RE: Letter RNS20 Apr 2021 13:12
Suzy2 - Re your point:...""I can see plenty of imagination in this bit: "The Kallak story is not about a mine, it’s about the regeneration of Jokkmokk, giving the town a strong economic future that lives beyond mining, which also includes reindeer herding, tourism, forestry and entrepreneurs." ""
So yes, this is imaginative in the sense of imaginative narrative. But the point is that writing a letter per se is not a particularly imaginative strategy to bring about change. This is a conflict we are facing, between centuries of land usage by the Samis, a nation marginalised by mainstream society and suddenly a miner wants to mine on what they consider their land. The Swedish government is an outsider to the Samis also. That's why they have their own parliament. So it doesn't even matter if the government finally grants a mining licence. The Samis see it differently. A letter doesn't change the price of fish. Kurt needs to see this not as a mining issue, or an issue to be dealt with by the Swedish legislature, but an issue of conflict between the Sami nation and the outsiders. That's the quickest and surest way to resolve this. And yes, it's a real conflict, perhaps people haven't been killed, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the Samis feel as strongly about this as marginalised people have felt about their issues all over the world, including Ireland and Colombia. And yes, there is a solution. But it requires imagination. And a bit of oomph. Whether the letter has Kurt's name or not at the bottom is neither here nor there. At the end of the day, it is Kurt's letter because it is his responsibility. Sven was used as a signatory because he is a Swede, talking about Swedish issues, slightly more palatable than a Brit talking about Swedish issues in a PR sense.
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