{"id":214,"date":"2018-11-06T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T10:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=214"},"modified":"2019-01-20T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:45:43","slug":"working-to-preserve-and-promote-the-rich-culture-and-heritage-of-swedish-social-democracy-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Working to preserve and promote the rich culture and heritage of Swedish social democracy in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arbetartradition_m-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arbetartradition_m-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arbetartradition_m-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arbetartradition_m-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arbetartradition_m.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>From left to right: Ulf Sundqvist, Anette Karlsson, Folke Sundman and Rebecka \u00c5kers. I am behind the camera myself. In the background, the Congress of the Swedish social democrats in Finland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fast meeting over the lunch break in Porvoo &#8211; Borg\u00e5 in Swedish &#8211; at the Congress of Finland&#8217;s Swedish-speaking Social Democrats on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> We met as the board of a small foundation which works to preserve and promote the rich cultural and political heritage of Swedish social democratic  labour organisations in this bi-lingual country. We also want to support the human rights and democratic values which are now being increasingly threatened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> At the left is Ulf Sundqvist, our chair, who served as a cabinet minister during many years. Anette Karlsson who works with the social democratic group in Parliament sits next to him, then comes Folke Sundman who is chair of the main Swedish social democratic association in Helsinki and one of our leading sustainability experts, and at the right Rebecca \u00c5kers, social science student and social democratic youth movement leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Both Anette and Rebecca were selected as candidates for next spring&#8217;s parliamentary elections. Regrettably not in my district, but I hope they will do well!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10156755169940747&amp;set=a.108047520746&amp;type=3&amp;eid=ARCSeMPLSEkatSZmPfm1HnpljX9OUnIASbbVUCfT29MCAL5qE7CIlbvEMiZSg4yvMXi16h3HgZrLdEKQ\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fast meeting over the lunch break in Porvoo &#8211; Borg\u00e5 in Swedish &#8211; at the Congress of Finland&#8217;s Swedish-speaking Social Democrats on Sunday. We met as the board of a small foundation which works to preserve and promote the rich cultural and political heritage of Swedish social democratic labour organisations in this bi-lingual country. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=214\" class=\"more-link\">Jatka lukemista<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;Working to preserve and promote the rich culture and heritage of Swedish social democracy in Finland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-english","tag-sdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}