Lina Maria Karlsen
Lina Maria Karlsen (social worker) As leader of The Socialist Left Partys Sami Council she had been working on the Fosen-case for years before the ruling in the Supreme Court fell, and after witnessing the Norwegian Government doing seemingly nothing to follow she began fearing for how this would affect the trust between the Sami people of Norway and our Parliament.
She was therefore filled with gratitude towards the young people taking action and quick to reach out and ask if there was anything she could do as a politician. As the days went it became clear that what was mostly needed was a social worker, and so she volunteered her time trying to support the protesters so that they could best continue with the job that they had set their mind to; force our Prime Minister to listen.
Karlsen did not know any of the young protesters before the sit down started, but has followed them through out the rest of the protests, assisting both in planning of how to best take care of people during the tryings of protesting, and also debriefing after the protests.