"7000 Roma ask for more measures against racism from which they suffer since 475 years" was a headline in the Spanish newspaper "El Pais". The report said that the National Convention of the Roma ask for more social programmes and an own television channel in order to improve the bad picture that is given by the press about their people. Due to surveys of the association "SOS racism", more than a third of the Spanish population would like to throw the Roma out of the country. Forty per cent of the Spaniards stated that under no circumstances they would marry a "gitano" (Roma). Nicanor Suarez, the president of the organization "Union Gitana" says: "In the newspapers we are always portrayed as beggars, criminals, or even drug dealers. They never report about our lawyers, professors or textile manufacturers." The government of Madrid has not yet replied to the demand. But most of the Roma are certain that the government will not support it. Since 1994 the Roma are having a hard time with the government because the corrugated-iron huts of 22 families were pulled down and replaced by new wooden huts next to a rubbish dump. Only a few months ago they finally reached a settlement. After a representative of the Council of Europe had described the situation as unbearable for a developed country like Spain and had promised financial aid, half of the families were resettled to the southern outskirts of Madrid, about 3 km away from the next district. From this resettlement slums like La Celsa or La Rosilla developed. And due to this many people automatically connect Roma with drug dealing, criticizes the newspaper "El Mundo".