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Tag: Gypsy and Traveller Communities
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Planning Policy is Being Rewritten. Gypsy & Traveller Voices Must Be Heard.
Right now, the Government is consulting on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). That might sound technical, but the reality is simple: Planning policy decides whether Gypsy and Traveller families can have a lawful place to live. For decades our communities have been caught in a cycle: • there are not enough authorised…
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Rebranded Existence: When the State Criminalises Our Lives but Celebrates Our Idea
Tonight I spent my time writing welfare reports. Not abstract exercises, not box-ticking paperwork, but detailed accounts of how our communities actually live. I wrote about how Gypsy and Traveller communities operate intrinsically: how we form micro-communities grounded in kinship, shared responsibility, reciprocity, and deep connection to place and land. I described how care is…
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When Rules Are Only Meant To Tame Us: Power In The Pen
We’re used to hearing it. “You break the rules.”“You don’t follow the system.”“Why can’t you just do things properly?” Those comments get thrown at Gypsy & Traveller families all the time, as if exclusion is a personal failing rather than a political design. As if the rules themselves are neutral, fair, and applied equally. They…
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Scraps From the Table: Colonial Britain’s Ongoing Harm to Gypsy and Traveller Communities
Content Warning: This blog contains references to racism, forced displacement, slavery, institutional abuse, forced exclusion, state violence, cultural erasure and intergenerational trauma experienced by Gypsy and Traveller people under colonial and state systems. We live within a colonial system that has, for more than 600 years, labelled Gypsy and Traveller people as criminals, trespassers, and…
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Free Community Journalism
Free Community Journalism training for Gypsies and Travellers We’re looking for Gypsies and Travellers in the Yorkshire/North East Lincolnshire region to collect stories from their families and friends on the topic of health. We are running some free training sessions to help give you the skills to do this. People who attend and fully participate…
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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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Reclaiming Culture: The Gypsy Traveller Narrative
I feel I need to give you a little back ground to the project and the name. For many years now certain channels have been making mockumentaries about My Community and other “Traveller” groups. Which ever “Traveller” or “Roma” community is being talked about, which ever community I recognise on the TV, radio or print,…
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Modern Day Gypsies in the Media
Today i was shown the new David Brent Parody, I am interested in gaining opinions on it. Let us know if you are a Gypsy, Traveller or just interested in the subject matter