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A Man of Two Worlds by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/04/17/a-man-of-two-worlds-by-andrea-dean-van-scoyoc/

#Gypsies are better than #normies.

More images by Czech born , French photographerJosef Koudelka.

#josefkoudelka #photography #photographer #gypsies #fotografia #fotografie #roma #photoworld #fotoworld #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #blackandwhitephotography

More images by Czech born , French photographerJosef Koudelka.

#josefkoudelka #photography #photographer #gypsies #fotografia #fotografie #roma #photoworld #fotoworld #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #blackandwhitephotography

Images by Czech born , French photographerJosef Koudelka.

#josefkoudelka #photography #photographer #gypsies #fotografia #fotografie #roma #photoworld #fotoworld #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #blackandwhitephotography

Images by Czech born , French photographerJosef Koudelka.

#josefkoudelka #photography #photographer #gypsies #fotografia #fotografie #roma #photoworld #fotoworld #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #blackandwhitephotography

Parts of police act ‘intrude’ on lives of Gypsies and Travellers, court finds | Roma, Gypsies and Travellers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds

#GRT
#Gypsies
#Roma
#Travellers
#PoliceCrimeAndSentencingAct
#HumanRights
#HumanRightsBreach
#Intrusion
#AntiGRT
#FriendsFamiliesAndTravellers
#TransitPitchMaxStay
#1994CriminalJusticeAndOrderAct
#CriminalJusticeAndOrderActAmendments2022
#HomeOffice
#LackOfLawfulStoppingPlaces

Parts of #PoliceAct ‘intrude’ on lives of #Gypsies and #Travellers, court finds

Sections of the 2022 legislation found to be ‘incompatible’ with the #EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds
#Roma #ToryPoliciesInAction #Repression #HumanRights

Parts of #PoliceAct ‘intrude’ on lives of #Gypsies and #Travellers, court finds

Sections of the 2022 legislation found to be ‘incompatible’ with the #EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds
#Roma #ToryPoliciesInAction #Repression #HumanRights

Parts of #PoliceAct ‘intrude’ on lives of #Gypsies and #Travellers, court finds

Sections of the 2022 legislation found to be ‘incompatible’ with the #EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds
#Roma #ToryPoliciesInAction #Repression #HumanRights

Parts of #PoliceAct ‘intrude’ on lives of #Gypsies and #Travellers, court finds

Sections of the 2022 legislation found to be ‘incompatible’ with the #EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds
#Roma #ToryPoliciesInAction #Repression #HumanRights

Parts of #PoliceAct ‘intrude’ on lives of #Gypsies and #Travellers, court finds

Sections of the 2022 legislation found to be ‘incompatible’ with the #EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/parts-of-police-act-intrude-on-lives-of-gypsies-and-travellers-court-finds
#Roma #ToryPoliciesInAction #Repression #HumanRights

Some good news.

"Today, a High Court Judge declared key provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Police Act 2022), which gave police the power to ban Gypsies and Travellers from an area for up to 12 months under sections 60C, 61 and 62A of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, as incompatible with Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights"
#Gypsies #Travellers #HumanRights #UKPolitics

https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/high-court-declares-parts-of-police-act-2022-in-breach-of-european-convention-of-human-rights/

More #Chinese than #Jews were murdered in #WW2. More or less the same number of Gypsies and Jews were systematically murdered by the German Nazis. Yet very people know about the tragedy of the Gypsies that actually started well before their extermination by the #Nazis. Even today, #Gypsies (#Romanis) are still being discriminated against in many so-called "advanced" European countries, like France and Germany. This documentary is free on Amazon Prime.
#racism

#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship

Gypsies and Travellers and the Harms of Planning: Counter-mapping, Oral Histories and Housing Justice

@ University of Sheffield

Deadline: 15/03/2024

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGC282/phd-studentship-gypsies-and-travellers-and-the-harms-of-planning-counter-mapping-oral-histories-and-housing-justice

#RomaniStudies #Roma #Gypsies #Travellers #OralHistory

#OTD #BOTD #Baile #BaileFlamenco #Dance #Dancestodon #FlamencoDance #Bailaora #FlamencoMusic #PuebloGitano #Gypsy #Gypsies #CarmenAmaya

Han pasado 110 años del nacimiento de esta joya. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Carmen Amaya! 🎂 🥳 💃

https://video.liberta.vip/w/4zuoomP3S9HoCHgkJCa9L9?warningTitle=0&controlBar=0

This is the true color of the "pro-life" #Christians. There are many comments on #Facebook from these "pro-lifers" supporting the murdering of innocent babies, children, and women in Gaza. I am sure these are real accounts, not trolls.

Is #LinseyGraham a human? Are these people humans? No wonder there was the #Holocaust of #Jews and #Gypsies in #Nazi Germany.

#prolife #GOP #humanity #Nazism

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4286928-graham-no-limit-palestinian-deaths-question-israel/

I first saw this symbol when I watched a youtube video about the #Romani (#Gypsies) being deported by the French government which happened more than 10 years ago. What is the meaning of the symbol on the flag? The wheel at the center actually denotes the eternal journey of the Romani people. They call themselves #Roma which means human being. By coincidence, some native Americans also call themselves human beings. The name Adam in Genesis is actually "h'adam" in Hebrew which means "the human".

My research on the German #Gypsies sent me back to #Django Reinhardt, the Three Fingered Lightning, who lost two fingers on his left hand, but was able to play his guitar at lightning speed.

I first listened to his #GypsyJazz back in the 80s when I was subscribed to the Columbia House. My favorite was Minor Swing.

It is a shame I who have five fingers suck at playing #guitar. I eventually switch to #ukulele which is much easier. But I still suck at it. 😂

Should #Antisemitism or the more general term racism be included as part of the definition of #Nazism?

Some historians suggest that Antisemitism is a distinct feature of Nazism and should be required as part of the definition of Nazism. However, Hitler not only murdered Jews systematically, but also Romani, i.e. #Gypsies and Sinti, and Slavs.

Google #Bard says it cannot find any reference with scholars who prefer racism to Antisemitism in defining Nazism. #GPT 3.5 gave me some references.

I didn't know anything about the #Romani #Holocaust of the #German #Gypsies until recently. Besides mass murdering Jews, #Hitler also systematically mass murdered the Gypsies. Perhaps the #Jews are more economically powerful and outspoken than the Gypsies. Most people only heard of the Jewish Holocaust. I will be spending the next couple of days doing my research on the Romani Holocaust.
#nazi #nazis #Nazism

http://radoc.net/radoc.php?doc=art_e_holocaust_responses&lang=pt&articles=true&fbclid=IwAR2NrpGT3azLyUW-3YQUefeW7J0y4yvZ8zL0aorIb_2d2dcTDOM34kpepps

Refused a drink, scapegoated by MPs: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller life in Britain is only getting harder | Ben Smoke | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/gypsy-traveller-life-political-leaflet-mps-racism

#GRT
#Gypsies
#Roma
#Travellers
#Britain
#MPs
#TravellerSites
#BBC
#Tories
#Labour
#Poverty
#Deprivation
#MentalHealth
#LifeExpectancy
#RomaAndSintiGenocideRemembranceDay
#GRTRightsAreHumanRights

JEEZ, just one day after #Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, and here is news of a Tory knob-head dog-whistling against #gypsies and #travellers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/police-investigate-traveller-sites-leaflet-distributed-welsh-secretary

Remembering the Roma Holocaust | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/remembering-roma-holocaust

#Roma
#GRT
#Holocaust
#RomaHolocaust
#Nazis
#BrownTriangles
#Romani
#Sinti
#Gypsies
#ForcedSterilisation
#RomaHolocaustMemorialDay
#Racism

Diane Abbott suspended by Labour after suggesting Jewish people do not face racism | The Independent
#Abbott
#Jews
#Travellers
#Racism
#Antisemitism
#RedHeads
#Irish
#Slavery
#Apartheid
#Holocaust
#GRT
#Roma
#Gypsies
#JewishLabourMovement
#JLM
#CampaignAgainstAntisemitism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diane-abbott-racism-jewish-labour-b2325160.html

I'm currently working on a blog post about my travelling ancestors. The complexities of tracing travelling ancestors means that this will be a long post.
#travellers #gypsies #gloucestershire #wiltshire #familyhistory #genealogy

🇬🇧 On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, remember the millions of victims of the #naziregim during World War II, and in the face of rising anti-Semitism, revisionism and conspiracy theories, we must remain vigilant to combat misinformation and educate future generations about these atrocities.
Millions of #Jews, #Gypsies/Rom/Calós, #Freemasons and other human beings arrested for faith and political reasons, were killed just for thinking or believing differently from an ideology or a group of people.
This door of a concentration camp was unfortunately what many of my #Freemason brothers and sisters saw before going to the Eternal East, on this day I remember them.

🇵🇹 No #DiaLembrançadoHolocaustro, lembra-se as milhões de vítimas do #regimenazi durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e, diante do crescente anti-semitismo, revisionismo e teorias da conspiração, devemos permanecer vigilantes para combater a desinformação e educar as gerações futuras sobre essas atrocidades.
Milhões de judeus, #ciganos/roma/calós, #maçons e outros seres humanos detidos por questões de fé e políticas, foram mortos só por pensarem ou crerem diferente de uma ideologia ou de um conjunto de pessoas.
Esta porta de um campo de concentração foi o que infelizmente muitos dos meus irmãos e irmãs maçons viram antes de irem para o Oriente eterno, neste dia recordo-os.

🇫🇷 Dans le #Jourdusouvenirdel'Holocauste, nous souvenons des millions de victimes du régime nazi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et, face à la montée de l'antisémitisme, du révisionnisme et des théories du complot, nous devons rester vigilants pour lutter contre la désinformation et éduquer les générations futures sur ces atrocités.
Des millions de #juifs, de #gitans/roms/calós, de #francsmaçons et d'autres êtres humains arrêtés pour des raisons religieuses et politiques, ont été tués simplement parce qu'ils pensaient ou croyaient différemment d'une idéologie ou d'un groupe de personnes.
Cette porte d'un camp de concentration était malheureusement ce que beaucoup de mes frères et sœurs #maçons ont vu avant d'aller dans l'Orient Éternel, en ce jour je me souviens d'eux.

🇪🇦 En el #DíadeRecuerdacióndelHolocausto se recuerda los millones de víctimas del régimen nazi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, ante el aumento del antisemitismo, el revisionismo y las teorías de la conspiración, debemos permanecer atentos para combatir la desinformación y educar a las generaciones futuras sobre estas atrocidades.
Millones de #judios, #gitanos/rom/calós, #massones y otros seres humanos detenidos por motivos religiosos y políticos, fueron asesinados sólo por pensar o creer diferente a una ideología oa un grupo de personas.
Esta puerta de un campo de concentración fue lamentablemente la que vieron muchos de mis hermanos #masones y hermanas #masonas antes de ir al Eterno Oriente, en este día los recuerdo.

🇬🇧 On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, remember the millions of victims of the #naziregim during World War II, and in the face of rising anti-Semitism, revisionism and conspiracy theories, we must remain vigilant to combat misinformation and educate future generations about these atrocities.
Millions of #Jews, #Gypsies/Rom/Calós, #Freemasons and other human beings arrested for faith and political reasons, were killed just for thinking or believing differently from an ideology or a group of people.
This door of a concentration camp was unfortunately what many of my #Freemason brothers and sisters saw before going to the Eternal East, on this day I remember them.

🇵🇹 No #DiaLembrançadoHolocaustro, lembra-se as milhões de vítimas do #regimenazi durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e, diante do crescente anti-semitismo, revisionismo e teorias da conspiração, devemos permanecer vigilantes para combater a desinformação e educar as gerações futuras sobre essas atrocidades.
Milhões de judeus, #ciganos/roma/calós, #maçons e outros seres humanos detidos por questões de fé e políticas, foram mortos só por pensarem ou crerem diferente de uma ideologia ou de um conjunto de pessoas.
Esta porta de um campo de concentração foi o que infelizmente muitos dos meus irmãos e irmãs maçons viram antes de irem para o Oriente eterno, neste dia recordo-os.

🇫🇷 Dans le #Jourdusouvenirdel'Holocauste, nous souvenons des millions de victimes du régime nazi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et, face à la montée de l'antisémitisme, du révisionnisme et des théories du complot, nous devons rester vigilants pour lutter contre la désinformation et éduquer les générations futures sur ces atrocités.
Des millions de #juifs, de #gitans/roms/calós, de #francsmaçons et d'autres êtres humains arrêtés pour des raisons religieuses et politiques, ont été tués simplement parce qu'ils pensaient ou croyaient différemment d'une idéologie ou d'un groupe de personnes.
Cette porte d'un camp de concentration était malheureusement ce que beaucoup de mes frères et sœurs #maçons ont vu avant d'aller dans l'Orient Éternel, en ce jour je me souviens d'eux.

🇪🇦 En el #DíadeRecuerdacióndelHolocausto se recuerda los millones de víctimas del régimen nazi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, ante el aumento del antisemitismo, el revisionismo y las teorías de la conspiración, debemos permanecer atentos para combatir la desinformación y educar a las generaciones futuras sobre estas atrocidades.
Millones de #judios, #gitanos/rom/calós, #massones y otros seres humanos detenidos por motivos religiosos y políticos, fueron asesinados sólo por pensar o creer diferente a una ideología oa un grupo de personas.
Esta puerta de un campo de concentración fue lamentablemente la que vieron muchos de mis hermanos #masones y hermanas #masonas antes de ir al Eterno Oriente, en este día los recuerdo.

Edinburgh’s Egypt: the thread about the Morningside “Bible Belt” and Scotland’s earliest Gypsies

This thread was originally written and published in March 2020.

There is a part of Edinburgh described by the travel writer Wilfred Taylor as its “bible belt”, not on account of it being particularly religious but on account of its unusual concentration of place names recalling the Holy Land; Egypt, Canaan, Jordan and more.

In fact in cartographic terms, these are older placenames than Morningside itself, with Canaan and Egypt first appearing in Adair’s map of 1682, a full 55 years before Morningside. Egypt is the oldest of these names, recorded in documents back to 1585 .

The name comes from the medieval idea that the Romany people came from Egypt; a Gipcyan or Gypsy being someone of Egypt in old English. What became Egypt Farm was at this time Little Egypt, just outside the Edinburgh boundary which was the rivulet of the Jordan or Pow Burn. This was held in tradition to be a gathering place of the Lowland Scottish Gypsies. In 1717, the location was on the “march line” or the boundary between jurisdictions and was described as Egypt village in the burgh records.

Romany Gypsies probably first arrived in Scotland at the end of the 15th century, being received by the court of King James IV in 1505. The Stuart King is recorded as corresponding with the “King of Rowmais” (Romanies) and at this time they were looked upon favourably. Their dance, dress and music would have been exotic to the aspiring Renaissance monarch and the King presented them with 10 French Crowns. His son, James V, made payment to them as court dancers in 1529. In 1540 he granted a letter to Johnne Faw (Johnnie Faa) making him “King of the Gypsies“. This letter was addressed to “oure louit Johnne Faw, lord and erle of Litill Egipt” (“our beloved Johnne Faw, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt“). This granted Faa’s authority over all Gypsies in Scotland and sheriffs were obliged to assist “in executione of justice upoun his company and folkis“, who were in turn to “conforme to the lawis of Egipt“. That is, Gypsies lived under their own authority, granted by the crown and their King was based at a settlement or encampment was known as Little Egypt.

However in 1541 the Town Council of Edinburgh expelled the Gypsies from their jurisdiction on accusations of “great thiftis and scaithis done”; great theft and damage done, and it is the supposition that this caused them to move their encampments across the Jordan Burn from the city’s land of the Burgh Muir to the Braid estate on the other. By 1585, Robert Fairlie, the Laird of Braid, granted the city the use of his house called “Littil Egypt” for brewing ale outside the city boundary for the residents on the Burgh Muir afflicted by the plague.

Queen Regent Mary of Guise renewed the status of the “Egyptians” in 1553, when “John Faw, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt” was engaged by her government to assist in the apprehension of dealing with Gypsy rebels. However her grandson, King James VI, chose to persecute “the idle people calling themselves Egyptians”, with strong support from The Kirk, effectively expelling those “following the Gypsy way of life” from Scotland. This was on pain of being nailed to a tree by their ears and then having their ears cut off. In 1603 James’ Privy Council made an order raising the punishment to pain of death, ratified by Parliament with an “Act Anent the Egiptians” in 1609. This act did not have the desired effect of eradicating the Gypsies as a race of people from Scotland, but it forced them to live a more “settled” way of life that required the tolerance and guarantee of a laird, and pushed them and their way of life to the very edges of society.

The Gypsies were forced to live “under the radar” of the Kirk and state in Scotland and retreated south, particularly to the area around Yetholm. But their name lived on in the south of Edinburgh and as a place name Egypt Farm existed until the 1880s or so at which point it was encroached upon and built over by the expanding Victorian suburb of Morningside. Although Egypt was lost as a placename, the street of Nile Grove commemorated it and it was fully rehabilitated a century later in 1985, when the redevelopment of an old Mews at the end of Cluny Place was named Egypt Mews.

Back to the Holy Land place name theme, it is likely this was established as a precedent by Little Egypt. Canaan is recorded as far back as 1661 when the city leased the grazing for 11 years to a woman called Margaret Whilleis. Its lands originally constituted an estate of 65 acres feud off of the Burgh Muir in 1586. Canaan is appropriately on the opposite bank of the “Jordan burn” watercourse from Egypt. For a time, the neighbourhood was known as the Land of Canaan.

The Jordan burn‘s alternative name is the Pow Burn, Pow being a Scots word (from the old British or Gaelic “poll” for a slow moving river, pool or mire); see also places like Polmont. The Pow is a collective term for the whole length of this burn, from its origin until it joins the Braid Burn at Duddingston. Only the section south of Morningside, between Egypt and Canaan, was known as the Jordan. To the east of this it is known as the Cameron Burn (around the locality of Cameron Toll), with Cameron likely comes from the British Cam Rynn, referring to a bog in the crook of a river.

When the Georgians began to split the Canaan estate up into plots for fashionable villas, the theme for biblical names was continued.

Other names in the area, not shown on these maps, were the villas of Arkland and Mount Zion on Canaan Lane and to put a cherry on the top of this biblical smorgasbord, what is now The Canny Man’s pub was originally a villa called… Paradise!

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