Help Us Stop Romany Cultural Appropriation!

Oprey Romani - Rise up together we can have our voices heard Thank you all and please tell many others to sign . Bob

Together we can make a difference Latcho Drom

This kind of cultural appropriation must be stopped, indeed! Thank you for bringing this issue to light.

Our ethnicity is not a commodity and the myth needs to stop.

Cultural appropriation at its worst!

Absolutely need the fair to change it's name and stop using Romani Gypsy culture like a commodity. They need to sober up from their colonial hangover.

This would be wrong.

I agree with Bob Lovell - it is a misrepresentation of Romani culture. And at the very least, use of these photographs is in breach of copyright laws.

I totally support Bob Lovell & this petition to stop misappropriation of Romani culture.

Signed

Enough is enough!!! I support this petition 110%

Don’t let non-Roma appropriate Roma culture for their own selfish purposes.

To Whom it May Concern, As People of True Romany (Gypsy ) Decent we Support Robert Lovell Kamlo's complaint of recent days, addressed to The Auckland Council relative to The Original Gypsy Fair, a registered NZ Business owner , Mr Jim Banks. We are a race of people with our own culture and request those involved in the above-named fair are misappropriating a culture & race of they do not belong. They should remove all UK copyrighted imagery from any of their advertising. , We request they consider removing the title "Gypsy" from their registered business name and refrain from using this type of stereotyping of the true Gypsy people . This is a worldwide petition. Please take note we have Ethnic rights under UN charters and will use all means to have our voices heard via email, media and NZ Govt Departments responsible for Ethnic and Cultural rights. Thank You and Kind Regards.

Don't take and try to make what's not yours. It's a matter of pride

I feel very strongly about this, as I'm a Romany Gypsy, also an adviser to the Sussex police here in the UK. and would like to support Bob Lovell, fully in his request to prevent the misleading advertising that these people are using, not only is it not fair to our people, its not right that the Non Romany people that go to the fair should be lied to.

It's absurd to have to create a petition in order to be able to keep a race of people from being robbed of our history!

Disgusting, robbing folk of their generations of traditions...people like these are lower than a snakes belly.

Our heritage is ours. We have been prosecuted for hundred of years. Let us rise with our culture

This is not acceptable. We owe it to our children and future generations to preserve our culture, the real culture not some made up romanticised version of it.

Protect the ethnic and cultural rights of the Gypsy Peoples