We'll Keep On Celebrating Roma Nation Day in Verona

In Verona, Italy, people met at 6.30pm at the Arsenale for  the Roma Nation Day River Ceremony 2002. Some had arrived earlier to prepare the music and flowers.
 
When the first of us arrived, three police vans were already there "to protect us".
 
We prepared a table with flowers, candles and leaflets. Colourful posters remembering the meaning of the Romano Dives were exhibited. The music system was set on, with music of Italian and Hungarian Roma, and German Sinti.
 
It was rainy, windy and cold but despite this everybody came bringing flowers, wanting to celebrate, to stay together and to dancee to the music.
 
With the music playing, we walked to the bank of the river and drop the flowers into the flow. We were about 70 people.
 
Many children could not come because of the weather. The Romanian Roma are still in a precarious situation and are at the moment living quite a distance from Verona.
 
The Harvati Roma sent a small delegation. But it was a good start, and we will keep on celebrating the Romano Dives, to make it also in Verona, a real Baro Dives.
 
Lorenza Montasta
Alessia Berardinelli
Antiracist Committee Cesark
 

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