The http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/scaled-down-gypsy-caravan-taking-shape.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-4716124408679258638Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +00002009-08-05T11:41:31.436-05:00RomaniaGypsyGypsy KingCzechPRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A 17-year-old son of the Romanian Gypsy king died of a brain seizure Monday in a Prague hospital, Czech authorities said.The young crown prince and a would-be successor to the Romanian Gypsy throne suffered serious internal injuries when he nearly drowned while swimming in a Czech lake outside Prague 13 days ago, Jana Jelinkova, spokeswoman for the hospitalhttp://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/romanian-gypsy-crown-prince-dies-in.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-5409958469092861665Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:26:00 +00002009-08-05T11:28:09.033-05:00RomaniHungaryRacismGypsy ViolenceGypsyBUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A Gypsy woman was shot to death and her daughter was seriously injured Monday in northeast Hungary in what was characterized as a racial assault, police said.The mother and her daughter, 13, were attacked in their home on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Kisleta, a local government official told the Budapest Times.Kisleta Mayor Sandor Penzsesz said http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/hungary-gypsy-woman-killed-daughter.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-3504484730712657373Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:52:00 +00002009-08-03T08:55:42.755-05:00TravellersUKGypsy EducationDale FarmTravellers SitesGypsy HealthGypsyGypsy SitesGypsy FamilyIllegal SitesBy Helen GradyProducer, Beyond WestminsterEvery year millions of pounds are spent by local councils on evicting Gypsies and travellers from illegal camp sites. The government thinks the answer is to create more authorised sites, but who should decide where they go?Len Gridley has some problems with his neighbours. The first is that there are 1,000 of them. The second is that they have set up whathttp://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/why-should-i-live-by-gypsies.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587519819190297157.post-7030112069857548550Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:42:00 +00002009-08-03T08:48:04.882-05:00Gypsy ArtAuschwitz-BirkenauBabbitHolocaustHer long and unsuccessful campaign to retrieve the seven paintings of doomed Gypsy prisoners from a Polish state museum at Auschwitz became a rallying point for other artists and Holocaust survivors.Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who had been forced to paint portraits of fellow prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp and later sought to recover the artworks from a museum there, died http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsynews/2009/08/dina-gottliebova-babbitt-dies-at-86.htmlgypsyadvice@gmail.com (Allie)1