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:

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"

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

@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.

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.

Toot 1 of 2:

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.

Toot 2 of 2:

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.

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?

@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.

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.

@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.

international solidarity!

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.

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:

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...

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

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 [...]"

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: ✊

#fosen #sami

"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: