The historian Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson has accused the Danish newspaper Ekstra-Bladet of racial discrimination against the Icelandic Nation. The paper said, among others, that "On that windblown paperisland out in the Atlantic some 300.000 Icelanders clearly had the idea that they coild take over most of the World." As it reads (my translation from the icelandic) on the newsweb: Nyhedsavisen. Vilhjálmur said that these statements were gross generalizations against a whole nation. "As an Icelandic citizen, I am innocent of these accusations. Nor have I had the idea that I could take over the world."
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Environmental activists and concerned citizens from across Britain, Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago converged on Sloane Square in London on Friday the 27th of October to protest against the aluminum invasion into these islands.
Miriam Rose, from the campaign 'saving Iceland' said, 'today was very important as we established a real link between the fights in Trinidad and Iceland. People were truly moved by this solidarity and the shocking truths about Alcoa's actions.' After the ceremony a procession followed the symbolic coffin to the embassies of the affected nations, where petitions were presented.
A live phone link connected the crowd in London to a simultaneous protest in Trinidad, where locals have set up a permanent protest camp at the University of West Indies in objection to the building of two huge gas powered smelters, one by Alcoa, one by Alutrint. Details from this Trinidadian protest camp can be obtained through contacting rightsactiongroup@gmail.com
The London demonstration came on the heels of large scale demonstrations that took place in Iceland exactly one month earlier. A historical amount of Icelanders, about 5% of the entire population, marched in four different cities against the damming of Kárahnjúkar to provide Hydro Power for an Alcoa Aluminum Smelter. Following a call from retiring television reporter and nature enthusiast Ómar Ragnarsson to march on the day before the dam is scheduled to be flooded, up to 15,000 people in total walked the streets in the Reykjavik, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir and Ísafjörður.
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