I mention only two infamous days on Migrant Tales annually: the coup in Argentina on March 24, 1976, and the man who went on a murderous rampage against 77 people on 22/7. Let’s offer a moment of silence to the victims, killed, and those who survived this atrocity. Source: Migrant Tales Further reading: ANALYSIS – Commemorating
Read on »Posts Tagged: far-right ideology
White power, blonde hair, us versus them
THIS POST WAS UPDATED Being proud of your heritage is fine as long as you don’t use your whiteness to socially exclude and oppress minorities. I have seen many pictures of Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MEP Laura Huhtasaari, who appears to pour it on with her whiteness. Her comments are not only often racist and absurd, but
Read on »ERR News: Le Pen caught “unaware” of the meaning of the white power sign
The leader of the far-right Front National Marine Le Pen was caught “unaware” of the meaning of a white power sign in a selfie taken with Estonian far-right EKRE member Ruuben Kaalep, according to ERR News of Estonia.
Read on »Vigilante extremist groups in Finland are on the way out but they are a sad mirror of who we are
The life-and-death story of anti-immigration vigilante groups like the Soldiers of Odin or political parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is simple: create imagined threats to our society, like migrants and asylum seekers, and then set out to “protect” others from the presumed hazard.
Read on »Lahtinen and the PS of Espoo don’t like the term racism
Perussuomalaiset (PS) Espoo city councilman, Teemu Lahtinen, said that the anti-immigration and anti-EU party would not vote for the city’s new multicultural program since it states that “Espoo residents don’t tolerate racism.” Lahtinen, who is a member and has been president of the far-right association Suomalaisuuden liitto, said he would like to replace the term
Read on »Migrant Tales (September 30, 2010): Populist chatter and a tale of elk flies
MT comment: This is Migrant Tales’ first story on Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP James Hirvisaari published on September 30, 2010. The extremist anti-immigration politician was spreading is views back then. Like today, his pet topics were rape and far right nationalism. ____________ There is a True Finns candidate in the April 2011 elections that spreads elk
Read on »Does PS MP James Hirvisaari have any idea what racism is?
Migrant Tales aims to publish on the same day news that appears in the media. There was one opinion piece written on March 21 by Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP James Hirvisaari commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that should have received our attention. Our intention is not advertise James Hirvisaari, who was
Read on »How can Finland tackle intolerance today if it cannot come to terms with its past?
Finland’s present political and social dilemma could be best described in the following manner: On the one side it has a difficult time acknowledging ever-growing intolerance in its society, but on the other slowly understands that one major source of that intolerance are groups like the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party. The PS has grown into a
Read on »Migrant Tales in Greek
Blog entries that are published on Migrant Tales get sometimes mentioned in some major publications like Time, Sveriges Radio, YLE’s Suora linja and others. One of the most recent reposts was by UNHCR in Greece, located in one of Europe’s hotbeds of xenophobia. The work we do on this blog got mentioned (in Finnish) on Re Vera
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
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- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
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