"UNOFFICIAL" SAL NEWS 1994-12-15 ====================================================== OCTOBER: The EU-referendum of Finland was held and pro-EU won with ======= 57% support. The whole year of 1994 was characterized with very strong pro-EU-propaganda. All of the 6-7 leading news- papers (reaching the great majority of Finns) as well as two state-owned TV-Channels and one commercial TV-Channel (the all we have in finnish!) were PRO-EU. SAL was active in opposing the EU. However the co- operation between the EU-opposers was not very intense, because many of them were right-wing nationalists, rednecks, stalinists and even neo-nazis. OCTOBER A special riot-police-forces are founded. The new unit has NOVEMBER been through special training and was given special equipment. ======== Such a unit has never existed in Finland before and police says it was founded because of left and right wing radicals. A more proper explanation may be that the police is afraid of possible riots caused by the unemployment (which is in Finland at the moment very high - 20%!!) One can also wonder, why during the present depression the police and the army get more and more funds and the health care and libraries etc get all the time less funds. NOVEMBER During the year 1994 has the satanism and satan worshipping DECEMBER greatly increased. After a sensational TV-document made by ======== the Church (in Finland there is "state-Church") was shown there has been a lot of conversation around the matter. Very often satanists are claimed to be connected with anarhcism. For instance, the document showed some symbols satanists are said to use, and these symbols included circled A (symbol of anarchy), A-stars, peace symbols etc The thruth is however, that anarhists have little to do with satanists and in fact, the satanists are connected to neo-nazis, enemies of anarchists, and drug-sellers. In Helsinki and in Joensuu (eastern Finland) the street fights between black youths (especially the somali-refugees) and skinheads and other local youths have increased. These violent fights have now penetrated to the mass media. 6th DECEMBER The Independence day of Finland. Neo-nazi-violence was ============ expected, but (luckily) nothing happened. In the former years some neo-nazi gangs have attacked colored people and rioted on the streets breaking windows etc. Sad to say, as far as I know - there was neither any anarchist activity against the nationalism and patriotic spirit around the 6th of december.