International Day - Murberget

Every year, 3rd Sunday in August, at the local open-air museum Murberget, there's an International Day. It's organised primarily by the 5i12 movement which started in Härnösand in 1988.
The sun always shines (I’ve checked through my blips and it really always has been sunny). You meet people from all around the world. There’s a long row of stalls selling food from many countries. There’s always music, dancing and a few speeches. You meet all your local friends there. 
Today my lunch came from a stall selling Palestinian food, manned by Omar, who works in Lidl and who we chat to when we meet there.
The music today was a World Premiere of a musical about the movement 5i12. But what is 5i12? What is its origin story?
A little translation exercise…
5i12 - Five to twelve - the eleventh hour
The story starts about three years after we moved to Härnösand. We were here, experiencing these events and even being slightly acquainted with some of the people involved. It was an interesting experience, to be immigrants living in a town where racist attitudes were appearing…
Although it is partly from the 1980’s the story feels very relevant to today’s world, and to things I read in the newspapers of Sweden and the UK.

From the Swedish Wikipedia, Jan’s translation:
The 5i12 movement was founded in Härnösand in the autumn of 1988 when a group of people gathered in the town square to protest against racist sentiments in the town, which culminated in the late 1980s with cross burnings and firebombs being thrown at refugee accommodation. The meetings always took place at five minutes to twelve, to show that it was late, but not too late to do something about the situation. 

One of the initiators was 17-year-old Sara Westin, who was deeply committed to helping the refugees who had come to Härnösand. When she and a friend were murdered by one of the refugees on 2 September 1989, it was her father, Stig Wallin, who took over what Sara Westin had started.

Stig refused to blame all immigrants for something that one person had done. And he often returned to something the priest said at Sara's funeral: ‘If we don't continue her work, we will kill her for real.’

Härnösand became known as a very anti-racist town, the movement spread to other towns and cities in Sweden, and eventually to the Swedish Parliament and even the EU parliament. There are demonstrations/meetings of solidarity on the 5 December (5/12) in all these places every year.
"5i12 is against xenophobia and racism, and for human rights and the equal rights of all people."
The extra shows the audience, and the glorious weather! Someone up there likes the 5i12 movement!