When the government really isn’t on your side… Excerpts taken from here. “Between 1971 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, the “reduction of the Roma population” through surgical sterilization, performed without the knowledge of the women themselves, was a widespread governmental practice. The sterilization would be performed on Romani women without their […]
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A. Picazo: A Circus On The Levant
“Being a Jew isn’t like being Black or being gay or being a woman, or even Israeli where many Jews come from. Being a Jew is a choice, like being a Blood or Crip. Jews are the medieval prototype of the Occupy Wall Street movement; a shiftless group of hobo’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The State Of Stand With Ezra
The site Ezra is using to raise money for his latest defamation suit has been hacked. Don’t know what issue B3Yaz has with him, but there’s some nice gypsy-like music playing on the site now, so maybe it’s in solidarity with The Roma (who Ezra slimed). Update: Dawg says the
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Maria the ‘mystery’ Roma girl and Madeleine McCann… racist underside of news coverage
Maria posters and headline/Maria’s biological mother Sasha Ruseva A story from Greece about a four year-old ‘mystery girl’ named Maria has been making headlines in the mainstream media. Maria who is fair-haired was living in the care of a Roma couple who happen to be dark complexioned. This created suspicions
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber On Cdn Human Rights
With little fanfare, Canada was scolded earlier this year by both the United Nations and Amnesty International over its human rights record. Yes you read this correctly — Canada. The two areas that attracted the most attention by the UN/Amnesty International human rights experts were Canada’s record when it came
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jason Kenney Is Being Lied To
From Canadian Jewish News: A recent Canadian billboard campaign in Hungary targeting would-be Roma asylum-seekers to Canada with the message that new immigration laws severely limit their ability to seek refuge from persecution here led [Hungarian film-maker Adam] Csillag to contact The CJN to alert Canada’s Jewish community to the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Black hockey players, aboriginals, gays nixed from Canada’s new bills
“The Bank of Canada considered celebrating gay marriages, black hockey players, and turban-wearing RCMP officers on its new plastic bank notes” By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: And so the Harper Conservative-inspired whitewashing of Canada continues. Last summer, we learned that the Bank of Canada had nixed the image of
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: In Hungary, Racist Harper Government Billboards Targeting Roma Ethnic People
Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. by The Canadian Progressive reporters on Jan. 30, 2013 Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Sun News Network pleads with anti-choice group to back its quest for ‘right to life’ subsidy
Sun News Network commentator back in the day complaining about how media outlets want the government to solve everything. This goes for Sun News Network and its financial problems too, it turns out. Below: Anti-choice Sun News commentator Michael Coren. As part of its full-court press to get the CRTC
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun News Network–Beacon O’ Diversity
By the same logic you could say they’ve really been a great help to the Roma. From here.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: With no market for hate and right-wing drivel, Sun News comes cap in hand for public subsidy
More gruel, sir? The face of Sun News Network that Sun News Network would like you to see as they beg for public subsidies. Below: The real face of Sun News Network. Sun News Network, that fearless foe of state subsidies for the CBC, wants you, Dear Television Viewer, to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra In The (Jewish) News
I would just note that this piece in the Canadian Jewish News almost entirely ignores the ongoing hate-speech investigation of Ezra Levant, preferring instead to focus on an address he gave to the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO’s Hatikvah chapter, which is a Jewish women’s group. Ezra’s spiel, not surprisingly, was yet another
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CIJA On Designated Countries Of Origon
In response to Kenney’s list, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs remains relatively mush-mouthed, but notes the following points of concern: However, we believe there are two key deficiencies in the DCO regulations that should be addressed. First, there are no clear provisions for how a designated country could be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Police Hate Speech investigation Against Ezra Levant "Ongoing"
… and police have referred it to the Crown attorney’s office. Not much to report on this front, but more than I had previously heard, which is that the police were sitting on the file. So there you have it.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Carry On Roma
With all the to-do about these folks lately, I thought the following might be apropos: Dec. 6, 2012 — Despite their modern-day diversity of language, lifestyle, and religion, Europe’s widespread Romani population shares a common, if complex, past. It all began in northwestern India about 1,500 years ago… […] The
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Who Said This About The Government Changes To The Interim Federal Health Program
…that have resulted in a refugee from the Mid-East being denied his chemo? …unbelievable that some of the decisions that have been taken federally are having this impact on people who are clearly the most vulnerable, refugees who are obviously…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant…My Part In His Downfall
Well,it finally happened: On Thursday October 11, 2012, Toronto’s Roma Community Centre officially reported a hate crime to the Toronto Police Services and an investigation is now underway. This was in response to overtly racist, prejudicial, and demeaning statements made by Sun News Network commentator, Ezra Levant, which were broadcast live on
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Police Investigating Levant For Anti-Roma Diatribe
BCL has been covering this issue pretty extensively thankfully because we really have been dropping the ball when it comes to the story: Roma group’s complaint against Ezra Levant prompts Toronto police investigation Published on Wednesday October 24, 2012 Jeff Green Staff Reporter A complaint about broadcaster Ezra Levant’s rant
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: See Kelly Block’s Disgusting Flyer!!!
A nice take-down can be found here. Although I would note to the author Mr. Mandryk that at least they’re aren’t after Hunkys anymore. No. The Harper government has more or less randomly chosen Hungarians as their scapegoat du jour. They’re thinking a few moves ahead, post Afghan mission. Who
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