A-Infos (en) Ireland, The 9th Grassroots* Gathering is being held in Dublin from the 1st to the 3rd of April.

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More information about the Grassroots Gatherings here
http://flag.blackened.net/infohub/grassroots/content.php?article.1.255
The Grassroots Gatherings were set up in 2001 out of discussions
between activists involved in the environmental movement, Latin
American solidarity, anarchist politics and community development
who shared a commitment to non-hierarchical, bottom-up ways of
organising. Gatherings are spaces for discussion and building links:
they are not dominated by any political party, and the only decisions
taken at Gatherings are about where the next one will be.

Agenda

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 Sproai people

Saturday 2nd of April

All day; Kids Grassroots

10.30-12.00; Dissent G8, Here we go! (with Irish and Scottish
Dissent Groups), Food Not Bombs Workshop, Design Skills for
Activists 101 (stencil making) Workshop, Making a Difference
Workshop, DIY Fashion (make and do workshop)

12.00-1.00; Gender Groups (Gender and Grassroots Activism)
1.00-2.00; delicious lunch provided by grassroots volunteers/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

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?"

Speaker from Community Workers' Coop
Speaker from Ringaskiddy anti-incinerator campaign
Miriam Murphy, researcher
Michael Murray, Maynooth community researcher

5.00-6.30: Dinner, thanks to the lovely grassroots volunteers/Food
not Bombs people

6.30-7.30: Media Workshop (how to sup with the devil).
Organisational Models Workshop (with Cork Grassroots), Safer
Communities (dealing with sexual violence) Workshop, Iraq and
Palestine. Plans for Action
8.00-9.00: Anarchist Summer Camp workshop,

Videos (Anarchist Against the Wall, Written on the Soul)

Book stalls and information stalls;
 From the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Residents Against
Racism, Indymedia, Latin American Solidarity Campaign,
Outhouse, Crusty Fest, Certain Death Vegan Caf


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