500 days ago yesterday Supreme Court ruled State of Norway violate human rights through construction of 150 wind turbines at Fosen, Trøndelag, SW Sápmi/MW Norway. State don't give a fuck that it violates the law, because it's rights of indigenous Sámi, so yesterday some Sámi started occupying lobby of Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. "The wind turbines at Fosen shall be demolished and the land returned to Fosen-Sámi. They've been fighting against the wind industry and State ~10 years. We are here in solidarity with those […] who are exhausted after all of the State violations", said Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen to NRK.
Norway's Minister came down and spewed same nonsense as always, that they're investigating and don't have a decision yet but "we must ensure indigenous rights are safeguarded", which is what they actively piss on.
"Those are just empty words. We are used to hearing that we have to deal with them having to make a new decision. But they don't deal with that there are real people who live with this violation every day, and we who sit here feel in our bodies that we cannot tolerate the ongoing human rights violation." responded Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen.
Today Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjrvi says "The Ministry locked its front door so nobody can come in. They're trying to starve us out".
It is an unacceptable threat to democracy that minorities (implicitly referring to the indigenous Sámi) have special protections and that international conventions (against crimes against humanity, etc) go before "equality under the law", declared the party leader of the far-right "Progress Party" of Norway at a party conference this Saturday.
Ella Mari Hætta Isaksen today commented that "I think all of political Norway, and we see them doing this too, must strongly distance themselves from the claim that we must withdraw from international conventions. Like, it CAN NOT, heh, be thus that we collectively punish the people and remove our rights due to the State committing human rights violations. It is completely unacceptable and simply irrelevant to this debate".
image description, two photos. Top is a conservatively dressed Norwegian woman in front of two microphones on a podium and the name of the Norwegian progress party behind her. The second photo is two young women in Sami dress being interviewed in an indoor corridor.
Remember Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, one of the two main spokespersons for the recent Sámi protests that shut down the State of Norway, ministry by ministry increasing daily until victory at shutting down 10 ministries in total the last day?
Well, Ella Marie was this latest Thursday awarded "The Fritt Ord [=Free Word] Tribute" of the "Fritt Ord Foundation", which "acknowledges remarkable efforts to promote free speech".
In the speech giving thanks in Sámi and Norwegian for the award Ella Marie among much else pointed out that their protest action "is painful evidence of why we need civil disobedience, now more than ever. [...] The State commits human rights violations against its own people, and violate its own law. In a democracy that is thus deficient, we need some emergency mechanisms. [...] Whereas I on February 23 turned my cardigan inside out [traditional Sámi act to show rage], I now turn it back in thanks. I want to thank everyone by giving a promise: I will never surrender. A thousand thanks and ČSV [Show Sámi Spirit]!"
Depicted with Ella Marie is legendary Sámi musician Mari Boine at the event, where Boine performed 3 songs in honor of Ella Marie.
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen's introduction to the entire populace of Norway was by winning the Public Service broadcaster NRK's talent-show Stjernekamp by singing Mari Boine's (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8oRgnToqkEU) song "Maze" in 2018 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=odpREEp-uOo so Boine performing at Hætta Isaksen's award ceremony this past Thursday should obviously have some special personal significance.
Mari Boine : See the Woman
Album : See the Woman (2017)
Besetzung:
Mari Boine (voc, perc)
Georg Buljo (guitar)
Kjetil Dalland (bass),
Benjamin Moerk (keyboard)
Aleksander Kostopoulos (drums)
Die norwegische Sängerin überrascht mit einer Pop-…
Another major thing that Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen has been a major part of, by the way, is a dramatized documentary "Ellos eatnu – Let the Rivers Flow" feature length movie about the Alta Conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_conflict) between the Sámi people and the State of Norway, which is considered the start of the "environmental movement" in Norway. That was one of the buttons on Ella Marie during the recent award ceremony. I don't know that it has been subtitled to English yet, even though it obviously should, but here https://vimeo.com/810888406 is a trailer with Swedish language subtitles.
Farther back you should also watch the documentary of the latest indigenous Sámi people's major uprising in "The Kautokeino Rebellion", for example https://tube.xy-space.de/w/bs8ZfqsFsHNsY3W5Xty22W here, if you care about indigenous any peoples struggles, that is.
Prime Minister's office blockaded and several hundred activists in demo outside the Royal Palace yesterday in Oslo while the government met the king, as it today is 600 days since the Supreme Court ruled the wind turbines at Fosen violate the human rights of the indigenous Sámi people, 100 days passed since the mass-blockades of Ministries ended after government promises to end the human rights violations but nothing has happened.
"We were promised change, we were promised that our human rights would be respected. Nevertheless nothing has happened. Now we are here to show that as long as the human rights violation is ongoing, it never gets quiet", said Elle Nystad, leader of Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth.
The Prime Minister of the human rights violating government claimed to Elle that "We are working with this matter. It is not standing still" presenting no evidence for that claim.
The human rights and environmental activists brought sleeping bags and chains, saying they would continue the blockade (at least) until today even if told by police to move, whilst police commented they expect the activists to follow Norway's laws (like the government... isn't).
The indigenous Sámi people will resume the mass-blockading of the government of Norway on Wednesday (Oct 11, 2023) as it will then be two whole years of the State continuing to violate the Supreme Court's ruling that the wind farm on indigenous land at Fosen violates intl law, human rights and is illegal.
Here's a video with Greta on this, from the Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth (NSR Nuorat) with English subtitiles:
@8petros Oh, thank you! I will try to remember that if/when I need it. Until then, it is good to keep myself constrained, as it is a problem that I tend to be overly verbose...
The police defended the criminal violations of human rights by forcibly removing the violated Sámi people's protesters from Parliament of Norway yesterday, when it was on the day two years since the Supreme Court ruled that the wind farm on their land had been permitted illegally.
After the police chose to aid the continuation of criminal human rights violations against the indigenous Sámi people by forcibly ending their protest in Parliament, they and many other people that support human rights instead blockaded the Karl Johans gate (largest street of Oslo, gate means street), setting up traditional Sámi tents on it and outside Parliament.
Today the same Sámi-rights activists have continued the protest from yesterday by going to blockade the "State Power" (Statkraft) State-owned electricity. They were reportedly initially 60-70 but more were arriving.
Of course Greta upheld the promise to show up again for the new invitation from the Sámi activists, alongside whom Greta participated in shutting down the State of Norway the previous time.
Greta: "It should not have to happen, that young Sámi activists shall feel forced to do this, to occupy buildings to protest against that the State is violating human rights. So, there is no excuse for that. The colonization of Sápmi and this resistance has been ongoing for centuries. We can not accept that it is allowed to continue happening. Therefore everyone that can be here and support should do so. It is therefore I and other activists are here in support the Sámi activists and the Sámi at Fosen [where the illegal wind farm is] who are affected directly by these wind turbines"
When Greta arrived to the blockade today there was an initial greeting from Ella Marie Hætta, the main spokesperson for the Sámi activists that shut down the State a while ago, then while Greta deferred initial questions to the Sámi protesters Ella Marie was asked what Greta's presence meant for them to which Ella Marie replied that it means a lot to them that Greta comes and has done so in the past and that "it shows a genuine alliance, plainly, which we value highly".
Later Greta too took some questions and burst out laughing when a reporter as part of a question informed Greta that the current generation has been called "Generation Greta".
Greta: That's hilarious. Sorry. We are many all around earth that have begun to understand the betrayal which is occurring against our generation and older generations that live in the most affected areas. And as this is being revealed it will... ...not be fun for current holders of power, who fight tooth and nail for the current order of things. Reporter: [something about "the Greta Thunberg Generation" again I can't quite hear] Greta: What is that generation? Eehm that's a weird term that I will not use.
Here's a map from a piece (in Sámi language) by Public Service TV of Sweden on how Sámi activists against the State of Norway continuing to violate the law for over two years since the Supreme Court's ruling, showing how some had to travel all the way from Tromsø (I added that sign+arrow) in Norway-held part of Sápmi to Gárasavvon/Karesuando in the Sweden-held part then all through the Sweden-held part of Sápmi just to get to the capital city of Norway, but they did it by bus instead of flying because air travel is shit for the environment, 18 hours one direction but "this is important".
The second picture is an earlier picture by me showing Sápmi compared to the occupying States. Aaaactlly, Sápmi could easily be considered much larger, as ancient Sámi culture has been found as far as Gävle which is farther down south than the center point of Sweden, but no writing at the time so it's being ignored.
Luohti/joik in protest in the Parliament of Norway yesterday, before the police helped the perpetrator State to continue its according to its own Supreme Court law violation by carrying out the State's victims, the indigenous people.
The Minister of Blahblah ("oil and energy") of Norway, Terje Aasland, commented the resurgence in protests by stating that it is "out of the question" that the government would follow the Supreme Court's ruling that the wind farm lacks legal permit, is illegal, violates indigenous rights, by demolishing the wind farm.
That's impressive how long they've been holding this protest. But I know something similar from the indigenous inhabitants of North Dakota/USA, although they no longer live in their culture as the Sami do. There it is about these oil pipelines. It is the same everywhere. They destroy old cultures and habitats for profit and oppress the people who have been living there long before the occupants.
I confess that I have never paid attention to the far north until now, because everything is always sold to us as so clean, trade, energy, everything that comes from Scandinavia. But the salmon farms alone are a disaster for the environment. I stir since I know it no salmon more. ps. about your " Bla-bla-Minister I must laugh. There are also many of this kind in our country.
Interview today at the indigenous Sámi's blockade of "State Power" of Norway with Elle Nystad, leader of Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth (NSR Nuorat), after Greta Thunberg.
I even made the subtitles in English for you, so please do watch and share...
@collette Yes, it is very important to make profits through violating basic human rights of indigenous people and the extinction of human life in general. Apparently.
@Sofie Yep, I heard of and supported that one too. It is unfortunately rather common for indigenous rights issues to not get any attention at all on a worldwide scale if it is outside USA, which is prooobably why most people, even those living under the same State as the indigenous people in question, have usually never heard of anything occurring at all. Not just Sápmi, the Sámi people, but everywhere. Well, that's how it seems to me anyway. That the outcome is the same whether in the areas under the USA or elsewhere even though at least I guess most people worldwide have at least heard of (No)DAPL for example, is a different, more tragic deeper underlying issue, I would guess.
The CEO of the "State Power" corporation that is at the core of the law violation by the State of Norway commented to the activists currently blockading the corporation as it has now been two years since the Supreme Court ruled that their wind farm is illegal and violates indigenous rights law, being asked by a reporter "Will it take another two years to solve?", replied that "I hope it won't. I hope we can find a combination which will be a good solution for both parties".
Imagine if someone was caught burglarizing someone else, killing their cattle and destroying their heritage, then after being caught and ruled against by the top court the police kept helping the culprit continue and the government declared that the illegal acts must continue... and the press interview the violator asking how long they plan to go on. It's so absurd.
Yes it is. But North Dakota is not finish. I have thought it is over and for two weeks ago I read, the fight is going on new. Bad governments are the reasons.
@Sofie Yeah, the Biden administration is forcing previously halted petroleum projects to resume, after winning the election among other things by promising to do NOT that. Sooo unexpected.
I think the closest there is for Germany-related areas would be the long matter with the Slavic people that were native to the south and east coast of the Baltic Sea mixed with Germanic people all the way to Schleswig/Angeln, but were mostly wiped out by the Northern Crusades and connected events during the 1100s to 1400s, which resurfaced during WW2 as claims were made again that the Baltic States are German actually, due to the Teutonic Order, Livonian Order, etc of the past. Well, from my memory.
I know too little about that. But you must mean the Sorbs. They still exist, although in a minority and they enjoy special rights. The Slavs are more an issue for Austria, which is my old homeland and there it is Slovenia, which borders Carinthia in the south of Austria. Carinthia, a province of Austria, even has bilingual street signs. In Slovenian and German.
@Sofie Ah yes. I almost forgot that one of those peoples still have survived to today. There were also many others in a much wider area. I wish they would just, you know... get to know their neighbors and be friends, merging for synergies, instead. ;-/
Some more pictures of the indigenous Sámi people's rights protest today for the occasion of it being two years ago yesterday that the Supreme Court ruled the wind farm on the Sámi's land in Sápmi was illegal, vilates indigenous people's basic human rights, but the State of Norway has just kept violating the law.
Showing the culture-essential reindeer at Fosen subjected to the very intense stress by the violating wind farm and the protests in Oslo.
Some more pictures of the indigenous Sámi people's rights protest today for the occasion of it being two years ago yesterday that the Supreme Court ruled the wind farm on the Sámi's land in Sápmi was illegal, vilates indigenous people's basic human rights, but the State of Norway has just kept violating the law.
Showing the culture-essential reindeer at Fosen subjected to the very intense stress by the violating wind farm and the protests in Oslo.
Amnesty's Sápmi chapter on Finland's Public Service broadcaster YLE's news for their Sápmi department, in support for the protesters in Oslo for the indigenous Sámi people's basic human rights.
Just as the Sámi started shutting down the State of Norway the previous time, Sámi rights activists from the part held by Finland were forced to urgently go back due to another assault on Sámi rights there.
i like that he tries and fails to make greta say something other than the basic idea behind why everyone is there :) She just calmly repeats the obvious that human rights and sustainability are fundamentally linked. Cant have one without the other.
I can tell shes had a lot of practice. Probably annoying for the reporter. Which is fine.
@CatHat I recall just from the previous time Greta was with the Sámi activists shutting down the State over the same matter in the same city, how journalists kept repeating that same question many times, probably thinking they were very clever to be the one to find the impossible question... that had already been asked too many times and wasn't difficult at all, but all one can do is keep trying to sound as if it's a fresh answer, because it's a fresh journalist. I've experienced that myself... very tedious.
@CatHat From equivalent situations in the Sweden-held part of Sápmi the answer has been that the people down south think the wind turbines are ugly, even when they are almost imperceptibly far out at sea, so they decide that the indigenous people must make this sacrifice for the colonizer's sake, just as during the previous ~500 years.
I'm thinking wave power should be looked at. There's like... way more power of waves in motion readily available than we use in electricity, I'd guess.
i seriously don't understand a "green" argument for destroying critical environments that are already under threat. Wind farms disrupt the local ecosystem. that should be a no-brainer without human rights even being brought up. And wave power hm. Depends? Coastlines are often highly vulnerable too. Power plants basically do not fucking belong in fragile areas unless all other options have been considered. And the local communities agree.
yes. But when it's the same reporter its clearly a case of Greta 1, reporter looking for a gotcha 0. Asking the sane question several ways isn't the same as a new person asking obvious questions She must be extremely annoying to interview for people asking bad faith questions. :) Idk if that relieves the tedium any but i enjoy seeing her do it.
@CatHat I was thinking more like wave power many tens or hundreds of kilometers out into the ocean, where it's just statistically unlikely to interact with much at all. The oceans are very big. ;-]
@CatHat Especially maybe since those questions are like specifically what Greta is studying at university, so would already have been likely thoroughly analyzed long before any journalism graduate comes up with it... I'm guessing.
the light zone of the surface of an ocean is a habitat. The question is how to transfer that power to shore. And how noisy it is.
If the dead zones spread a little more the main food webs might collapse. Over the past century the global oceans hahave effectively lost several trophic levels. Assume the ocean is ALL fragile habitat and you won't be far wrong.
probably. Im thinking about the social dynamics. The interview might be tedious but framed as a competition, greta won the exchange. Which is something i like to see. There's nothing in what she said that makes an obvious choice for bad faith framing. They WILL try. But her words aren't something they can easily use.
@CatHat Hm, well, we won't end our impact immediately. That just won't happen, so minimizing and distributing it would seem the available path.
I was thinking maybe the wave power generators can be a bit down too, as the waves are very big. The current models I've seen are all at the surface, but I'm thinking maybe that's not necessary. The output transfer to land... I dunno, they could be placed near enough to existing sea floor cables that the power cables are routable alongside the already existing ones as much as possible, maybe..? I'm not an engineer.
the logistics of offshore power are problematic at best from an environmental pov. The impact of an accident is orders of magnitude higher than on land. And the buffer system in the ocean is becoming unstable. I think adding tidal and wind power plants to port cities is probably the best solution environmentally Its just massively unpopular.
Mutual solidarity expressed almost exactly across the globe, between the indigenous Mapuche people in what's most widely known as Chile and the indigenous Sámi in the part of Sápmi held by Norway, as both demand their land back from projects of the State of Norway's "State Power" corporation ("Statkraft"). In Norway-held Sápmi the matter is, as this entire toots-thread shows, regarding a wind farm at an area named Fosen, whilst in southern Chile it's a river named Pilmaiken and is holy to the Mapuche according to Public Service broadcaster of Norway, NRK (I think it may be Pilmaiquén), so while the Sámi activists occupied Parliament yesterday the Mapuche demonstrated outside Norway's Embassy in Santiago, displaying e.g. the flag of Sápmi in solidarity and today the Sámi blockading the "State Power" HQ declared solidarity back.
The CEO of the "State Power" corporation declared to NRK that their behavior has been ethically defensible.
@CatHat Wellll, there's also the option of not doing anything and then the port cities just drown, all of them, which would probably be unpopular too I dare predict.
Oslo police once again chose to aid the one breaking the law against the victim of the violation, carrying away indigenous Sámi protesting the continuation of wind farm on their culture-essential reindeer herding land over two years after the Supreme Court ruled that the permit was invalid, illegal, in violation of indigenous basic human rights, but even after the PM admitted that it was a human rights violation, they keep doing it.
Video from the Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth, 12 minutes ago:
Once again, according to the rules that States themselves made up and all actively consented to by declaring to be a State, etc, this applies mandatory to everyone everywhere, including the States' civil servants, police, military. "Just following orders" is never a valid defense.
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen main spokesperson of the Sámi rights protesters that shut down the State of Norway this morning, spoke outside the Royal Palace, reports Public Service TV of Sweden (SVT), saying that "We have nowhere else to go to. We therefore humbly hope that His Majesty the King Harald wants to meet us and listen" and that "We will sit here and wait today and see if he has time for us during the day. If he doesn't we may be back tomorrow, she said with tears in the eyes".
Sorry I kept deleting and reporting this toot. SVT kept editing their live-report and I don't edit toots...
Video of when Greta was carried away from the protest against the government continuing to breaking the law, violating indigenous rights, today in Oslo, from Public Service TV in Sweden.
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen pointed out that King Harald of Norway in 1997 apologized to indigenous Sámi for the injustice that the State of Norway had previously subjected them to, reports SVT, further quoting that "We will ask him if the apology still stands and ask if he can help us remind the State and the Norwegian people of the experience they seem to have forgotten".
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen pointed out that King Harald of Norway in 1997 apologized to indigenous Sámi for the injustice that the State of Norway had previously subjected them to, reports SVT, further quoting that "We will ask him if the apology still stands and ask if he can help us remind the State and the Norwegian people of the experience they seem to have forgotten".
Now also a video of the tear-filled speech outside the Royal Palace by Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson of the Sámi indigenous rights activists against the State of Norway continuing its self-admitted and Supreme Court ruled violation of human rights against them, today 732 days after the Supreme Court ruling. See previous toots for some summaries in English of the speech.
Psychiatric healthcare is being made available for the indigenous Sámi rights activists in Oslo, according to the Finnmarkssykehuset hospital of Finnmark, northernmost Norway/Sápmi.
Sorry, building wind farms is not the same level of damage as killing cattle and destroying heritage. It sounds more like a typical anti-wind power protest, where local villagers don't want the solution to renewable energy in their backyard.
Wind farms don't kill reindeers. The results on other impacts are not very conclusive, the most conclusive finding is that the Sami are strong opponents to wind farms, and that likely affects the herded reindeers.
From the "Nature and Youth" association, participating in the Sámi rights protests in Oslo (my translation of course): ───── 732 days of human rights violations and we have tried everything. We have met [Prime Minister] Støre, debated with [Oil and Energy Minister] Aasland countless times, shut down the State (twice), camped outside the Prime Minister's office, lived outside the Parliament for a month, shut down [State power company] Statkraft, blocked [largest street] Karl Johan and renamed the street to Elsa Laulan Gæjnoe [after this https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Laula_Renberg person] and established a large [Sámi tent] lavvuleir on Eidsvolls plass [outside Parliament]. All for a case that has actually been won in the Supreme Court.
"One of history's most important Sámi rights defenders, Elsa Laula Renberg [see above link], asked the King for help in 1904. We have tried all the ways of modern democracy to be heard, but the violation of human rights has not stopped after two long years. We see ourselves having to return to old traditions, and go to the king," - Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen.
Now we're waiting for the King, and hope he has time to meet us today.
ČSV [slogan since the Sámi started the modern environmentalism in Norway in the 1970s = "Show Sámi Spirit"] ───── Pic: "WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO [...]"
@forthy42 Sorry you refuse to listen to the experts (and the Supreme Court). It sounds more like a typical anti-indigenous peoples stance. Don't send more of such venom to me. I will block you.
Solidarity demo for the indigenous Sámi rights protesters in Oslo, was held in Stockholm outside the Royal Palace and Parliament, reports Public Service TV of Sweden.
That's the spot where Greta Thunberg's "school strike for the climate" started. Greta is now (again) one of those in Oslo protesting for Sámi rights, against Green Colonialism.
UN has characterized the construction as violation of human rights. This is the 700th day that the human rights has been breached without any action from the norwegian state.
Stand in solidarity with the sami people :sami: :sami: ✊
@vegafjord It is the 732rd day since the Supreme Court of Norway ruled that it was a violation of the indigenous people's human rights. Over two years. I do what I can. I curate and translate coverage from news-coverage, etc on the topic from e.g. Public Service of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Feel free to check the rest of the thread which continues from that first day of protest on the 500th day to today.
"The demos in Oslo continue against the wind turbines at Fosen. At the same time, indigenous people in Chile have also shown their discontent with Statkraft ["State Power", State of Norway's electricity corporation]. The Mapuche people demand the land back along the Pilmaiken River in southern Chile." wrote Public Service TV in Sweden's regarding this video.
Eva Maria Fjellheim, researcher at Tromsø University, NW Sápmi/N Norway, in the text part of the piece explain that "it is Chile's authorities that are responsible, but as Statkraft has invested in it they are also responsible" and in the video says... Eva Maria: The Mapuche people, which is an indigenous people of Chile have for several days marked the day [I think Indigenous Peoples' Day, Oct 11], opposition they have against Statkraft's hydropower project which is established in their holy river Pilmaiken. Reporter: What's wrong with that establishment of those hydropower plants? Eva Maria: There are several things here, but the locals have not been consulted adequately […] they're denied their traditional areas. They have a rivere there which is holy, which is important for their world view and practices, they gather their medicine there. They're denied an area that is important for them and has been important for them historically.
The Royal Court confirms that the indigenous Sámi rights protesters get to meet the King and Crown Prince of Norway on Monday, 12:15, according to Norway's Public Service broadcaster NRK. They are still waiting outside the Royal Palace, according to Sweden's Public Service TV SVT.
Also, some pictures of the protesters outside the Royal Palace earlier today:
"We pack away the chains for this time", comments Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen on having gotten a Royal Audience scheduled for Monday, so the indigenous Sámi human rights protesters end their civil disobedience activities, for now.
A picture of the chains, used during the blockades recent days against the State of Norway without change continuing its self-admitted human rights violations against the Sámi people more than two years after the Supreme Court's ruling:
Greta Thunberg and other "foreign" protesters should be deported and banned from entering Norway says the far-right "Fremskrittspartiet" domestic policy spokesperson, because they have been joining the protests in support of the indigenous Sámi protesters against the State of Norway continuing to violate human rights law in spite of a ruling of the Supreme Court over 2 years ago.
Representative of that party also expressed on day one of the restart of the protests that the Sámi protesters should not even have been let into the building of the Parliament that claims to represent the Sámi people in the Norway-held part of Sápmi too.
And from a news comedy-show on Norway's Public Service TV, regarding the Sámi human rights protests.
Person 1: I think it's funny to see how the various politicians reacted to that the Sámi were in the vestibule [of Parliament]. Especially Terje Aasland [Minister of Oil and Energy, so-called "Labour Party"] who couldn't say enough of how nice he found it that youth were out demonstrating. While he of course gave F about doing something about it. He thought it was so nice that they come here to speak up… that, that is democracy… while he stands there violating human rights. Then suddenly comes Frp [Fremskrittspartiet, far-right, hate-based] and they're allergic against the Sámi. Bård Hoksrud [Frp, ex-minister of agriculture] comes out and he was completely red in the face. He had to get 8 liters Pepsi Max, intravenously, to recover.
Person 2: Like politically it's a rather interesting thing. If one makes a Venn diagram over those that hate the Sámi most and those that hate wind turbines most. Then it's a circle we call Frp. And this time Frp decided that: Yes, it's the Sámi we hate most.
Person 3: I think people should be more upset than they are now. Because now it's about indigenous people. But the next time, it might be about real people. Such as you then. Or, not you, Johan, but those.
The world famous Hollywood movie star Jamie Lee Curtis supports the indigenous Sámi protesting in Oslo, reposting a post from Greta Thunberg with the additional comment "269 weeks of COMMITMENT!".
It's on Instagram and people shouldn't go to Instagram, because it is Facebook, so here's the post via an alternative frontend https://imgsed.com/p/CyV0t_or35-/ as well as screenshots of the original, so you don't have to. I only saw it because the Public Service broadcaster of Norway (NRK) reported that the major newspaper VG reported about it...
269 weeks of COMMITMENT! #Repost @gretathunberg・・・Week 269. Today I’m joining Sámi youth to blockade and shut down the Norwegian state due to their violations of human- and indigenous rights. Read more on @nsr_nuorat and @naturogungdom
Deporting Greta Thunberg and others that have traveled to Oslo to participate in the protests against human rights violations against the indigenous Sámi, as far-right "Fremskrittspartiet" called for, "would be serious, and illegal", says Elden Law firm (my translation as usual). ───── During the Fosen [human rigths violation location] action this winter, our client Greta Thunberg was twice removed by the police by force. [...] The police have confirmed that she will not be prosecuted for this.
In the police's recommendation to not prosecute those who campaigned at the Ministry of Oil and Energy this winter [...] The police conclude that the Fosen demonstration was "justified and understandable" [...].
- Our Swedish clients are EU citizens, and must pose a "serious threat" to basic societal values if they are to be deported. Several travel arrivals are part of the same indigenous population as the Norwegian Sámi, and thus particularly strongly protected by the human rights convention, the lawyers say.
- We are not there, that Norwegian values are seriously threatened by Greta Thunberg. On the contrary, the Norwegian values democracy and freedom of expression are something the majority in political Norway hold dear, say lawyers Halvorsen Rønning and Hessen Jacobsen at Elden Law firm. ─────
Two pictures from previously, just because I hadn't seen them before and they're nice.
"Fosen-activists close the Department of Oil and Energy." Håkon Mudenia/NRK
"The activists ignored notice about that the door may not be blocked." Dragan Cubrilo/NRK (It's just a goods delivery door for the State of Norway's "State Power" electricity corporation "Statkraft")
The Fosen [location in Sápmi] activists, against the State's continuing Prime Minister-admitted human rights violations there >2 years after the Supreme Court ruled for the indigenous Sámi people, got to meet the King and Crown Prince of Norway for 15 minutes at 12:15 today. The ones that got the Royal Audience were Elle Nystad (leader of Norwegian Sámi Association's youth-wing), Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Mihkkal Hætta, Petra Laiti (leader of Finnish Sámi Association's youth-wing), Nella-Stina Wilks Fjällgren and Ingke Marie Jåma.
They are not allowed to say what the King and Crown Prince said.
They handed over a letter in which they asked for mercy, which Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen commented, "With a cry of emergency, we have written a letter because we no longer have confidence in the government. It is painful that they continue their work as if nothing has happened".
A released part of the letter said, "For several generations we have asked the King for help. Although the position of the throne has changed over time, our people have now again found themselves in a situation where we must adopt old traditions.
We have not forgotten Your legacy to us, but Your people have forgotten their responsibility. Your Majesty has power to remind them."
Ingke Jåma, Sámi from the Fosen area of Norway-held Sápmi where the State of Norway continues to self-admittedly violate the indigenous people's human rights, commented after meeting the King and Crown Prince:
Ingke Jåma: It feels very good to meet the King and Crown Prince who has understanding for the situation. I think it was a very strong meeting. Reporter: In what way was it strong, this meeting here? Ingke Jåma: […] One could show one's emotions and be seen. Reporter: Now, you're not allowed to quote what the King and Crown Prince said, but did you feel as if they had understanding of what you had to tell? Ingke Jåma: Yes, absolutely. I think he showed great understanding for why we came here today. Reporter: What is it like as a Fosen-Sámi, to get this support from all of Sápmi and also a part of the Norwegian people? Ingke Jåma: It's very good to feel the support we get. It absolutely gives us extra powers and hope. Reporter: So, what now for the Fosen-issue? As you won two years ago [= the Supreme Court ruling] but still nonetheless have lost? Ingke Jåma: Yes, first and foremost we must have an end to the human rights violation. How we then move on… yes, we'll see. Reporter: What do you wish should happen now? Ingke Jåma: The wind turbines on Fosen demolished and the land returned.
For reference, out of the two major worldwide news agencies, Reuters has so far chosen to completely ignore the recent resurgence of protests against continuing human rights violations against the indigenous Sámi by the State of Norway, even though they shut down 11 Government Departments, blocked the largest street in Oslo and met the King so clearly a econo-political choice by Reuters, not based on the events' magnitude of news-worthiness.
Their lack of reporting appropriate to both the severity of the issue and the magnitude of the events, the news agencies refusing to do their jobs, is a large part of why I give this matter extraordinary priority.
Dozens of activists in Norway are blocking the entrance to one of the main operators of a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer.
"Indigenous Rights are Not Optional", crafts, coffee and chains, at the complete blockade of the "State Power" government-owned electricity corporation's HQ in Oslo on October 12, before shutting down the State of Norway the next morning, Friday the 13th.
Mediation between the human rights violated indigenous Sámi people on the southern part of Norway-held Fosen in Sápmi finished and an agreement was made with the "Fosen Vind" operators which is majority State-owned power company Statkraft (Statepower). The violated will, almost three years after the Supreme Court ruled their land was unlawfully seized and their human rights violated, get compensation and will get replacement land for the culture-essential reindeer herding, while the wind farm will get to operate the scheduled 25 years, after which the Sámi have veto on further plans.
The conflict continues, as the northern Fosen-Sámi are still negotiating with Aneo (https://www.aneogroup.com) operating on their lands. The well known Sámi rights activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen comments to Public Service broadcaster that "It is extremely important to clarify that the Fosen issue has not been resolved. I am very afraid that we will let this go now. It would be another betrayal of reindeer herders" and that "It is likely that there will be new demos, because it is a completely different situation for North-Fosen" as well as a "promise on behalf of the [activist campaign] that we will continue to fight together with North-Fosen until they too are in a situation that also they can live with".
A movie portrayal of the foundationally important Alta conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_controversy), which should be seen by anyone interested in indigenous rights anywhere, environmental activism's both past struggles and current and so on. Here's a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUsIbx2qwk in case you wanna know what you're gonna watch.
Yes, the main character is played by *that* Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson of the indigenous rights activists that shut down the State several times during the year the movie was released, 2023, for their rights to their own land by both use (tradition) and law.
The northern Fosen-Sámi have today agreed to settle n the issue of State of Norway continuing to violate their indigenous rights for >2 years after Supreme Court ruled Government of Norway was in violation regarding the wind farm built on Sámi's land.
The Sámi wanted to bring the case back to Supreme Court where they won 11 to 0 previously, but unable to because their culture- and sustenance-essential reindeer herding would have gone down during process, explains Terje Haugen (depicted), leader of the North-Fosen reindeer herding district, so instead they must accept another area in exchange for the one stolen by the State and 7 million Norwegian crowns (currently $667678) annual compensation for duration of windfarm permit which was unlawfully issued continues, until the year 2043.
The main spokesperson of the activists that repeatedly shut down the State of Norway to get their human rights respected, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, commented that "This is not a victory and I know many would have wished for a happy ending to this. But unfortunately this will always be a memory for me and I think it will be a historic memory for more people. This case will be left as a big wound that will take decades to heal".
So, a form of State extortion won over indigenous rights and a Supreme Court ruling.
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson for the activists that defended indigenous Sámi people's rights in the case of the government of Norway continuing to violate the Supreme Court ruling that the government was violating human rights, in tears at court today as one of 18 being prosecuted for those demos against the government violating the law in the Fosen matter which was only finally resolved through the State forcing the last Sámi to an agreement through indirect extortion of economic devastation if they continued bringing the case back to the Supreme Court where they had already won unanimously.
"I have sacrificed so much", said Ella Marie according to Norway's Public Service in Sápmi, "I feel extremely tired because it has been a tough year where I have sacrificed a lot. But I am very worried that I have not done enough" and that "we we are being punished for protecting human rights in Norway".
Court proceedings in the absurdly wrongful case of retribution for acting against the government's law violations are expected to continue until March 15.
Even now, when all hope seemed finally lost and only unjust retribution for the human rights defenders seemed to be the aftermath, this past Friday the protests for indigenous rights gathered outside the Royal Palace of Oslo while the Government met the King of Norway.
The Sámi rights defenders demanded that • The whole process regarding the (government's >1000 days of violating human rights law after Supreme Court ruled it must stop) Fosen Sámi matter must be scrutinized to ensure that the same will happen never again. • Preemptive permits, giving the "right" to exploitation before due process has been finalized must cease being issued, having been a primary reason for why the intl law violation was allowed to persist because "it has already been built now" when it was ruled the permit was unlawful. • The Fosen Sámi must eventually get their own land since before Norway existed back.
They held a luohti/joik marathon for two hours outside the Palace during the highest meeting of powers of Sápmi-occupying Norway. Video in the next toot.
"Let the River Flow" https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/111919477802645110 about the actual history Alta-conflict foundational to the Sámi indigenous rights- and environmentalism-movement was yesterday also awarded all three out of three of the the Norwegian Film Critics' Award for 2024, for Best Feature Movie, while the Best Actor Award went to lead cast member and Sámi indigenous rights activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and the Professional Function Award went to composer Ola Fløttum for the original music. It has only happened once before since the Award's start in 1950 that the same movie took three out of three awards of a year.
Pic: Left to right, composer Ola Fløttum, director Ole Giæver and lead cast member Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen.
A movie portrayal of the foundationally important Alta conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_controversy), which should be seen by anyone interested in indigenous rights anywhere, environmental activism's both past struggles and current and so on. Here's a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUsIbx2qwk in case you wanna know what you're gonna watch.
Yes, the main character is played by *that* Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson of the indigenous rights activists that shut down the State several times during the year the movie was released, 2023, for their rights to their own land by both use (tradition) and law.
Finally something nice for a change: ALL of the 18 indigenous rights activists prosecuted for taking action against the State of Norway violating the Constitution and international law against the Sámi people at Fosen, southern Norway-held part of Sápmi, have now been acquitted.
The court found that the order to end the demo, the treatment of the protesters and the punitive actions overall violated the defendants' rights to peaceful demos, violated the constitution.
"It is surprising! We were prepared fot the worst, so that everyone is acquitted feels very good", said main spokesperson Marie Hætta Isaksen.
"I am glad that no one was convicted for their defense of the rule of law", said the President of the Sámi Parliament of Norway, Silje Karine Muotka.
The lawbreaking government told press that it will ponder whether to appeal the case further, continuing to seek to get the Sámi activists punished for acting against its violations of the law.
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Ella Mari Hætta Isaksen today commented that "I think all of political Norway, and we see them doing this too, must strongly distance themselves from the claim that we must withdraw from international conventions. Like, it CAN NOT, heh, be thus that we collectively punish the people and remove our rights due to the State committing human rights violations. It is completely unacceptable and simply irrelevant to this debate".
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Well, Ella Marie was this latest Thursday awarded "The Fritt Ord [=Free Word] Tribute" of the "Fritt Ord Foundation", which "acknowledges remarkable efforts to promote free speech".
In the speech giving thanks in Sámi and Norwegian for the award Ella Marie among much else pointed out that
their protest action "is painful evidence of why we need civil disobedience, now more than ever. [...] The State commits human rights violations against its own people, and violate its own law. In a democracy that is thus deficient, we need some emergency mechanisms. [...]
Whereas I on February 23 turned my cardigan inside out [traditional Sámi act to show rage], I now turn it back in thanks.
I want to thank everyone by giving a promise: I will never surrender.
A thousand thanks and ČSV [Show Sámi Spirit]!"
Depicted with Ella Marie is legendary Sámi musician Mari Boine at the event, where Boine performed 3 songs in honor of Ella Marie.
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• Hear the Voices of the Foremothers
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• Brother Eagle
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=p6IyVzmetPg?t=9
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen's introduction to the entire populace of Norway was by winning the Public Service broadcaster NRK's talent-show Stjernekamp by singing Mari Boine's (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8oRgnToqkEU) song "Maze" in 2018 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=odpREEp-uOo so Boine performing at Hætta Isaksen's award ceremony this past Thursday should obviously have some special personal significance.
MARI BOINE : See the Woman
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in reply to b9AcE • • •I don't know that it has been subtitled to English yet, even though it obviously should, but here https://vimeo.com/810888406 is a trailer with Swedish language subtitles.
Farther back you should also watch the documentary of the latest indigenous Sámi people's major uprising in "The Kautokeino Rebellion", for example https://tube.xy-space.de/w/bs8ZfqsFsHNsY3W5Xty22W here,
if you care about indigenous any peoples struggles, that is.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Prime Minister's office blockaded and several hundred activists in demo outside the Royal Palace yesterday in Oslo while the government met the king, as it today is 600 days since the Supreme Court ruled the wind turbines at Fosen violate the human rights of the indigenous Sámi people, 100 days passed since the mass-blockades of Ministries ended after government promises to end the human rights violations but nothing has happened.
"We were promised change, we were promised that our human rights would be respected. Nevertheless nothing has happened. Now we are here to show that as long as the human rights violation is ongoing, it never gets quiet", said Elle Nystad, leader of Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth.
The Prime Minister of the human rights violating government claimed to Elle that "We are working with this matter. It is not standing still" presenting no evidence for that claim.
The human rights and environmental activists brought sleeping bags and chains, saying they would continue the blockade (at least) until today even if told by police to move, whilst police commented they expect the activists to follow Norway's laws (like the government... isn't).
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Here's a video with Greta on this, from the Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth (NSR Nuorat) with English subtitiles:
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Of course Greta upheld the promise to show up again for the new invitation from the Sámi activists,
alongside whom Greta participated in shutting down the State of Norway the previous time.
Greta:
"It should not have to happen, that young Sámi activists shall feel forced to do this, to occupy buildings to protest against that the State is violating human rights. So, there is no excuse for that.
The colonization of Sápmi and this resistance has been ongoing for centuries.
We can not accept that it is allowed to continue happening.
Therefore everyone that can be here and support should do so.
It is therefore I and other activists are here in support the Sámi activists and the Sámi at Fosen [where the illegal wind farm is] who are affected directly by these wind turbines"
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Later Greta too took some questions and burst out laughing when a reporter as part of a question informed Greta that the current generation has been called "Generation Greta".
Greta:
That's hilarious. Sorry.
We are many all around earth that have begun to understand the betrayal which is occurring against our generation and older generations that live in the most affected areas. And as this is being revealed it will... ...not be fun for current holders of power, who fight tooth and nail for the current order of things.
Reporter: [something about "the Greta Thunberg Generation" again I can't quite hear]
Greta: What is that generation?
Eehm that's a weird term that I will not use.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Some pictures from the currently ongoing blockade of "State Power" (Statkraft) in Oslow against the continuing violation of indigenous rights.
The last picture shows the CEO of the wholly State-owned electricity corporations just now coming out to talk to the people their wind farm violates.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Here's a map from a piece (in Sámi language) by Public Service TV of Sweden on how Sámi activists against the State of Norway continuing to violate the law for over two years since the Supreme Court's ruling,
showing how some had to travel all the way from Tromsø (I added that sign+arrow) in Norway-held part of Sápmi to Gárasavvon/Karesuando in the Sweden-held part then all through the Sweden-held part of Sápmi just to get to the capital city of Norway,
but they did it by bus instead of flying because air travel is shit for the environment, 18 hours one direction but "this is important".
The second picture is an earlier picture by me showing Sápmi compared to the occupying States.
Aaaactlly, Sápmi could easily be considered much larger, as ancient Sámi culture has been found as far as Gävle which is farther down south than the center point of Sweden, but no writing at the time so it's being ignored.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •That's impressive how long they've been holding this protest. But I know something similar from the indigenous inhabitants of North Dakota/USA, although they no longer live in their culture as the Sami do. There it is about these oil pipelines. It is the same everywhere. They destroy old cultures and habitats for profit and oppress the people who have been living there long before the occupants.
I confess that I have never paid attention to the far north until now, because everything is always sold to us as so clean, trade, energy, everything that comes from Scandinavia. But the salmon farms alone are a disaster for the environment. I stir since I know it no salmon more. ps. about your " Bla-bla-Minister I must laugh. There are also many of this kind in our country.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Interview today at the indigenous Sámi's blockade of "State Power" of Norway with Elle Nystad, leader of Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth (NSR Nuorat), after Greta Thunberg.
I even made the subtitles in English for you, so please do watch and share...
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in reply to Sofie • • •It is unfortunately rather common for indigenous rights issues to not get any attention at all on a worldwide scale if it is outside USA, which is prooobably why most people, even those living under the same State as the indigenous people in question, have usually never heard of anything occurring at all. Not just Sápmi, the Sámi people, but everywhere. Well, that's how it seems to me anyway.
That the outcome is the same whether in the areas under the USA or elsewhere even though at least I guess most people worldwide have at least heard of (No)DAPL for example, is a different, more tragic deeper underlying issue, I would guess.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The CEO of the "State Power" corporation that is at the core of the law violation by the State of Norway commented to the activists currently blockading the corporation as it has now been two years since the Supreme Court ruled that their wind farm is illegal and violates indigenous rights law, being asked by a reporter
"Will it take another two years to solve?", replied that
"I hope it won't. I hope we can find a combination which will be a good solution for both parties".
Imagine if someone was caught burglarizing someone else, killing their cattle and destroying their heritage, then after being caught and ruled against by the top court the police kept helping the culprit continue and the government declared that the illegal acts must continue... and the press interview the violator asking how long they plan to go on. It's so absurd.
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in reply to Sofie • • •@Sofie Yeah, the Biden administration is forcing previously halted petroleum projects to resume, after winning the election among other things by promising to do NOT that.
Sooo unexpected.
I think the closest there is for Germany-related areas would be the long matter with the Slavic people that were native to the south and east coast of the Baltic Sea mixed with Germanic people all the way to Schleswig/Angeln, but were mostly wiped out by the Northern Crusades and connected events during the 1100s to 1400s, which resurfaced during WW2 as claims were made again that the Baltic States are German actually, due to the Teutonic Order, Livonian Order, etc of the past.
Well, from my memory.
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in reply to Sofie • • •I wish they would just, you know... get to know their neighbors and be friends, merging for synergies, instead. ;-/
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Some more pictures of the indigenous Sámi people's rights protest today for the occasion of it being two years ago yesterday that the Supreme Court ruled the wind farm on the Sámi's land in Sápmi was illegal, vilates indigenous people's basic human rights, but the State of Norway has just kept violating the law.
Showing the culture-essential reindeer at Fosen subjected to the very intense stress by the violating wind farm and the protests in Oslo.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Some more pictures of the indigenous Sámi people's rights protest today for the occasion of it being two years ago yesterday that the Supreme Court ruled the wind farm on the Sámi's land in Sápmi was illegal, vilates indigenous people's basic human rights, but the State of Norway has just kept violating the law.
Showing the culture-essential reindeer at Fosen subjected to the very intense stress by the violating wind farm and the protests in Oslo.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Amnesty's Sápmi chapter on Finland's Public Service broadcaster YLE's news for their Sápmi department, in support for the protesters in Oslo for the indigenous Sámi people's basic human rights.
Just as the Sámi started shutting down the State of Norway the previous time, Sámi rights activists from the part held by Finland were forced to urgently go back due to another assault on Sámi rights there.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •i like that he tries and fails to make greta say something other than the basic idea behind why everyone is there :)
She just calmly repeats the obvious that human rights and sustainability are fundamentally linked. Cant have one without the other.
I can tell shes had a lot of practice. Probably annoying for the reporter. Which is fine.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •that firat picture is of a very fragile ecosystem. Already threatened by climate collapse. :(
Why can't they put turbines around cities or other places where humans have already squashed everything in the landscape?
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in reply to Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 • • •I've experienced that myself... very tedious.
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in reply to Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 • • •@CatHat From equivalent situations in the Sweden-held part of Sápmi the answer has been that the people down south think the wind turbines are ugly, even when they are almost imperceptibly far out at sea, so they decide that the indigenous people must make this sacrifice for the colonizer's sake, just as during the previous ~500 years.
I'm thinking wave power should be looked at. There's like... way more power of waves in motion readily available than we use in electricity, I'd guess.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •that should be a no-brainer without human rights even being brought up.
And wave power hm.
Depends? Coastlines are often highly vulnerable too.
Power plants basically do not fucking belong in fragile areas unless all other options have been considered. And the local communities agree.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Asking the sane question several ways isn't the same as a new person asking obvious questions
She must be extremely annoying to interview for people asking bad faith questions. :)
Idk if that relieves the tedium any but i enjoy seeing her do it.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •the light zone of the surface of an ocean is a habitat. The question is how to transfer that power to shore.
And how noisy it is.
If the dead zones spread a little more the main food webs might collapse.
Over the past century the global oceans hahave effectively lost several trophic levels.
Assume the ocean is ALL fragile habitat and you won't be far wrong.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Im thinking about the social dynamics. The interview might be tedious but framed as a competition, greta won the exchange. Which is something i like to see. There's nothing in what she said that makes an obvious choice for bad faith framing. They WILL try. But her words aren't something they can easily use.
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in reply to Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 • • •@CatHat Hm, well, we won't end our impact immediately. That just won't happen, so minimizing and distributing it would seem the available path.
I was thinking maybe the wave power generators can be a bit down too, as the waves are very big. The current models I've seen are all at the surface, but I'm thinking maybe that's not necessary.
The output transfer to land... I dunno, they could be placed near enough to existing sea floor cables that the power cables are routable alongside the already existing ones as much as possible, maybe..?
I'm not an engineer.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The impact of an accident is orders of magnitude higher than on land. And the buffer system in the ocean is becoming unstable.
I think adding tidal and wind power plants to port cities is probably the best solution environmentally
Its just massively unpopular.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Mutual solidarity expressed almost exactly across the globe, between the indigenous Mapuche people in what's most widely known as Chile and the indigenous Sámi in the part of Sápmi held by Norway,
as both demand their land back from projects of the State of Norway's "State Power" corporation ("Statkraft").
In Norway-held Sápmi the matter is, as this entire toots-thread shows, regarding a wind farm at an area named Fosen, whilst in southern Chile it's a river named Pilmaiken and is holy to the Mapuche according to Public Service broadcaster of Norway, NRK (I think it may be Pilmaiquén),
so while the Sámi activists occupied Parliament yesterday the Mapuche demonstrated outside Norway's Embassy in Santiago, displaying e.g. the flag of Sápmi in solidarity and today the Sámi blockading the "State Power" HQ declared solidarity back.
The CEO of the "State Power" corporation declared to NRK that their behavior has been ethically defensible.
Eivind (like the Terrible) reshared this.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •At least 11 government ministries blockaded simultaneously this morning.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Oslo police once again chose to aid the one breaking the law against the victim of the violation, carrying away indigenous Sámi protesting the continuation of wind farm on their culture-essential reindeer herding land over two years after the Supreme Court ruled that the permit was invalid, illegal, in violation of indigenous basic human rights, but even after the PM admitted that it was a human rights violation, they keep doing it.
Video from the Norwegian Sámi Association-Youth, 12 minutes ago:
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen main spokesperson of the Sámi rights protesters that shut down the State of Norway this morning, spoke outside the Royal Palace, reports Public Service TV of Sweden (SVT),
saying that "We have nowhere else to go to. We therefore humbly hope that His Majesty the King Harald wants to meet us and listen" and that "We will sit here and wait today and see if he has time for us during the day. If he doesn't we may be back tomorrow, she said with tears in the eyes".
Sorry I kept deleting and reporting this toot. SVT kept editing their live-report and I don't edit toots...
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Sorry, building wind farms is not the same level of damage as killing cattle and destroying heritage. It sounds more like a typical anti-wind power protest, where local villagers don't want the solution to renewable energy in their backyard.
Wind farms don't kill reindeers. The results on other impacts are not very conclusive, the most conclusive finding is that the Sami are strong opponents to wind farms, and that likely affects the herded reindeers.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742422001154
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in reply to b9AcE • • •From the "Nature and Youth" association, participating in the Sámi rights protests in Oslo (my translation of course):
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732 days of human rights violations and we have tried everything. We have met [Prime Minister] Støre, debated with [Oil and Energy Minister] Aasland countless times, shut down the State (twice), camped outside the Prime Minister's office, lived outside the Parliament for a month, shut down [State power company] Statkraft, blocked [largest street] Karl Johan and renamed the street to Elsa Laulan Gæjnoe [after this https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Laula_Renberg person] and established a large [Sámi tent] lavvuleir on Eidsvolls plass [outside Parliament]. All for a case that has actually been won in the Supreme Court.
"One of history's most important Sámi rights defenders, Elsa Laula Renberg [see above link], asked the King for help in 1904. We have tried all the ways of modern democracy to be heard, but the violation of human rights has not stopped after two long years. We see ourselves having to return to old traditions, and go to the king," - Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen.
Now we're waiting for the King, and hope he has time to meet us today.
ČSV [slogan since the Sámi started the modern environmentalism in Norway in the 1970s = "Show Sámi Spirit"]
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Pic: "WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO [...]"
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in reply to Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️ • • •It sounds more like a typical anti-indigenous peoples stance.
Don't send more of such venom to me. I will block you.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Solidarity demo for the indigenous Sámi rights protesters in Oslo, was held in Stockholm outside the Royal Palace and Parliament, reports Public Service TV of Sweden.
That's the spot where Greta Thunberg's "school strike for the climate" started.
Greta is now (again) one of those in Oslo protesting for Sámi rights, against Green Colonialism.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •UN has characterized the construction as violation of human rights. This is the 700th day that the human rights has been breached without any action from the norwegian state.
Stand in solidarity with the sami people :sami: :sami: ✊
#fosen #sami
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in reply to 𐑝𐑧𐑜𐑭 𐑓𐑘𐑹𐑛 ✡️🇵🇸 • • •I do what I can. I curate and translate coverage from news-coverage, etc on the topic from e.g. Public Service of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Feel free to check the rest of the thread which continues from that first day of protest on the 500th day to today.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •"The demos in Oslo continue against the wind turbines at Fosen.
At the same time, indigenous people in Chile have also shown their discontent with Statkraft ["State Power", State of Norway's electricity corporation].
The Mapuche people demand the land back along the Pilmaiken River in southern Chile." wrote Public Service TV in Sweden's regarding this video.
Eva Maria Fjellheim, researcher at Tromsø University, NW Sápmi/N Norway, in the text part of the piece explain that "it is Chile's authorities that are responsible, but as Statkraft has invested in it they are also responsible" and in the video says...
Eva Maria: The Mapuche people, which is an indigenous people of Chile have for several days marked the day [I think Indigenous Peoples' Day, Oct 11], opposition they have against Statkraft's hydropower project which is established in their holy river Pilmaiken.
Reporter: What's wrong with that establishment of those hydropower plants?
Eva Maria: There are several things here, but the locals have not been consulted adequately […] they're denied their traditional areas. They have a rivere there which is holy, which is important for their world view and practices, they gather their medicine there. They're denied an area that is important for them and has been important for them historically.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The Royal Court confirms that the indigenous Sámi rights protesters get to meet the King and Crown Prince of Norway on Monday, 12:15, according to Norway's Public Service broadcaster NRK.
They are still waiting outside the Royal Palace, according to Sweden's Public Service TV SVT.
Also, some pictures of the protesters outside the Royal Palace earlier today:
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in reply to b9AcE • • •"We pack away the chains for this time", comments Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen on having gotten a Royal Audience scheduled for Monday, so the indigenous Sámi human rights protesters end their civil disobedience activities, for now.
A picture of the chains, used during the blockades recent days against the State of Norway without change continuing its self-admitted human rights violations against the Sámi people more than two years after the Supreme Court's ruling:
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Greta Thunberg and other "foreign" protesters should be deported and banned from entering Norway says the far-right "Fremskrittspartiet" domestic policy spokesperson, because they have been joining the protests in support of the indigenous Sámi protesters against the State of Norway continuing to violate human rights law in spite of a ruling of the Supreme Court over 2 years ago.
Representative of that party also expressed on day one of the restart of the protests that the Sámi protesters should not even have been let into the building of the Parliament that claims to represent the Sámi people in the Norway-held part of Sápmi too.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •And from a news comedy-show on Norway's Public Service TV, regarding the Sámi human rights protests.
Person 1: I think it's funny to see how the various politicians reacted to that the Sámi were in the vestibule [of Parliament]. Especially Terje Aasland [Minister of Oil and Energy, so-called "Labour Party"] who couldn't say enough of how nice he found it that youth were out demonstrating. While he of course gave F about doing something about it.
He thought it was so nice that they come here to speak up… that, that is democracy… while he stands there violating human rights.
Then suddenly comes Frp [Fremskrittspartiet, far-right, hate-based] and they're allergic against the Sámi. Bård Hoksrud [Frp, ex-minister of agriculture] comes out and he was completely red in the face. He had to get 8 liters Pepsi Max, intravenously, to recover.
Person 2: Like politically it's a rather interesting thing. If one makes a Venn diagram over those that hate the Sámi most and those that hate wind turbines most.
Then it's a circle we call Frp.
And this time Frp decided that: Yes, it's the Sámi we hate most.
Person 3: I think people should be more upset than they are now. Because now it's about indigenous people. But the next time, it might be about real people. Such as you then. Or, not you, Johan, but those.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The world famous Hollywood movie star Jamie Lee Curtis supports the indigenous Sámi protesting in Oslo, reposting a post from Greta Thunberg with the additional comment "269 weeks of COMMITMENT!".
It's on Instagram and people shouldn't go to Instagram, because it is Facebook, so here's the post via an alternative frontend https://imgsed.com/p/CyV0t_or35-/ as well as screenshots of the original, so you don't have to.
I only saw it because the Public Service broadcaster of Norway (NRK) reported that the major newspaper VG reported about it...
Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis): 269 weeks of COMMITMENT! #Rep instagram post download - imgsed.com
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Deporting Greta Thunberg and others that have traveled to Oslo to participate in the protests against human rights violations against the indigenous Sámi, as far-right "Fremskrittspartiet" called for, "would be serious, and illegal", says Elden Law firm (my translation as usual).
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During the Fosen [human rigths violation location] action this winter, our client Greta Thunberg was twice removed by the police by force. [...] The police have confirmed that she will not be prosecuted for this.
In the police's recommendation to not prosecute those who campaigned at the Ministry of Oil and Energy this winter [...] The police conclude that the Fosen demonstration was "justified and understandable" [...].
- Our Swedish clients are EU citizens, and must pose a "serious threat" to basic societal values if they are to be deported. Several travel arrivals are part of the same indigenous population as the Norwegian Sámi, and thus particularly strongly protected by the human rights convention, the lawyers say.
- We are not there, that Norwegian values are seriously threatened by Greta Thunberg. On the contrary, the Norwegian values democracy and freedom of expression are something the majority in political Norway hold dear, say lawyers Halvorsen Rønning and Hessen Jacobsen at Elden Law firm.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Two pictures from previously, just because I hadn't seen them before and they're nice.
"Fosen-activists close the Department of Oil and Energy."
Håkon Mudenia/NRK
"The activists ignored notice about that the door may not be blocked."
Dragan Cubrilo/NRK
(It's just a goods delivery door for the State of Norway's "State Power" electricity corporation "Statkraft")
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The Fosen [location in Sápmi] activists, against the State's continuing Prime Minister-admitted human rights violations there >2 years after the Supreme Court ruled for the indigenous Sámi people, got to meet the King and Crown Prince of Norway for 15 minutes at 12:15 today.
The ones that got the Royal Audience were Elle Nystad (leader of Norwegian Sámi Association's youth-wing), Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Mihkkal Hætta, Petra Laiti (leader of Finnish Sámi Association's youth-wing), Nella-Stina Wilks Fjällgren and Ingke Marie Jåma.
They are not allowed to say what the King and Crown Prince said.
They handed over a letter in which they asked for mercy, which Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen commented,
"With a cry of emergency, we have written a letter because we no longer have confidence in the government. It is painful that they continue their work as if nothing has happened".
A released part of the letter said,
"For several generations we have asked the King for help. Although the position of the throne has changed over time, our people have now again found themselves in a situation where we must adopt old traditions.
We have not forgotten Your legacy to us, but Your people have forgotten their responsibility. Your Majesty has power to remind them."
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Ingke Jåma, Sámi from the Fosen area of Norway-held Sápmi where the State of Norway continues to self-admittedly violate the indigenous people's human rights, commented after meeting the King and Crown Prince:
Ingke Jåma: It feels very good to meet the King and Crown Prince who has understanding for the situation. I think it was a very strong meeting.
Reporter: In what way was it strong, this meeting here?
Ingke Jåma: […] One could show one's emotions and be seen.
Reporter: Now, you're not allowed to quote what the King and Crown Prince said, but did you feel as if they had understanding of what you had to tell?
Ingke Jåma: Yes, absolutely. I think he showed great understanding for why we came here today.
Reporter: What is it like as a Fosen-Sámi, to get this support from all of Sápmi and also a part of the Norwegian people?
Ingke Jåma: It's very good to feel the support we get. It absolutely gives us extra powers and hope.
Reporter: So, what now for the Fosen-issue? As you won two years ago [= the Supreme Court ruling] but still nonetheless have lost?
Ingke Jåma: Yes, first and foremost we must have an end to the human rights violation. How we then move on… yes, we'll see.
Reporter: What do you wish should happen now?
Ingke Jåma: The wind turbines on Fosen demolished and the land returned.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •For reference, out of the two major worldwide news agencies,
Reuters has so far chosen to completely ignore the recent resurgence of protests against continuing human rights violations against the indigenous Sámi by the State of Norway, even though they shut down 11 Government Departments, blocked the largest street in Oslo and met the King so clearly a econo-political choice by Reuters, not based on the events' magnitude of news-worthiness.
The Associated Press (AP) had https://apnews.com/article/norway-wind-turbines-sami-herders-protest-c97371074db742c0654da522c5a9f379 one article, on Thursday, then dropped it before the blockade of the 11 State Ministries on Friday and the Royal Audience today.
Their lack of reporting appropriate to both the severity of the issue and the magnitude of the events, the news agencies refusing to do their jobs, is a large part of why I give this matter extraordinary priority.
Norway activists press on with their protest against wind farm on land used by herders
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in reply to b9AcE • • •image description:
Sámi protesters lying on a tile floor in a circle, feet towards the center
two police-type people kneel near the head of the nearest protester
jutting just into the frame are other people in a semi-circle around, some point cameras and a microphone towards the circle
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in reply to b9AcE • • •"Indigenous Rights are Not Optional",
crafts, coffee and chains,
at the complete blockade of the "State Power" government-owned electricity corporation's HQ in Oslo on October 12,
before shutting down the State of Norway the next morning, Friday the 13th.
Pic: Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Mediation between the human rights violated indigenous Sámi people on the southern part of Norway-held Fosen in Sápmi finished and an agreement was made with the "Fosen Vind" operators which is majority State-owned power company Statkraft (Statepower).
The violated will, almost three years after the Supreme Court ruled their land was unlawfully seized and their human rights violated, get compensation and will get replacement land for the culture-essential reindeer herding, while the wind farm will get to operate the scheduled 25 years, after which the Sámi have veto on further plans.
The conflict continues, as the northern Fosen-Sámi are still negotiating with Aneo (https://www.aneogroup.com) operating on their lands.
The well known Sámi rights activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen comments to Public Service broadcaster that
"It is extremely important to clarify that the Fosen issue has not been resolved. I am very afraid that we will let this go now. It would be another betrayal of reindeer herders" and that "It is likely that there will be new demos, because it is a completely different situation for North-Fosen" as well as a "promise on behalf of the [activist campaign] that we will continue to fight together with North-Fosen until they too are in a situation that also they can live with".
Aneogroup.com | Aneogroup.com
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Oh, nice! "Let the River Flow", with English subtitles: https://tube.xy-space.de/w/d05ed6f4-b89a-4847-b08c-137d262c37f0
I've been looking for that.
A movie portrayal of the foundationally important Alta conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_controversy), which should be seen by anyone interested in indigenous rights anywhere, environmental activism's both past struggles and current and so on.
Here's a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUsIbx2qwk in case you wanna know what you're gonna watch.
Yes, the main character is played by *that* Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson of the indigenous rights activists that shut down the State several times during the year the movie was released, 2023, for their rights to their own land by both use (tradition) and law.
Trailer de Let the River Flow — La elva leve – Ellos eatnu subtitulado en inglés (HD)
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in reply to b9AcE • • •The northern Fosen-Sámi have today agreed to settle n the issue of State of Norway continuing to violate their indigenous rights for >2 years after Supreme Court ruled Government of Norway was in violation regarding the wind farm built on Sámi's land.
The Sámi wanted to bring the case back to Supreme Court where they won 11 to 0 previously, but unable to because their culture- and sustenance-essential reindeer herding would have gone down during process, explains Terje Haugen (depicted), leader of the North-Fosen reindeer herding district,
so instead they must accept another area in exchange for the one stolen by the State and 7 million Norwegian crowns (currently $667678) annual compensation for duration of windfarm permit which was unlawfully issued continues, until the year 2043.
The main spokesperson of the activists that repeatedly shut down the State of Norway to get their human rights respected, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, commented that "This is not a victory and I know many would have wished for a happy ending to this. But unfortunately this will always be a memory for me and I think it will be a historic memory for more people. This case will be left as a big wound that will take decades to heal".
So, a form of State extortion won over indigenous rights and a Supreme Court ruling.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, main spokesperson for the activists that defended indigenous Sámi people's rights in the case of the government of Norway continuing to violate the Supreme Court ruling that the government was violating human rights, in tears at court today as one of 18 being prosecuted for those demos against the government violating the law in the Fosen matter which was only finally resolved through the State forcing the last Sámi to an agreement through indirect extortion of economic devastation if they continued bringing the case back to the Supreme Court where they had already won unanimously.
"I have sacrificed so much", said Ella Marie according to Norway's Public Service in Sápmi, "I feel extremely tired because it has been a tough year where I have sacrificed a lot. But I am very worried that I have not done enough" and that "we we are being punished for protecting human rights in Norway".
Court proceedings in the absurdly wrongful case of retribution for acting against the government's law violations are expected to continue until March 15.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •You make me proud to be a fellow human.
Even now, when all hope seemed finally lost and only unjust retribution for the human rights defenders seemed to be the aftermath, this past Friday the protests for indigenous rights gathered outside the Royal Palace of Oslo while the Government met the King of Norway.
The Sámi rights defenders demanded that
• The whole process regarding the (government's >1000 days of violating human rights law after Supreme Court ruled it must stop) Fosen Sámi matter must be scrutinized to ensure that the same will happen never again.
• Preemptive permits, giving the "right" to exploitation before due process has been finalized must cease being issued, having been a primary reason for why the intl law violation was allowed to persist because "it has already been built now" when it was ruled the permit was unlawful.
• The Fosen Sámi must eventually get their own land since before Norway existed back.
They held a luohti/joik marathon for two hours outside the Palace during the highest meeting of powers of Sápmi-occupying Norway. Video in the next toot.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •"Let the River Flow" https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/111919477802645110 about the actual history Alta-conflict foundational to the Sámi indigenous rights- and environmentalism-movement was yesterday also awarded all three out of three of the the Norwegian Film Critics' Award for 2024,
for Best Feature Movie, while the Best Actor Award went to lead cast member and Sámi indigenous rights activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and the Professional Function Award went to composer Ola Fløttum for the original music.
It has only happened once before since the Award's start in 1950 that the same movie took three out of three awards of a year.
Pic: Left to right, composer Ola Fløttum, director Ole Giæver and lead cast member Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen.
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in reply to b9AcE • • •Finally something nice for a change:
ALL of the 18 indigenous rights activists prosecuted for taking action against the State of Norway violating the Constitution and international law against the Sámi people at Fosen, southern Norway-held part of Sápmi, have now been acquitted.
The court found that the order to end the demo, the treatment of the protesters and the punitive actions overall violated the defendants' rights to peaceful demos, violated the constitution.
"It is surprising! We were prepared fot the worst, so that everyone is acquitted feels very good", said main spokesperson Marie Hætta Isaksen.
"I am glad that no one was convicted for their defense of the rule of law", said the President of the Sámi Parliament of Norway, Silje Karine Muotka.
The lawbreaking government told press that it will ponder whether to appeal the case further, continuing to seek to get the Sámi activists punished for acting against its violations of the law.