Previous Gatherings
The Grassroots Gatherings have been going since 2001. Over that period of time different websites were used to promote the events and to record what happened. These are not all still in existence, over the next while we will assemble what we can and place it here.
In the meantime here’s an incomplete list of previous Gatherings and where they took place.
Grassroots Gatherings to date
1) Dublin (Teachers’ Club and Spacecraft), November 2001. “Global and local: a grassroots gathering”.
2) Cork (Cork Autonomous Zone), March 2002. “Taking back control of our lives”.
3) Belfast (Giros), October 2002. (no title)
4) Limerick (Locus), March 2003. “Community, environmental and global justice activism”.
5) Dublin (Teachers’ Club), June 2003. (no title)
6) Galway (UCG), November 2003. (no title)
7) Cork (Mayfield retreat centre), March 2004. (no title)
8 ) Belfast (QUB and around), October 2004. “Building safe communities, addressing gender bias and racism”.
9) Dublin (St Nicholas of Myra community hall), April 2005. “The death of partnership / what now for grassroots activism? / gender”
10) Erris (Rossport Solidarity Camp), August 2005. “Local community campaigns”