Hannu-Pekka

I took part in the campaign because I feel like the atmosphere in Finland has got worse and intolerance is on the rise. I haven’t personally had to experience or witness discrimination, but I often hear discriminatory comments in everyday talk and conversation. However, anyone can intervene. It may take courage and set your pulse racing, but keeping quiet helps no one.

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MC Koo

Too often, people with disabilities are harassed in public. It would be nice if people would take us into consideration, and then everybody would be better off. Once I was on my way home on the bus, and some people I didn’t know spat at me. They said “Bye bye, Kalle”, then spat on…

Vuokko

My daughter witnessed a bus driver with a foreign background being insulted by a native Finn after the bus was involved in an accident. Not a single adult intervened to stop the abusive language. It took us a long time to process the incident. Twelve-year-olds today are used to immigrants in their…

Solomie

Last autumn I was getting on a train at the Helsinki Central Railway Station. I was on the phone, speaking in Amharic. A man in a suit came up to me. He showed me his phone. “DON’T SPEAK YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE” it read I didn’t stop, though. The man came back to show the…

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