Habari1 is back after a Recession

Habari1, the blog is back online after a long recession and a popular demand. Habari Newsletter which has also been on recess will  resume publication soon.

We are consindering upgrading Habari1 blog to a website under our umbrella innovation called Habari Foundation.

Our readers will be able to access infomation  and activities about Habari Foundation, Pacho Grill Kiosk, read Habari Newsletter online and many more.

We wish all our online and published media readers the best of luck and welcome to an enjoyable interactive  media.

Onyango Okeyo.

Immigrant Parents Send Teens Away for De-Westernization

Officials say they are learning of an increasing number of cases in which immigrant parents in Finland are forcibly sending teens back to their home countries to de-westernize them.

The Finnish Red Cross as well as social welfare offices say that every year dozens of parents who believe their children are becoming too westernized send their offspring back to African, Asian and Middle Eastern states.

Leena-Kaisa Åberg, head of the refugee and immigration section at the Finnish Red Cross, says school teachers rarely question the sudden absence of students with immigrant backgrounds.

“In some cases sports coaches are the ones who look into these disappearances,” says Åberg.

Authorities say these types of matters often fall beyond their jurisdiction, as parents are responsible for minors.

Janne Kanerva, a legislative counsellor at the Justice Ministry, says it’s not a crime if both parents decide to send their child abroad.

YLE

Comment: I very much agree with Janne Kanerva as the teens belongs to a rich mixed diversity hence needs to learn both cultural ways.

Onyango Okeyo.

Review:Race and Class

Racism remains one of the main features of the advanced capitalist societies. It is institutionalised in the sytematic discrimination which black people experience in jobs, housing and the education system, and the harassment they suffer at the hands of police and immigration authorities.

Modern racism, with its rhetoric of cultural difference and usually tacit appeal to older notions of natural inferiority, in any case arises in the conditions of industrial capitalism. Capitalism in its fully developed form rests on the exploitation of free wage labour.

Fighting racism, however, depends on understanding its causes. This is essential if the hold of racism on white workers is to be broken. Racism, as we have seen appeals to white workers because it offers an imaginary solution to the real problems like poverty, unemplyoment,exploitation,they confront.

Therefore, the direct struggle against racism must be linked to agitation around social and economic issues which shows that racism isn´t the solution, that the class struggle uniting workers of all colours and ethnic backgrounds, offers the only effective way of improving their lives.

Socialist Revolution

Revolutionary Socialist are committed to building a non-racial party of black and white workers which understands that racism can only be finally removed through the overthrow of capitalist system.

To be continued……..

Onyango Okeyo.

RIP-MJ

RIP-MJ

Explosion at Redcross Reception Centre

An explosion occurred at a Red Cross reception centre in Suomusjärvi in south-west Finland in the early morning hours on Monday.

No one was harmed in the blast that shattered windows and harmed the building structure. The centre houses a few dozen asylum seekers. The explosion occurred around 4am on Monday morning.

A two-door white passenger car with a black trim was seen driving from the scene of the explosion moments before the blast.

“We have increased security at the reception centre to safeguard the residents,” says Päivi Nikkola, deputy manager of the Suomusjärvi reception centre.

Police in Salo are investigating the incident and are urging eyewitnesses to come forward.

Culled from yli.

Swine flu cases in Finland

Two Finnish schoolchildren have contracted swine flu. Riitta Lehtonen, Communications Chief of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusima, confirmed the new cases of the H1N1 virus on Sunday.

The patients are children showing mild symptoms of the virus. They have now left hospital. The family returned home from the United States on Saturday.

Seven cases of the virus have now been confirmed in Finland. Not a known case in Åland yet and we at Habari Newsletter and Habari 1 appeals to medical authorities to provide preventive information to the public as WHO last week declared H1N1 deadliest virus.

Onyango Okeyo

Mid-summer Humor

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically.  This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK).  If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever – DO NOT TOUCH IT!!!  This virus will wipe out your private life entirely.  If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or both of the antidotes – Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER).  Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends.  If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.

Obuor refused entry into Finland

A FAMOUS Ghanaian hiplife artiste, Obuor, was refused entry to Finland to perform in an event called ‘World Village Festival’.

The reason, according to Finnish Embassy officials, was because Obuor’s crew of 15 performers was too big for just a day’s performance.

The development has left many Ghanaians in Finland, many of whom have never seen Obuor and were eager to watch him perform, bitterly disappointed.

Onyango Okeyo

Finns Complain About Racism

Finns are more frequently filing complaints with the Ombudsman for Minorities about incidents they consider racist. According to an annual report published by the office of the Ombudsman for Minorities, the worsening economic situation was reflected last year in a hardening of attitudes toward immigration.

It says that, for example, some Internet discussions took on a sharper tone.

However, alongside criticism of immigration, there was also a trend in the opposite direction. According to the Ombudsman it was striking how many Finns contacted the office after finding slurs against immigrants offensive.

There were 54 of these complaints registered last year. Over 40 percent were made by Finnish men who were reporting online racism. In addition to racism online, there were complaints by Finns of racial slurs on TV, in advertising, racist graffiti and even anti-immigrant slurs written in laundry reservation books.

Last year, the Ombudsman for Minorities dealt with over 700 complaints in total, just slightly more than the year before. Most of the complaints were filed by Romani, Russians and Somalis.

YLE(edited by Onyango Okeyo)

The Lady On Trial

Democracy activist and opposition politician in Burma Aung San Suu kyi is facing a trial that must be seen as ruling junta’s position and determination to keep her behind bars even to a long time victim of one of Asia´s most repressive regimes.

Confined to her home for most of the past two decades, Suu Kyi allegedly accepted a nighttime visit from uninvited American who swam unbidden to her lakeside residence May 3, 2009. While the Nobel Peace Laureate reportedly urged the American to leave, she is charged with violating the terms of her detention and faces up to five years in prison.

An observer at her trial noted that Aung San Suu Kyi trial is a story where the conclusion is already scripted, to continue detaining her or imprisoning her thus denying her the democratic rights to participate in the coming election.

Onyango Okeyo