Grassroots Gathering 9

national | anti-capitalism | event notice Wednesday March 23, 2005 17:52 by Laurence Cox - Dublin Grassroots Network

The death of partnership

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. No magic answers, just activists from different movements discussing where we are and what we can do.

Other plenaries on gender and activism and the Grassroots Network. Lots of workshops on everything from guerrilla gardening to the G8 protests in Scotland, 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.

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.

Timetable for Saturday

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. 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 activists
- Social Centres: Getting our Own Spaces, with Seomra Spraoi from Dublin and CAZ from Cork.

3.30-5.00:

Plenary: Death of Partnership. With Miriam Murphy, Michael Murray, speakers from Community Workers Coop and CHASE

5.00-6.30: Dinner, thanks to the lovely Food not Bombs people and you.

6.30-7.30:

- Media Workshop: how to do 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.