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FACTS ABOUT ARCTIC INITIATIVE
6.6. Helsinki – Finland
WHAT: workshops, interventions and panel discussion on three major topics; Security, Environment and Indigenous Rights.
WHEN: 6.6.2016 at 10-19 o’clock
WHERE: Kirjan Talo, Kirjatyöntekijänkatu 10, Helsinki, Finland
EVENT AT GOOGLE MAPS: https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Kirjaty%C3%B6ntekij%C3%A4nkatu+10,+0017...@60.176075,24.9541659,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x46920bd13884142b:0x860cf079d0228bc2
WHY: International global neoliberal plans to exploit the natural resources hit the Arctic. Confrontation of the NATO and Russia is present. Indigenous rights are oppressed by the interests of the big capital. Time urges political parties, civil society, NGO´s, environmental – human rights and peace organizations, academic people, investigators and researchers, workers, artists, intellectuals and activists to make a statement and participate in common discussion about environment-security and human right issues in the Arctic.
WHO: Joint initiative of the Communist Party of Finland and the Environmental Working Group of the Party of the European Left.
WITH WHOM: An open forum for political parties, NGO´s, civil societies activists – environmental- peace- and human rights / indigenous rights organizations, workers and individual activists.
HASTAG: #arcticinitiative
FB PAGE: www.facebook.com/arcticinitiative
FB EVENT: www.facebook.com/events/143805929355997
SHORT DESCRIPTION: International Event on Environment, Security and Indigenous Rights hosted by Communist party of Finland and Environmental Working Group of European Left
EVENT LANGUAGE: English with simultaneous translation into Finnish
LOGO: Designed for SKP by visual artist Jani Leinonen
ARCTIC CAFÉ: Small snack and dinner, coffee and tea for sale with reasonable prices
WHEEL CHAIR ACCESSIBLY: Partly yes contact + 358 (0) 50 573 8598
SUPPORT US: Make a donation to SKP Danske: FI72 8000 1970 504222
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RECALAIM: Before the opening of the event 6.6. at 9.00 o´clock international guests gather outside the Cumulus hotel and march together from Hotel to the Event ( 800 meters / 10 minutes) carrying the event banner with logo and text “ For Environment, Peace and Indigenous Rights”. Photo session at Pitkäsilta-bridge which is a Finnish symbol of class division. Hotel Cumulus is at the working class part of the city and Event place Kirjan talo at the bourgeois part.
QUESTIONS: skp@skp.fi and +358 (0) 50 573 8598
ARCTIC INITIATIVE is a joint initiative of the Environmental Working Group of the Party of the European Left and the Communist Party of Finland to invite 6.6.2015 in Helsinki to an Open Forum; political parties of the European Left and the Arctic region, activists of the civil society in Arctic Region countries and Europe, NGO´s, environmental – Indigenous rights and peace organizations, academic people, investigators and researchers, artists, intellectuals and activists in the Arctic Region countries and Europe to discuss three topics; security, environment and human rights.
Each participant brings own knowledge to the common understanding and argumentation, has possibility to make proposals for common actions and can participate in the debate.
Arctic Initiative is also an Open Forum for public in Helsinki to participate without any costs. Event is organized in different spaces at Kirjan Talo ( House of the Book) in Helsinki, Kirjantyöntekijänkatu 10. Kirjan talo is event centre owned by Bookmakers’ Syndicate.
FINNISH NGO´S COLLABORATING WITH ARCTIC INITIATIVE:
Performers and Artist for Nuclear Disarmament (PAND)
PAND is 1983 founded politically independent organization for all artists and cultural workers in the struggle for disarmament, peace and human rights. PAND stands up in the Finnish peace movement by using art and different cultural approaches as its tools. PAND is a member of the international movement for peace, PAND International.
The Democratic Civic Association (DCA)
DCA is a nationwide educational association for adult learning. It is a Non-Governmental Organization, established in 1986.
The association’s operations are focused on the traditions of the leftist and the working class movement. The main principles are global solidarity, social and economical justice, and the ideas of peace, humanism and socialism.
POLITICAL YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
The Communist Youth League of Finland (KomNL)
KomNL was founded in August 2000. KomNL works together with other progressive movements, struggling for socialism and communism – a world without oppression, inequality and poverty.
The Communist Youth League of Finland is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.