Even Jesse Jackson comes to Almedalen

Almedalen week is in full bloom on Gotland right now, started Sunday. This year with about 12 000 visitors and 1456 seminars, debates and other scheduled activities. What do all this people do? They share ideas, debate and learn a lot about politics, organizations and companies.

Almedalen week is starting to become a model for political meetings because of the open, friendly and warm spirit. They are already copying it in Denmark and this year representatives from South Korea is here to study how it’s done. Another guest that came to see what Almedalen week is about was Jesse Jackson.

This picture is taken just before the tv-debate in SVT Debatt. Jesse Jackson was very relaxed and made jokes with the audience. He said about Almedalen Week that ”this is what democracy should be like: people with different opinions meeting and having civilized discussions”.

Read The Local’s article about Almedalen Week!

Watch swedish television, SVT Play, Jesse Jackson is right in the beginning or why not watch TV4 Play below!