Britain’s Gypsies and travellers demand justice
They have long been on the wrong end of the law
“WE ARE THE white blacks,” declares Joseph Jones, a Romany gypsy who is vice-chair of the Gypsy Council, a civil-rights group, and has been campaigning for the rights of gypsies and travellers since the 1970s. The recent success of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has influenced the way the council is approaching new threats of government action.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Gypsy lives matter”
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