Gdansk slideshow

cosmopolitanreview.com magazine, in partnership with the College of Europe (Natolin campus, Warsaw), was in Gdańsk in December 2008 for the Solidarity for the Future conference whose aim, in the words of Lech Wałęsa, was to "reflect upon the social and political reality of the contemporary world, and to focus on the regions that most desperately pine for solidarity and international cooperation."

CR decided to highlight a few meaningful quotes from the conference through a photo-reportage. Wałęsa made clear the purpose of the conference but the words spoken in Gdańsk will only have real meaning if acted upon. It is vital that the participants will not remain passive. Peace (in some way, not unlike war,) requires hard work and dedication. For peace to overcome war, nations and their people must show solidarity.

In the 1980s, millions of Poles spent sleepless nights editing and distributing underground press and books, gathering in street demonstrations, laying flowers, carrying banners and shouting their opposition to the authorities. Through the Solidarity movement, they peacefully overcame the Communist regime, which had been imposed on them for more than four decades by the Soviet Union.

This spirit was reignited in Gdańsk last December ...

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