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Grassroots Gathering 9

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Friday February 18, 2005 18:20

by Laurence Cox - Dublin Grassroots Network

grassrootsdublin at yahoo dot com

The death of partnership - what now for grassroots activism?

Dublin Grassroots Network presents

GRASSROOTS GATHERING 9

- The death of partnership
- What now for grassroots activism?

Friday 1st of April to Sunday 3rd of April
St Nicholas of Myra community centre, Carmens Hall, off Francis St.,
Dublin 8

Across a wide spectrum of movements - from community development
to trade unions, from environmentalism to disability rights - activists
are becoming aware that partnership is not working for them. Both formal
Social Partnership as well as "partnership with a small p" - exercises in
consultation and discussion at every level of government - are becoming
top-heavy exercises which involve us in endless meetings and writing
document after document, which are then ignored completely.

This Gathering aims to bring activists from different sectors together to
compare our experiences of "the death of partnership" and to ask what our
alternatives are: "where to from here for grassroots activism?" We are
holding plenary discussions on these topics as well as a wide range of
workshops, video showings and social events designed to give activists a
chance to meet each other, swap stories, express our anger and brainstorm
on what we can do now.

Confirmed speakers and participants to date are involved in community
activism, Shannon protests, independent trade union organising, opposition
to incinerators, the women's movement, anti-racist work, the global
justice movement, community and alternative media, the project for a
social centre in Dublin and guerrilla gardening!

Grassroots Gatherings are free and open to everyone involved in or
interested in grassroots, non-hierarchical activism. Good veggie food and
childcare will be provided.

If you would like to organise a workshop, set up a stand or get involved
in some other way, contact: grassrootsdublin@yahoo.com

Download Poster - Detailed timetable coming soon.

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Comments (13 of 13)

kids grassroots

by tobie*

Tue Mar 29, 2005 16:16

There will be a kids space all day saturday and sunday. If you know ahead of time that you are bringing a kid with you let us know, otherwise we will see you and your young ones on the day.

Feel free to bring any toys . . .

085 147 6275

free

by free

Mon Mar 28, 2005 20:50

free

though I'm sure donations would be welcome

not a commercial event

how much is it in?

by how much

Mon Mar 28, 2005 20:45

well....

Count me in for the Stencil Workshop!

by Arty Farty

Sun Mar 27, 2005 19:53

Looking forward to finding out how stencil design is done. See ya on Saturday morning.

response to squee

by GGer

Sun Mar 27, 2005 19:11

You bet you should come along. Grassroots Gatherings are open to anybody who is interested in building a better world from below. You don't have to be a member of anything or have been involved in any political stuff before. The workshops have a really broad range of themes and the speakers are from all sorts of different campaigns. The idea is that people can go along, hear different voices, take part in discussions and make up their own minds, rather than listening to a single 'party line'. There is also normally a big mix of different age-groups.

by squee

Sun Mar 27, 2005 19:04

i'm really interested in going, but i've never been involved in anything like grassroots before, plus i'm only sixteen- should i still come along?

to yup confused

by badman

Fri Mar 25, 2005 19:49

They are lists of meetings at the same time - there are several meetings in each time-slot.

Power to the People!

by Noise Hacker

Fri Mar 25, 2005 18:23

Confused

by yup

Fri Mar 25, 2005 17:56

Some of the meetings listed are very odd combinations of topics

flyers for the gathering

by james r

Thu Mar 24, 2005 14:44

download and print, then distribute

http://www.ucdsu.net/attachments/mar2005/flyersgrassroots.pdf

gg timetable ( present one anyways)

by liz

Tue Mar 22, 2005 00:07

Friday 1st of April

7.00-9.30 video on the Miners strike followed by Dave Douglas,
anarchist, ex -miner, talking about his experiences during the Miners strike.
9.30-12.00 some class of a social event organised by the good Seomra
Spraoi people

Saturday 2nd of April.
All day; Kids Grassroots
10.30-12.00; Dissent G8, with Irish and Scottish Dissent
Groups, Food Not Bombs Workshop, Design Skills for Activists -stencil
making Workshop, Making a Difference Workshop, DIY Fashion -make and
do workshop
12.00-1.00; Gender Circles , female, male, transgender, other. get together and chat. with 5 min transgender? film. Irish premiere.
1.00-2.00; delicious lunch provided by Food Not Bombs
2.00-3.00; Forgotten Radical Ladies -Talk by Pauline Conroy, Stopping
Incinerators with the Ringaskiddy campaign, Grassroots and Diversity with Irish Traveller speakers , Social Centres- Getting our Own
Spaces, with Seomra Spraoi from Dublin and CAZ from Cork.

3.30-5.00 Plenary: Death of Partnership ( see above)
5.00-6.30: Dinner, thanks to the lovely Food not Bombs people and you.
6.30-7.30: Media Workshop- media skills.how to press releases, interviews dealing with hostile media etc.
Organisational
Models Workshop with Cork grassroots
, Safer Communities- dealing with
sexual violence Workshop, Iraq and Palestine. Plans for Action

8.00-9.00: Gender Identity workshop with carol o' keeffe documentary "written on the soul" followed by gender spectrum discussion, Anarchist Summer Camp workshop, , Book stalls and
information stalls
Stalls on WSF, Nano Technology, EU Constitution, Palestine Support and
from RED INK books, Indymedia, Workers Solidarity Movement, etc.

9.00- 12.00; the real business of grassroots,‘networking’ over a
couple of pints, The Green Lizard, Francis St.
12.00 bedtime.

Sunday 3rd of April
All day: Kids Grassroots

11.30 –1.00: The Grassroots Network -meeting with grassroots groups around the country
2.00-3.00: Flexploitation- Video and workshop with the Independent Workers Unio
, Community Gardening; how to do it, Anarchism- what is it?,
Defendant Support, Plans for Action, DIY medicine.
3.00-4.30: Plenary: What next for Grassroots Organising? Where to next?
5.00-6.00 Closing Circle: who hosts the next gathering?

c yus there :}