Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BARCA Francesca
On 11 January, thousands of people demonstrated in Lisbon against police violence. Tensions driven by social, housing and racial inequalities, as well as pressure from the far right, have aroused debate across the country, as elsewhere in Europe.
On 19 December, an operation by the Polícia de (…)
, by MALIK Kenan
Challenging racism wherever it expresses itself is not the same as disparaging a place because it is too white
‘A day out of Sunderland is a day wasted.” So claimed Charlie Slater, council leader in the 1970s, and a man known as “Mr Sunderland” to generations of Mackems.
Actor and singer (…)
, by CASEY Ruairí, ÖZYÜREK Esra
German politicians often boast of having atoned for their ancestors’ crimes — but then claim that antisemitism is an ill imported by migrants. Far from a model, German memory culture has created an exceptionalist myth that Germans understand racism best.
Germany’s effort to confront its dark (…)
, by SLADOJEVIC Ana
In the context of the decolonial turn in art, culture, and academia in roughly the last ten years, as well as social movements such as Black Lives Matter, the topic of race has regained global attention. In the post-Yugoslav region, however, many people tend to deny the existence of racism when (…)
, par TRAVERSO Enzo
German public debate is often marked by self-congratulation at “coming to terms” with the country’s past. Yet comparisons between antisemitism and other racisms are increasingly being demonized — and it’s stifling discussion of Germany’s colonial crimes.
Anew “historians’ dispute” (…)
, by MATACHE Margareta
Romanians continue to actively deny the history of Roma enslavement in Romanian lands.
Years before fast sailing ships with enslaved people from Africa made it to the shores of North and South America, the Roma people on the territories of modern-day Romania had already been forced into a (…)
, by ERIZANU Paula
Working in theatre, TV, literature and music research, these six women tell daring and urgent stories of Roma oppression, survival, and power.
Romania’s one million Roma people have a long, yet little-known history of oppression. For five centuries, they were enslaved by Romanian noblemen and (…)
, by MUKENDI NGANDU Gippò
In the last few years, we have seen an increase in discrimination and racial oppression in Italy. In particular, there has been an increase in physically and verbally violent acts that have lead to terrible crimes: Muhammad Shazad Kan, a 28 year-old Pakistani citizen, beaten to death in Rome in (…)
, by BOUBOUT Yassine
So why are we protesting police brutality in the US but not at home?
The protests that have flared up across the world in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis are heartening: They are gestures of solidarity and powerful expressions of outrage at the brutality of systemic (…)
, by ERIZANU Paula, MARTIN Livia Ștefan
From its Roma roots to hipster DJs, this is the story of how a music genre divided Romania
“We live life like Sultans/ Like Suleiman we sprawl/ How wonderful our life passes,/ We have no worries at all,” sings Adrian Minune on his track, “We Live Like Sultans”. Rising to fame as Adrian Copilul (…)
, by KRASTEV Stefan
In the “Offenders in Gabrovo!” Facebook group, natives of the eponymous Central Bulgarian town comment upon all sorts of irregularities: they lambaste the owner of a car parked on the wrong side of the street, mobilize to replace a broken lamp post, ridicule the municipality’s failed street disinfection campaign, announce a lost set of keys, and criticize irregular public transportation. With more than 25 (...)
, by TONDO Lorenzo
City council appears to capitulate after protesters set cars on fire and destroy food
Hundreds of neo-fascists, far-right activists and local residents took to the streets of a Rome suburb on Tuesday in a violent protest against 70 Roma people, including 33 children and 22 women, who were to (…)
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