If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are oppressing and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X Juan is a seven-year-old boy who enjoys playing alone rather than with friends. He was known for his wild imagination. From a short distance he was playing in the…
Category: Migrant Tales Literary
Migrant Tales Literary: Fatima
Leo Honka Who is Fatima? Who is the person wishing us from the Joutseno immigration removal center a kind, “Good night. Loved ones.” Fatima is only a name. It houses no human because it is only a name written on paper by a plane dropping bombs, a tank shelling civilians, and a woman hoping for…
Migrant Tales Literary: Would you buy a used car from PS’ Timo Soini?
Timo Soini is chairman of the nationalist populist Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. After the most recent opinion polls showed that the political future of the PS is bleak to say the least, what will Soini do after his party returns to the minor political leagues? Will he start to sell used cars?
Migrant Tales Literary: Dos poemas de Roxana Crisólogo Correa
Primer poema Roxana Crisólogo Correa & Una luz moribunda como la que acecha los parques en el centro de Helsinki mi modernísimo teléfono me recuerda con un vip que es el momento de conectarme con el audio de una voz tristísima al otro lado del mundo mi hermana la voz se apertrecha…
Dana: Am alone in a faraway land without my mom
Yes, it’s a few days since I got my citizenship, and you cruel ones got together. You hated me and my mother too. She is gone now. Dana _________ Am alone at home Alone in Finland I cannot cry I am standing in front of you, my enemies, and telling that you are very cruel….
Migrant Tales Literary: If you are a Finn
If you are a Finn, what is a Fonn? Was your flag blue and white, or was it lilac and yellow? Sorry, what was that again? Sano säki mua suks? Or was it san snää mnuu snuuks? So who hates who in this mnuu snuu, I wonder? So, I am the maahanmuuttaja. There…
Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott ?????
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Migrant Tales Literary: V-Day – one billion rising!
Today marks V-Day, one billion rising, referring to the number of women on the planet who have either been raped or beaten during their lives. Eve Ensler, of The Vagina Monologues fame, has penned a passionate piece calling for women to rise up in protest and men to support them on Valentines Day 2013, in…
Migrant Tales Literary: Elixir – ?????
Elixir – ????? By Dana ?? ??? ????? ?? ?? ??? ???? ??????? ???? ???? ? ???? In this unlimited evil and cruel world Oh GOD u r the right one and sage ?? ?????? ?? ? ??? ?? ???? ???? ?? ?? ? ?? ???? ???? In…
Migrant Tales Literary: A letter to Jesus ???? ????
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