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Category: Rights, Racism and Justice
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Burn Them Out: When Public Safety is a Smokescreen for Hate
A man stands on a Traveller site. He’s a council tenant. He pays rent. He calmly explains to a news crew that the site is overcrowded, the caravans are too close, and if one goes up in flames, they all will. He asks to work with the council to fix it. What does he get…
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Did We Give You the Kilt and Bagpipes, and In Return You Gave Us Intergenerational Trauma?
Did we give you the kilt and the bagpipe, and in return you gave us silence ? This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a reckoning. For generations, Scottish Gypsy/Travellers were persecuted not only through public disdain but through deliberate, state-backed efforts to erase who we are. In March 2025, the Scottish Government finally admitted it: what…
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We demand The Sun stops publishing hatebait articles targeting Gypsies and Travellers
Open Letter to The Sun and Media Outlets Fueling Hate To the Editors of The Sun and Others Who Trade in Outrage, Your recent article—“Travellers bulldoze Green Belt when residents sleep”—wasn’t journalism. It was rage bait, calculated to provoke fear and hate, not inform the public. And it worked. The story was swamped with toxic comments.…
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The Scent of Death Hung in the Air
The Scent of Death Hung in the Air I left my family singing and telling ghost stories and I walked into the village to buy bread. My little sister danced happily around the fire as my mother prepared the meal.I heard a slow rumble of thunder and looked to the sky as the military trucks…
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Gypsy Clean Up Week
I often remember being told that we must understand the past to learn from it. So As i read an article on hmd.org.uk that explains “On 13 June 1938 German police began a week of operations against Roma and Sinti people in Germany. Roma and Sinti prisoners © USHMM By 18 June over 1,000 Roma…
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Open Letter to anyone who will help affect change
I remember my first day back at school all too well, we were living roadside, it was the norm for my family back then. We had gone away for a few months and were back for the winter, the memory was scorched on my brain so much that when I was in my early 20’s…
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Please let’s stand together
Heads up people, The Government is looking to change the law! They are looking to be able to move encampments immediately. This includes roadside and private sites without planning permission!! Don’t get all annoyed and write on here how unfair everything is and what t wouldn’t happen if you were black or Asian!!! Black and Asian ppl…
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TIMELINE!
Time Line Before AD 400. Some Indians become nomadic craftsmen and entertainers. 430-443. The Persian poet Firdawsi reports in the Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings), written c.1000, how the Persian Shah Bahram Gur persuades the Indian King Shangul to send him 10,000 Luri musicians to be distributed to the various parts of the Persian kingdom. 820-834. Zott state established on the banks of the…