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a racist, classist “pro-education” campaign

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“Minister Kocáb disgusted with Slovak Roma advertising” (via h.)

Prague, Oct 8 (CTK) – Czech Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities Minister Michael Kocab considers the method of advertising education used by Romany workers from Slovakia cynical and calculating, his spokeswoman Lejla Abbasova told CTK Thursday.

Workers from Slovakia, mainly Romanies, who repaired communications in Prague centre on Wednesday wore yellow T-shirts with the inscription “I should have studied harder!, thus becoming walking advertisements for education.

The inscription also mentioned the web address www.skoly.cz that participates in the event with the Underline communication agency.

[…] Kocab said such advertising was deepening a degrading stereotype of an uneducated Romany.

According to Pravo, the workers allegedly got cigarettes, beer and sausages as a reward for the participation in the advertising campaign.

They allegedly agreed to wear the advertising T-shirts voluntarily, Pravo writes.

However, the www.romea.cz server, which also informed about the event, said that the workers refused to put on the T-shirts Thursday. The server described the event as offending.
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Petitie

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“LUARE DE POZIȚIE cu privire la evenimentele anti-rome din județul Harghita/ ÁLLÁSFOGLALÁS. A Hargita megyei roma-ellenes események kapcsán”

19/07/2009
destinatar: Prefectura și primării ale județului Harghita, UDMR și alte partide politice, Guvernul României

Fiind martorii evenimentelor anti-rome din județul Harghita din ultimele luni, indiferent de apartenența noastră etnică, luăm atitudine împotriva violenței hrănite din incitarea la ura etnică, precum și împotriva transformării problemelor economice în tensiuni interetnice.
Ne exprimăm dezacordul față de practica care îi pedepsește pe semenii noștri (dorind să-i alunge din sate și orașe) din cauză că ei nu sunt în stare să schimbe condiția lor materială. Și față de etichetarea negativă a identității lor etnice pe această bază. Precum și față de starea în care indivizi și colectivități percepuți prin identitatea lor etnică devin nu doar victime ale oprimării economice, umilirii culturale și manipulării politice, ci și ale violenței fizice.
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Vezi/Semneaza Petitia

Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence

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“Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence”"Disney is in the forefront of finding ways to capitalize on the $50 billion dollars spent worldwide by young boys between the ages of 6 and 14." (Photo: Thomas Hawk / Facebook)
by Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

[…] As a group, young people are vulnerable to corporate giants such as Disney, who make every effort “to expand inwardly into the psyche and emotional life of the individual in order to utilize human potential” in the service of a market society.[4] Since children’s identities have to be actively directed toward the role of consumers, knowledge, information, entertainment and cultural pedagogy become central in shaping and influencing every waking moment of children’s daily lives. In this instance, Disney, with its legion of media holdings, armies of marketers and omnipresent advertisers, set out not to just exploit young boys and other youth for profit; they are actually constructing them as commodities and promoting the concept of childhood as a saleable commodity.

[…] Children are increasingly exposed to a marketing and advertising pedagogical machinery eager and ready to transform them into full-fledged members of the consumer society. And the amount of time they spend in this commercial world defined by Disney and a few other corporations is as breathtaking as it is disturbing. […]
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Ziua Europeana a Drepturilor Pacientilor si comunicatul de presa al Grupului Femeilor Vatamate de Sterilizarea Fortata

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Buna ziua!

Pentru a ne solidariza cu colegele noastre, femei rome din Cehia vatamate prin sterilizare fortata si pentru a marca ziua de 18 aprilie – Ziua Europeana a Drepturilor Pacientilor, Editia a IIIa, va transmitem comunicatul de presa – limba romana, cu privire la prezentarea Elenei Gorolová, purtatoare de cuvant a Grupului Femeilor Vatamate de Sterilizarea Fortata, ce va avea loc pe 21 aprilie 2009 la Geneva cu ocazia Conferintei Durban II/ONU.

Comunicatul a fost tradus la initiativa unui grup de femei rome si nerome din Romania cu scopul mediatizarii acestuia in randul mass mediei si a altor persoane interesate din Romania.

Sarbatori fericite, asa cum va doriti!
Crina Morteanu

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COMUNICAT DE PRESA

Elena Gorolová, purtatoare de cuvant a Grupului Femeilor Vatamate de Sterilizarea Fortata calatoreste la Geneva pentru a face o prezentare la Conferinta Durban II a ONU
Prezentarea acestei luptatoare pentru drepturile femeilor va avea loc pe 21 aprilie 2009
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CP: Dezbatere „Femeile rome şi Structurile Sindicale în oglindă”

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Comunicat de Presă, 18.3.2009

Agenţia de Dezvoltare Comunitară „Împreună” în parteneriat cu Agenţia Naţională pentru Egalitatea de Şanse între Femei şi Bărbaţi a organizat in data de 16 Martie a.c. dezbaterea cu tema „Femeile rome si Structurile Sindicale in oglinda”.
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march 8th: women and climate change

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“Women and Climate Change: Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacities” by Lorena Aguilar
from State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World

— “Celebrating International Women’s Day and 35 Years of Gender Work” from Worldwatch Institute
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I’m a Roma Woman, I’m a European Woman, I’m a Woman

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Budapest, 6 March 2009

TheRomediaFoundation, a Budapest-based civil organization (www.mundiromani.com), and Amnesty International (www.amnesty.hu) initiated a video campaign on Roma women with the support of Duna Television (www.dunatv.hu) and the Decade of Roma Inclusion (www.romadecade.org).

The 4-minute spot, produced for International Women’s Day 2009, features flashes of the personal history of five Roma human rights activists from all over Europe along with footage from Roma settlements across the continent. In these times of crisis, as social cohesion is greatly endangered by the multiplication of acts of extreme violence against Roma in Hungary and elsewhere, the campaign exhorts the public to respect Roma in all their complexity.


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8 martie!

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Feminisme
istorii, spatii libere, democratie participativa, justitie economica

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8 martie – Ziua Internaţională a Femeilor!

Spatiul h.arta
Str. Zugrav Nedelcu nr. 11, Timişoara (intrarea din Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu)
si spatiul public al orasului

Ziua de 8 martie are o istorie legata de luptele pentru egalitate sociala, o istorie a eforturilor şi sacrificiilor depuse de femei obisnuite pentru drepturi in campul muncii. Aceasta istorie a unei zile care sa celebreze femeile care muncesc (facand atat munca salariata cat si muncile casnice neplatite, atat munca productiva cat si munca reproductiva) este acoperita de identificarea zilei de 8 martie nu cu o zi a femeilor care militeaza pentru drepturile lor ci cu o zi a femeilor pasive, care sunt, prin menire si destin doar mame si consumatoare.

Va invitam sa sarbatorim ziua de 8 martie avandu-le in minte pe femeile care s-au opus si se opun inegalitatilor de multiple feluri, pe cele care prin atitudinile si actiunile lor au participat si participa la construirea unei realitati mai echitabile.

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companie de ne-sustinut: oriflame

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“Monica Tatoiu: Femeile nu judeca normal trei zile”

Monica Tatoiu revine cu declaratii impotriva femeilor din Romania. Ea considera ca le lipsesc valorile reale si ca nu sunt modele demne de urmat.

de asemenea, “femeile sunt facute sa procreeze”.

in mod ironic, Monica T. — un “model de succes” si “una din primele doamne ale mediului de afaceri romanesc” datorita jobului de Managing Director in Romania a “uneia din cele mai mari companii de cosmetice din lume”, Oriflame [jobul ei depinzind deci in totalitate de clientela alcatuita din… femeile din Romania] — declara “sunt plecata in concediu patru luni pe an”.

ar trebui ca nici o femeie din Romania sa nu mai cumpere produse Oriflame, asa Monica Tatoiu ar avea chiar mai mult timp liber (din pacate, ea deja s-a imbogatit multumita femeilor din Romania si n-ar afecta-o pe ea cit pe restul angajatelor).

FW: Press release: Gender justice is climate justice

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Poznan, Poland, December 8^th 2008

Women from around the world working together in the GenderCC network reassert that real solutions to the climate crisis can only be achieved when there is gender justice. We demand that the UNFCCC process must commit to the integration of the gender dimension into all policies, mechanisms, programmes and institutional frameworks. As a first step, UNFCCC Parties must therefore adopt a resolution on gender justice which fulfills the binding obligations on gender and human rights that the UN have already endorsed. GenderCC calls for a one-day plenary session specifically dedicated to gender in order to discuss the gender dimension in the ongoing negotiations. Moreover, we call upon the UNFCCC to acknowledge the many solutions women already have and the actions they take on the ground to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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