2nd Grassroots Gathering

national | miscellaneous | news report

Friday March 15, 2002 12:39

by Eoghan Ryan - Grassroots Gathering

eoghanvryan at eircom dot net

087 6575580

Calling all Activists!!!!!!!!!!!

Second Grassroots Gathering:
taking back control of our lives

Cork Autonomous Zone, Knapp St. (beside Cork Arts
Theatre / CATClub, across the bridge from the Opera
House)
March 29th (from 7.30 on) and 30th (11 am till late)

Skills-based workshops by activists, for activists,
to make links across movements

worldwide networking against capitalist globalisation -
direct action against war - yoga - alternative economic
organisation - the criminalisation of activism - drumming -
animal rights - where to after Sept. 11th? - gender and
activism - meditation - and more!

Easter Sunday - join the protest at the Old Head of
Kinsale

The Grassroots Gathering is a bottom-up network of
activists from different movements committed to anti-
authoritarian radical action. You can see more about it on
the Web at http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com

A detailed timetable etc. will be available soon - contact
if you need more details or
phone Eoghan at 01-8828673 or 087-6575580.

save preference

Comments (1 of 1)

Additional info

by Andrew Flood

Fri Mar 15, 2002 14:08

There is a map showing the location of the gathering and a
PDF file of a poster/leaflet advertising it at
http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com

The Grasroots Gathering aims towards a network which would
- Be 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.
- Within the network this means rejecting top-down and
state-centred forms of organisation (hierarchical,
authoritarian, expert-based, Leninist etc.) We need a
network that's open, decentralised, and really democratic.
- Call for solutions that involve ordinary people
controlling their own lives and having the resources to do
so: the abolition, not reform, of global bodies like the
World Bank and WTO, and a challenge to underlying
structures of power and inequality.
- Organise for the control of the workplace by those who
work there.
- Call for the control of communities by the people who
live there.
- Argue for a sustainable environmental, economic and
social system, agreed by the people of the planet.
- Working together in ways which are accessible to ordinary
people, particularly women and working-class people, rather
than reproducing feelings of disempowerment and alienation
within our own network.

More info
http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com

Further updates send an email to
[email protected]

Upcoming Events

New Events

Other Press

User Preferences

Feeds

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Human Rights in Ireland

Lockdown Skeptics

Voltaire Network

2nd Grassroots Gathering

Comments (1 of 1)