On Saturday morning, 28th January 2017, at
Conway Hall in London, long an important place of radical religious, philosophical, social and political thinking in the UK (one with a Unitarian lineage I might add),
DiEM25 held its UK organisational launch.
I was privileged to have been able to work with a fine group of British DiEM25 activists, and of course
Yanis Varoufakis and
Srećko Horvat, to arrange this meeting.
Like all DiEM25 gatherings, more than half of the meeting was made up of conversations involving all those attending but, to set the scene and introduce some important initial ideas, the morning began with brief keynote contributions from
Brian Eno,
Elif Şafak,
Agnieszka Wiśniewska and
Igor Stokfiszewski and, finally,
Yanis Varoufakis. If you click on the link below you can read a pdf copy of my full meeting notes and just click on a photo if you want to enlarge it.
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| The meeting in full swing |
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| Yanis Varoufakis |
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| Srećko Horvat facilitating the open dialogue session |
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| Agnieszka Wiśniewska and Igor Stokfiszewski seated together in the centre before the start |
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| Most of the UK organising group |
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| UK organiser Jack Franco |
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| UK organiser Philipp Heyken with the meeting's headline message |
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| Post meeting organiser's conversation |
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| Post meeting organiser's conversation |
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| Post meeting organiser's conversation |
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| Conway Hall's ministers, appointed lecturers and a bit of the society's history |
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| "To thine own self be true" above the stage in Conway Hall |
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| The sunset on Parker's Piece, Cambridge as I was near to home once again |
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