Esittämällä vaihtoehtoisia selityksiä Ranskan ja muiden Euroopan maiden mielenosoituksille Wilhelm Junnila ja hänen äärioikeistolainen Perussuomalaiset-puolueensa paljastavat todellisen luonteensa, joka on täynnä vihaa ja polarisaatiota.
Yksi syy siihen, että Riikka Purran kaltaiset poliitikot voivat edelleen leimata maahanmuuttajia ja vähemmistöjä potentiaalisiksi rikollisiksi, on se, että tiedotusvälineemme ovat liian usein osoittaneet olevansa voimattomia.
Missä ovat ne vaikuttavat pääkirjoitukset, joissa puolustetaan ihmisoikeuksia ja pohjoismaista elämäntapaamme, jonka pitäisi perustua keskinäiseen kunnioitukseen taustasta riippumatta?
Perussuomalaiset-puolueen äärioikeistolaiset poliitikot, kuten Vilhelm Junnila, syyttävät perinteisesti maahanmuuttajia kaikista maan ongelmista. Nyt he kuitenkin syyttävät islamia ja äärivasemmistoa. Nämä poliitikot ovat nousseet valtaan, koska tiedotusvälineet, poliitikot ja yhteiskunta ovat auttaneet heitä nousemaan esiin. X
Junnilan kaltaiset poliitikot ja Perussuomalaiset osoittavat, että rasismi on vakava ongelma Suomessa.
Ei ole epäilystäkään siitä, että Perussuoalaiset on äärioikeistolainen puolue.
This week was a unveiled even more the racist face of the National Coalition Party (NCP). In Finland, there is a perfect term to refer to NCP closet racists as kravattipersu. One of these kravattipersut is MP Atte Kaleva, who helped draft the NCP’s new policy againt migrants. In his opinion, and that of most of his party, Finland’s migration laws must be tightened even further.
If Kaleva and the NCP parliamentary group have their way, Finland will not have asylum seekers in the future—who will be sent to detention centers abroad—family reunification will be made more difficult, S2 Finnish classes for non-native speakers will be done away with, and there will be no more language courses for chidren in their mother tongue.
Kaleva said that the big matter differentiating the NCP from the far-right Perussuomalaiset is their view of labor migration. NCP are in favor of labor migration while the PS oppose it.
If there is anything positive to say about the tightening of the NCP’s migration policies, it’s the fact that not all approved his suggestion.
Kaleva has called himself in the past a “researcher” of Islam, but this has been widely disputed. Kaleva does not hold a doctorate degree. To some, he appeared on talk shows as a “researcher,” but his “researching” revealed more of his anti-Muslim racism.
Read the full story in Finnish here. Source: Helsingin Sanomat
Another NCP MP that has receive criticism for his treatment of asylum seekers is Heikki Vestman.
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
Wiliam Blake
The worsening fortunes of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party (NCP) hit hard in the latest Yle opinion poll, which showed the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* overtaking the NCP in second place.
What is the lesson to be learned? A racist far-right party will never change its ways because it is in its DNA.
Under Orpo, racism has become normalized in Finland.
How is this horrible despite Orpo’s assurances of the government’s no tolerance for racism?
But what can you expect?
Purra riding on Orpo. Source: Mora Sixi
In a column headlined “Three years of zero tolerance for racism: zero results,” Helsingin Sanomatreporter Satu Vasantola shows how the government has advanced and strengthened racism thanks to coalition partners of the PS.
But the big question is not how Orpo has fed racism, but the media’s and politicians’ reaction.
You may ask how it is possible to utter a few meaningless anti-racism catchphrases and remain indifferent. We can thank the government and how it has protected institutional racism. That is why you can be racist and get away with it in Finland.
What to do? Keep fighting, inspire social movements, and remember what Argentinian human rights activist Taty Almeida said: “The only battle you lose is the one you abandon.”
In this snub to Navi Pillay for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Jani Mäkelä, the chair of the PS parliamentary group, parrots Tump’s disappointment. “The tradition of Nobel’s political ‘peace prize proudly continues.” Source: X
It is a creepy coincidence that during another 22/7 anniversary when a mass murderer in Norway killed in cold blood 77 victims in 2011, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark are ruled by governments that are hostile to people from outside the EU.
In Finland, we have two far-right terrorist investigations suspected of planning attacks against migrants.
In Finland, we have two far-right terrorist investigations suspected of planning attacks against migrants.
Source: Yle
The same language that the Norwegian killer used to justify his actions was used in Finland by Riika Purra, the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* finance minister and deputy prime minister, to denigrate migrants. Like the Norwegian killer, who warned about Muslims taking over Europe, Purra lashes out in her Scripta writings against Muslims, gays, the Romany minority, and Africans.
Apart from spitting on beggars, Purra threatened to use a gun on a commuter train to kill youths of migrant backgrounds.
Two images of PS Finance minister Riikka Purra: Confident and beaten after the revelations of her racist and violent blog posts of 2008 came to public light. Sources: BBC and Iltalehti.
Scripta is an Islamophobic, xenophobic, and homophobic blog written by Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and for breaching the sanctity of religion and is the speaker of parliament.
Jos haluat esimerkin Suomen myötäsukaisesta ja hampaattomasta ulkopolitiikasta kansainvälistä kiusaajaa, kuten Yhdysvaltain presidenttiä Donald Trumpia, kohtaan, kuuntele puolustusministeri Antti Häkkänenn (kokoomus) lausuntoja. Ei pidä myöskään unohtaa ulkoministeri Elina Valtonenta (kokoomus), jonka sanat ja vakuuttelut ovat menettäneet uskottavuutensa.
Kysyttäessä Trumpin ja Netanjahun uhkauksista tuhota Iranin infrastruktuuria jos Hormuzin salmea ei avata, Häkkänen ei kertaakaan maininnut, että kyse olisi sotarikoksista.
– Kansainvälisessä oikeudessa on tietyt rajoitteet, ja he varmasti arvioivat, mitkä kohteet listalle otetaan seuraavaksi, hän totesi tuomitsematta Trumpin suunnitelmia.
Reaktio muistuttaa hämmästyttävän paljon Suomen hallituksen reaktiota Israelin sotarikoksiin Gazassa.
Suomen ulkopolitiikka on häpeällistä ja pelkurimaista. Se on myös opportunistista, koska siinä uskotaan, että se, mitä Iranissa tapahtuu, ei voi tapahtua meille.
As US President Donald Trump continues to go off the rails acting like a USAmerican Kim Jong Un, it’s clear that we must not only do everything to stop him but prevent Europe from taking the same route.
It’s sad but a reality that many people will die as a result of his power-starving appetite, which may instil fear in some but in others embolden.
With the recent attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the saber-rattling at Iran, it’s clear that these acts of aggression, or imperialaims, will embolden people to fight back.
We have many examples that show that we don’t need a modern army to beat an oppressor.
The list below is not complete of some who challenged a system and won with their bravery and suffering.
On the first of December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white passenger. That moment of defiance was one of the sparks of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dedication and a love for freedom turned Harriet Tubman into ray of hope for many black slaves.
The Cuban Revolution is one of the best examples of being at the right place at the right time. It proved that you don’t need an army to defeat a large organized and corrupt army.
Even if Sacco and Vanzetti were falsely executed by the electric chair in 1927, they are still fondly rememberd. Their only crime was that they were anarchists. Their death led to protests around the world.
The October 17, 1945 demonstration, which freed Juan Domingo Perón from detention, showed a remarkable event where his charistmatic wife, Evita Perón, rallied the masses and changed history.
The White Rose movement did not end with the death the death of Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst on the 22 February 1943, shortly after Hitler’s 6th Army had suffered a decisive defeat in Stalingrad. These brave activists dared to challenge the power of an autocratic regime by distributing anti-Nazi messages.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most important historic events in the last century. What would the world be if Bolsheviks would have not succeeded? What would the world be like without Karl Marx?
“El derecho de vivir en paz,” the right to live in peace, is one of folk singer’s Victor Jara’s most famous songs. He was brutally murdered by the military dictatorship and his songs censored. After the uprising against the Chilean government in 2019 when they raised the price of subway tickets, people started to sing Jara’s songs as a rallying cry for freedom and democracy.
Upton Sinclair impacted the US through his writing in books like The Jungle.
There are many, many more examples when the underdog beat the oppressor.
Migrant Tales context:In 2016, we reported about the terrible treatment of asylum seekers in the northern town of Kolari. Lapin Kansa, a Rovaniemi-based daily, got intereted in the story and helped the demontration to get national attention. One of the reasons why the demonstration was organized was against the asylum center’s deputy manager Jari Sillantie. One editor spoke to me later angered and questioned if Sillantie was a racist. The story below should answer that question. I believe that this demonstration was the first that caused the sacking of a manager.
I do, and very vividly. Jari Sillantie was the deputy manager of the northern Finland Kolari asylum reception center that sacked him after some 140 asylum seekers protested his management style.
Even if his management style and Facebook “likes” did not reveal his attraction to the Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, they did speak volumes about his anti-immigration views (see picture below).
After all of the asylum seekers at the reception center demonstrated on May 4 and forced the Red Cross, which managed the reception center, Sillantie was sacked and deemed “unsuitable for the job.”
We learned more things about Sillantie: His heart is with the Islamophobic PS party, and he was convicted for tax fraud in 2018. He owes 666,000 euros in back taxes to the state.
Jari Sillantie, who was sacked as deputy manager of the Kolari asylum reception center in 2016, was not suited for the job. His “likes” on Facebook, which have now been deleted, are an assortment of far-right associations and politicianslike Laura Huhtasaari.
Sillanpää is a good example of the hypocrisy of the PS. He states in his campaign message all the racist talking points of the party. Migrants should follow the law but Sillantie and the PS have special privileges.
Sillantie’s message comes in loud and clear in his campaign poster: Vote for Finns first!
Thanks to the asylum seekers of the former Kolari asylum reception center, the media, and our work, we were able to expose Sillantie for what he was: a questionable person who wanted to make the lives of asylum seekers as difficult as possible.
The picture uploaded on Facebook at the Independence Day gala says it all about the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party: on the left MP Jenna Simula showing off her assaut weapon pin and on the right MP Sara Seppänen doing her cultural appropriation masquerade by impersonating a Saami.
Both MPs pose shamelessly: Simula glorifying a weapon and Seppänen masquerading as a Saami.
The picture tells volumes about the fantasies of the PS.
Why President Alexander Stubb says and finds himself in funny places.
Mahadsanid dhamaan dhallinyaradii ka soo qayb gashay maanta 30.11. Maalintii Fayo-Qabka Dhallinyarada ee lagu qabtay Xarunta Dhallinyarada Kontula!
Waxaan si qoto dheer uga wada hadalnay mawduucyo muhiim ah:
fayo-qabka (walbahaarka/caafimaadka maskaxda) iyo daryeelka nafta. Waxay ahayd wax lagu farxo in la arko sida ay dhallinyaradu ugu hamuun qabeen inay fikradahooda wadaagaan, oo ay wax cusub bartaan!
Munaasabadani waxay qayb ka ahayd hawlaha Mashruuca Solidaarisuus ee ay waddo Tieto on valtaa ry. Hadafka waa in dhallinyarada siino aaladaha ay ku hagaajin karaan noloshooda.
La soco dhacdooyinka soo socda ee Mashruuca Solidaarisuus!
A big thank you to all the young people who joined us today 30.11, for the Youth Wellbeing Day at Kontula Youth Centre!
We had deep discussions on crucial topics: wellbeing and self-care.
It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm of the youth in sharing their thoughts and learning new things!
This event was part of the activities of Tieto on valtaa ry’s Solidarity Project (Solidaarisuus-hanke). The goal is to equip young people with tools for a better life.
Stay tuned for upcoming events from the Solidarity Project!
One person from Russia crossed the border today and triggered a manhunt for the person. The information given by the Finnish Border Guards quoted in the media talks about a lone person who crossed the border and was apprehended in downtown Imatra, a border city.
We have skimpy information and do not know if the person’s nationality and if the person is seeking asylum.
There is no information in the Finnish Border Guards website.
Imagine one person crosses the Finnish-Russian border like today, which has been closed since the end of 2023, causing a manhunt with helicopters and the like. On top of this he is labeled by the media as an “Illegal.” The term “illegal” is misleading because it connotes criminality.
And to top it off, we get no information who the person is and, importantly, if the person is an asylum seeker.
The treatment by the media and the Finnish Border Guards of the story shows that there is little transparency on such matters. It is more like a kangaroo court accusing someone without being convicted.
The rule of law in Finland has taken another blow thanks to the pushback law passed in July 2024 by parliament.
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