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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 7

And of course Netanyahu is claiming the ICC’s “antisemitic”, even though its establishment evolved partially from the Nuremberg trials that prosecuted Nazis for persecuting Jews 🙄

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Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, accusing it of targeting US and Israel

US president has been critical of court since it issued arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 7

Of course two autocratic fascist leaders want to abolish a court that would see one—potential both—of them tried for crimes against humanity if it could only arrest them.

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Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, accusing it of targeting US and Israel

US president has been critical of court since it issued arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 6

Buori sámi álbmotbeaivvi buohkaide!
Pyeri säämi aalmugpeivi puohháid!
Šiõǥǥ saaʹmi meersažpeiʹvv pukid!
Hyvää saamelaisten kansallispäivää!
Happy Sámi National Day!

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 6

I hope for a day when the Sámi Parliament (Sámediggi, Sämitigge, Sääʹmteʹǧǧ, Saamelaiskäräjät) is free from entryism by people with contested indigenous heritage with vested interests.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 6

I hope for a day when the Sámi receive an apology and reparations from the Finnish government for the ethnic cleansing they and their ancestors have faced, including forced displacement, forced assimilation, attacks on the languages and cultures, and desecration of cultural landscapes.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Feb 6

I hope for a day when Sápmi—the indigenous Sámi people’s land—is free from neocolonial natural resource exploitation.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 31

💃🏼 At our campaign’s launch party in November, we brought together over 100 people from Helsinki’s swing dance and activist communities, family, friends and new followers for a night of music, dancing and political dialogue! Read more on Instagram!

Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 30

Well done, PAM! I wish @akavary.bsky.social would stand up for its members and organise a proper strike for its unions’ members.

www.pam.fi/en/stories/pam-breaks-off-negotiations-on-the-commerce-sector--agreement-concrete-steps-and-open-discussion-needed

www.pam.fi

Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 30

Antti Häkkänen must withdraw his provocative comment

🔗 Read more: www.instagram.com/p/DFdKBFctGw1

Reposted by Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki

Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social · Jan 29

Social media use in research is changing also in Finland - recently both my employer @luke.fi and my alma mater @helsinkiuni.bsky.social have decided to stop posting in X. Glad to see this development and the discussions becoming more active here and in LinkedIn! bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 29

I’m happy that my workplace Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luonnonvarakeskus) has stopped using X and will start posting more actively to its Bluesky account @luke.fi, as well as continuing to focus on LinkedIn. Please follow us!

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 29

Musk has driven the transformation of X into a disinformation, hate speech and harassment platform which is no longer a legitimate space for scientific or respectful dialogue.

Thanks to the 137 staff who signed the letter to management!

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 29

I’m happy that my workplace Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luonnonvarakeskus) has stopped using X and will start posting more actively to its Bluesky account @luke.fi, as well as continuing to focus on LinkedIn. Please follow us!

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

👩🏽‍💻 There are many ways you can participate, from low-threshold activities such as writing and/or recording an endorsement, encouraging your friends to vote, and sharing my posts, to actively developing written and visual content, helping to organise events, and flyering.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

📱 If this sounds like your thing, please reach out to me or my campaign manager Susan @su202109!

#kuntavaalit #MunicipalElections #vaalit #election #Suomi #Finland

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

📣 Another great campaign meeting last night! There are many ways you can get involved in campaigning for the municipal elections – join our team!

🌇 We’re a group of over 30 people working towards making Helsinki a more inclusive city with improved public services and better-protected nature.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

@alleroo.bsky.social thanks for sharing your grandfather’s experience 💗

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

It’s mad to incite hatred of immigrants and other minority groups. It’s mad to insult teachers and claim that they’re teaching “perversion”. It’s mad to try to divide people with culture wars. #SekoiluSeis #StopTheMadness

#Persut #fascism #Purra #woke #austerity #WorkersRights #immigrants

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

📣 I decided that Purra’s slogan is actually perfect for my own campaign, since her own party’s policies are such utter madness. It’s mad to attack workers’ rights and trade unions. It’s mad to harm the most vulnerable in society through harsh austerity.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

Schrödinger’s immigrant child, who has poor educational outcomes & is segregated from racially pure Finns because their parents can’t speak FI/SE & yet simultaneously shouldn’t be integrated into multilingual environments if doing so would worsen the outcome of racially pure Finnish children.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 28

🥴🤡 Yesterday Riikka Purra (Finance Minister) released the “Finns” Party’s municipal and county election programme, announcing that one of the themes is “sekoilu seis”, or “stop the madness”.

👧🏿👦🏾 Of course, all of Finland’s problems can be laid at the feet of the immigrant.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 27

We must continue countering their demonisation of #minorities, because it’s no different from the #fascist rhetoric that created the conditions that led to the horrors of the #Holocaust.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 27

2️⃣ Across the Western world, fascism is on the rise, from #Orbán in #Hungary, #LePen in #France, #Meloni in #Italy, #Farage in the #UK and #Trump in the #US, to the likes of #Purra and #HallaAho in #Finland.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 27

1️⃣ The #Netanyahu’s fascist #Israeli government is committing genocide against the #Palestinian people. But many Jews oppose this genocide and are offended by the use of religious supremacy, when their own ancestors were treated as subhuman because of their religion.

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Nick Walters, for a happy Helsinki @nickwfi.bsky.social · Jan 27

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let’s pay attention to two undeniable facts:

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