ROMA, GYPSIES ARE THE KEEPERS OF THIS EARTH, ROMA AND THE ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION. We are the Keepers of this Earth The earth has no boundaries, all countries are part of the whole, so along come people and divide it all up, speak different languages and so on, then they get all possessive about a country and land being theirs, mine! They don't want Gypsies traveling around 'their' country and even more so they hate the idea that we are not settled and educated. Educated at what I might ask, just look at what their education offers, what it does do is take us away from the earth and animals. Well I'm so very sick and tired of being told that we Romanies have no rights because we have no land, of course we have a bloody land, its the world. So when people ask me, Where is your country, where is your land, I reply that the world is my country and land and that we are the traveling people who travel to care for all the world and to watch what all the other people do to care for the world. The reason that Romanies are so neglected in the UN is because we are stateless, well we are not! We are travelers of the world, all the world is our home! We are not landless, and I also dislike Romanies saying that we have no land no country, of course we have, in my opinion, the world is mine to care for and if people do have a land and home then why the hell aren't they caring for it instead of bombing and polluting it to bits! I think all Gypsies should state that our land is the world and that we have the right to travel that world with pride and not persecution! By Catherine Johns USA TEXAS 2009 It seems the KKK from Texas found a new race to blame and hate. The Romas (Gypsies). The unhappy citizens of Texas are blaming the Gypsies for every crime done in USA. The crimes that supposed to be done by the Romas are the following: When a Roma falls down in the shop and claiming insurance for the injury it is considered by the Texans as a crime; It's said, the Roma put the object front of him/herself to fall down deliberately to claim insurance. If the airport loses the baggage of a Roma and they are claiming compensation, again it is considered a fraud.  When jewelry or money disappears from a Texas home without looking like it's being burglarized, blamed on the Romas again. It's believed that the Roma are so skillful they can manage to rob a house without making a mess whilst looking for items to take. Also it's believed we are able to brake into the house without forcing or braking windows. (hmm its must be magic) they are claiming we Romas can open window locks without any trace left behind.  They don't even considering that maybe the Texas home owner is making a false report to claim insurance for his/her missing items. They blame it on the Gypsies. They even opened a website under the name fraudteck.bizland, and they are openly blaming "every" crime on Romas in USA done by the Gypsies. The author of the article is By John Nicholas who claiming to be a Roma himself... hmmm again.  I'm sure John Nicholas is really an inbreed member of the KKK. Hilda Schultheiss. If you have any comments on this issue, please write to our guestbook.   Italy 2008 - A fire burn in a Roma (Gypsy) camp in Rome on the night of the 23 July; according to some, it was an attack with Molotov bombs; the police excluded that they could not find proofs, while NGOs have different views. Two children of the Roma (Gypsy) ethnic group drown in Naples, while THE bodies of two drowned Roma children lay covered by towels.. holidaymakers carried on, unfazed enjoying the sun.     Published Date: 21 July 2008 By NICK PISA IN ROME THE bodies of two drowned Roma children, Cristina, aged 16, and Violetta, 14,  lay covered by towels on an Italian beach while holidaymakers carried on, unfazed enjoying the sun. I wonder what was the pope doing? Maybe he was among those holidaymakers...?       The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls... But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children Italy, 26.7.2008, 10:10, (Daily Mail)   It was the week's most shocking picture: gipsy girls dead on a beach ignored by sunbathers... Now there is more chilling evidence of how Italy's brutal crackdown on the Roma has sick echoes of the country's fascist past. She looks like any teenager the world over. Wearing a denim skirt, pink designer T-shirt, and with long hair tied back from her face, Samantha is a child who would make any parent proud. Yet just a few days ago, this bubbly 14-year-old found herself taking part in an excercise that would seem unthinkable in a modern, civilised European country. She was ordered to line up at the local community hall near her home in Naples, Italy, and dab her right forefinger in black ink before placing it on a government census form. Samantha was photographed and given an identity code - F43 - as officials asked for her full name, address, age, religion and where she was born. Most controversially of all, she was told to state her ethnic background. Every detail, including the fact that her parents are immigrant Roma gipsies from Serbia, was catalogued and put on a national computer system. She was mortified. Her eyes bright with anger, Samantha said she felt like a villain in the only country she has ever known. 'That same day, the Italian kids started calling me "gyppo" in the streets. They pointed at me and laughed. I felt like shouting back and saying: 'I am Italian just like you. I was born here too. 'But I didn't dare, in case I started a riot.' Samantha was taking part in a compulsory new census of Italy's 160,000 Roma people, promised by the inflammatory Right-wing premier Silvio Berlusconi in the run-up to his successful election this spring. Please see full article in [size=http://romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_974]     Israel 2009   Many Gypsies have lost their lives, and many more have been left wounded. Those, who are left live in fear and despair, worrying about what is yet to come. The ones living in Gaza have often lost everything they had. It is heart breaking for us, also because our ethnic group, already small, is decimating. Watching our relatives suffer is not easy as well. See more images: http://www.mundiromani.com/about_us/?film[film][keyvalue]=35#film           Roma ignored at the UN Commemoration of International D ay in the memory of the Holocaust. by Bill Templer http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/templer170109.html The president of the European Roma and Travellers Forum, Rudko Kawczynski, has expressed outrage at the decision by the U.N. to formally exclude the Roma from its commemoration ceremony on International day in Memory of the Holocaust, January 27, in the General Assembly Hall in New York City.  He noted that "the Holocaust was the implementation of the Final Solution, Hitler's genocide programme intended to eradicate the genetic contaminants in his plan to create a master race.  Only Roma and Jews were subject to the Final Solution, and both peoples lost the same percentage of their total number.  However, since the end of the war in 1945, nothing has been done to acknowledge the Romani survivors."  A Resilient Spirit By Catherine Johns, published by Lothian I dont mind that you put my opinions up on the bazaar, they are the talk of my walk.Just look what is happening in Italy, the excuse is so old its boring, that we 'steal' children, oh please, they are so ignorant and hateful, they just dont want us to travel, to be free in spirit and place. My father line is Welsh, my mother line Irish. I was born in Australia and traveled on the road with my father for the first eleven years of my life. Occasionally we would live in a house, then move on. My mother would come to live with us only if we had a house, but then she'd get restless and off she'd go after about three weeks, with a new lover, of course. So I grew up with my father, sometimes having to stay with my mother, and often her lover, sometimes with my father and mother, often with my Nana, my mothers mother, three times in the orphanage, when my father had left me with my mother and she dumped me in there to run off,yet again, my Nana would come and get me, and for a few months with a guardian, so that I attended school as the welfare were going to take me into one of their homes as it was seen as 'bad' for me to be wandering with my father. I dislike the police and welfare, social workers and the like, they felt they had the 'right' to control our lives, they came into camp, into our homes and told us the way we had to live, their way, they never understood our ways. Even now all the social workers don't understand, they don't live or think the way we do but they are paid lots of money to be experts or some such to inter fear in our lives. By the time I went out to paid work at 14 I had been to 20 schools,all up I've been to 25 as I went back to formal education as an adult, and then to uni and teachers college. Jobs i've had many, I get bored being inside, I get bored! I need to be free not to be tied down by a job or money. Now I am on a disability pension as I have a serious injury due to a horse accident and I'm no longer able to be insured, so I live as I have always done, simply and so very richly. I have only a few dollars left over every weeks but you know, I grow my own veggies, make my own chees, milk a goat and live as one of the richest people on this planet. I have my horses and carts, my big clydesdale, five dogs and a spirit of living that is so rich and overflowing that for me is my walk and I walk to speak for the animals and the mother earth. Add your comment in our guestbook A brutal arson attack took place on February 23 in the village of Tatárszentgyörgy, Hungary, about 40 kilometers from the capital Budapest in which a Roma man and his five-year-old son were shot dead as they were trying to escape from their burning house. This attack was the 17th in a series of violent crimes in Hungary that have targeted Roma in the past year, including fire bombings of Roma homes. As with the earlier attacks, so far no suspects have been identified or detained.   On March 3rd, will be the burial of the victims in the village of Tatárszentgyörgy. Should any of you have the posibility to attend the funeral service, it will start at 1 P.M.   If not, a candle lit at that time will be an important sign of sympathy and solidarity.