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This will be the park at the Gipsy settlement. Even Daróczi Ági is on the point of planting there. There are plenty of children - there will be a playground as well. The authorities, the power used to dream landfill there for industrial waste, post-industrial garbage and dangerous junk. They did it. Aftermath it seemed to be a good idea if it would do as a Gipsy settlement. The mine and the government had created one of the country’s largest slums here on top of waste material. The authorities, the power liked it. Newer and newer families have been to move there because they haven’t got work, they haven’t got incomes. They have no housing benefit from the government. The flowers began to bloom just here.

But how the village-women’s park gets into the commercial television channel in prime time evening? These women have became famous. They showed up in front of a million tv spectators, and they revealed the dreadful power of the electricity company. They stood for their rights to get prepaid electricity meters with chip. The public of Budapest Film Festival created a human rights movement for their sake.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. The Gipsies’ park is as famous as the illegal park in the corner of Pigis, Navarinou, Trikoupi and Tsavella streets. Our sibling park in Athens is a guerilla park, because the authorities, the power did not want it (see it the video right). A little green park was written in the long term urban arranging plans but the concrete paved car park fetches profit. The children’s, the elderlies’, the local residents’ viewpoints are indifferent. The power of money and the money of the power will gradually dominate everything.

At Santa Claus’s day last year, (by accident on the 53. anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar’s death) in the neighbouring corner the police shot a 15 year-old-boy. Young persons protested during weeks in Europe so that the power shouldn’t wade over people. The local residents felt that Alex’s memory stimulated them that they gain their possessi back from the power. The street was renamed onto the memory of the shot boy. The concrete of the car park broken into pieces in spring, and people planted trees, flowers and they made a playground on the place of the concrete car park. Everybody laughed at the Greek policemen ready for action: these trees, flowers, this playground are the adversary of the combat squads’ in helmet.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Here in Sajokaza we don’t need „Hungarian policeman ready for action” (name of a police trade union comprising 15% of Hungarian policemen and allied with „Jobbik” extremist racist anti-gipsy right wing political party). It would be sufficient to have some friends ready for action. Anna Arvanitaki and Hatto Fischer, themselves among the constructors of the Athens park are our friends. Now we are to report from playground of Sólyom settlement of Gipsies (see the video right). Next our initiation of Sajokaza: playground bars, swing, sandpit and slide. Could you give us a hand?

Sandpit building on 17-18. 2009 at Sólyom slum settlement in Sajókaza. Alfa College’s students arrived from Groningen in Netherland build a sandpit.