ROMA, GYPSIES ARE THE KEEPERS OF THIS EARTH, ROMA AND THE ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION.

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

Paintings by Roma artists..