New Grassroots Gathering web site

national | anti-capitalism | news report Thursday May 14, 2009 11:29 by Andrew - Grassroots Gatherings andrewnflood at gmail dot com

Since 2001 there have been 12 Grassroots Gatherings In Ireland with most of the big cities seeing at least one. Probably 1000 people have attended at least one but we've had a problem keeping contact with each other between gatherings. There are a scattering of email lists and web site from the different gatherings, some active and some silent. Now there is a new hub site http://grassroots.pageabode.com which attempts to gather all this in one place to improve communication.

The material from the previous gatherings and from groups like DGN and GNAW had become scattered over at least half a dozen web site and some material had vanished from the 'live' web all together. I've recovered most of this and posted it all onto this single site to make finding 'historic' material easier.

In addition I've created forums so that the amount of discussion can be greatly increased without driving people off this list because of limited access to email. I've created a set of forum rules to try and avoid the usual nasty behaviour that can happen on forums.

As users sign up they are opted in to a newsletter which means we can send them occasional emails when particularly important information is to be transmitted (eg the announcement for GG13)

I'm referring to the site as experimental as beside the archive I'm not sure how much real interest there will be in it. If it takes off then the forums etc will be maintained, otherwise at least this site will exist as a single archive of GG material

If you haven't received an invitation you can manually sign up at http://grassroots.pageabode.com/user/register