Grassroots Gathering 5 in Dublin this June

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday April 30, 2003 11:21 by Grassroots Gathering

The fifth Grassroots Gathering will be held in Dublin city centre (location to be announced shortly) from the evening of Friday 27 June to the afternoon of Sunday 29 June.

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

The fifth Grassroots Gathering will be held in Dublin city centre (location to be announced shortly) from the evening of Friday 27 June to the afternoon of Sunday 29 June. The event brings together non-hierarchical activists and groups involved in the global movement against neo- liberalism and war for a weekend of workshops, socials, debates and fun geared towards building and developing the movement in Ireland. 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.

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. (More information on the web at http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com.)

More details of the event will be available nearer to the time; please email if you wish to be kept informed.