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Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/

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0:00.0

I think it making back. This is hell. Is Hell. Okie-Doke.

0:33.0

Manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:38.0

This is Hell.

0:41.0

Capitalism criminalized a way of living collectively.

0:46.4

The birth of the state doomed to culture to centuries of oppression, including police violence.

0:51.6

Once freed from the Holocaust concentration camps,

0:54.3

Europe's Romani were not greeted with open arms but forced into ghettos that

0:59.1

resemble open-air prisons. The Romare punished by white society for not being more white.

1:06.5

Roma children are ridiculed at white schools while being taught that their families

1:10.7

and way of living. Well well that's all backwards.

1:14.4

With anti-immigration sentiment on the rise, the rise that Roma are increasingly the target of

1:19.3

extremist right-wing hatred and violence.

1:21.8

But again, it's not only the vigilante violence that

1:24.8

Roma are subjected to, but violence by the state. Like the recent death of 40 year old

1:29.1

Stanislav Tomash, who video evidence showed, died in police custody when an officer applied a

1:36.4

chokehold by kneeling on his neck. In the video a woman can be heard saying

1:41.6

screaming they're smothering him a man's voice

1:45.4

replies that's their job which is another violence Roma face every day in

1:52.4

Europe the violence of systemic and

1:54.0

institutional racism. Anti-Roma racism is so prevalent in Europe that even the

1:58.4

left will not support the Roma cause. After last summer's protests against racialized police violence, Europe's left still will not find common ground with the Roma.

2:09.0

We'll try to figure out why and what the Roma can do and yes what white people can do and what they

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