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Community and grassroots organising are powerful tactics in the toolkit of Anarchism. To clearly answer *how* Anarchists can help to promote grassroots and community organising we must first look at *why* Anarchists should support and engage in community organising in the first place.
Following up to the meeting on Saturday the 25th of August a further meeting will be held this Saturday to discuss the organisation of a gathering in Dublin before Christmas.
All interested in having an input should attend.
In practice, the Grassroots Gatherings – and groups linked to them – have become the main (and the only continuous) networking of the “movement of movements” in Ireland. To date 10 gatherings have been held between 2001 and 2005. In keeping with the goal of autonomy and decentralisation, there has been no central committee; at the end of each gathering a group of activists has offered to host the next one in their own area and has got on with organising it in their own way, around an agenda set by themselves and with sometimes very different structures and themes.
The day after online footage revealed the presence of police provocateurs at the Montebello SPP summit protest the Quebec police have been forced to admit that the rock wielding men initially confronted for being in the agreed 'family friendly' zone by a union leader were indeed police agents.
This Saturday:
Seomra Spraoi (Last of the Summer Wine) Party !!
25th of August 2007
It All Kicks Off at 8:30:
“Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) was formed in 2003 as the highly controversial apartheid wall meant to separate Israelis and Palestinians began construction, and is made up of both Israelis and Palestinians.
A national mobilisation for a mass sitdown protest at the refinery at Bellanaboy has been called for the morning of Friday 14 September.
Protest
Let Great's family stay!
11.30 am, Tuesday 14 August
Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay, Dublin (opposite Liberty Hall)
Members of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be joining the abortion rights campaign 'Choice Ireland' at a Dublin protest on Saturday August 18th. This will take place outside the Womens Rsource Centre, 50 Dorset Street from 12-1pm.
I am going to look generally at the issue of woman’s work. Initially a very quick survey of the global position – then some more specific stuff on wage differentials, house work, work conditions, child care in Europe and Ireland with some possible suggestions for some points for our new program maybe to be incorporated into a general section on work.