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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