A new, fairer Finland

• Provide a basic income instead of a bureaucratic welfare maze.
• Student support should be tied to an index, and sufficient security should be provided for people in insecure jobs.
• Let’s even out income differences with progressive capital and dividend taxes and by lowering the taxes on small incomes.
• Let’s create freedom for small businesses by cutting down on bureaucracy and facilitating the hiring of their first employee.

• Not just financial growth: happiness as the goal of policies.
• More and better preemptive healthcare and making sure that mental health care services are up to date.
• Let’s turn Finland from a construction site for equality into a model country. Same rights for all!

• Government investment support for the Tampere tram and local trains.
• Taxes on environmental hazards, climate law into use and animal rights set straight.
• Let’s increase the number of nature preserves and found a national park in Teisko.

• Let’s bridge the digital gaps: information technology into everyone’s basic education and special support for the elderly.
• Let’s set information free by setting straight the excesses of the patent and copyright systems.
• Let’s open up public systems and decision making.

 

I am 30 years old, and currently the municipal council chairman of Tampereen Vihreät (Tampere Greens). I’m also a member of the city council and the city board. I work as a freelance entrepreneur and as a part-time IT teacher at a training center for immigrants. I’m also a graduate student of interactive media and a Bachelor of Culture and Arts. I have five years of experience from working in the Finnish parliament, and I currently have several responsibilities as an elected official.

I graduated from TAMK School of Art and Media in 2004. In my studies I focused, among others, on project management and computer game design. I started my graduate studies at the University of Tampere in 2010. I am interested in themes such as the democratization of information society, digital gaps and the societal potential of interactive media.

My career in social activism started when I became a co-founder of the Tampere branch of ViNO (Federation of Green Youth and Students). I was also one of the founders of ViNO itself, and I served as chair of both organizations. I was also the chair of the Tampere Greens. I have been active in other civic associations as well.

I like to relax by spending time with my wife and my friends, or by exercising or doing yoga. I like music, movies, reading science fiction and biographies. Occasionally you will spot me at a club or a gig.

Creating an international currency transfer tax, sharing the expenses of parenthood, better services for immigrants, developing the funding of university education and colleges, supporting urban cultures, subcultures and creative fields, canceling the nuclear power permissions, adding band practise facilities, banning fur farming, improving the conditions of farmed animals, put direct popular elections into use, allow gay marriages, securing local services, removing youth unemployment, protecting freedom of speech and respecting individuality.