Tuesday, December 30, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATTI

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"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine". Patti Smith, poet, godmother of punk, political activist turned 62 today. ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

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DECEMBER 29 On December 29, 1890, United States troops sent to disarm the Native People at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, massacred an estimate...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

SPORTS AS IT SHOULD BE

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This is the best news I've heard from the sports world since Mohammad Ali. Article was printed by Tolerance.ca Anti-racism Basketball G...
Friday, December 26, 2008

FROM EUROPEAN ROMA INFORMATION OFFICE

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The following was published in the newsletter of the European Roma Information Office. Far-right groups across Europe could be gaining suppo...

MS. EARTHA KITT

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Eartha Kitt died yesterday at the age of 83. For me, there was an irony to her dying on Christmas Day. I played Santa Baby many times throu...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

BERLIN MEMORIAL TO SINTI AND ROMA

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On December 19, 2008 work finally began on the Berlin Memorial to the Sinti and Rroma who were victims of the Holocaust, or Porraimos in the...
Friday, December 19, 2008

RACIST STEREOTYPES

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I found this ad for GYPSY FORTUNE TELLER coin bank on an auction site.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ROMA REMEMBRANCE DAY

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B92 News Society : Roma Holocaust marked today 16 December 2008 | 17:35 | Source: B92 BELGRADE -- Roma Holocaust Day is observed on Dec. 16 ...
Monday, December 15, 2008

HATE CRIME

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Jose Sucuzhanay died Friday night from injuries he received in an attack one week ago in New York. Jose and his twin brother, immigrants fro...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

VOICE OF ROMA

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My friend Sani Rifati, a Rom from Kosovo is the president of Voice of Roma in California. This organization is involved in many projects whi...

OBAMA AND THE RROMA

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Rroma in Romania are naming their newborn babies after Barack Obama. Many have totally identified with Obama and think he could by "one...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

FW: [Romano Liloro] ERIO's statement on Council of the EU conclusions on Roma

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Below is a statement of the European Rights Information Office in regards the European Council's Conclusions on the Roma. You can acces...

FACTORY TAKEOVER

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Oh the fun. Bank of America, who withdrew the financing for Republic Windows and Doors last week, has announced they are willing to extend...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

SAND CREEK MASSACRE

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On 29 November 1864 in Sand Creek Colorado, a US army regiment under leadership of a Methodist pastor, acting on orders of the Colorado gove...
Monday, December 8, 2008

LAID OFF WORKERS OCCUPY FACTORY

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Since their layoff on Friday, workers have occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago's North Side. Most of the 250 work...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

JOHN LENNON

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This Monday, 8 December, will be the 28th anniversary of John Lennon's death. He'd by 68 years old had he not been murdered in New ...

Rroma of Kosovo

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Below is a good documentary on the Rroma of Kosovo forced to live in lead contaminated area.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

ODETTA

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And now we've lost Odetta. The amazing singer and civil rights activist died Tues. In less than a month, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba and O...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

MEDIA LIST

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I'm working on an annotated media list for this blog. I keep wanting to call it a bibliography but I don't think that applies gramm...

ESCALATING

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There's been a steady resurgence of right wing survivalist groups in this country since the election of Barak Obama. David Duke's be...
Friday, November 28, 2008

MORE ON DINA BABBITT

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Yesterday I talked with a friend of mine who used to be a lawyer. We discussed the case of Ms. Dina Babbitt and her watercolors. Her opinion...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

GAY NEWS

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Today is the anniversary of the murder of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk by Dan White. White was later released after successfully pleading w...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

W.

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Oh my. In today's Seattle Times there was a picture of George W. Bush visiting the troops at Fort Campbell Kentucky. Across the page w...

TODAY

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On this date in 1883, Sojourner Truth died in Michigan. Truth, born into slavery, is well known for her "Ain't I a woman? speech ...
Monday, November 24, 2008

HOLLYWOOD TEN

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On this date in 1947, a group of writers, directors and actors, who came to be known as the Hollywood Ten, were cited for contempt of Congre...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

DINA BABBITT

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Today I received a letter from Chairman Barloszewski of the Auschwitz Holocaust Museum. The board has decided, once again, to deny Ms. Babb...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

TOXIC WASTE AND THE OPPRESSED

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I saw a very good film on PBS last night called March Point. It was basically a documentary on Anacortes oil refineries and their effect on ...

DINA BABBITT

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I've been waiting all day to hear the decision of the Auschwitz Museum Board of Directors concerning the return of Dina Babbitt's wa...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

DINA BABBITT

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A decision has been made in the case of Ms. Dina Babbitt. We will be notified as soon as the decision has been translated and okayed for re...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

DINA BABBITT

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On Nov. 17, the board of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is meeting. One of the items on the agenda is the return of Ms. Dina Babbitt's wa...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

VIDEO -- SINTI

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Below is a video from YouTube made by Sinti in Germany. This is the tribe my mother was from. Most Sinti in Germany were murdered in the Ho...

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Monday, November 10, 2008

MIRIAM MAKEBA

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Miriam Makeba, Mamma Africa, died this morning in Italy after performing a concert in support of immigrants. The concert was also held to ...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

EQUALITY IN AMERICA

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With the election of Barack Obama America rejoiced. Every news program I watched featured people saying how now anyone could achieve anythin...
Friday, November 7, 2008

7 NOVEMBER

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1916---Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman in the US to be elected to Congress. 1917---Russia's Bolshevik Revolution be...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

SUSAN B ANTHONY

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On this day, 1972, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting for President of the United States. She was arrested at her home the day after s...
Monday, November 3, 2008

YMA SUMAC 1922-2008

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Yma Sumac, the Peruvian born singer died Saturday night in Los Angeles CA. Ms Sumac's spectacular multi-octave vocal range and exotic pe...
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Saturday, November 1, 2008

STUDS TERKEL

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Studs Terkel died yesterday at the age of 96. He really was a working class hero. He wanted his epitaph to say "Curiosity didn't ki...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

ENGLAND

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Sometime in the 1990's, 1994 I think, England passed the Caravan Sites Act, which decreed that Gypsies (Roma and Travelers) could only c...