The Grassroots Gatherings

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:30:49 +0000
Grassroots gathering, Organising, WSM history, Anarchist movement, National, Magazine, Analysis

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.