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On Thursday, May 16, in the Plaza del Icue, an event was held to commemorate the Day of Resistance of the Roma People, organized by the Council of Equality of the City of Cartagena, in collaboration with the Association of Gypsy Feminists for Equality and Ouda Kaló, and in which the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the mayor of Equality of Cartagena, David Martínez, were present.
Before the official event, the gypsies who have attended the rally have started off with songs and dances spontaneously, with proclamations in favor of diversity and the Roma people, to which the mayor and the Councilor for Equality have joined.
Next, the manifesto was read to commemorate the day of resistance of the Roma people.
This May 16th recalls the act of rebellion of the gypsies imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz as a protest against their situation.
Castejón has recalled the "samples of great courage" shown by these gypsies, safeguarding their relatives.
"This uprising marked the beginning of many others.
The Gypsy resistance was a combative protagonist of the Nazi genocide, "said the mayor of the city.
After the first mayor, representatives of the Association of Gypsy Feminists for Diversity and Oudar Kaló have continued to remember that the Roma people fought in an "active and protagonist" Nazi genocide and Gypsy extermination.
"To forget our history is to erase our memory, it is to lose our identity," says Carmen Fernández, of the Association of Gypsy Feminists for Diversity.
They have also remembered the work of these "authentic heroines who saved lives and pointed the way forward for all of us.
If we exist and remain, it is thanks to them. "
After reading the manifesto, a group of gypsies, accompanied by palms, extolled the values ​​of the Roma people with the action called 'Gypsy Revolution'.
In this act has also reminded that the Department of Equality has launched the Diversity Unit, whose objective is the acknowledgment at the socio-political level of racial minorities and diverse identities.
Specifically, its actions around this Day of the Romani Resistance are aimed at the empowerment of Roma women, create social awareness in anti-Gypsyism and promote social cohesion through workshops and awareness campaigns and prevention.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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