An Iraqi asylum seeker in Finland tells us how he was “exploited” for a month by a Porvoo-based company called A-T Puhdistus

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One matter is clear when you live in a society and the country’s institutions see asylum seekers as inferior human beings we leave the door open to all kinds of abuse. A good example of how little power asylum seekers have in Finland is the  family of nine that has been locked up at the Joutseno immigration removal center. If an asylum seeker is lucky enough to get work, that too can become an exercise in exploitation.

Not only are white Finns exploiting asylum seekers, but foreigners as well who have lived in Finland for a long time and who should know better.

Go to website here.

One case that was reported to the police was by Jihad Al Baghdadi, an asylum seeker from Iraq who was hired to work in March for A-T Puhditus, a Porvoo-based company that does subcontracting work for construction companies.

Al Baghdadi said that he wants us to publish this story about what happened to him at A-T Puhdistus because he doesn’t  “give a shit anymore” what happens to him. 

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Fazerin logo on laitettu Kärkkäisen proagandalehteen ilman lupaa

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Eilen julkaisin tänne Migran Tales -julkaisussa seuraava kirjoitus:

Moneen kotiin on tullut Juha Kärkkäisen oman kaupan ilmaisjakelumainoslehti KauppaSuomi. Se ei ole ainoastaan tuotteiden mainontaa, vaan mainosten seassa on artikkeleita, joissa vastustetaan monikulttuurisuutta, moninaisuutta, EU:ta, seksuaalivähemmistöä, jne. Yhdessä tekstissä syytetään juutalaista naistohtoria ”ongelmista”.

Juha Kärkkäinen on ollut aiemmin otsikoissa. Ylivieska-Raahen käräjäoikeus langetti vuoden 2013 Juha Kärkkäiselle 90 päiväsakkoa kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan. Magneettimedian kustantava tavarataloyhtiö J. Kärkkäinen Oy tuomittiin puolestaan 45 000 euron yhteisösakkoihin.

Ilmaisjakelulehdessä on eri tunnettujen yritysten logoja. Nämä yritykset ovat nyt tukemassa julkaisua, jossa lietsotaan vihaa ja kaunaa monikulttuurisessa ja moninaisessa arjessa eläviä suomalaisia vastaan.

Finlayson on tullut tunnetuksi siitä, että veti tuotteidensa myyntiä Kärkkäinen –kaupoista.

Tässä lista KauppaSuomi –lehden sivuilta löytyvien logojen yrityksistä:

Iittala, Sievi, Sako, Savotta, Fazer, Opal, Fiskars, Airam, Lego, Hackman, Espirit, Timberlan.

Seuraavien yritysten mainokset löytyvät samasta ilmaisjakelulehdestä:

Salvos, Sailioykkoset, Jetta, Kymppi-remontit.

Tänään sain tietää, että Fazer on lähettänyt viestin Migrant Talesin päätoimittajalle. Fazerin logo on laitettu Kärkkäisen propagandalehteen ilman Fazerin lupaa. Tänään sain tietää, että Fazer on lähettänyt viestin Migrant Talesin päätoimittajalle. Fazerin logo on laitettu Kärkkäisen propagandalehteen ilman Fazerin lupaa. Fazer sanoo toimivansa aina arvojensa ja eettisten periaatteiden mukaan kunnioittaen jokaisen yksilön arvoa eikä suvaitse minkäänlaista syrjintää tai loukkauksia.

Arvostan sitä, että Finlayson ja Fazer eivät myy omia arvojaan.

Finland plans to deport another family with four children aged 1 to 6 years to Iraq

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Even if former Finnish President Tarja Halonen (2006-2012) said today that deportations of asylum seekers should be suspended until the authorities  have updated their security information of Afghanistan, Iraq and especially Syria, according to YLE News, there are plans to deport yet another Iraqi family with four children to their home country on Friday, April 28.  

The youngest child of the family is about a year old and the eldest 6 years.

One of the sources that is trying to help this family and who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the family is in danger in Iraq because their mother could face an honor killing for not having the consent of her parents upon getting married.

“The family has two rejections for asylum and they are staying at the asylum reception center in Pori,” the person said. “I wish our government would follow the law and not return women and children back to conflict areas where they are put in harm’s way.”

The Finnish Constitution doesn’t allow minors and adults to be deported to war zones.

Section 9 of the Constitution guarantees:

“The right of foreigners to enter Finland and to remain in the country is regulated by an Act. A foreigner shall not be deported, extradited or returned to another country, if in consequence he or she is in danger of a death sentence, torture or other treatment violating human dignity.”

Three of the four children of the Iraqi family posing in the picture could be deported from Finland next week.

Taking into account the the number of deportations to countries like Iraq will pick up this year, the Finnish parliament approved in December that children can be locked up like common criminals like in the case of the Iraqi family of nine at the Joutsen immigration removal center.

All the Finnish parties except for the Greens, Left Alliance and the Swedish People’s Party voted in favor of the law, according to a statement by Amnesty International.

 

Vihapuheen rahoittajat

Posted on by Ana María Gutiérrez Sorainen

Moneen kotiin on tullut Juha Kärkkäisen oman kaupan ilmaisjakelumainoslehti KauppaSuomi. Se ei ole ainoastaan tuotteiden mainontaa, vaan mainosten seassa on artikkeleita, joissa vastustetaan monikulttuurisuutta, moninaisuutta, EU:ta, seksuaalivähemmistöä, jne. Yhdessä tekstissä syytetään juutalaista naistohtoria ”ongelmista”.

Kärkkäisen suomalaisuuden määritelmä on rajallinen.

Juha Kärkkäinen on ollut aiemmin otsikoissa. Ylivieska-Raahen käräjäoikeus langetti vuoden 2013 Juha Kärkkäiselle 90 päiväsakkoa kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan. Magneettimedian kustantava tavarataloyhtiö J. Kärkkäinen Oy tuomittiin puolestaan 45 000 euron yhteisösakkoihin.

Ilmaisjakelulehdessä on eri tunnettujen yritysten logoja. Nämä yritykset ovat nyt tukemassa julkaisua, jossa lietsotaan vihaa ja kaunaa monikulttuurisessa ja moninaisessa arjessa eläviä suomalaisia vastaan.

Finlayson on tullut tunnetuksi siitä, että veti tuotteidensa myyntiä Kärkkäinen –kaupoista.

Tässä lista KauppaSuomi –lehden sivuilta löytyvien logojen yrityksistä:

Iittala, Sievi, Sako, Savotta, Fazer, Opal, Fiskars, Airam, Lego, Hackman, Esprit, Timberland.

Seuraavien yritysten mainokset löytyvät samasta ilmaisjakelulehdestä:

Salvos, Sailioykkoset, Jetta, Kymppi-remontit.

Defining white Finnish privilege #34: Building a political career on privilege and nativist nationalism

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Social Democrat MP Satu Taavitsainen found herself in a lot of hot water this week after she published a picture of herself in Instagram wearing a fake Sámi dress. While this is a no-no because minorities like the Sámi may see it as cultural appropriation, an MP like Taavitsainen should know better. 

But she didn’t, and hasn’t.

She claims that the Sámi dress she published a picture of in Instragram was made by a tailor for her mother and wanted to show it off. However, this is not the first time that the MP from Mikkeli has dressed up in Sámi attire. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, she was pictured wearing a four winds Sámi hat, called ?iehgahpir.

That picture above can no longer be found on her website.

While this whole affair raises a lot of question, why did Taavitsainen want to show off to her many Intagram followers her fake, or feikkigáktien, Sámi dress?

What’s wrong with what she did anyway?

If the SDP MP would have taken a little time to study the history of the Sámi and what they think in today’s Finland, she’d understand why it’s advisable not to do what she did. The reaction against what she did is one of many eamples.

Another problem that should be highlighted is not the physical dress per se but the message it sends about a minority like the Sámi.

For one, Taavitsainen, a white Finn, has the privilege and power to be “a Sámi” for a day if she wishes without carrying the burden of history of these people, which they must endure 365 days of the year.

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A member of the Solidiers of Odin carried out attack on #cupofteawithme demonstration in Oulu on April 7

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On April 7 at 4:40am the #cupofteawithme demonstration in Oulu was attacked when three unlit petrol bombs were thrown at the tent. One of the suspects, a member of the vigilante group Soldiers of Odin, was detained by the police, according to YLE. The police found as well two sticks of dynamite at the suspect’s home.

The police are investigating the attack on the demonstration as unlawful threat, an act of vandalism, and illegal possession of explosives.

On March 31, the Iraqi demonstrators were forced to move from the Oulu city center to Torinranta, a worse location since there are fewer people and apparently more dangerous and prone to attacks.

The #cupofteawithme demonstration in Oulu started [on March 11] as a show of support to the #righttolife demonstration in Helsinki organized by Afghans, Iraqis and Finns.

Read the full story here.

Helsinki Times: A rebuttal to Ville Tavio

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An op-ed piece published by the Helsinki Times on April 11 by Finns Party (PS) MP Ville Tavio is a good example of why migrants, minorities and sensible Finns should react and be concerned about the type of country some politicians want to steer Finland towards becoming.

Just as the headline of the op-ed piece is problematic, so are many of the arguments that Tavio sets forth. For example, the PS MP sees the movement of asylum seekers to Europe as an economic factor. He claims that Europe is an “attractive” destination for asylum seekers that “lack the necessary skills for employment and the will to adopt local habits and values.”

Read the full rebuttal here.

For one, somebody should tell Tavio that the vast majority of asylum seekers don’t come to Europe. It is only a minority. Most of them settle in countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and others. Moreover, the underlying reason why a minority of these asylum seekers came to Europe was because of war, as well as our values related to social equality and human rights.

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The flimsy bridge that bonds MV-lehti and Soldiers of Odin is racist hatred

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THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

MV-lehti is a racist trash “publication” that that steals stories and rewrites them to fit its racist world. Its “editor,” is none other than Ilja Janitskin, a fugitive from the law. One of the crimes that MV commits over again is that it defames people and exposes them to hate-vigilante groups like the Soldiers of Odin. In other words, MV incites racism and ethnic agitation.

An asylum seeker called Jihad Baghdadi is one of many that have been harassed by MV-lehti. His picture has been published without his permission and portrayed as “a terrorist.”

The snapshots below were published on Migrant Tales with Jihad Baghdadi’s permission. He wants to publish them to show that he won’t be pushed around by such a white-trash publication.

There are a lot of variants of the word terrorism. The origin of the word derives from terror and/or to terrorize and instill fear. There’s the regular type of terrorism, state terrorism and racist terrorism, too.

The asylum seeker Jihad Baghdadi, who was singled out by MV-lehti and portrayed as a “terrorist” by the publication is a good example of racist terrorism.

With no respect for people’s privacy, MV attempts to terrorize people with fake news.

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