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Sticker badge worn by Julie McCready at Liberty protest. This is from 1993 when Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people were campaigning about the need for more sites. The red text on the circular sticker reads 'The National Romani Rights Association' with two crossed pegs in the centre. Part of the Robert Dawson Romany collection.

1 badge: paper

MERL List - Box Number: 17 // Artefact Number: X04 // Description: Sticker badge worn by Julie McCready at Liberty protest, Object history note - 'NOTES ON OBJECTS IN THE ROBERT DAWSON COLLECTION, FROM CONVERSATION MAY 2018 [...] X04 Julie McCready’s badge at Liberty protest. The Liberty protest – that was from 1993, when we were demanding more sites; when that man Davies was Minister for the Environment. God, he was an awful man. He was the one who said, The only real Gypsies are the ones with horses and caravans, and there aren’t any more of them any longer so there’s nothing we need to do for Gypsies.'

1993 - 1993