Sommaren 2021 anordnades ett läger i Gállok som blev en stor inspirationskälla och kopplade samman människor från olika delar av Europa. Detta har nu mynnat ut i nya samarbeten och nätverk.
I Tyskland har ett nätverk för solidaritet med kamper i Sápmi startats. Detta initiativ har nu lett till anordnandet av ”Decolonizing Sápmi Tour” där några som är aktiva i Kolonierna tillsammans med renskötaren och aktivisten Henrik Andersson på turné i Tyskland och Nederländerna nu i maj. De kommer då att prata om kolonialism, ekocid och motstånd i svensk-occuperade Sápmi. Även May-Britt Öhman kommer att delta via länk på några av tillfällena. Mer information hittar du på:
https://decolonizingsapmitour.blackblogs.org/
- 22 maj – Berlin
- 23 maj – Leipzig
- 24 maj – Göttingen
- 26 maj – Hannover
- 28 maj – Appelscha Netherlands
- 29 maj – Kiel
The summer of 2021 there was a camp in Gállok that became a huge source of inspiration and connected people from different parts of Europe. This has now turned into new cooperations and networks.
In Germany a network for solidarity with struggles in Sápmi has been formed. This initiative has now lead to the organization of the ”Decolonizing Sápmi Info Tour” where some active in Kolonierna together with the reindeer herder and activist Henrik Andersson are going to tour through Germany and Netherlands now in may. They will then talk about colonialism, ecocide and the resistance against it in Swedish-occupied Sápmi. Also May-Britt Öhman will join online for some of the occasions. You can find more info on:
https://decolonizingsapmitour.blackblogs.org/
Ny bok om ekocid och kolonialism släpps i maj
Under lägret i Gállok 2021 spelad vi också in samtliga presentationer. Det materialet tillsammans med andra texter och intervjuer vi gjorde, skrev och samlade in i efterhand har nu blivit till en över hundra sidor lång tidning med fokus på Gállok som en utgångspunkt för ett mycket bredare perspektiv som berör kolonialism och ekocid i svensk-ockuperade Sápmi i allmänhet. Tidningen (eller kanske snarare boken) är på engelska och kommer att publiceras i mitten av maj och därmed spridas under turnén och efter. Mer information om det kommer senare. Här är i alla fall en bild på framsidan följt av texten på baksidan av tidningen (längre ned efter engelsk översättning).
New book on ecocide and colonialism released this May
During the resistance in Gállok there were numerous speakers and presentations. We compiled these talks as well as interviews with Sámi and other activists into a more than 100 page book that uses the fight in Gállok as a launching point to explore a much deeper interrogation of colonialism and ecocide in swedish-occupied Sápmi.
The book is in english and will be published in the middle of May 2023, and then distributed under the tour and after. More information on this later. Above is a photo of the front cover and here follows the back cover blurb.
Blurb
”In March 2022 the Swedish government granted a British enterprise by the name of Beowulf Mining permission to pursue an open-cast mining operation in Gállok, in the heartland of Swedish-occupied Sápmi – an important development in a long and contested procedure towards a colonial land grab of historical significance. Ten years ago, in 2013, test drilling in Gállok spurred mounting resistance in the form of a road block and protest camp. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of that event, and in the context of an increasing acuteness of the Gállok case, this booklet offers insight into the wider context of colonial exploitation and environmental devastation in the homeland of Northern Europe’s indigenous Sámi population within territory under Swedish dominion.
Through a series of articles and interviews, light is shed upon a range of interrelated topics covering the Gállok case, the history of the region, colonial and racist treatment of its Sámi inhabitants, the conversion of its boreal forests into coniferous cash crop plantations, the increasing burdens upon the reindeer herding culture, the questionable promises of a so-called Green Transition based on colonial land grabbing and environmental degradation, and issues related to the nature of capitalist civilization underlying all of the above. The booklet incorporates activist, local and Sámi voices as well as perspectives from scholars in the fields of technology, racism, water security, forest ecology and human ecology.
The Gállok case is about an open-cast iron mine in the heartland of Sámi reindeer herding. But in many ways, it is about much more than that.”