That’s right, this month we’re spreading the BOMBA! across town and staging our shenanigans at the beautiful Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood for an unforgettable one-off night celebrating our 11th magic month in The City of Angels.

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• Romanian fans boo Madonna (guardian.co.uk)

On Saturday, the Associated Press reports that actor Ethan Hawke, while in Romania has come to Madonna’s defense saying, “She transcended being a pop star. She drew international attention and shone the spotlight on a level of racism and the need for greater education.”ethan

Madonna’s publicist said the the star “has been touring with a phenomenal troupe of Roma musicians who made her aware of the discrimination toward them in several countries so she felt compelled to make a brief statement during the concert.”

There were a few cheers from the crowd but her words were generally not met with support. Human rights advocates say the Roma, who live predominately in Southern and Eastern Europe, probably suffer more humiliation and endure more discrimination than any other group on the continent.

via ROMANY NEWS | Amala School.

via Amala School | Romany Gypsy Music Dance Language Culture.

With all appeals exhausted and pleas for mercy from rights activists and European officials unheeded, Vasily Yusepchuk is to be killed Soviet-style — with a bullet in the back of the head. The time and place is a state secret, and if he is executed his family will never be told when he died or where his body is buried.

via The Associated Press: Gypsy laborer faces execution in Belarus.

Forum européen des Roms et des Gens du voyage

European Roma and Travellers Forum

ERTF Charter

on the Rights of the Roma

1. More than seven centuries ago, our People were enslaved in the Indian subcontinent in the course of the Islamization of India and expelled towards Europe during the Islamic wars.

2. For more than six centuries, we Roma have lived here in Europe. Our history has been marked by Antiziganism, slavery, discrimination, persecution, expulsion, violence and genocide; this history has been written with our people’s blood.

3. Hundreds of thousands of our people were victims of the Parraijmos, the Holocaust on Roma , murdered in the name of the Nazi race mania, abused for pseudo-medical experiments and gassed in concentration camps. This injustice and crime against our people has too often been concealed, ignored, treated as a footnote to history, or simply forgotten.

via ERTF CHARTER VOT NOW!.

DEN TUMARO VOTO AKANA VASH E ERTF-ski Karta anda e
Romenge Chachimata ERTF Karta anda e Romenge Chachimata
Soske jekh Karta specijalno e Romenge?
Pala e situacija le Romengi pala e manushikane chachimata ande thema membre anda o Konsilo la Europako, o Forumo akceptujsardas te buhlearel jekh them-pala-tem dikhipe,
thaj pala e analiza le situacijaki, te kerel sugestije thaj propozalura ke sar te phageren pes e problemura le rasismoske thaj Anti-Ciganismoske save arakhle pes ande svako them.
E rekomandacije thaj e rezolucije save si akana si len duj kovlimata:
Anglunes, e inter-governmentalno institucii, sar si o OSCE, o UN-Komisija anda e Manushikane Chachimata, vaj o Konsilo la Europako, si len e tendinca te keren buki anda jekh vacuum thaj lenge konkluzije si butivar dilujme sar jekh rezultato katar e negocijacije. E participacija katar e reprezentative le Romenge ande preparacija kadale tekstongi shaj te reshil jekh rig anda kado problemo.
Dujto, kadala rekomandacije thaj rezolucije maj butivar na-j musaj/obligatorichno; thaj butivar na-j aplikime katar e thema membre. Kana si te keren pes lacharimata anda e
protekcija le manushikane chachimatengi anda Roma, jekh obligatorichno Europaki Karta anda e Romenge Chachimata trebul te ramol pes tha te avel ratifikime katar e thema membre. Kado shaj delas voja le Romenge thaj lenge reprezentativenge te len opre sa e legalnb mesuri kash te kerel pes siguro e implemetacija le mesurengi.

Online Referendum on the European Roma Rights Charter.

Cable address: Gou Gras Graz, Lanhaus, Herrengasse,
Deputy Gauleiter
Graz, 9 January 1938
Reich Minister Dr. Lamers,
Berlin W 8
Dear Reich Minister,
In the enclosure I beg to submit to you my nowly edited thesis on the Gypsy
problem.
Heil Hitler,
(Signature) Portschy
Deputy Gauleiter
Enclosure
The Solution of the Gypsy problem.
How urgent it is, to solve the Gypsy problem, is obvious from all these
considerations. Up to date, it was possible to hear various opinions as to
what that solution, should be like. They are to be quoted in detail here
because they show, in how blind and corrupt a manner the matter was tacked
by the politicians of the System.

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Shoah Resource Center

‘Why is that?’ I asked him.

‘Because Indians tend to get mistaken for Gypsies.’

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Desicritics.org: Should India Speak Up for the European Romani?.

It said about 55 percent of minority residents and migrants felt ethnically-inspired bias was widespread, but of the 12 percent who reported witnessing a racist crime in the past 12 months, 80 percent did not go to police about it.

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Financialmirror.com News – Bias against Roma, Africans acute in EU, unreported.