DoomsdaysCW<p>"As for the wind farms, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/S%C3%A1mi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sámi</span></a> already fought and won their case in court in 2021 [AND YET THAT OUTCOME IS BEING IGNORED!], thirteen years after they first began advocating against the wind farms’ construction. Ironically, the government set up a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TruthAndReconciliation</span></a> Commission in 2018, not only to investigate the state’s assimilation policy and its consequences, but also to establish measures promoting greater equality for minorities in Norway. The investigation is soon to be published.</p><p>"When it came to removing the wind turbines, Sámi people have had to resort to civil disobedience to get the government’s attention. On February 23, protesters occupied the reception area of the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and blocked the entrances of several other government departments across Oslo.</p><p>“'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>. You can’t weigh them against anything else,' says sixteen-year-old Jostein Tennø Loe, a socialist youth board representative. He was among the first activists to be arrested outside the Ministry of Finance. As they were carried away, passersby could hear the sound of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/joik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joik</span></a>, the traditional Sámi singing once suppressed by the government’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assimilation</span></a> efforts. 'When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>, as a democratic state, ignores human rights and ignores the supreme court five hundred days after the ruling, something is deeply wrong,' Jostein says. For the Sámi, who are no strangers to conflict over land, the court’s ruling in their favor came a century too late — but the five hundred days that followed were nothing but a slap in the face.</p><p>"Not only is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerding</span></a> a significant part of their culture — it’s also a crucial arena for the Sámi people of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fosen</span></a> to practice their language. Considering that the Norwegian government is single-handedly responsible for pushing the language to the brink of extinction, the prime minister’s lack of remorse was damning." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SamiPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamiPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShameOnNorway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShameOnNorway</span></a></p>