Amy Goodman
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Almedalen Week: At Sweden's One-of-a-Kind Festival, All Political Parties Gather in One Place
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7:04Now PlayingDemocracy Now! is on the road in the Swedish city of Visby, on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, during Almedalen Week a week long political festival perhaps unlike any other in the world. More than 25,000 people have gathered to hear political speeches and take part in seminars. Every Swedish political party is represented from the Social Democrats to the Greens to the Feminist Initiative party, along with hundreds of other political organizations. We get an overview of the political situation in Sweden from Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist at Uppsala University. Palmer says progressive and Green candidates are expected to gain ground in Sweden's election this September, and notes the country just became the first to send a militant feminist to the European Union. Sweden has a policy to grant asylum anyone from Syria, and a recent study found attitudes towards immigrants are more positive in Sweden than in any other European country.
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