Further details of Grassroots Gathering in Dublin, June 27th

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday June 17, 2003 15:27 by GGfan

Update of information of the next Grassroots Gathering including venue details

*** Grassroots Gathering 5 ***
*** Dublin, June 27th - 29th ***

The fifth Grassroots Gathering will be held at the
Teacher's Club, 36 Parnell Square (west side), Dublin 1
from Friday 27 June at 7 pm to Sunday 29 June at 6
pm, with participants from community organisations, the
anti-war movement, environmental groups, global justice
campaigners, and more.

The Gathering brings together non-hierarchical activists
and groups involved in the global movement against neo-
liberalism and war for a weekend of workshops, socials,
videos, debates, activities and fun geared towards
building and developing the movement in Ireland,
particularly in view of the World Economic Forum's visit to
Ireland this autumn.

A key theme for this gathering is developing diversity
within the movement, and opening the Gathering to
movements and sectors which have not yet become
involved. Topics for workshops include: "Networking
between movements", "Opposing war", "Is social
partnership going anywhere?", "Whose progress?",
"Dealing with burnout", "Direct action", "Getting beyond
the usual suspects", "Preparing for the World Economic
Forum", "Who pays for the environment?", etc.

The Grassroots Gathering is a bottom-up (grassroots,
participatory, anti-authoritarian) network based on the
principle that people should control their own lives and
work together as equals, as part of how we work as well
as what we are working towards. It has been meeting for
the last two years in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Limerick
and has also given birth to the Grassroots Network
Against War, pioneering mass non-violent direct action
against the US military use of Shannon. (There's more
information about the network, as well as a draft
timetable for this Gathering, on the web at
http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com.)

Please contact Eoghan at ,
tel 086-8792025, if you need floorspace, or if you can
offer it! We also hope to be able to organise on-location
childcare if needed - please let us know if so and we will
do our best to organise it.