No matter how much politicians vilify migrants and continue to attack us, the more desperate their situation becomes.
Month: June 2018
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Trump, snow jobs, and fake leader of the so-called free world
“President Donald Trump is the end of a process that capitalism and corporate greed have created. A driving force of US foreign policy is a free-for-all to continue pillaging other countries and peoples with war and exploitation. One of the reasons why Trump can bow to Kim Jong-un and not to Iran is because racism…
Facebook Henrika Malmström: “Kaikki alkoi siitä kun Ahmed sai kutsun Pasilan poliisiasemalle…”
Lue alkuperänen Facebook juttu tästä. Postaus julkaistu luvalla.
Ali’s journey (June 13, 2018): The long journey back. Baghdad feels like a sauna
It’s been 25 days since Ali,* 22, who speaks on condition of anonymity, “voluntarily” returned to Iraq from Finland. Sometimes the journey back to where you were once from is longer than the one that took you to foreign lands. The first journey was fueled by hope and the other one back to your homeland with question marks and doubts.
Sinister Ministers
Valtioneuvoston virallisilla nettisivuilla kerrotaan näin: ”Tasavallan presidentti nimitti 29. toukokuuta 2015 pääministeri Juha Sipilän hallituksen, joka on itsenäisen Suomen 74. hallitus. Hallituksen muodostavat Suomen Keskusta, Sininen tulevaisuus ja Kansallinen Kokoomus. Sipilän hallituksessa on 17 ministeriä.” Koska valtioneuvoston tiedottajalle on tuossa sattunut pieni virhe, ajattelin palauttaa mieliin vain vuoden takaisia tapahtumia. Jotta kansa ei unohtaisi. Toukokuussa…
Finnish identity: You define who you are, nobody else can or should do that for you
The Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a shrinking single-issue political party that wants, but cannot succeed, at turning Finland into a Denmark-style country where political parties try to outdo each other in their racism and bigotry.
Facebook Venla-Sofia Saariaho: Poliisi ja onnea
Tälle tapauksella oli hyvä loppu: Sailön otettu 20.2.2018 ja vapautettu Joutsenon säilöönottoyksiköstä 17.5.2018 melkein neljä kuukauden jälkeen. Kaikki joka ovat olleet Joutsenon säilöönottoyksikkössä ovat samaa mieltä yhdestä asiasta: Se on kauhea paikka ja peilikuva siitä mitä meidän yhteiskunta ei pitäisi olla. Säilöönotto päättyi menestyksekkääseen Lex Gaudiuksen kanteluun Itä-Suomen hovioikeuteen. ____________________________________________ Lue alkuperänen Facebook juttu…
How to fool customers by changing the expired sell-by dates of your products
Migrant Tales has exposed how an Espoo-Helsinki-based food distributor allegedly pays asylum seekers under the table. The company’s name, which the authorities know, allegedly threatens asylum seekers to do their dirty work, like change the sell-by date of its products.
How Finland’s media writes about migrants and minorities: Helsingin Sanomat does it again
This story by Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest daily, is a typical example of how migrants and minorities are portrayed in this country: there is a picture of a Somali woman because it is about migrants, and not one member of the non-white Finnish community is interviewed.
White Finnish privilege #53: Plan Finland’s unplanned pregnancy campaign #ProtectBlackGirlsToo #Whatofme
Plan Finland’s failed campaign against unwanted pregnancies in Africa is an example of a broader, more serious problem: white exceptionalism. In looking at the campaign by Plan Finland, one can only wonder what these people thought when they launched it.