January 31st, 2010
alldoledup, progressive london
Spending most of my time preparing and facilitating our All Doled Up session on youth unemployment, I didn’t get a chance to catch many of the sessions nor tweet about ours at the Progressive London conference yesterday.
Anyway, the rest of the time I spent catching up with friends and meeting new ones @pickledpolitics @UpRiseFestival @nusbc @samtarry @rowenna_davis @gemmatumelty @tommilleruk @ben_so @mydavidcameron @bieneosa @davidtaylor85 @speckl @benfolley @johannhari101 @ULU_President @EllieCRobinson @IDontDoTwitta @leejamesbrown @fio_edwards and others.
Anyway as I didn’t make most of the sessions, I thought I’d check the #prolondon twitter stream to see what the crowds were talking about, here’s what I caught:
Some of the juicy issues
UpRiseFestival Lots of talk about the importance of a collective voice against racism – a view that we share. #prolondon
@BorisWatch Laurie Penny making the forceful point that women can and do blog, and get worse treatment. Both true. #prolondon
The ideas for the future
@SamTarry Buzzing ideas in @compassyouth session at #proLDN conference on youth unemployment: – hope some radical empowering campaigns come out of it!
The soundbites to take away
@kerryabel ‘We need to become a society that celebrates not just tolerates’ #prolondon
The speakers that inspired us
@pennyred Had a great day at #prolondon, feeling really energised and inspired for the first time in ages. Bonnie Greer blew me away.
The mad mix of sessions
@wilassie Thanks for people tweeting from environment session; wish I could be in two sessions at once… #prolondon
@liannedemello This is gonna be supremely difficult – I want to be in the climate change, the electoral reform and public spending #prolondon
@pickledpolitics In fact the entire #ProLondon conference is packed out. Lots of ppl interested in where the left is headed.
The tasty lunch
@ktcita Best conference lunch ever Thank you #prolondon http://tweetphoto.com/9981417
…so good people didn’t want to leave
@kerrabel I am doing the cloakroom at #prolondon. People just don’t want to leave.
What do we when faced with rhetoric versus reality…
@EllieCRobinson Harriet rocks!Great Hill report and obviously tory policy is bad. But what is labour actually gonna DO to reduce inequality? #proLDN
Well, we could start with stopping…
@political_animal Mehdi Hasan of New Statesman: stop this triangulated nonsense about how our cuts will be nicer than your cuts. #prolondon
because…
@tomcarolan You lose the argument when you purely define yourself in terms of your enemy. #prolondon
…and instead focus on
Investment not cuts! Let’s #invest in the future of this society by investing in young people at #HigherEducation. #ProLondon Conf, 30th jan
…and when we do put our ideas forward, what happens when…
@speckl Found myself heckling @EdMilibandMP again, this time at #prolondon. Sorry, Ed. It’s just…you never really answer my questions.
But maybe we’re forgetting something?
@EllieCRobinson #proLondon ed milliband – one of the problems is we only talk to ourselves. Need more outreach
@wiilassie Sunder: would like pluralism in *campaign* not coalitions formed in smoke-filled rooms after votes counted. #prolondon
And the question that’s on everyone’s lips, will Ken be London’s next mayor?
@benfolley Good to hear Jon Cruddas introduce Ken Livingstone as “London’s next mayor” at #ProLondon this afternoon
So, what will you pledge?
The lessons we learnt
Sunny (@pickledpolitics) encouraging people to pass on stories to blogs – don’t have to start your own #prolondon
Anyway, the rest of the time I spent catching up with friends and meeting new ones @pickledpolitics @UpRiseFestival @nusbc @samtarry @rowenna_davis @gemmatumelty @tommilleruk @ben_so @mydavidcameron @bieneosa @davidtaylor85 @speckl @benfolley @johannhari101 @ULU_President @EllieCRobinson @IDontDoTwitta @leejamesbrown @fio_edwards and others.