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New text is out! "Innocent Journalism? The Union of Journalists in Finland, Haaretz and liberal Z!onism" rasterverkosto.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/inn…

"Who chooses wars for us? What does it mean that somewhere is peace and somewhere is war? Is this still peace? What kind of peace? Whose peace? Is there really peace until there are wars?" New text by Nóra Ugron! rasterverkosto.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/who…

Researchers for Palestine Finland and i are doing this lil thing on friday, just wanted to make some space to talk about what went down at eurovision and what steps we might be able to take going forward. registration necessary, sign up here: tinyurl.com/ttz7tb4e

Appeal by Nahlieli – Jews for Justice in Palestine to University Leadership in Finland: "The ongoing assault in Gaza, carried out in our names, only strengthens our resolve to stand with the student movement." @helsinkiuni raster.fi/2024/05/15/app…

This piece continues a debate on colonialism in Palestine to Finnish audiences journal.fi/kosmopolis/art…

Read Olga Tkach's text on the “touristification” of the anti-military protest movement in Russia and what it means to cross borders as a "tourist" today. raster.fi/2024/04/30/fle…

Check out Olga Tkach's, who is a former EuroStorie collague, essay 'Fleeing the draft with a toxic passport: How tourism facilitates Russian citizens’ anti-war protest' below @raster_fi #EuroStorie raster.fi/2024/04/30/fle…

The clueless use of "hybrid warfare" to understand migration and asylum is extremely alarming. @KrivonosDaria and Anitta Kynsilehto write on the Russian-Finnish border and the proposed law legalising pushback in Finland raster.fi/2024/04/12/fra…

The recently proposed law restricting asylum seekers from applying for refuge on Finland's eastern border is an example of a shock doctrine where the Government exploits the sense of fear to establish laws that contradict human rights @MobileFuturesFI globalvoices.org/2024/03/26/the…

1⃣ Suomen hallitus: Turvaa hakevien ihmisten ja muiden siirtolaisten oikeuksia ja asemaa ei saa heikentää. Turvaa hakevia ihmisiä on maailmassa enemmän kuin koskaan. Turvapaikanhakuoikeuden rajoittaminen ja maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristäminen eivät ole vastaus tilanteeseen.

Tutkijat Antti Tarvainen, Mikko Joronen ja Tiina Järvi osoittavat @lahiitanyt merkittäviä ongelmia kirjailija Jarkko Tontin @hsfi pääkirjoitusesseessään lahi-itanyt.fi/nyt/median-vas…

Finland is celebrated for its world-renowned daycare system and commitment to social equality. However, beneath the surface, many non-white families face a barrage of microaggressions and everyday racism that challenges the nation’s ideals of equity. no-niin.com/issue-22/micro…

Vapaa Liikkuvuuden lausunto hallituksen esitysluonnokseen oleskelulupien ehtojen tiukennuksista @vapaaliikkuvuus raster.fi/2024/03/08/uud…

Why We Must Boycott Eurovision? "The feelings of joy, excitement and community that we experience when we watch it feel so powerful precisely because they are contrasted with the depravity of politics happening somewhere else." by @zoecharlottejay raster.fi/2024/02/21/no-…

We don’t need to watch Eurovision 2024; Palestinians do need us to support the boycott directly. We must. I wrote about why we must #boycotteurovision for @raster_fi. Please read, share widely, start conversations, join the boycott. Summary thread below! raster.fi/2024/02/21/no-…

Keskustelu kaksoiskansalaisuuden riskeistä ei perustu tutkittuun tietoon vaan uusii ennakkoluuloja ja väärinkäsityksiä. @NelliPiattoeva ja Olga Davydova-Minguet for @raster_fi raster.fi/2024/02/06/kes…

Hallitus aikoo lakimuutoksin estää paperittomia siirtolaisia virallistamasta asemaansa. 🧵1/5 Olemme Vapaa Liikkuvuudessa hyvin huolissamme sisäministeriön työryhmästä, joka valmistelee hallituksen esitystä "maahantulosäännösten kiertämistä koskevan sääntelyn uudistamiseksi".

@palestine @PalestFutures

There is an unequivocal need for a legal solution that guarantees not only peace but securing the Palestinian right of return: Palestinians are currently the largest stateless population in the world raster.fi/2024/02/01/the…

Finland wants to promote the outsourcing of asylum claims to third countries ("Rwanda model") at EU level